Brumfield v. Drook

Best, C.

On the 22d day of December, 1860, John Drook made his last will, and on the 16th day of March, 1870, he died the owner of considerable personal property and a quarter' section of land in Grant county, in this State, leaving surviving him his widow, Saloma Drook, and ten children, five sons- and five daughters, viz., Daniel F., Jacob F., "William F., Alfred F., James Monroe F., Mary F. Brumfield, Marides F. Taylor, Susanna F. Anderson, Cynthia F. Fisher and Martha F. Snyder, now Martha F. Warrenburg. Each of these daughters, at the time of their father’s death, had from six to ten…