Hi Bill,
 Thank you for your response.

I guess what I should have done is to post the will
first. Some of the responses I have been getting say
perhaps he did not want her to remarry or that she did
not receive at least one third of the estate.

In the will which I have a copy of Robert McCune does
not ask that his wife never remarries.

She also receives a one third share. He had several
children by his first wife and 2 sons with Eliza. All
the children and she get money and/or property.

As far as the executor I mentioned in my first posting
who was a friend to the McCunes, Samuel S. Weisiger, he
did not want "the burden" of being the executor for this
will.

Thank you.
 Beth
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> The law does not allow husbands to disinherit their wives and leave them
> destitute, so the law sets out a portion of her husband's estate that a widow is
> entitled to.   So if a widow finds that she would be better off with what the
> law provides than what the will provided, then the widow would renounce the will
> and take the legally-prescribed share.
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> Typically a husband would want to tie up an estate because he feared his widow
> would not be able to take care of it.  He might try to leave it in trust or
> leave it to his older sons, but the widow would renounce the will to get the
> better share.
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