Estate of Hill

On the second day of July, 1885, James M. Haven, through his attorney, Giles H. Gray, Esq., filed in this court a petition setting forth that one Thomas J. Hill died on or about the twenty-fourth day of June, 1885, in this city and county, of which he was then a resident, leaving estate therein consisting of personal property of the probable value of $5,000 cash; that said Hill left a will, dated March 22, 1884, in possession of the petitioner, naming him, the said petitioner, executor, and Wm. H. Aiken, Thos. J. Conroy, Mary E. Connor, John Woolley, Mrs. John Woolley, and the children of Mr. and Mrs. Woolley, the Grand Army Cemetery Association and the Veteran Home Association, corporations, devisees or legatees; that John Connor and Maggie E. McCann were subscribing witnesses to said will; that the next of kin of said testator and heir at law is John Woolley, aged about fifty years, residing in Placer county, California, a son of a deceased sister of said testator; that at the time of the execution of said will, March 22, 1884, said testator was over the age of eighteen years, and aged sixty years or thereabouts, and was of sound and disposing mind, and not acting under duress,…