The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-04-16
Are Heirs to Large Estate.

Many Of our readers are acquaint-
ed with VIM Maxwell, of Mt. Moriah,
Mo-, who represents w. A. Alexan-
der, the Leon piano dealer in that
vicinity, and who is a frequent Vlsl-
tor in Leon, and they will be surprls-
ed to hear that Mr.. Maxwell is one
OF the heirs to valuable estate IN
Baltimore. The Princeton Post has
the following in regard to it:
Last week, |. 7. Holmes received
the will and inventory Of the per-
sonal belongings and real estate OF
William Wierman, of Baltimore,
Maryland, who died in 1855. At the
time of his death, Mr.. Wlerman
was the possessor Of over 1900 acres
of land in Pennsylvania, lO,OOO
shares of railroad stock, large
number of Virginia state bonds,
Pennsylvania state bonds, several
business sites in the main part OF
Baltimore, and also land ADJOINING
the city of Baltimore. In the IN
ventory of his clothing he had listed
10 vests, il pair of pants, 10 sum
mer suits, - shirts and as much
other wearing apparel as would be
necessary to complete the above.
He also listed his furniture, which
was all mahogany, and the rest OF
the contents OF his room. In all, over
million dollars worth OF property.
Mr.. Wierman was a confirmed
bachelor, and the only relatives ne
had were two sisters, Mrs. Priscilla
Holmes, and Mrs. Maxwell, besides
large number of neices and neph-
ews. In his will he specified that
all his neices and nephews were to
receive from $1,000 to $500 in cash
and that the balance of his property
was then to be divided equally be-
tween his two sisters. However, Mrs.
Holmes and her husband both died
before the estate was divided, and
left one son, James Holmes, who was
the father of five children, ]. 1. and
Newt of this place, being OF the two
sons, Mrs. Maxwell the other sister,
had y heirs who had become badly
scattered
During the life Of James Holmes
he received several sums OF money
at different times between the years
of 1857 and 1890, amounting in all
to about $685..
James Holmes also had a copy OF
Mr., Wierman' will and inventory OF
his property and list Of the settle
ments that had been made, but lost
these papers when his house was de-
sroyed by fire.
After the death Of James Holmes,
| all record of the property was lost
until about two months ago, when
| Wm. Maxwell called here and inqulr-
ed for l. T. Holmes. He stated that
he had noticed an advertisement IN
the papers for the heirs of William
| Wierman, and had called here in the
hopes of obtaining additional lnfor-
| nation from Mr.. Holmes.
Attorney John e. Powell was en-
ployed to look the matter up, and
after much correspondence they re-
ccived copy of the will and an in
voice of the property last week. AS
yet they have been unable to hnd
where the property was disposed OF.
The lands in Pennsylvania had been
leased for coal purposes for num-
Der of years and the building sites
in Baltimore had also been leased
and the supposition is that the adver-
tiseHent was placed in the papers
about the time these leases expired.
| J. T. and Newt Holmes have both
beer hard working men, and 1T would
be a pleasure to Princeton residents
to hear that they had received their
share Of this vast estate.