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Will and Testament of Jacob P. Allamon of New Salem, Menallen Township,
Fayette County, Pennsylvania will
dated: will
Probated: 15 December, 1916 September
Court-----1916 To
the Honorable J. C. Work, Judge of the said Court:
The petition of A. P. Allamon, of Menallen Township, Fayette
county, Pennsylvania who is administrator of the estate of Jacob P.
Allamon , decease, respectfully presents:
(1) That said
descendent died December 15, 1916, at his residence in Menallen
Township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, intestate, and leaving to
survive him your petitioned, Allansus P. Allamon, Isaac H. Allamon,
Elizabeth C. Acklin, intermarried with Michael Monaghan, Mary Cramer,
intermarried with John Cramer, all of Menallen Township, aforesaid;
Emma E. Gaskill, intermarried with Charles Gaskill of
Brownsville, Pa., of Brownsville, Pa., and the widow and six children of
James W. Allamon, deceased, to-wit: Bertha Allamon and our minor children residing at New Salem,
in Menallen Township, for whom no guardian has as yet been appointed,
said minors being William, Ray, Clark and Hilda Allamon; and two other
children, viz., Nora intermarried with James Conroy of German Township,
Fayette county, Pennsylvania; and Mary, intermarried with Perry Cain of
North Union Township, said County and State;
(2) That letters of
administration were granted on December 31, 1915, to your petitioner, by
the Register of Wills of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
(3) That your
petitioner known of no other person who is interested in the estate of
said decedent by contract or purchase from him in his lifetime or from
any of the said legal representatives, or in any other manner.
(4) That a true and
prefect inventory and conscionable appraisment of all the personal
estate of said decedent, amounting to $26.90 is herewith exhibited and
is insufficient for the payment of his just debts and the expense of
administration of his estate. (5)
That your petitioner further exhibits a just and true account of
all the debts of said decedent and the expenses of the administration of
his estate so far as the same have come to his knowledge, amounting to
$145.94 and he also exhibits a full and correct statement of all the
real estate of said decent wherever situated, which such come to his
knowledge, with the taxes and repairs, and the estimated market value of
such real estate at public sale, amounting in all to the sum of $500.00.
All these exhibits are attached hereto and made a part hereof.
(6) Your petitioner therefore prays the Court to grant him on
order authorizing him to make sale of the land described in said Exhibit
as Lot No. 40 in New Salem, Menallen township, Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, valued at $500.00 for the purpose of paying debts of said
decedent and the expenses of administration of his estate as provided by
Act of Assemble. And he
will ever pray, etc. A.
F. Allamon, Administrator. Real
estate of the estate of Jacob P. Allamon, deceased, an undivided
seven-eighths interest in and to that certain of land situate in the
village of New Salem,. Menallen Township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania
bounded and more fully described as follows, to wit: Being Lot No. 40,
bounded on the East by lands of Caleb Antrim., deceased; on the North by
lot formerly owned by Hahhah (sic) Hagan, deceased; on the West by Hill
Street and on the South by an alley; being the same lot of ground
conveyed by deed of William Balsinger et ux., recorded in Deed Book 16
page 188, conveyed thereby to said Jacob Allamon and Mary Allamon his
mother; said Mary Allamon dying Jan. 8, 1891, leaving to survive her
four children, to-wit: the said Jacob P. Allamon, Harvey B., and Johnson
D. Allamon and Rachel M., intermarried with Charles E. Teed, of
Uniontown, Pa., the shares of the said Harvey B., and Johnson D. Allamon
becoming vested in the said Jacob P. Allamon by deed dated Feb. 27, 1895
recorded Jan. 15, 1900 in Deed Book 176, page 267.
There being erected on the said premises a small three room log
house. Now,
October 21, 1916 sale authorized as prayed for, on filling bond in the
sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, with surety to be approved by
Court. Terms of Sale, Ten
percent of purchase price down, with balance of one-third on
confirmation of sale and delivery of deed, and the balance with interest
at six percent from date of confirmation, payable one-third in one year
therefrom and the remaining one-third in two years from confirmation;
deferred payments to be secured by bond and mortgage on the premises.
Returnable on the first Monday of December A.D. 1916. To
the Honorable J. C. Work, President Judge of the said Court:
A. P. Allamon, Administrator of the said Jacob P. Allamon,
deceased, reports: That pursuant of the within order of Court he did at
the time and place therein mentioned, proceed to expose the within
described premises to sale, by public venue or outcry, after due notice
and advertisement of same, but that by reason of the discovery of
certain deeds, whereby by decedent had acquired this entire estate in
the said premises, instead of dying seized of only the undivided
seven-eighths thereof as set forth in said petition and subsequent
advertising, said sale was adjourned; end the said real estate the
entire interest therein-remains unsold by reason thereof, and he
therefore prays that the said above mentioned order of sale be
discontinued.
A. P. Allamon--Administrator
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