This branch of the Austrian Hesch family is descended from Johann Hesch and his wife Marya (Schlinz) Hesch, who came to America from Oberschlagles, Bohemia with three sons: Paul, Mathias, and Anton. +++Johann & Marya settled in Buffalo County, Wisconsin but moved to Pierz, Mn in about 1885. .+++Mathias settled in Waumandee, Wisconsin and moved to Pierz in 1911. +++Anton never married but farmed with his dad in Agram Township, where he died in 1911.+++And Paul, my great grandfather, settled five miles away, in Buckman, Minnesota. He died there in 1900.

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Thursday, July 7, 2016

Bequeathed

Mr Research® has been especially industrious this week.  He found, online, the Last Will And Testaments of some of our key relatives.  They were written (copied) in long-hand into ledger books and kept in Morrison county, I assume.  (Part of the fun of doing genealogy with Larry is that I often don't know his sources till much later ☺) He emailed screen captures of Paul Hesch, our great grandfather, who died in 1900; his wife Mary Otremba Hesch, who died in 1917; and Paul's brother Anton Hesch, who died in 1911, in Agram township.   Yes, we have a rough copy of Paul's will here on HH, and some info about Anton's probate hearing, but these are the official records.  Funny, I always thought wills were kept in envelopes in lawyers' safes, and read dramatically to the potential heirs in an elegant library somewhere, like on Perry Mason...but no, I guess not.

Anyway, Larry said he found more family wills, so we'll see those soon.  In the meantime, here's the book copy of Paul's dictated original:
Paul Hesch's Will, dictated on his death bed
in August 1900.


 Great uncle Anton's Will (left) and probate, settled in January, 1912.









The Will and probate of Mary (Otremba) Hesch,
who died in 1917.

I don't understand the probate process, but wait, lets check the internet:
"Probate is the court-supervised process of gathering a deceased person's assets and distributing them to creditors and inheritors".
Ok, Anton's Will and Mary's Will were probated, but not Paul's?


The whole legal-death system was still being built in 1900, so that's probably it ☺
YAY, LARRY!

2 comments:

  1. This is so cool!!!

    Did you find any SAND wills???

    C

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  2. Hi, Christa-- there have to be more family wills in Morrison Co. for sure. Larry sent a couple from my mom's family, but he's been sidetracked lately ☺ Certainly Mike Sand would have had a will, and in fact, his dad Peter died in Stearns Co, so I'll check the museum on Friday when I'm there. (I still don't know where Larry found em online. He lives in Georgia so he's not visiting Little Falls without stopping in...lol ) BTW, you might get a Facebook friend request from Larry Royston; I'd love for him to see the excellent SAND book you put together ☺ Hugs, Marlys

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