In re the Estate of Shaver

Evans, S.

Dr. Charles W. Shaver was for many years a practicing physician in the village of Camden, N. Y. He died on October 23, 1927, leaving a widow, Mrs. Jean Clelland Shaver, and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Ward, who resides at Taberg, N. Y.

Mrs. Ward is now about thirty-eight years of age and- was adopted when she was about two weeks old and for all intents and purposes she and her three children were regarded by Dr. Shaver the same as blood relatives.

Dr. Shaver was a widower when he married Jean Clelland on June 4, 1925. Her present age is forty-seven years.

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