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Tioga Co. Court House, Wellsboro, Tioga Co. Pa.,
Last Will and Testament of: Hallock Kennedy.
Executor: William S. Kennedy
Year: 1921,
Book P,
Pages 66, 67, & 68.
No. 7265.
Registers Office, December 27, 1921. This day was
presented the petition of William S. Kennedy, of Rutland Township representing:
That he is one of the executors named in the last will and testament of
Hallock Kennedy late of Rutland Township, who departed this life at his
residence December 14, 1921. At 3 A.M. That the value of the personal property
of the estate is One Thousand dollars and the value of the real estate
is Ten Thousand dollars, and consists of farm property located in Rutland
Township. The petitioners therefore prayed that said will be proved and
Letters Testamentary granted to the petioner . Said Will as follows:
Be it Remembered That I Hallock Kennedy of the Township
of Rutland, county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, being of a sound
and disposing mind, memory and understanding, and considering the uncertainty
of life, do therefore make publish and declare this to be my last Will
and Testament, in manner and form following, that is to say:
Item: I direct all my just debts and funeral expenses be fully paid
and satisfied as soon as conveniently may be after my decease, and should
my personal estate be insufficient to pay just debts, funeral expenses
and the cost of erecting a monument as hereinafter provided, the amount
of same not paid I direct shall attach in equal amounts to the three farms
hereinafter devised to my three sons, viz: William S. Kennedy, Ray Kennedy,
and Roy Kennedy.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter, Susie Colony, wife of George
W. Colony of Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, the sum of Eight hundred
Dollars ($ 800) the same to be a lien on and only on the farm hereinafter
devised to my son William S. Kennedy.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Grace Wright, wife of Alonzo
Wright of Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, the sum of Eight
hundred Dollars
($ 800) the same to be a lien on and only on the farm hereinafter devised
to my son William S. Kennedy.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary E. Updyke, wife of Melvin
Jr., of Elmira, New York, the sum of Eight hundred Dollars ($ 800) the
same to be a lien on and only on the farm hereinafter divised to my son
Ray Kennedy.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Lepha Benson, wife of Laverne
Benson of Roseville Borough tioga County, Pennsylvania, the sum of Eight
hundred Dollars ($ 800) the same to be a lien on and only on the
farm hereinafter devised to my son Roy Kennedy.
Item: I give and devise to my son William S. Kennedy the farm on which
I now reside and known as the homestead, situate in Rutland Twonship, Tioga
County, Pennsylvania, containing about one hundred and twenty (120) acres.
The said farm being composed of lands purchased of Elmer R. Backer and
lands purchased of Melvin Updyke Jr. known as the Calvin Dott property,
the said farm to be subject to one third of my just debts and funeral expenses
and the cost of erecting a monument if my personal estate is insufficient
to pay for same, and also subject to the payment of the sum of Eight hundred
Dollars
($ 800) hereinbefore bequeathed to my daughter, Susie Colony and the
payment of the sum of eight hundred Dollars ($ 800) hereinbefore bequeath
to my daughter, Grace Wright.
Item: I give and devise to my son, Roy Kennedy of Rutland Township,
Tioga County, Pennsylvania, the farm on which he now resides and known
as the Horton Farm, it being the same farm which I purchased of Charles
B. Hubbard and situate on the Mill Creek Road West of Roseville Brough
in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and containing about one
hundred (100) acres, the said farm to be subject to one third of my just
debts and funeral expenses and the cost of erecting a monument, if my personal
estate is insufficient to pay for same, and also subject to the payment
of the sum of Eight hundred Dollars ($ 800) hereinbefore bequeathed to
my daughter Mary E. Updyke.
Item: I give and devise to my son Roy Kennedy of Rutland Township Tioga
County, Pennsylvania, the farm which I purchased of Jacob Williams situate
on the Bailey creek Road North of farm owned by Dr. O. S. Nye, in Rutland
Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, said farm containing about one hundred
and five (105) acres, the said farm to be subject to one third of my just
debts and funeral expenses and the cost of erecting a monument, if my personal
estate is insufficient to pay the same, and also subject to the payment
of the sum of Eight hundred ($ 800) hereinbefore bequeathed to my daughter,
Lepha Benson.
Item: If I do not before my decease, erect a monument with markers
on my cemetery lot in the Roseville, Penna. Cemetery for my deceased wife
and myself, I hereby direct my Executor hereinafter named, to expend a
sum of not less than Two hundred Dollars
($ 200) in erecting a suitable monument to the memory of myself and
wife with suitable markers, on my said cemetery lot in Roseville, Penna.
Item: If at the time of my decease my estate be encumbered by my debts,
funeral expenses and the cost of erecting said monument, if the same has
not been erected by me during my lifetime, in an amount in excess of the
proceeds of my personal estate or its value, then the payment of the bequeaths
to my daughters, Susie Colony, Grace Wright, Mary E. Updyke and Lepha Benson,
is to be deferred for the term of one year the rentals of said farms at
a reasonable price of rental, shall have amounted to a sufficient sum pay
the said subchtleness and as all the rest, residue and remaing of my estate,
real, personal or mixed, of whatever nature or kind or wheresoever situate
at the time of my decease, I do hereby give, devise and bequeath to my
said sons, William S. Kennedy, Ray Kennedy, and Roy Kennedy and to their
heirs and assigns forever and lastly I do make, constitute and appoint
my said sons William S. Kennedy, Ray Kennedy and Roy Kennedy to be the
Excutors of this my last Will & Testament hereby revoking all Wills
and Testaments by me at any time heretofore made, and declaring this to
be my last Will & Testament.
