Quelltext der Seite Testamente von Carl August Eckart/en

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[[Datei:FA-S464_Testament_des_Carl_August_E._vom_18.08.1854.jpg|400px|thumb|right|The will drawn up by Carl August, the "Napoleon of Emskirchen", in 1854.]]The [[Archiv der Familie Eckart/en|Eckart Family Archive]] contains two wills by  [[Carl August Eckart (VI 18)/en|Carl August Eckart]], dating from the years 1842 and 1854. Both documents consist of several pages and were sealed with waxen seals and the [[Das Wappen der Familie Eckart/en|Eckart family’s coat of arms]]. They are thus among the earliest documents to have been passed down to us on which the coat of arms is used. The will from 1854 starts with the words: 

''"Dear children. The very disturbing time leads me, as one can be called to one’s maker unexpectedly, to remind you to love and respect one another and to honor your dear mother. The Lord has blessed me and amply rewarded my diligence and effort, so that I am able to provide for you, dear children, if you use it to good effect. My sincerest thanks to God the Almighty for this. Always follow your grandfather’s motto ›With God! My happiness!‹ and start any work and any undertaking with God’s help, and his blessing will never be long in coming."''<ref>Eckart Family Archive, FA-S450, will of February 23, 1842, by Carl August Eckart and Kunigunda Eckart, née Galster, with inventory, and FA-S464, will of August 18, 1854, by Carl August Eckart.</ref>

What Carl August considered "very disturbing" and "unexpected" were probably the sudden deaths of his two brothers [[David Eckart (VI 17)/en|David Eckart]] in March 1853 and [[Georg Eckart (VI 14)/en|Georg Eckart]] in January 1854. Carl August died three years later, shortly before his 70<sup>th</sup> birthday, on November 16, 1857. His grave can still be visited today in the Emskirchen graveyard.<ref>Eckart, Otto and Kamp, Michael: "Die Geschichte der Familie Eckart. Von Franken nach München und Hawaii" (The History of the Eckart Family. From Franconia to Munich and Hawaii), Munich 2015, pages 111, 117.</ref>

[[Datei:FA-S450_Testament_des_Carl_August_E._vom_23.02.1842_und_der_Kunigunde_E._geb._Galster_mit_Inventarliste.jpg|400px|thumb|right|The will with the seal and the scarcely recognizable family coat of arms is one of the oldest existing documents on which the coat of arms was officially used.]]

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