I have shared the steps I took to identify Oliver Rood and Lovina (Munger) Rood as the parents of Susan (Rood) Chapin (born in 1799) and Harriet (Rood) Rose (born about 1824) using Chapin family genealogies, a 1797 marriage record, several census records and Lovina's burial records.
I had theorized that there were several other potential daughters of Oliver and Lovina, and the proof finally came in the probate record for one of the sisters who died a childless widow.
Philena Wilson died in November 1893 and her will was probated in early 1894. The information about the will was published in a newspaper in order to notify family members.
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| "City Notices," Syracuse Standard (Syracuse, New York), 9 February 1894, p. 3, col. 6; images, Old Fulton Postcards |
A transcription of the newspaper notice:
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF New York—To Harriet S. Rose, Ellen L. Howlett, William Barnes, Charles Leonard, George Barnes and Leonard Barnes, severally of Syracuse, New York, Charlotte Woodworth of Trumbull, Ohio, Oliver D. Lyon of Towanda, Pennsylvania, Susan Lavina Hoyt of Ithaca, New York, Jane E. Harrison of Salt Lake City, Utah, Arvilla Adsit of Chicago, Illinois, James L. Bagg, sojourning at Daytona, Florida, and the children and descendants of Oliver Rude, a deceased brother of the decedent hereinafter named, whose several names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry for that purpose be ascertained, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and next of kin of Philena Wilson, late of the town of Geddes, in the County of Onondaga, New York, deceased, greeting:
Whereas Hulbert D. Rose, one of the executors named in a certain instrument in writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of said Philena Wilson, late of the town of Geddes, in the County of Onondaga, and State of New York, deceased, and relating to both real and personal estate, has lately made application to the Surrogate’s Court of our County of Onondaga, to have said instrument in writing proved and recorded as a will of real and personal estate; You and each of you are, therefore, hereby cited to appear before the Surrogate of the County of Onondaga, at his office in the City of Syracuse, in the said County of Onondaga, New York, on the 27th day of March, 1894, at ten o’clock in the forenoon of that day, then and there to attend the probate of said will and codicil thereto.
And if any of the aforesaid persons are under the age of twenty-one years, they will please take notice that they are required to appear by their general Guardian, if they have one, and if they have none, that they appear and apply for the appointment of a special Guardian, or in the event of their neglect or failure to do so, a special Guardian will be appointed by the Surrogate to represent and act for them in the proceeding for the probate of said will.
In testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Edgar P. Glass, Esquire, Surrogate of our County of Onondaga, at the City of Syracuse, in said County, this seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.
EDGAR P. GLASS, Surrogate.
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