Elizabeth Orpha Gaston
Children
Notes
In a will written in March 1949, Elizabeth Gaston Mateer of Wooster, Ohio, bequeathed $1000 each to three grandchildren, Mary Mateer Randal, Richard M. Douglas and Samuel N. Douglas: 'Inasmuch as my grandson William Gaston Mateer to whom I would have bequeathed $1000, predeceased me', that sum is now to go to his nephew, 'my great-grandson', William Randall Jr., this legacy to be paid in U. S. Government bonds, for which either or both of his parents may receipt without the appointment of a guardian; to granddaughter Nancy Hole Schaack, $5000 in U. S. Government bonds; to daughter Dorothy Mateer, all stock in the First National Bank of East Liverpool, Ohio, 'which stock I consider a family heirloom'; all remaining estate, share and share alike to son John G. Mateer and daughters, Mary Mateer Douglas and Dorothy Mateer, these three to be Executors.
Source: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 113.
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