Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — IS IDENTIFIED BY A SCAR [ARTICLE]

IS IDENTIFIED BY A SCAR

Pennsylvania , Woman ' Thus Establishes Her Right to Share in Estate. Waynesboro, Pa. —Wlwn an effort was made recently to settle the estate of Mrs. Barbara Hess of this section, proceedings were began in the Orphans’ court to declare Mrs. Alice Kohler Hooper, formerly of Htghfield, and a legatee, dead. Mrs. Hooper, who left Highfleld 20 years ago and had not returned and who, some years ago, was married to a Mr. Ham, noticed a ffjw weeks ago an advertisement of the proceeding and immediately wrote to the clerk of the courts. The only means of identification was a scar on her wrist which an uncle with whom she had lived as a girl recalled. The judges were satisfied with the identification and she will come into her inheritance.