Last Will & Testament dated Nov. 12, 1907 of Sidney J. Hadley included cash bequest of $50.00 to children:

Howard Merlin Hadley, Anna M. Hadley and Francis Marshall Hadley. Cash bequest of $25.00 to grandchildren

Francis Walter Henderson and Elra Henderson. 63-1/2 acre farm to son, Francis Marshall Hadley, bounded on the

north by lands of Niver Estate, East by lands of Taylor Estate, South by lands of Inscho and West by lands of John

Carey. All the rest of property was bequeathed to children...Howard Merlin Hadley, James Walter Hadley, Jesse

David Hadley and George Herman Hadley, equally share and share alike. Will appointed Richard Major Thompson,

sole executor and was witnessed by Clarence Willis of Bath and John S. Ferris of Bath.

July 30, 1908, and recorded in the Steuben County Clerk's Office on 31 July 1908 at 8 a.m. by Clerk, John E.

Olmsted, was an Executor's Deed between Richard M. Thompson, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of

Sidney J. Hadley to Herman G. Hadley, for the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00), for a property situate in

the Town of Bath, beginning at the center of the road leading from Bath to Kanona, which doesn't state an acreage,

but lots with a 10' lane.

ALSO, in Sidney's Last Will and Testament he gave all the rest, residue and remainder of his estate, minus the 63-1/

2 acre farm left to Francis Marshall Hadley...to his children Howard Merlin Hadley, James Walter Hadley, Jesse

David Hadley and George Herman Hadley, equally, share and share alike.......JESSE DAVID HADLEY HAS TO

BE CHARLES J. HADLEY AS IN ALL THE CENSUSES from 1880 to 1915, JESSE OR JESSEE is in the

Household of his father and then in 1915, with his Wife, Hattie and daughter, Luella....and his Death

Certificate and Social Security Card has his name as CHARLES J. HADLEY, and there is no other David Hadley

until the birth of David to George F. Hadley and Sarah Brooks Hadley in Wheeler Feb. 23,1883.

Military: Steuben County Civil War Files: Military: Sidney J. Hadley 7 Dec 1863, 16 NY HA Bath

Sidney Hadley and Caroline and family are shown in the 1880 United States Federal Census for New York, Steuben

Co., Bath TWP District 157, page 27 (Ancestry.com Image 26).

(This data on Sidney was donated by Frank Marshall and was taken from his files)

Margaret Dickson Hadley think Sidney may have been born in MA.

Her obituary can be found in the " Steuben Courier" (Bath, NY) on Friday Feb. 25, 1887 pg 4, col.2. When she died she was 38 years old and left four children, the oldest being 14.