Person:Laura Carter (5)

Laura CARTER - Surrogate Records

To the Surrogate Court of the County of Ontario:

The petition of Samuel SOUTHWORTH and Montgomery S SANDFORD of the village of Geneva in said County of Ontario respectfully shows That Laura CARTER late of the village of Geneva in said County of Ontario, deceased, died in the said village of Geneva on or about the 5th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety one being at that time a citizen of the United States and a resident of the County of Ontario. That she died having a last will and Testament, which bears the date - the - 12th day of April 1880 and a codicil thereto, which bears date the 25th day of November A.D. 1890 which affects, or purports to affect both real and personal property, and by which said Last Will and Testament the said decedent nominated and appointed Samuel SOUTHWORTH and Montgomery S SANFORD executors thereof: That the said decedent died possessed of real and personal property in the said County of Ontario, which does not exceed in value about $70,000. and that the following named persons are all the heirs at law and next of kin of the said decedent as far ??? as your petitioners can with - due diligence ascertain. The same and their places of residence are as follows, viz.,

That said decedent left no husband, child, descendant, Father, Mother, brother, sister or any descendant of any sister or brother her surviving. [Laura Carter was the daughter of Dr James Carter and Sarah Hall. She never married. She had a sister Harriet who pre deceased her. I have not yet learned if there were other siblings]

That as your as your petitioners are informed and believe to be true said descendent left no relatives of her surviving upon her paternal side and that her only surviving relatives are the descendants upon her maternal side. Your petitioners have made diligent inquiry from descendants surviving relatives, known to them, to ascertain the names and residences of said decedents surviving relatives, but cannot ascertain them all. So far ?? as they can  ??? them , they are as follows:

Milantha MARSH and Wallace HALL of Phelps, New York only know descendants of John HALL her deceased maternal uncle.

Mary CRITTENDEN, Ypsilanti, Michigan only known descendant of Joseph Hall, her deceased maternal uncle. [Mary Hall b abt 1815 m William Salisbury Crittenden s/o Osee Crittenden & Sarah Salisbury GLOVER. They lived in Lenawee Co & Jackson Co, MI]

Charles HOLMAN, Owasso, Michigan, Hattie WESTON, Alma, Michigan, Laura GARLOCK, Port Gibson, N.Y., Christina DENSMORE, Albion, N.Y., Howard BURT, Newark, N.Y., J. Hall BURT, West Kendall, N.Y., Othniel HALL, residence unknown ???? and other descendants of Harriet HOLMAN her deceased maternal aunt is petitioner unknown. [I have found nothing to indicate that Wm Hall & Ruhamma Andrews had a daughter named Harriet. Charles Holman appears to be the son of Harriet Hall & an as yet unnamed Holman. Both Harriet b 1806-1807 & Charles b 1830 are buried in Oakhill Cemetery, Shiawassee Co, MI. If she was b 1806 she could not be the daughter of Wm & Ruhamma. Christina Densmore, Howard Burt & Joseph Hall Burt were chil. of Erastus Burt & Elizabeth Hall. Laura S Burt m. Cyrus Garlock and was probably also a child of Erastus & Elizabeth. Elizabeth Hall's cemetery record on the Orleans Co genweb page states that she was the daughter of Joseph Hall. Nowhere in the records of Laura Carter is Elizabeth Hall mentioned. Othniel Hall m. Lamira Glover d/o Philander GLOVER & Polly MELVIN. He was in Lenawee Co, MI by 1840. He named a son Joseph.]

Comfort HALL, Randolph, New York, Harriet BRIGGS residence unknown, Almira SWEET, Oil City, Pa. and others, to petitioner unknown, descendants of Samuel Hall, descendants of Samuel Hall, her deceased maternal uncle.

Lyman BAKER, Phelps, N.Y., Roswell BAKER, Knowlesville, N.Y., Alice JEFFERY, Tehama, California, Jessie BAKER, residence unknown, Benjamin F MEYERS, Ithaca, Michigan and others, to petitioners unknown, descendants of Persis BAKER her deceased maternal aunt.

