ESTATE: Jeremiah VAUGHEN, 1900, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA
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Cambria County Court House, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Will of Jeremiah VAUGHEN
To F. B. Jones
Register Of Wills Of Cambria County, Pa.
I, the widow of Jeremiah Vaughen, late of Johnstown, Pa., deceased, do hereby
renounce my rights to Letters of Administration on the estate of said decedent,
and request you to appoint Samuel W. Vaughen of Johnstown as said Administrator.
WITNESS, my hand this 13th day of May A. D. 1900.
Elizabeth Vaughen
Witness:
Jas. M Haws
Kate Bair
Was Filed November 3rd, 1900
Bond and Oath of Samuel W. Vaughen, Administrator of Jeremiah Vaughen, late of
Johnstown, deceased.
Filed November 3rd, 1900
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
County of Cambria
Before me, F. B. Jones, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters
of Administration in and for said County, personally came the within named
Samuel W. Vaughen, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say
that as Administrator of the estate of Jeremiah Vaughen, late of Johnstown,
Cambria County, deceased, he will and truly administer the goods and chattels,
rights and credits of the deceased, according to law, and also will diligently
and faithfully regard and well and truly comply with the provisions of the law
relating to collateral inheritances.
S. W. Vaughen
Sworn and subscribed the
3rd day of Nov. A. D. 1900
F B Jones, Register
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That me, Samuel W. Vaughen, Frank Jenkins, and P. L. Rehn are held and firmly
bound unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the sum of twenty five hundred
dollars, lawful money of the United States, to be paid to the said Commonwealth
for the use of the parties interested in the estate of Jeremiah Vaughen, late of
Johnstown, Cambria County, deceased. To which payment will, and truly to be
made, we bind ourselves, jointly and severally, for and in the whole, our heirs,
executors and administrators, and each and every one of them, firmly by these
presents. Sealed with our seals. Dated the 13th day of November in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred.
The condition of this obligation is: That if the above bounden, Samuel W.
Vaughen, Administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of
Jeremiah Vaughen deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and prefect
inventory of all singular the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased,
which have come, or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of him, the
said Samuel W. Vaughen, or into the hands and possession of any other person or
persons for him and the same so made do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into
the Register's Office, in the County of Cambria, within thirty days from the
date hereof, and the same goods, chattels, and credits and all the other goods,
chattels and credits of the said deceased, at the time of his death, which at
any time after shall come to the hands or possession of Samuel w Vaughen or into
the hands and possession of any other person or persons for him do well and
truly administer according to law.
And further, do make, or cause to be made a just and truly account of his said
administration, within one year from the date hereof, or when thereunto legally
required. And all the rest and residue of the said good, chattels and credits
which shall be found remaining upon the said administrator account, the same
being first examined and allowed by the Orphans' Court of the County having
jurisdiction, shall deliver and pay unto such person or persons as the said
Orphans' Court, by their decree or sentence pursuant to law shall limit,
appoint, and shall well and truly comply with the laws of this Commonwealth
relating to collateral inheritance, and if it shall hereafter appear that any
last will and testament was made by the said deceased, and the same shall be
proved according to law if the said, Samuel W. Vaughen, being thereunto
required, do surrender the said Letters of Administration into the Registers'
Offices aforesaid, then this obligation to be void, otherwise remain in full
force.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
F. B. Jones S. W. Vaughen
Frank Jenkins
P. L. Rehn
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
COUNTY OF CAMBRIA
Before me, F B Jones Register of the Probate of Wills, and granting Letters of
Administration in and for the county, personally came Samuel W. Vaughen who,
being duly sworn according to the law, doth depose and say that Jeremiah
Vaughen, late of the City of Johnstown in said County of Cambria, died on or
about the 11th day of May 1900, about 11:00 a.m. instate, leaving to survive him
a widow, Elizabeth J. Vaughen who resides in the said City of Johnstown, and the
following children:
Samuel W. Vaughen residing at Lorain, Ohio
Martha Ella Jenkins nee Vaughen residing at Johnstown
Kate Young nee Vaughen residing at Johnstown
Mary R. Rehn nee Vaughen residing at Johnstown
Lillie B. Jenkins nee Vaughen residing at Johnstown
George R. Vaughen residing at Johnstown
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 3rd day of Nov., 1900
F. B. Jones, Register, etc. S. W. Vaughen