William Miller - Estate Administrator's Final Report

Date: Apr 1922 [unknown]
Location: Franklin County, Indiana, United States
Surnames/tags: Miller Stanley

STATE OF INDIANA )
( SS:
FRANKLIN COUNTY )

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT,

FRANKLIN COUNTY

APRIL TERM, 1922.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE )
) ADMINISTRATOR’S FINAL REPORT.
OF WILLIAM MILLER, DECEASED )

The undersigned Administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of the estate of said decedent, respectfully submits to said Court the following Final Report of his proceeding as such Administrator of said Estate, to-wit:

I am chargeable with cash received from the sale
of real estate ordered sold by the Franklin Circuit Court to pay debts, and in the sum of ....................................................$1150.00

I also claim the following credits for sums by me laid out and expended in the administration of said estate since my last partial report, to wit:

1. Frank J. Baker, Clerk, court costs..........................$38.00
2. A. J. Shriner, Post Master, revenue stamps for deed...........1.50
3. Fred Lake, auctioneer’s services in the sale of real estate..25.00
4. S. T. Quinlan, consideration for the cancelation of lease....75.00
5. M. P. Hubbard, attorney's fees in the action for the sale of real estate including report of such sale....................50.00
6. Thos. H. Feltz, Treas., taxes for year 1920..................15.91
7. Thos. H. Feltz, Treas., taxes for year 1921................17.55
Total ........................................................$222.96

RECAPITULATION.

Total charges........$1150.00
Total credits..........222.96
Balance ….............$927.04

And said Administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of the estate of William Miller, deceased, would further report that following the death of the said William Miller that his, surviving widow, Martha Milller, filed her election wherein she refused to take under the provisions as made in her deceased husbands Lest Will and Testament and elected to take under the law; that she thereby became the owner of an undivided one—third interest in the real estate owned by her deceased husband at the time of his death and is therefore entitled to receive the one—third portion of the proceeds derived from the sale. thereof, save and except the proportionate share of the expenses incurred in the sale thereof; that the expenditures above shown represent such expenses as have been deducted by this Administrator as aforesaid, leaving the remainder in the sum of $927.04, which said sum the said Martha Miller became entitled to receive the one-third portion thereof, but that the said Martha Miller having died subsequent to the death of her gam husband and leaving no will, but leaving bodily heirs, such share as the said Martha Miller would have taken under the law rightfully descends to her surviving heirs at law, in the amount of one-third of the remainder hereinbefore shown which said one-third amounts to $309.01 that the remaining two—third in the sum of $618.03 constitutes the fund out of which the payment of any liability aa against the estate of the said William Miller, deceased, should be paid, and then to his surviving heirs at law; that as against said remaining two-thirds the following items are properly chargeable:

Frank J. Baker Clerk, court costs.............................$18.00
Franklin County Farmers’ Ins. Co., Ins. Assessment. 2.04
Fank Moster, undertaker, funeral expenses for decedent. ….....165.00
Edwin Heap, burial box.........................................15.00
Amount retained for taxes for year 1922........................10.00
I charge for my services and expenses as Administrator de bonis non......................................................55.00
Total........................................................$260.04

RECAPITULATION.

Two-thirds of net proceeds of sale of real estate............$618.03
Less expenses as against estate of William Miller.............260.04
Leaving the balance for distribution in the sum of...........$357.99

and that the following named parties, being surviving children of said decedent, and as his only surviving heirs at law are entitled to share therein in equal shares:

Mary Strohmeier, one-fifth...................................$71.59
Ella J. Heap, one-fifth.......................................71.60
Margaret J. Hutchinson, one-fifth.............................71.60
Nancy Waltz, one-fifth........................................71.60
John W. Miller................................................71.60
Total..........................................................$357.99

And said Administrator would further report that as against the remainder of the share of the proceeds belonging to the estate of Martha Miller deceased that the following items are chargeable as against the same:

Frank Moster, undertaker, funeral expenses of decedent.....$165.00
R.R. Remark, M.D., professional services......................31.00
E.M. Glaser, M.D., professional services......................15.00
Edwin Heap, burial box........................................15.00
Amount retained for taxes for year 1922........................2.50
Total..........................................................$229.50

One-third of the net proceed of sale of real estate.......... $309.01
Less expenses as against estate of Martha Miller...............225.50
Leaving the balance for distribution in sum of................$ 80.51

and that the following named parties, being surviving children of said decedent, and as her only surviving heirs at law are entitled to share the rein in equal shares:

Nancy Waltz, one-half...............................$40.25
John W. Miller, one-half.............................40.25
Total...............................................$80.51

And said Administrator would further report and represent to the court that it has now been more than one year since letters of administration were granted to him in said estate, and the publication of notice thereof, and that the inheritance tax law of the State of Indiana does not apply to said estate, and that the federal tax law does not apply to estate; that the foregoing report gives a full and complete statement of all funds that have come into his hands as such Administrator, and also shows a disbursement and payment of all of the liabilities that have come to his knowledge and that the distribution is made in accordance with the heirship of both of both William Miller and Martha Miller, deceased, and the funds belonging to the heirs of the said Martha Miller are reported and by and with the understanding and agreement of all of the heirs concerned.

WHEREFORE, said Administrator respectfully prays the court that this his final report be in all things approved and that he be finally discharged as such Administrator.

And said Administrator, in addition to the above, charges himself with rents received in cash........................................$150.00

which he has distributed as follows:

To Mary A. Strohmeier, one-fifth.........................$30.00
To Ella J. Heap, one-fifth................................30.00
To Margaret J. Hutchinson, one-fifth......................30.00
To Nancy Waltz, one-fifth.................................30.00
To John W. Miller, one-fifth..............................30.00
Total...................................................$150.00