Exempt personal property.

When the decedent left a surviving spouse, all personal property which in the hands of the decedent as head of a family would be exempt from execution, which is bequeathed or set aside to the surviving spouse in accordance with the provisions of this chapter , shall be exempt in the hands of such surviving spouse as in the hands of the decedent. [C51, §1329; R60, §2361; C73, §2371; C97, §3312; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 11918; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §635.7; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.332 ]