In Re Hadley's Estate

The will offered for probate was executed by the testator on July 26, 1935, when he was eighty-three years old. He died in March 1948 at the age of ninety-six years. He had been living in Chariton for about eighteen months just preceding his death, but had spent his prior adult life as a farmer and cattle raiser and feeder in "Warren County, Iowa. His wife died December 4, 1934. On the death of her husband in 1922, his daughter, Alice Cochran, one of the proponents, with her two little girls, under five years old, returned to her parental home to live. After her mother’s death she lived with…