Written on one side of three sheets of paper.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my
seal the twentieth day of Janurary A.D. 1916.
HALLOCK KENNEDY [SEAL]
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the Testor above named as
his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto,
at his request subscribed our names in his presence, and in the presence
of each other, as witnesses hereto.
Joseph S. Hoard, Donald V. Hoard.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tioga County, ss:
This day before me William S. Woodhouse, Register for the probate of
Wills, and granting Letters of Administration in and for said County of
aforesaid personally came Joseph S. Hoard and Donald V. Hoard the subscribing
witnesses to the foregoing will, who being duly sworn according to law,
do say that they were present and saw and heard Hallock Kennedy the testator
sign, seal, publish, pronounce, and declare the foregoing instrument of
writing as and for his last will and testament and that at the time of
so doing he was of sound mind, memory, and understanding to the best of
their knowledge and belief that said deponents signed their names as witnesses
thereto at the request of the testator in his presence and the presence
of each other.
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 27th day of December, 1921.
[Official Seal] William S. Woodhouse, Register.
Joseph S. Hoard, Donald V. Hoard.
And now December 27, 1921, The foregoing Will is ajudged to be
duly proved as required by law and is therefore admitted to probate and
entered of record and is decreed to be a valid Will and of force and effect
as such.
[Official Seal] William S. Woodhouse, Register.
December 27, 1921, Letters Testamentary on the foregoing Will were granted
to William S. Kennedy, one of the executors named therein, he first having
been duly sworn as required by law filed the renunciation of Ray Kennedy
and Roy M. Kennedy, the other executors named in said will.
Janurary 10, 1922. General Inventory filed amounting to $ 1201.90.
February 4, 1922, Filed appraisement for Transfer Inheritance tax amounting
to
$ 101049.30, taxable at 2 %.
For Release signed by Grace Wright, see Deed Book 165, Page 23.
For Release signed by Susie Colony, see Deed Book 165, Page 24.
For receipt filed in the nature of an account as family settlement,
see files for Release signed by Leafie Benson & LaVerne Benson see
Deed Book 167, at Page 92.
For Release signed by Mary Updyke, see deed Book, 169, Page 279.
This is a transcription of
the "Estate of Ray Kennedy of Rutland, Tioga County, PA by Ken Chapman
NOTE FROM JMT: Ray Kennedy of Rutland was son of Asenith Horton and
Hallock Kennedy. His wife was Emma Bartlett. He is ID 16657 in Joyce's
Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project.
Tioga Co. Court House, Wellsboro, Tioga Co. Pa.,
Estate of: Ray Kennedy
Administrator: Emma B. Kennedy
Year: 1922,
Book P,
Page 288,
No. 7454,
Registers Office, November 1, 1922, This day was
presented the petition of Emma B. Kennedy of Rutland Township representing:
That she is the widow of Ray Kennedy late of Rutland Township, who departed
this life at his residence October 24, 1922, at 3 A.M. intestate. The next
of kin of said decedent are Gladys K. Shelman, aged eighteen years, daughter.
Gerould Kennedy, aged thirteen years, son. And Donald Kennedy aged ten
years, son. All residing at Rutland Township, Pa. That the value of the
personal property of the estate is Five hundred dollars and the value of
the real estate is Two Thousand dollars and consists of farm property located
in Rutland Township. The petitioners therefore prayed that Letters of Administration
on said estate be granted to the petitioner November 1, 1922. Letters of
Administration on the estate of Ray Kennedy, late of Rutland Township,
were granted to Emma B. Kennedy, she first having been duly sworn as required
by law.
November 1, 1922, Bond filed in the sum of One Thousand dollars, Signed
by Emma B. Kennedy, Nathan Niles and William Kennedy.
November 16, 1922, General Inventory filed amounting to $ 1,271.73.
November 16, 1922, Filed appraisement for Transfer Inheritance tax
amounting to $ 945.98 taxable at 2%.
February 7th 1923, The first and final account of the administratrix,
examined, passed and filed.
My name is Tom Van Bencoten and I was very surprised when I Googled
my Great Great Grandfather Hallock Kennedy and up popped his last will
and testament.
His daughter Grace is my Great Grandmother and her daughter Margie
is my Grandmother who's only son was Richard my father.
Well my father grandmother and her sisters Lorene and Bea are
all past. My aunt Bea was the last and left us a lot of pictures some with
names some without, but between me and my sisters we can put faces to names.
My sister Judy also has a collection of post cards sent by relatives of
years ago. I also have pictures of Grandmother Wrights husband Alonzo family
including his Parents. Attached is a picture of Hallock in his Civil
War uniform and one of him in later years, I also have Alonzo father Elias
on his civil war horse. Maybe you know other descendents that would like
copies of these.
Tom Van Bencoten
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