Monday, July 2, 2012

Amanuensis Monday - Account Schedules for Nellie Seaver's Estate

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday. What does "amanuensis" mean? John offers this definition:

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

The subject today is the final account for the estate of Nellie M. Seaver (1861-1933) of Leominster, Massachusetts.  Nellie was the daughter of Isaac and Lucretia (Smith) Seaver, and never married.  Nellie Seaver died 26 June 1933 in Leominster, and her will was filed on 30 June 1933 and allowed 18 July 1933. Her executor was her nephew, Frederick W. Seaver (1876-1942), son of her brother Frank Walton Seaver.  I posted the will in 
Amanuensis Monday - the Will of Nellie M. Seaver (1861-1933), and the court approved Account record in 
Amanuensis Monday - Final Account of Nellie Seaver's Estate.

Two schedules in the executor's account were included in the Final Account record, so I will transcribe them here.  Although they are tables in the original, it is difficult to create a table in Blogger, so I'm going to set the amount off by several periods below.  The transcription (with typewritten text underlined) of the two account schedules are:

Schedule A.

1. Amount of person property, according to inventory, 
2.   or Balance of next prior account .......................................................... $10,437.87
3.  Amounts received from income, gain on sale of personal property
4.  1933  over appraised value and from other property, as follows:
5.  July 13.  Interest, Leominster Savings Bank, #8871 ........................................... 30.73
6.  July 15.  Interest, Hudson Savings Bank, #22582 .............................................. 17.86
7.  Aug. 18.  Dividend, Leominster Co-operative Bank ........................................... 20.00
8.  Aug. 18.  Dividend, Leominster Co-operative Bank ........................................... 12.00
9.  Oct. 1.  Interest, Worcester North Savings Institution, #52075 ........................... 21.71
10.
11.  Oct. 16.  Interest, Clinton Savings Bank, Account #40426 ..............................  13.20
12.  Nov. 27. Dividend, Leominster Co-operative Bank .........................................  20.00
13.   1934
14.  Jan. 1.  Interest, Worcester North Savings Institution , #52075 ........................  7.69
15.
16.  Jan. 15.  Interest, Hudson Savings Bank, #22582 ...........................................  18.16
17.  Feb. 28.  Interest, Leominster Savings Bank, #8871 .......................................  31.32
18.  Apr. 1.  Interest, Worcester North Savings Institution, #52075 .......................  7.96
19.
20. ................................................................................................................ $10,638,75


Schedule B.

....... 1933.  Showing payments, charges, losses and distributions.
1.  Aug. 15.  Charles H. Richardson Company, undertakers .............................  410.00
2.  Leominster Hospital ....................................................................................    80.00
3.  Esther Massey, nursing ...............................................................................    40.00
4.  Dr. J.J. Curley, professional services ...........................................................  128.00
5.  Fred W. Boynton, witnessing will ....................................................................  5.00
6.  Unitarian Church Quartette, music at funeral ................................................... 25.00
7.  Reverend George A. Mark, funeral services ................................................... 25.00
8.  Hattie E. Brown, organist at funeral ................................................................ 10.00
9.  Charles W. Rumrill, janitor services at funeral .................................................  5.00
10.  Dr. A.A. Wheeler, professional services ....................................................... 17.00
11.  Aug. 21.  Frederic T. Blanchard, partial distribution .................................... 250.00
12.  Laurence C. Blanchard, partial distribution ................................................. 250.00
13.  Frederick W. Seaver, partial distribution .................................................... 250.00
14.  Harry C. Seaver, final distribution ............................................................... 250.00
15.  Edith J. (Russell) Taylor, final distribution .................................................... 250.00
16.  Aug. 30.  Frank S. Farnsworth, Appraiser ..................................................... 5.00
17.  Oct. 17.  City of Leominster, repairing cemetery lot ...................................... 30.00
18.  Leominster Granite & Marble Works, monument
19.  ... foundation and five markers .................................................................... 350.00
20.  Frederic T. Blanchard, final distribution ....................................................... 750.00
21.  Laurence C. Blanchard, final distribution ..................................................... 750.00
22.  Frederick W. Seaver, final distribution ........................................................ 750.00
23.  Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Income Tax 1931, 1932, 1933 .............   4.16
24.
25.  Nov. 27.  Emma E. Seaver, partial distribution ............................................  300.00
26.  Cathryn Morse, partial distribution .............................................................  300.00
27.  Ida W. Preble, partial distribution ..............................................................  300.00
28.  Alice P. Carpenter, partial distribution .......................................................  300.00
29.  Irene I. Taylor, partial distribution .............................................................  300.00
30.  Nellie M. Emerton, partial distribution .......................................................  300.00
31.  Lillian A. Emerton, partial distribution ........................................................  300.00
.... 1934
32.  Feb. 25.  Frederick W. Seaver, part of fee as executor .............................  175.00
33.  Eleanor Morse, gold piece ...........................................................................  10.00
34.  Cathryn Morse, furniture, clothing and jewelry .............................................  32.25
35.
36.  May 28.  Frederick W. Seaver, balance of fee as executor .........................  35.32
37.
38.  J. Ward Healey, fee as attorney ................................................................ 156.20
39.  J. Ward Healey, disbursements: Register of Probate, entry fee ....................  3.00
40.
41.  Leominster Daily Enterprise, citation ...........................................................  3.50
42.  Certificate of death .....................................................................................  0.25
43.
44.  Emma E. Seaver Estate, final distribution .................................................. 491.16
45.  Cathryn Morse, final distribution .............................................................. 491.16
46.  Ida W. Preble, final distribution ................................................................ 491.16
47.  Alice P. Carpenter, final distribution ......................................................... 491.16
48.  Irene I. Taylor, final distribution ................................................................ 491.16
49.  Lillian A. Emerton, final distribution .......................................................... 491.16
50.  Nellie M. Emerton, final distribution ......................................................... 491.16
51.  Tax on checks ............................................................................................  0.80
52.  Tax on withdrawal of bank account, Clinton Savings Bank ..........................  0.02
........................................................................................................ ______________
............................................................................................................... $ 10,638.75

In the end, Nellie's estate was worth over $8,000 to her heirs.  The executor's fee was over $210, or about 2% of the estate.  

From this list, we can see what a funeral and burial in Leominster, Massachusetts cost in 1933.  

Nellie is buried in Evergreen Cemetery with her father Isaac Seaver, her mother Lucretia T. (Smith) Seaver, her brother Benjamin Seaver, and Isaac's first wife, Juliette (Glazier) Seaver.  

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