Appendix A: Last Will and Testament

I, Sybil Joines, of Cheesehill, Masschusetts, being feeble in body but sound in mind, and conscious that the former soon must perish, though the latter speak on in another, and lest local authorities, sound in body but feeble in mind, should choose not to recognize the legitimate authority of my person (or, as I prefer, my voice) when alienated from my body, do hereby give and dispose of my worldly estate, goods, chattels, as well as all posts and privileges at my disposal, in the following manner and form:

In primis, I hereby nominate, constitute, invest with full powers of attorney, and appoint as my successor that person, to be known by certain demonstrations, specified in a signed and sealed document that will be found in my effects, in whom I speak again, this person also to serve as the executor or executrix of my will, and, effective the moment of my decease, to be considered in all matters as my proxy, with all rights and duties pertaining thereunto, and indeed as myself, being possessed of all my qualities without alteration or diminution, a station that I charge my confederates on pain of dismissal to recognize, endorse, and defend against contestation, irrespective of any perceived deficiencies of education, bearing, personal magnetism, manners, class, or any other quality supposed prejudicial to fulfillment of the duties of Headmistress, these duties to be held for his or her natural life; this person also to legally assume the name of Sybil Joines, as soon as practicable, along with all my possessions with the exception of my brooch, my bombazine dress, and other garments in which (after laundering) I desire my body to be decently enveloped prior to its dispatch as follows;

In secundis, I give and recommend my mortal remains to the U.S. Mail, desiring that they be introduced under the oversight of my executor or executrix hereafter mentioned into an oversized envelope with the stamped legend RETURN TO SENDER and delivered without undue delay or mutilation to the Post Office, in the assurance that that venerable institution will convey it faithfully to its intended destination in the Dead Letter Department.

Under no circumstances are my remains to undergo cremation. Fire will play no part in my future. Nor loam. Paper will be my crypt, the only worms that sieve my corse, bookworms.

In testimony whereof, to this my last will and testament, I have set my hand and seal this Ninteenth day of July, Anno Domini, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventeen (1917).

SYBIL ADJUDICATE JOINES

Signed and declared by the above named Sybil Joines as and for her last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

Ms. Winnifred Other

Ms. Dorothea Exiguous

Jane Grandison the executor, sworn November 18, 1919, and letters Testamentary granted unto her. The said Testator died on November 17, 1919, at or near 4 a.m.