In re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Wheeler

Lansing, S.

—John Wheeler, late of the town of Sandlake, in this county, died March 3, 1891, aged 86 years. He left surviving him no widow, child or descendant, brothers or sisters, but nephews and nieces and grand nephews and nieces, some twenty in number, his only heirs at law and next of kin. His wife died some fifteen years before him and after the death of his wife and down to the time of his own death, he lived on his farm in Sandlake in the family of his nephew, George P. Gardner. The deceased had taken his nephew into his family upon the death of his mother, Wheeler’s sister, when he…