In Re Burke's Estate

Sophie Lyons Burke was a resident of Detroit, Michigan. She died May 7, 1924, leaving a will which was admitted to probate in the probate court of Wayne county on December 2,1924. She had been married three times. By her second husband, a man named Brady, she had a daughter Madeline, who was living with a sister in Paris at the opening of the World War. She was then 23 years of age. She joined the English army as a nurse and as an ambulance driver. While so engaged she was wounded, as a result of which she became insane, and, at the time the will was made, and of her mother’s death, was being…