Bedford County PA Archives Court.....Reiley, Jane December 7, 1860 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donald Buncie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008389 November 22, 2023, 12:42 pm Source: The Bedford Inquirer: (bedford, Pa.): December 07, 1860 Written: December 7, 1860 Notice of Inquisition. Whereas John Cessna, Esq., presented a petition setting forth that he is interested in the estate of Mrs. Jane Reiley, late of Bedford Borough, dec'd., that said Jane Reiley, died in 1845, seized and possessed of the following real estate, viz: the eastern half of lot No. 188 in the general plan of Bedford, situate on Pitt Street and adjoining said street on the South, and lot No. 187, now Jonathan Horton's heirs on the east, that said intestate left a husband, Christopher Reiley, who died in 1860, and issue six children or the descendants of six to wit: David Reiley, now dead, and whose interest belongs to petitioner, Jane A. Reiley of Bedford, who also conveyed to petitioner, Cevilla, the wife of Jacob Stump, residing in Alleghany County, Md., Sarah the wife of James Kelly, residing in Allegheny County, Md., said James Kelly, being, now dead, Elizabeth, who was the wife of John Collins, the said John, now residing in the Territory of Nebraska, and the said Elizabeth, having died before her mother, leaving issue James Collins, now of Nebraska and Daniel Collins, of Pittsburg, and Ruth, wife of James Berry, now dead, said James now residing in the state of Indiana, that when James Collins owned the one twelfth part of said lot, petitioner, purchased same at Sheriff Sale, that Jane A. Reiley, conveyed to petitioner. the one fourth part of the interest of her sister Ruth, after said Ruth's death, that John Collins has no interest in said property, for the reason that his wife died prior to her mother, that James Berry, has no interest thereon, for the reason that his wife died during the existence of the estate of Christopher Reiley, as tenant by the curtesy that the title to said half lot, is now vested in the following parties and in the following proportions, to wit: In James Collins one forty-eighth, Daniel Collins, five forty-eights, Mrs. Cevilla Stump, ten forty-eights, Mrs. Sarah Kelly, ten forty-eights, and John Cessna, twenty-two forty-eights. Notice is therefore, hereby given, that in pursuance on a writ of Partition or Valuation, to me directed, I will proceed to hold an Inquisition or Valuation, on the premises, on Monday, the 31st day of December, 1860, when and where all parties interested can attend if they see proper. JOHN J. CESSNA. Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Bedford. Dec. 7, 1860. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bedford/court/reiley1823gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb