Posts in January 28, 2025

“It’s wrong,” “It’s wrong!” “It’s WRONG!” It’s not sufficient to simply say something is wrong or to scream it. You’ve got to have a reason. The last name of one of the heirs to whom a notice was mailed in a 1913 probate case is wrong. It’s not wrong just because I say so. It’s wrong because there was no heir to the estate named William Samuel Ewing. In other probate documents, the names of the heirs are all the same as in this affidavit–except the last heir is William Samuel Neill (not Ewing as shown here). William J. Ewing was William Samuel Neill’s guardian and was not an heir in his own right–he was being notified in his capacity as guardian of William Samuel Neill (incorrectly listed […]