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Mary Nees
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 5×-great-grandmother · West line
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1850 United States Federal Census
Year: 1850; Census Place: Hopewell, Cumberland, Pennsylvania; affiliate film 772 (M432); Page: 167; dwelling 108, family 117, Rudolph Kunkle household
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[Read on the image 4 Nov 2026 (register K1641), FamilySearch ark 3:1:S3HY-63BF-L; enumerated 9 Aug 1850; columns read: name, age, sex, occupation, real estate, birthplace, school.] Dwelling 108, family 117: Rudolph Kunkle 34 M Farmer, Penna; Elisabeth Kunkle 40 F; Hanna Kunkle 8 F (at school); Amanda Kunkle 5/12 F; Maria Deppy 12 F (at school); Mary Neiss 72 F. Birthplaces Penna by ditto; real estate blank.
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Register of Wills: will of Mary Nees of Hopewell Township, dated 30 May 1850, proved 28 Jun 1850 (Pennsylvania, Probate Records, 1683-1994; image via FamilySearch)
will register, FamilySearch ark 3:1:3QSQ-G99B-JZ31
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[Read on the image 4 Nov 2026 (register K1640): the left page from the heading to the witnesses' affirmation; the right page not read.] The Last Will and Testament of Mary Nees of Hopewell Township County of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania ... Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Kunkle all my Household furniture and wearing apparel. Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Deppin the sum of Ten Dollars which Rudolph Kunkle shall pay my said daughter Sarah in lieu of her share or portion of my household furniture and wearing apparel. Item I give and bequeath to my two sons William and Joseph Nees all the wearing apparel of my deceased husband, share and share alike as near as the same can be divided. Item I order and direct that Twenty dollars be appropriated by my herein after named Executor for the purchase of Tomb Stones for the graves of my deceased husband and myself. Item I give and bequeath to my two daughters and three sons named as follows. Elizabeth Kunkle. Sarah Deppin. William Nees. Joseph Nees and James Nees. All the residue or balance of my Estate to be equally divided between them share and share alike to them their heirs and assigns forever. And lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my friend Rudolph Kunkle of Hopewell Township Sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I Mary Nees the Testatrix have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty. Mary (her X mark) Nees. Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Mary Nees to be her last Will and testament in the presence of us ... Saml S. Snyder [reading uncertain], Aaron Gunkle. Cumberland County ss. This 28th day of June AD 1850 [the year is written so that it resembles 1830; the will is dated 1850] before me Wm Gould Register for the probate of Wills ... personally came Saml S. Snyder and Aaron Gunkle the two subscribing witnesses ...
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Research note · 4 Nov 2026
AUDITED 4 Nov 2026 - MARY NEES of Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; died between 1 and 28 Jun 1850. HER WILL, dated 30 May 1850 and proved 28 Jun 1850 (K1640, read on the image), names 'my daughter Elizabeth Kunkle', 'my daughter Sarah Deppin', and her sons William, Joseph and James Nees, and makes 'my friend Rudolph Kunkle of Hopewell Township' sole executor. She signed by her mark. In the 1850 census of Hopewell Township, taken as of 1 Jun 1850, 'Mary Neiss', 72, born Pennsylvania, is in Rudolph and Elisabeth Kunkle's household (K1641), so she was born about 1778. Rudolph Gunkel accounted as her executor on 17 Dec 1850 (K1642, machine transcript only). HUSBAND: the will mentions 'my deceased husband' but does not name him. The same day Rudolph accounted as administrator of a James Nees deceased (K1642); whether that is her husband or the son James named living in May 1850 is not settled, so no husband is entered. Mother of [3413] Elizabeth, by her will (see Elizabeth's note). No birth or death event is entered; the dates above rest on the will and the census.
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