Aff - Stormont, Ralph M_10/8/1970- - ,_» o � �. �
STATE OF INDIANA
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COUNTY OF GIBSON
AFFIDAVIT AS TO DEATH AND HEIRSHIP
The undersigned, John V. DeLong, Jr., Vice-President
and Trust Officer of The F'armers and Merchants National Bank,
Fort Branch, Indiana, being first duly sworn on his oath deposes
and says:
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1. That he is more than forty five (45) years of age
and for more than ten (10) year-s last.past and now is, one of
the duly elected and acting Officers of The Farmers and Merchants
National Bank, Fort Branch, Indiana.
2. That he is personally well acquainted with the ownership
and chain of title to the following described real estate situate
in the Town of Fort Branch, Gibson County, Indiana, towit:
Lot No. Forty Seven (47) in the McCrary and Others Addition to
the Town of Fort Branch, Gibson County, Indiana;
3. That he knows of his own knowledge-that Raloh M.
Stormont and Mary Elizabeth Stormont owned said real estate as
tenants by the entirety; that the aforesaid Ralph M. Stormont
died in testate, a resident of Gibson County, Indiana, on or
about the 18th day of Aucaust , 19 65 ,
and left survivinq as his widow the aforedesignated Mary Elizabeth
Stormont.
4. That at the time of her demise the said Mary Elizabeth
Stormont was the owner in fee of the real estate hereinabove des-
cribed and that her. estate was settled in the Gibson Circuit Court,
Princeton, Indiana - Estate Dkt. No. PR 69 - 159.
5. That this affiant''has reason to and does so believe
neither the estate of the said Raluh M. Stormont and/or the
estate of Mary Elizabeth Stormont was subject to a Federal Estate
Tax - Form No. 706.
6. That this affidavit is made for the purpose of obtaining
a transfer (Office of the Auditor Gibson County, Indiana), on the
Tax Duplicate, Town of Fort Branch, Indiana, to the individual
name of Mary Elizabeth Stormont all in order that the same may
then be transferred to the heirs at law of the said Mary Elizabeth
Stormont, deceased, in the proportions as fixed_by statute.
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Further affiant sayeth not.
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this' 6th day of
October, 1970. • -� - ' • "
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Betty J. Si
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�.,, �'�:THIS•.INSTRUMENT PREPARED BY: JOHN W. BALLARD, ATTORNEY.
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