In a message dated 9/20/01 6:49:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, white@mae.engr.ucdavis.edu writes: > Was the will a transcript? If the age in the original was written > "14" instead of fourteen, it is possible that the "4" was simply > mis-read as a "9". Mike, That is what I thought might have happened in this case. However, Steve tells me that what was being probated wasn't a will but an intestate estate. Therefore, the document wasn't written in 1922 (although that is the date of Hiram's death) but, in 1927. So the age of the son Hiram, was given as what it was in 1927, at the time of the writing of the document. Everything else dove-tailed beautifully. I knew there was something I was missing. My missing info was that this wasn't a will written by Hiram, Sr. and submitted for probate soon after his death. Hiram, Sr. died intestate and his widow was apparently trying to sell the land (or something similar) and couldn't until the estate was probated. Sharon, Listmom