A to Z April Challenge: P is for Peluso

  This is day 16 of the A to Z April Challenge.

is for Mary Neville Peluso, wife of my 1^st cousin 2X removed, Lewis Logan Jollett.  Neville was born in 1896 in Virginia to an Italian immigrant. She and Lewis married about 1919 and resided a number of years in Greene County, Virginia. 

I am lucky to have found one photo of Neville which appeared in an Albemarle County, Virginia newspaper in 1977.  It was a birthday celebration for a number of Senior Citizens all enjoying an April birthday.

Mary Neville Peluso Jollett is 4th from the left

She looks like a reasonable woman, don’t you think?

So I wonder what crime against humanity she committed to be expressly written OUT of her father-in-law’s will dated 1934?  My great grand uncle Burton Lewis Jollett did not seek to be politically correct when he wrote this:

Item 10 I wish and desire that if Lewis Jollett should die before his wife Mary Nevell Jollett that she be not appointed adminstratrix over his estate or for as what he enhirt [sic.] from me around two thousand dollars I desire it go to the heirs of his lawful body. She would go through with it real soon do nobody no good I don't want her to have nothing from my estate whatsoever the way I have been mistreated by her.

If any person or persons are disstfied [sic.] with my last will and try to break same or disreguard [sic.] it they shall have but five dollar the rest to be divided among those that are willing to abide by the same.

 

I bet that’s a humdinger of a story!

 

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