AFFIDAVIT: Van Camp

VAN CAMP ZOLLER WILDER ANDERSON PIKE LABEE TOGERSON CARLSON PENFIELD

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 5/8/2009 at 09:06:01

AFFIDAVIT: April 1948. Re: NW Frl. 1/4 18, 100, 18.

We, Allan O. Gordon and George Howard, each being first duly sworn on oath, depose and say that Allan O. Gordon is a truck farmer, living in the Northern part of Mitchell County, Iowa, and that George Howard is a retired farmer, living in Lyle, Minnesota.

That each of us was well and personally acquainted with A. Z. Van Camp, who died a resident of Mitchell County, Iowa, on or about December 14, 1946; that we had lived as a neighbor of his and had known him for more than thirty-five (35)years, just preceding his death; that we know that no widow survivied the said A.Z. Van Camp; that the said A. Z. Van Camp did not have a large income and that he had two nieces living with him for many years, prior to his death, to-wit, Etta C. Van Camp and Vita Van Camp, both of whom were dependents of the said A.Z. Van Camp (who was also known as Abram Zoller Van Camp); that at this death the said A. Z. Van Camp was ninety-three years of age, Miss Etta C. Van Camp was seventy-four (74) years of age, and Miss Vita Van Camp was sixty-nine (69) years of age; that one of the undersigned Allan O. Gordon, is acting as executor of the estate of A. Z. Van Camp, which estate is still being probated in Mitchell County, Iowa; that income tax returns have been made by Allan O. Gordon, as required of him as executor, the federal returns having been made with assistance from the office of the Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue at Mason City, Iowa.

We do further state that the said A.Z. Van Camp, at his death, carried no life insurance, nor did he own any property located outside the State of Iowa; that all the property he owned at this death has been listed in the inventory on file in his estate.

Each of us does further state that we also were well and personally acquainted with Frank E. Wilder, who died on or about May 5, 1947, the owner of an undivided 1/11 interest in said real estate; that we knew him very well for a period of at least thirty (30) years; that his estate is now being probated in Mitchell County, Iowa; that he was a man of small means, and so far as we know, died owing no income tax, either Federal or State; that State Inheritance Taxes on the undivided 1/11 interest in this property (which he inherited from his uncle, A.Z. Van Camp) have been paid by the A. Z. Van Camp estate; that said Frank E. Wilder died leaving no widow, no children (natural or adopted) and no descendant of a pre-deceased child, and that he left no parents; that his only heirs were was follows:
His sisters, Kate Zoller and Carrie Wilder; and Callie Anderson, Andrew Jackson Wilder, Gwendolyn Pike, Lois LaBee, Marshall Wilder and Lee Wilder, all children of a pre-deceased brother, named Elmer F. Wilder; and Ralph Wilder and Mrs. Dale Lillie, children of a pre-deceased brother, Ivan Wilder; and Kathryn E. Carlson, Maxine Penfield and Allan Torgeson, children of a predeceased sister, Blanche Torgenson.

Further deponents sayeth not.