Reuhamma CORBIN, Albion, NY, Evelyn HIBBARD, residence unknown, Hannah CARLISLE, Albion, N.Y. and others, to petitioners unknown, descendants of Tamma Hall GLOVER, her deceased maternal aunt. [Tamesin aka Tamerson Hall m David GLOVER and they had 11 children; Eveline aka Evelyn m Jabez HIBBARD, Louisa m Daniel CARLISLE, Hannah who also m Daniel Carlisle after her sister's death, Orville m Julia CARR, Lewis m Elizabeth SEELIG, Malvina, William m Abigail ??, Rheuma m 1st Elijah SMITH m 2nd Joseph CORBIN, Sr, Reuben, Mentoria and Milton. Evaline & Rheuma settled in Orleans Co, many moved on to Michigan)

Levi GROVER, Porter GROVER, Caroline P WHITNEY whose residences are unknown and others, unknown to petitioners, unknown descendants of Hannah GROVER, her deceased maternal aunt. [Hannah Hall was twice married, 1st to Asa Porter. Caroline P Whitney would be a child of this marriage. They had 7 children including Caroline, two having died in 1845 and the rest I have not tracked down as yet. Hannah m 2nd Benoni Grover with whom she at least six more children.]

The descendants of Ruehama GLOVER her deceased maternal aunt, whose names and places of residence are to your petitioners wholly unknown. [Ruhamma m Philander GLOVER as his second wife. Her step-daughter, Lamira, m her nephew , Othniel Hall. See above. Ruhamma & Philander Glover had four children, Wellington A b 1815, Rev. Livingston M, Luther M, & Mary Jane]

Percy COOK, Minard COOK, John COOK whose places of residence are unknown to your petitioners, and other, to petitioners unknown, descendants of Sophia COOK her deceased maternal aunt.

The descendants of William HALL, her deceased maternal uncle, whose places of residence are to your petitioners wholly unknown.

Your petitioners are unable to state whether any of the heirs at law of said Laura Carter are infants - or persons of unsound mind or ??? Therefore your petitioners pray that the said Last Will and Testament and codicil thereto may be proved and letters of testamentary granted thereon according to law and the above named and described heirs and next of kin of said decedent may be cited to attend the probate thereof: and for such other or further order in relation to the proof of said will and codicil or the service of said citation, as may be just and proper. Dated July 14th 1891.

Signatures of S SOUTHWORTH M S SANDFORD

The following from almost three years later, not in order of relationship:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyontari/surrogate8.htm

From Geneva Advertiser 19 June 1894

(Abstracted from classified Legal Notices)

Malantha Marsh, Wallace Hall and Lyman Baker, Phelps, N. Y. Mary Crittenden, Ypsilanti, Mich. Charles Holman, Owasso, Mich. Hattie Weston, Alma, Mich. E. Burt Garlock, Jefferson City, Missouri Cyrus Garlock, Mary C. Garlock, W. F. Garlock, Port Gibson, N. Y. Christina Densmore and Reuhama Corbin, Albion, N. Y. Howard Burt, Newark, N. Y. J. Hall Burt, West Kendall, N. Y. Harriet Briggs, Jamestown, N. Y. Almira Sweet, Oil City, Pa. Roswell Baker, Knowlesville, N. Y. Alice Jeffery, Tehama, Cal. Benjamin F. Myers, Ithaca, Mich. Hannah Carlisle, Sioux City, Iowa Othniel Hall, Comfort Hall, Jessie Baker, Evelyn Hibbard, Porter Grover, Caroline P. Whitney, Percy Cook, Minard Cook, John Cook, and all others, heirs at law and next of kin of LAURA CARTER, deceased.

Ann Lawson, Augusta, N. Y. Caroline Field, Geneva, N. Y. Mary E. Tulett, Anna W. Tulett, Laura L. Tulett and Clarence E. Tulett, all of the Town of Fayette, N. Y., who are interested, as creditors, next of kin, heirs at law, legatees, or otherwise, in the estate of LAURA CARTER. late of the town of Geneva, Ontario County NY.

_______________________________________________________________________________ 1850 Census index, Seneca, Ontario Co, NY 1071 Harriet Carter 991 1071 Laura Carter 991 1071 Sarah Carter 991

1865 census index, Seneca, Ontario Co, NY

365 Harriet Carter 46 1 365 Laura Carter 46 1 365 Mary Dailey 46 2 365 Frances DeLancy 46 2 365 John P DeLancy 46 2 365 Wilhilmina V DeLancy 46 2

1870 census index, Geneva, Ontario Co, NY 311 Carter Harriet Geneva 1870 39 311 Carter Laura Geneva 1870 38

1875 census index, Geneva, Ontario Co, NY 25 Carter Laura Geneva #2 1875 79 25 Lawson Hattie Geneva #2 1875 79 25 Weyburn Elizabeth Geneva #2 1875 79

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 1860 Census.
2. ↑ Ontario Co RAIMS site.
3. ↑ Ontario County, 1884-5 directory, containing the general directories of Canandaigua and Geneva,...
   pg 245.