Hamburg 1910
In Orphans’ Court of Berks County
Estate of George Heckman late of the Borough of Hamburg, Berks County, deceased.
To the Honorable H Willis Bland, President Judge of said Court:-
The petition of Susan Heckman, administrator of the above-named decedent, respectfully represents:-
That the said George Heckman died on or about the 14th day of October 1910, intestate, leaving to survive him a widow, your petitioner, to whom letters of administration have been granted by the register of Wills of Berks County, and the following children, to wit; Pearl P. Heckman, Myrtle S. Heckman and Madeline E Heckman, all of whom are minors and have for their guardian, The Berks County Trust Company of Reading, PA., and who are all the parties, with your petitioner, interested in the estate of the decedent, other than lien creditors, under the intestate laws.
That the said decedent died seized in his demesne as of fee of and in the following described real estate, which is all the real estate the decedent, wherever situate that has come to the knowledge of the petitioner, to wit:-
All that certain two story brick house and lot of ground situate of the West side of Third Street, formerly called White Oak Street, in the Borough of Hamburg, County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to wit;- Beginning at a corner of property now or late of Richard Moyer on said Third Street, thence along the same North fifteen degrees West twenty feet to lot of Samuel Heffner, thence along the same South eighty five degrees West one hundred and seventy two feet to a sixteen feet wide alley, thence along said alley South fifteen degrees East 20 feet to a corner of property of now or late Richard Moyer, thence along said property North eighty five degrees East one hundred and seventy two feet to the place of beginning containing in front in said Third Street, formerly called White Oak Street, twenty feet and of equal depth of one hundred and seventy two feet.
That the said real estate has been valued and appraised by appraisers appointed to appraise and set aside the widow’s exemption at the sum of $800.00, as will appear by the exemption Appraisement filed.
That the said real estate is subject also to the lien of a mortgage upon which there is now due as principal the sum of $288.00 held by the Hamburg Building and Loan Association No. 2.
That the personal estate of the decedent is in sufficient for the payment of the debts of the decedent, schedule of which debts is here to annexed and made part of this petition. The only personal estate left by him has been appraised and set apart to the widow under the exemption laws and the Register’s certificate to the effect that no inventory has been filed in his office is also hereto annexed.
That Carlo Barelli of Tilden Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, has offered to purchase the said real estate at private sale for the sum of $900 clear of all encumbrances, which price your petitioner believe and avers to be more than could be obtained for said premises at a public sale and submits herewith the affidavit of two disinterested persons to that effect.
Wherefore your petitioner showing that it is a to the advantage of the estate of the decedent that a private order of sale be awarded, prays the Court to permit this petition to be filed, to fix a day for acting hereon, and to designate a newspaper wherein publication of notices may be made as is provided by Secs. 2, 3 and 4 of Rule XXVII of the Rules of Court, and it shall appear prober to the Court, that your petitioner be authorized and directed to sell the said premises at private sale to the above Carlo Barelli on the terms and conditions above set forth, pursuant to the provisions of Sec. 3 Act March 29th, 1832, P.L.198 and of may 9, 1889, P.L. 182.
And she will ever etc.
Mrs. Susan Heckman
Berks County SS
Susan Heckman, the above-named petitioner, being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are true and correct and that the schedule of debts hereto annexed is a true statement of all the debts of the decedent so far as known to your petitioner.
Mrs. Susan Heckman
Sworn and subscribed to before me July 24 1911
J Edward Miller
Notary Public
Submitted by Michelle.
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