Thomas S. Tully

Thomas S. Tully

• Thomas S. Tully was born circa 1861 in Ireland.
• He was naturalized on 16 October 1882 at Niagara County, New York. At the County Court in Lockport.
• He married Mary Wiedenmann, daughter of Frederick Wiedenmann and Barbara Erech, circa 1908.
• Thomas S. Tully appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Lockport, Niagara County, New York, at Niagara Street enumerated as a prisoner in Niagara County Jail.
• The following appeared on 23 April 1910 in The Niagara Falls Gazette: There will be a large number of criminal cases to be tried at the next term of county court. Judge Hickey presiding, which will convene on May 9th. District Attorney Ackerson and Assistant District Attorney Duquette have prepared eight criminal cases of more than ordinary importance and it is also understood that there will be several excise matters laid before the court as the result of the recent grand jury findings. . . .
       Thomas S. Tully, of Niagara Falls, will be tried on a charge for forging the name of his wife on several checks. William H. Earl of Lockport is his attorney. . . .
• The following appeared on 20 May 1910 in The Niagara Falls Gazette: Thomas Tully, last February arrested on an alleged charge of forgery, was this afternoon arraigned before Judge Piper and hald for the grand jury. Tully entered a plea of guilty to grand larceny in the second degree. It is alleged that Tully forged the name of a Mrs. Pfetsch to checks which he presented at a local bank for payment. Tully has been sojourning at Lockport for three months.
• The following appeared on 30 July 1913 in The Niagara Falls Gazette: (Legal) To George J. Pfetsch, John Lewis Pfetsch, Amy Pfetsch, Warren Pfetsch and Thomas Tully, heirs at law, and next of kin of Mary Tully, late of the City of Niagara Falls in Niagara County, N. Y., deceased.
       Greeting:
       Whereas, Fred J. Pfetsch, one of the executors and Beulah E. Watson, named in a certain instrument in writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of said Mary Tully and relating to both real and personal estate have lately made application to the Surrogate's Court of our County of Niagara, to have said instrument in writing, proved and recorded as a will of real and personal estate. . .

• Last Edited: 11 Nov 2014