Hansen v. Waugh

This is a will contest, involving a purported will and codicil of Rikka Waugh.

Rikka Waugh was born in Norway in 1852 and died in Des Moines in 1943, aged ninety-one years and five months. She came to this country as a young woman. Her father bought her one hundred twenty aeres of land in Hamilton County, Iowa, near Roland, a town fifty miles north of Des Moines. She married Neis Waugh and they lived on said farm until 1903, when they moved to Roland. Their four adult children were Erick, Nellie (Josendal), Bertha (Hansen), and Frederic. Bertha Hansen lived in Des Moines. Nellie Josendal lived…