Anna M. Pangborn was the second wife of John W Pangborn, newspaper man/editor, and sister in law to Major Z.K. Pangborn, founder of the Jersey City Evening Journal (predecessor of the Jersey Journal).
Mrs Pangborn, being a widow with no children willed her entire estate for "erecting a suitable monument, tomb, stone or other memorial in the Jersey City Cemetery on Newark Ave", giving her executor full discretion on to size, design & location of said monument, tomb stone or memorial.
Over $14,000 was spent on it's construction, a vast sum at that time. Relatives of Anna's tried unsuccessfully to contest her will.
Mrs Pangborn, being a widow with no children willed her entire estate for "erecting a suitable monument, tomb, stone or other memorial in the Jersey City Cemetery on Newark Ave", giving her executor full discretion on to size, design & location of said monument, tomb stone or memorial.
Over $14,000 was spent on it's construction, a vast sum at that time. Relatives of Anna's tried unsuccessfully to contest her will.
Anna M. Pangborn was the second wife of John W Pangborn, newspaper man/editor, and sister in law to Major Z.K. Pangborn, founder of the Jersey City Evening Journal (predecessor of the Jersey Journal).
Mrs Pangborn, being a widow with no children willed her entire estate for "erecting a suitable monument, tomb, stone or other memorial in the Jersey City Cemetery on Newark Ave", giving her executor full discretion on to size, design & location of said monument, tomb stone or memorial.
Over $14,000 was spent on it's construction, a vast sum at that time. Relatives of Anna's tried unsuccessfully to contest her will.
Mrs Pangborn, being a widow with no children willed her entire estate for "erecting a suitable monument, tomb, stone or other memorial in the Jersey City Cemetery on Newark Ave", giving her executor full discretion on to size, design & location of said monument, tomb stone or memorial.
Over $14,000 was spent on it's construction, a vast sum at that time. Relatives of Anna's tried unsuccessfully to contest her will.
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