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SHE TELLS HOW HER ALLEGED BROTHER MADE AN EFFORT TO SEE HER HER CLAIM DENIED AND APPEAL YALL BE TAKEN, INTEREST. ANG TESTIMONY ‘She beating to determine ‘heirs and 20 allow the Spal account of the ad ministrators, CH. BYiings and the snion Trust Co. of Detroit in the es tate of Edwin C. Way, deceased, came up before Judge Porter in the probate court this afternoon) . Mrs. Horatio, Catherine Moore of Spring Arbor who claims to be an own sister of the deceased, was present to ontest the proceedings. She was ac companied by her niece, Mrs. Chin Rickner and her attorney, J. M. Watch (2. HB. Billings and Adtorner Joel 1 .Preston of the Union Trust Co. of De troit were present. Before the testi mony of Mrs. Moore was taken Alty Hatch stated ‘the character of Edwin ¢, Way was not the character of the late Mr. and Mrs. James A. Was, de ceased. C. H. Billings stated he had a letter from Mrs. Samuel P. Waruler x Grand Rapids in which she stated the remembered when Mr. Way was so to Mr. and Mrs. James 4. Wax T. N. Wright and Mrs. Harriet Johnson have _Already testified to this. Mrs. Moore testified that she has resided at Spring Arbor five years on March 28, coming there from Agate, Colo, where her daughter resides. She also ‘told of being in Portiuna, Ore.;| |onc.year from May to January. ‘She related how her ‘maiden name was Fish and how she was torn in Olive3 UNLV, in Nov. 2946 being 76 years of 4Be last November. She came 0 Woodstock, Lenawee county. with bes t parents. ‘The family consisted of five “brothers and four sisters besides Mrs. Moors: Four died, two when infane; one ‘girl when four years-old and’ one wrote: when about-four-rers - and Mrs. Moore has one sister living in Agate, Cola., older than ‘she, Three Brothers died in the civil war. Mrs. Moore testifed that Edwin €. Fish was born in Woodstock. foar faileg north of Break Mich., Dec.24 1850 When nearly 5 years old he, went ‘away folowing another brother Scho Jaina, ‘the army. He Wanten to Was mane. The family then dived in Fenrietta. The father: ac companied the other soy. to: Jackson: They searched for. Bawin C. Butler. coulay Sudshige joys for, Chicas . He got of the, ache and they told him he was in: Marshall. He wanted something to eat and a Man 2nd woman said . oo hia, You come howe with us, and the woman ‘Sid ’and Viget, you something to “a Mrs. Moore said her brother was called Charles Edwin Fish in hig hoy wood days. She told of getting a set ter from ‘her long-lost brother when she was in Portland, Ore. She put it in a trunk when she was going to Cali fornia and the liom came out of the trunk and it wss lost. “I have the ‘trunk yet,” she testified. “I received the letter in 1909 or 1910. 1 did not answer It as i did not know where to write. After I came ‘back I wrote to my brother in Detroit. He said to address him as Edwin C. Fish or Way nut did not give an address and the let ter came back. Mrs. Moore told her her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Sawyer read the letter. Her little babe was sick at the time and she remarked “Mother has a letter from Ed. Mrs. Moore testified how the letter told how her brother had gone to Brooklyn looking for her and his peo le. He said “I have been to the old jarn pike. Little did I think I would be in Brooklyn today but I got too, thinking of my people and i got a rice “and drove out. I must be back in De troit tomorrow as my business call: me Uncre. I am president of the Scot ten-Dilion Tobacco (o.,” is what Mrs. Moore testified was in the letter. Mrs. Moore testified that she had forgotten about this matter until her attention was called to it by her niece. She put the fetter in the trunk. “It burst open in shipping and 1 test 1 with title pictures of my sister and aiso of Edwin C. Way. I had Eé's pic ture and also my mother's in the trunk. He wee of Hght complexion, Ye was not large nor awal, I had tere y brothers of bia stature. He was about aa big as you.” testified Mrs. Moore pointing to Ary. Prenton. Mrs. Noort told how the ‘care 3 Fight after be woundered. “1
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Evening Chronicle
Marshall, Michigan, US
Mon, Mar 12, 1917
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