Steele v. Gellatly

This was a petition for dower heard upon the following agreed state of facts, and a decree was entered pro forma for the defendant.

“ That the petitioner was married to Ashbell Steele, at Rochester, in the State of Hew York, in the year A. D. 1827, when she was eighteen years of age; that they lived and cohabited together, and were known and recognized in said county of Cook as husband and wife, for about thirty years. ‘That said Ashbell Steele died in said county of Cook, in the month of September, A. D. 1861, and that the said petitioner has continued to reside in said county of Cook ever…