In Re Balk's Estate

August Balk, a resident of Tuscola county, made his last will and testament January 14, 1936. He died November 13, 1937, at the age of 76 years. For many years Mr. Balk had been engaged in farming on his 80-acre farm. Mrs. Balk died in 1932. At the death of Mr. Balk, he left four children, viz., William, of Cleveland, Ohio; August, of Detroit; Emma Piper, of Detroit; and Ella Ellison, of Gilford, Tuscola county; and one granddaughter, Marjorie Balk, child of a deceased son.

George Presley, an unrelated person, came to live at the Balk home in 1917 and more or less made his home with the family…