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bomberqueen17:
Documents pertaining to the will of he first owner of my sister’s house, when his will was contested in 1836. Check out that handwriting! Can you read it? Mom was debating transcribing it; she can read it just fine, but then, she does this all the time.
So, to follow up: Henry Morrison died in 1836, leaving everything to his elder son. His younger son, who had over the years cost the father a great deal of money in failed business ventures he’d never repaid, contested the will. One of his main arguments was that Henry had been so frail and feeble in the years leading up to his death that he had not made the will in sound mind. The man was so frail, he argued, that he had not even been able to chop his own firewood in his final three years of life.
Henry died at 93. Other witnesses testified that up until his 90th year he still walked the bounds of his property and did all his own business dealings, save anything involving writing; he was illiterate, so for large transactions, he brought a grandson to transcribe for him.
And he was still chopping his own firewood at 90. !!!!!
bomberqueen17:
Documents pertaining to the will of he first owner of my sister’s house, when his will was contested in 1836. Check out that handwriting! Can you read it? Mom was debating transcribing it; she can read it just fine, but then, she does this all the time.
So, to follow up: Henry Morrison died in 1836, leaving everything to his elder son. His younger son, who had over the years cost the father a great deal of money in failed business ventures he’d never repaid, contested the will. One of his main arguments was that Henry had been so frail and feeble in the years leading up to his death that he had not made the will in sound mind. The man was so frail, he argued, that he had not even been able to chop his own firewood in his final three years of life.
Henry died at 93. Other witnesses testified that up until his 90th year he still walked the bounds of his property and did all his own business dealings, save anything involving writing; he was illiterate, so for large transactions, he brought a grandson to transcribe for him.
And he was still chopping his own firewood at 90. !!!!!
