Name/Title
April 5, 1938 Orange County, NY of Will of Mary Elizabeth VanKeurenEntry/Object ID
001267Tags
Mary Elizabeth Van Keuren, William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
These documents pertain to the probate and estate appraisal of Mary Elizabeth Van Keuren of Montgomery, New York. They bridge a timeline from the filing of her Will in April 1938 to the official appraisal of her estate for tax purposes in early 1939.
A "Notice of Probate" dated April 5, 1938. It identifies Miller Van Keuren as the proponent (executor/petitioner) of the Will and lists the primary beneficiaries, including family members in Massachusetts and New York, as well as a family association. The legal firm Hunt, Hill & Betts of Manhattan represented the estate.
A formal "Notice of Appraisal" dated January 30, 1939. Following an order by Surrogate Charles E. Taylor, the court-appointed appraiser, Allen J. Indzonka, Jr., scheduled a public appraisal of the estate's fair market value for February 20, 1939, at the Surrogate’s Court in Goshen.
