Boschong Subscribers, We posted about Mary Bushong who married Samuel Cowan and her daughter Hannah Cowan who married Michael Hess. Check the Boschong Archives for March 2009 and April 2009. We found these legal notices in an old newspaper concerning Mary Bushong Cowen and her estate. As you remember from the 1831 Will of her father John Bushong, her brothers John and Jacob were to oversee her Estate. It is curious that some researchers have Mary's death date different then 1855 or possibly the year before but according to this first legal notice it is clearly 1855 or before. And the curious part was that it didn't state that Mary was deceased as such, but inferred that John and Jacob were. --------------------- The Lancaster Examiner and Herald Lancaster, Pennsylvania 25 April 1855 Page 3, Column 3 The Estate of Mary Cowen In the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Lancaster. Whereas, Jacob and John Bushong, deceased, did on the 19th day of April 1855, file in the office of the Prothonotary of the said Court their account of the said Estate: Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the said Estate, that the said Court have appointed the 28th day of May 1855, for the confirmation thereof, unless exceptions be filed. Attest: J. Bowman, Proth. Prothonotary Office Lancaster - 24 April ------------------------ The Lancaster Intelligencer Lancaster, Pennsylvania Tuesday, 3 June 1862 ACCOUNTS OF TRUST AND ASSIGNED ESTATES: The Accounts of the following named estates have been exhibited and filed in the Office of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County to wit: Mary Cowan's Estate in Trust Jacob Bushong and John Bushong, Trustees 19 May 1862 ----------------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Bushong