Westmoreland County PA Archives News.....Heirs to a fortune. August 12, 1880
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Lancaster Daily Intelligencer. (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928 August 12, 1880
The late Col. Israel Painter, of Westmoreland county, left an estate of $300,000,
and being a bachelor much curiosity was felt regarding the contents of his will. It
covers a half sheet of foolscap paper. His "legal" heirs will inherit $200,000, to
be divided into six shares of which the Greensburg Argus says one share $33,000 will
be divided between "the two heirs of Sophia Boice, deceased, of Lancaster, Pa."
The paper also speaks of his "peculiar social relations," the nature of which may be
inferred from this paragraph:
To Israel Painter and John S. Painter, sons of Miss Catharine Lowe, he gives the
Willow Tree farm (on which he resided) and the lands adjoining, bought from Wm.
Hough and Thomas Williams, containing 400 acres, more or less. To Miss Catharine
Lowe, their mother, he bequeaths $20,000. To Alma Lowe, daughter of said Catharine
Lowe, $20,000. To Morris L. Painter $10,000.

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