J.C. Craig admin  	}	
of Daniel Crom dec'd	}	Probate Court
	vs 		}	Wood County Ohio
Barbra Crom et al	}	Answer

And now come David Phillips & Elizabeth Phillips, Aaron Phillips & Anna Phillips
Joseph Crom and Mary Crom and for answer herein say that they deny (decry?) 
that the debts against the said Estate of Daniel Crom deceased amount to the sum
of ten Hundred dollars or near that sum.  They demand that the said Adminstrator
be required to file an account showing the amount of the indebtedness and the 
situation of said Estate and that on the final hearing of this cause if it shall
be found necessary to sell any part of said real Estate, that said administrator
may be authorized to sell no more of said lands than may be sufficient to pay 
said debts.

J.H. Reid Atty for
the Debts above named
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J.C. Craig Admin  	}	
of Daniel Crom dec'd	}	Probate Court Wood County, O.
	vs 		}	Answer of Guardian ad litem
Barbra Crom 		}	
	et al		}

And now come the said minor Defendants to wit Aaron Crom Simeon Crom Martha Crom
Edward Crom and George Crom by JH Reid their Guardian ad litem and say that they
deny all and every material allegation in the said Petition set forth.

JH Reid Guardian
Ad. litem

RDB note: Daniel's son John had died in the Civil War by now, 
so the Edward and George listed above are presumed to be John's children.
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J.C. Craig admin of 	}	In Probate Court
Daniel Crom dec'd	}	April 3/66
	v. 		}	
Barbra Crom		}	Petition to sell land
Joseph Crom et al	}

The court being satisfied that it is necessary to sell the real estate of the 
said Daniel Crom decd or a portion thereof to pay his debts and that the 
defendant herein have been duly notified of the producing of this petition as 
prescribed by law.  It is therefore ordered that SB Abbott Daniel Knisely & 
Joseph Seargant ? and disinterested men of the vicinity set off and assign 
to Barbra Crom the widow of the said Daniel Crom decd her dower in the premises
described in said petition by metes and bounds and also appraise said premises 
subject to the incumberances of dower so assigned, and also in making said 
appraisement said appraisers will designate the appraised value of said land
by the acre both free of ? encumbered by dower and make due return of their 
proceeding herein by the 2 day of May 1866.  @ which time due cause which 
can be heard. (?)
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John C. Craig Esqr

Dear Sir - You are hereby notified that on the 28th day of June 1866, 
I filed in the office of the Probate Judge in and for the county of Wood 
and State of Ohio - a complaint of which the following is a true copy to wit.

"To the Honorable Probate Judge within and for the county of Wood and 
State of Ohio.

The undersigned respectfully represents to your Honor that he is one of the 
sureties of John C. Craig administrator of the Estate of Daniel Crom Deceased 
and he herein makes complaint to your Honor and asks to be released from the 
Bond of the said administrator and for cause.  He says, First, that the said 
John C. Craig has wasted the assets of the said estate by applying the same 
to his own use instead of paying the debts of the said Estate as by law 
he is required to do.

Second, That the said John C. Craig is insolvent.

June 28th, 1866.  John Taborer By JH Reid his atty.

You are also notified that the above complaint will be for hearing on the 
7th day of July AD 1866 at 10 oclock AM or as soon thereafter as counsel 
can be heard.

John Taborer 
By J.H. Reid His atty