Submitted by Mamie Tate
Caldwell Co., Ky. Order Book F - David Sigler Est.
Caldwell County, Ky.
Order Book F
pages 215-216
Monday, 16 Nov 1840.
On motion of Margaret Sigler and James A. Cartwright, it is ordered that letters of administration be granted unto them
due form of law an the goods and chattles rights and credits of David Sigler deceased whereupon said Margaret Sigler
and James A. Cartwright in open court took the oath required by law and together with William Mercer, George
C. Cass?
and John T. Boyd their securities entered into and acknowledged bond? in the premises payable to the Commonwealth of
Kentucky in the penalty of twelve hundred dollars conditioned according to law. And on their further motion it is ordered
that William Killgrow, Whitmil Jenkins, Bryant? Nichols and Wright Nichols or any three of them be and they are hereby
appointed commisioners to appraise the estate of said decedant and report XX And Amos Sigler who also claimed the
right to administer on the estate of said decedant tendered to the court a bill of exceptions herein which was signed sealed
and ordered to be made part of the record herein towit? "Sigler av? Sigler- On a motion to obtain letters of administration on the estate of David
Sigler deceased. Be it remembered that on this day Margaret Sigler the widow of said David Sigler desc.came into court and claimed
the right of administering on said estate and offered to officiate with her James A. Cartwright as a co-administrator with her on said
estate who professed his willingness to enter in bond with the widow as a coadministrator. But it appeared in evidence that the brothers
and sisters of said David Sigler were in court as well as a nephew Amos Sigler who opposed the right of said Cartwright to administer, and
said Amos offers to administer with the consent of the other brothers nd sisters of said David Sigler. And it further appearing in evidence
that David Sigler the deceased died without issue, And that his brothers and sisters and their descendants of whom said Amos was one were
the heirs at law of said David's estate but the court refused to permit the said Amos Sigler to administer on said estate but granted the letters
of administration to said Margaret and said James A. Cartwright. To which opinion of the court the said Amos Sigler by his counsel excepts,
and prays this his exception be signed and sealed and recorded.
Signed by Isaac Harper, John O'Hara, F.W. Urey, Robert Love, John W. Marshall, and J.C
Langston.
And thereupon on motion of said Amos Sigler an appeal is granted him in this case to the
Court of Appeals upon his execution in the Clerk's office of this court within twenty
days from the time with John Crider, John Holeman, and George Nall or either one of them
his security in penalty of one hundred dollars payable to said adms. and conditioned
according to law.