Probate Record for Didamia (Stamps) Cockrill

From Sonoma County, Probate Records # 1592, Register #2, Page 140:

  1-6. In the matter of the estate of Didamia Cockrill Deceased  
  7-8. Document includes newspaper clipping announcing Probate Notice for Didamia  
  9. A typed Will.  
  10-12. Probate inventory  
  13. Ida J. Cannon deposition of responsibilities  
  14-20. Petition to discharge executors May 24, 1888  
  21-22. Schedule "A"  
  23-28. Final distribution of estate (typed deposition)  
  29. Card or note: Dated Nov 23, 1886 by James W. Oates, atty for Petitioners
That all other necessary and proper orders may be made in the p[?]
And your petitioners will ever pray &c.
Ida J. Cannon
Wm W. Fowler

 
  30-32. Indenture 5 March 1886  
  33. Deed cover  
  34. Probate form 28 Nov 1886  
  35. Notice of "Proving the Will" in Superior Court of Sonoma County.
Monday the 6th day of December, A. D. 1886 at 10 o'clock A. M. of said day...
 
  36. Order admitting Will to Probate (form) 6 Dec 1886
Personal estate worth $5940.00 and Real Estate worth $4500, and "annual rents, issues and profits", $156.
...that Letters testamentary thereon issue to said petitioner, Ida J. Cannon and W. W. Fowler upon taking the oath as required by law in sum of twenty-thousand and eight dollars.
 
  37. Letters Testamentary 5 Jan 1887 signed by Wm H. Fowler
I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California and that I will faithfully perform according to law the duties of Executor of the last Will and Testament Didamia Cockrill deceased.
 
  38. Similar document to 37, signed by Ida J. Cannon [?] Jan 1887 with signature of Bruce T. Cockrill "Justice of the Peace" of Sonoma County.  
  39. Handwritten appointment of appraisers of Didamia Cockrill's Sonoma County estate: Henry Lawrence, Jacob McReynolds, and John Johnson. Dated 10 Jan 1887. Signed by Thos. Rutledge, judge of Superior Court.  
  40. Filled out form, appointment of appraisers of Didamia Cockrill's Mendocino County estate: C. J. Buchanan, Michael Donahue and John Conway. Dated 25 Jan 1887. Thos. Rutledge, judge of Superior Court.  
  41-44. Inventory and Appraisement, Sonoma County estate  
  45-48. Inventory and Appraisement, Mendocino County estate  
  49. Statement of Debts Presented and Allowed  
  50. Affidavit to foregoing Account -- Probate. Final Account filed by W. W. Fowler 19 May 1888  
  51. Order Appointing Day for Settlement of Account and Directing Notice to be Given: Monday, 11 June 1888 at 10 AM  
  52. Order Appointing Day of Distribution of Estate and Directing Notice to be Given: Monday, 11 June 1888 at 10 AM  
  53. Card announcing Settlement of Final Account  
  54-55. Deposition 11 June 1888  
  56. James W. Oates receipt of receiving $300 in attorney fees from W. W. Fowler, n.d.  
  57. Petition, n.d.
...We hereby request the said court to distribute the real estate belonging to said deceased in the same proportions as the personal property to the legates[?] who under the will of said deceased is entitled thereto at the values of the said real estate as appraised.
[Signed by] Mrs Helen Lake
Bruce T. Cockrill
Ida J. Cannon
Lurana E. Hoag
 
  58. In The Matter of the Estate of Didamia Cockrill, deceased. Form letter? on how to effect an early settlement of an estate (missing a page?).  
  59-60. H. H. [?] McReynolds transfers and sells his part of the Didamia estate interest to Ida J. Cannon in the presence of B. T. Cockrill, May 21, 1887. A piece of paper signed by R. L. Cockrill which doesn't appear connected to the other page.  
  61. Final Discharge of Executor form dated 19 June 1888.  

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