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Note: My dad. A kind and gentle man. He and my mother called my two older girls (the only 2 who knew him) their little bunnies. They have the fondest memories of their grandparents.
I remember living in Riggles Gap (my sister Sarah Jane and I were born there). The old house was big and in need of paint - gray looking - weather worn, layers of wallpaper, no electricity in the Gap at that time so we had kerosene lamps. Heated by furnace in cellar and one big grate. Other heat by wood stove in kitchen. There was a barn and a spring house (for keeping things cold). There was a mulberry tree where my sister and I had a swing. The mulberrys stained our clothes and my mother hated it and wanted the tree cut down. My Aunt Lil objected so it did not get cut down. Last May I found out that the tree was given to one of the children on Arbor Day at Antis School and they planted it. That tree is still there although old and gnarled. The new owners are thinking it may have to be cut down. When we visited there last May it brought back the fondest memories. I was told by my cousins that there had once been another house there that had burned down. Probably in Thomas and Mary Magdalene's time.
According to my mother and dad (William Elmer) Andrew took him to Orphans Court because he was a minor and looking out for his interest.
W. C. Fletcher No. 293, - 1920 In Re. Estate of S. A. Trueman deceased The question of Elmer Trueman is as read setting forth that your petitioner minor child of S. A. Trueman late of Antis Twp. in said County deceased. Above the age of 14 yrs... having been born on the 11th day of May, 1900. resident within said County and has no guardian to take care of his person and estate; and that there is no ____ that he has a one eighth interest in above estate of the value of one hundred dollars. Therefore prays the court to admit him to make choice of a Guardian for the purpose aforesaid Decree, and now April 5, 1920 upon reading within petition the Court appoint P. M. Swanger Esq. guardian of said minor and (?) he gave bond in the sum of two hundred dollars with surety to be approved by the court. By the Court, Thomas J. Baldridge, P J.
Blair County, Pa. Deed Book Volume 444 P. 647
Deed:
Lillian Ressler Crawford, ET AL to William E. Trueman. This Indenture, made the twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and thirty-eight. - - -
Between Lillian Ressler (widow of Andrew D. Ressler), (now married with William H. Crawford; Paul E. Ressler, and Inez R. Ressler, his wife, David A. Ressler, and Shirley E. Ressler, his wife, all of Antis Twp., Blair County, and State of Pa., parties of the first part, and being all of the heirs and legal representatives of Andrew D. Ressler, deceased, and William E. Trueman, of the same place, party - - -
Witnesseth: That the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of Three Hundred ($300.00) lawful money of the United States of America, unto them well and truly paid by the said party of the second part, at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof ..hereby acknowledged have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release, convey and confirm unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, forever, all that certain piece or parcel of land situate in the Twp., of Antis, County of Blair in the State of Pennsylvania, and described as follows, to wit: Bounded on the north by land of the heirs of Martin Bell; on the east by land of Game and Forestry Association and other land of the estate of Andrew D. Ressler; on the south by land of Mrs. B. Swartz on on the west by lands of I. N. Manley and Clara Peterman and W. H. Peterman, containing eighty acres, more or less, and being a part of the same premises the title to which became vested in Andrew D. Ressler, by deed from Eva Mann, et. al. dated December 22nd , A.D. 1919, and recorded in the office for the recording of deeds in and for Blair County, in Deed Book Vol. 274, page 251, and by deed from Annie R. Yingling and Frederick Yingling, her husband, dated December 22nd, 1919 and recorded in Deed Book Vol. 280, page 254, and in the present grantors by virtue of the intestate laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as heirs at law legal representatives of Andrew D. Ressler, late of Antis Twp., deceased. - - -
The premises herein described were sold by oral agreement to William E. Trueman, grantee Herin by Andrew D. Ressler, in his lifetime, and the purchase money fully paid to his, but the said Andrew D. Ressler, died before the execution and delivery of the deed for same. - - -
TOGETHER with all and singular the ..... buildings improvements, ways, waters, water courses, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversions and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever of the said parties of the first part, in law, equity or otherwise howsoever of, in and to the same and every part thereof. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD THE SAID Parcel of land with the hereditaments and premises hereby granted or mentioned, and intended so to be, with the appurtenances, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, to and for the -- - - proper use and behoof of the said part party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever.
All parties of the 1st part signed (will not repeat). Signed P. M. Swanger, Notary Public (stamped) also signed by all parties of the first part that $300.00 was received. Notarized by Swanger. (More legal signings and notarizing). Recorded February 27, 1939.
Above property (part of it) sold to W. H. Crawford and Lillian Crawford May 13, 1944 by Willim E. and his wife Margaret. William and Margaret had already bought 100 + acres in Cambria County which their children still own.
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