Administration of estates
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph T. Barton collection
Collection
Identifier: L012
Scope and Contents
The collection contains family letters from John T. Barton from Harveysburg, Ohio; Shenandoah County, Virginia; Parkersburg, (West) Virginia; Warren County, Indiana; and Mier, Indiana. Also included are business papers, receipts, and estate administration papers of Barton’s son, John T. Barton. The volumes consist of farm account books ranging from 1900 to 1927. There is also a Charles A. Osenbaugh account book, 1906-1927 and an undated tintype of Ozenbaugh.
Dates:
1809-1929
Mrs. Clay M. Ward collection
Collection — Folder S1356
Identifier: S1356
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two items: a estate legal document signed by Benjamin McWilliams, William Randolph, and John Tyler dated 1797 concerning the payment of debts for Saticia McWilliams, deceased; and a Confederate coupon bond for $500, issued May 1, 1864, at Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
1797 & 1864
Peter Tallman documents
Collection — Folder S0147
Identifier: S0147
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents regarding the sale of property in Parke County to Peter Tallman in the 1860s.
Dates:
1864-1868
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Peter Tallman documents
Putnam County collection
Collection — Folder S1688
Identifier: S1688
Scope and Contents
The collection includes miscellaneous historical papers and documents of Putnam County, Indiana, including advertising cards from Russelville and Greencastle, Indiana; manuscripts and narratives about courthouses, African-American citizens in Greencastle, and various county personalities; handwritten legal documents, including land records, indentures, warrants, and estate papers (1831-1886); and a January 27, 1963 letter from Mrs. John R. Stevens to Mr. Guthrie regarding an article about a...
Dates:
1831-1886
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Putnam County collection
Sinks and Sulgrove family papers
Collection — Folder S1194
Identifier: S1194
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Daniel Sinks' business and tax receipts, land indentures and contracts, and other papers relating to business with James Sulgrove and the Sulgrove family in Marion County, Indiana ranging from 1825 to 1979 regarding schools, school lands, taxes, and other business and property concerns.
Dates:
1825-1879
Sophia K. Shipman estate inventory and appraisement
Collection — Folder S2664
Identifier: S2664
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the inventory and appraisement of the personal estate of Sophia K. Shipman, certified by two appraisers and her estate administrator, George D. Weatherford on February 22, 1860. Approved and recorded by the county clerk on September 13, 1860, the inventory includes furniture, housewares, livestock, farm equipment, and the names and ages of seven slaves.
Dates:
1860
Thomas B. Redding collection
Collection
Identifier: L336
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, receipts, and military papers ranging from 1834 to 1918 regarding Thomas Redding's legal practice in Henry County and Central Indiana. The legal documents in the collection consist of bills, promissory notes, checks, receipts, accounts, indentures, contracts, leases, deeds, mortgages, insurance policies, affidavits, wills, briefs, and other papers relating to a probate business. In addition to the papers from his legal practice, the...
Dates:
1835-1918, undated
Wasson family collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: V024
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two volumes used by members of the Wasson family of Wayne County, Indiana. The first volume is an account book kept by Fleming Wasson containing entries ranging from 1870 to 1888 regarding his farm and the Cochran estate. The second volume was used to record entries ranging from 1877 to 1885 regarding the estate settlement of Ann P. Cochran and as a diary kept by Louise Wasson from October 1880 to February 1885. The collection also has one loose receipt from the...
Dates:
1870-1888, circa 1920s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Wasson family collection
William Henry Harrison Miller collection
Collection
Identifier: L108
Scope and Contents
The collection includes indentures, mortgages, abstracts of titles, and other legal documents from William Henry Harrison Miller regarding his property ownership in Indianapolis (1874-1906) as well as correspondence, reports, and financial papers regarding the construction and maintenance of said properties; letters of condolence to his wife and children at his death; several of Miller’s speeches; and a report to the U.S. Circuit Court on the case of James R. Jessup vs. the Wabash, St. Louis...
Dates:
1862-1919
