Parsons v. Wass

In the summer of 1900 Eobert Wass, then about ninety years old, and his aged wife Charlotte, were living together in a house on Central avenue, in Cleveland, Ohio. In the early part of August of that year the wife died and about six weeks thereafter Eobert Wass also died. So far as is known neither Charlotte nor Eobert had near relatives of their blood living in Cleveland or its vicinity. For some years before they died both suffered more or less from the infirmities of age, and their wants were largely attended to by Lucy Douglass and Isabella Mead, housewives who lived near Eobert and…