It doesn't look legit to me.
And, why would someone who had no interest or comprehension of legal documents take such care in initialing these documents. The initials are cautiously written and differ from her signature, IMHO.
I agree.
She had an 8th grade education, was considered illiterate, unable to correctly write numbers, would add zero's, etc.
Would she actually be taking the time to cautiously write her initials.
But if a forgery, why do the will as they did? Daniel would have been about 14 years old. There were 3 dates he would have been eligable for money...25, 30, 35, IIRC....so HKS would have controlled that money for quite a few years.....guess that would be enuf to forge for.
My initials are TOTALLY different from my signature. I've gone from cursive into "printing" mode.