The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-06-09
NO. lib EQUITY.


III Nhc circuit b"uIl luf NaIFpll county.
Isaiah Ham vs.. Jacob Sentz, Caiharine sentz,
his wife, Reuben Winters, David Winters,
and others.
HNIIE Object Of this suit is to obtain de
cree to sell the Real Estate of which
Susauuah Hess, late Of Carroll county, de.
ceased, died seized aud possessed, siluat d
in Carroll county, or So .much thereof as
may be necessary to pay the debts of George
Hess, late uf Carroll county, deceased.
The bill states that said George Hess,
late of Carroll county, deceased, was in
his lifetime indebted to Joseph DAVIS, Of
said county, in the sum of one hundred
dollars on his certain prOuiissary note, dated
on the 2Gth day Of August, 1869, PAYABLE
enc day after date, and unto divers other
persons in large sums of money, and that
on the lSt day Of April, 1870, said Joseph
| Davis assigned said note to suid lsaiah Ham,
md said George Hess, deceased. being ia
dchted as aforesaid aud being at the time of
his death seized and possessed Of certain
real and personal estate, situated in Mid
| dIeiown, in said county, did on the 9th
day Of September. 1862, daily made and
executed his last will and testament in writ.
| ing, aud thereby devised to his then wife.
Susaunah Hess, all of his real and personal
estatci that said George Hess departed this
| life on the 10Th of December, 1869, leaving
| snd viii and testament unallerod and un.
I revoked, aud shortly after the death Of said
/ teStator, his aforesaid last will and tcSta.
! ment was in due form of law admitted to
/ probate before the Orphans Court for Car.
! roll county, and letters testameutnry there.
| on were in due form of law offered by said
| Orphans Court, granted unto Joseph Davis,
| Of said county, and that the personal estate
/ belonging to sid testator at the time of his
| death, is not sufficient to pay all otthe debts
of said testator, and that the same has been
all applied by said executor to the payment
OF the funeral expenses, costs IN the Or
! phans' Court, and to the payment Of other
! small debts.
The bill further states that on the 10th
day of February. 1870, the said deysee, said
Susannah Hess, departed this life niestate,
leaving no linenl descendants, nor husband,
nor father, nor mother, but leaving the fol.
lowing sisters, aud children at bar Two de
ceased brothers and deceased sister, to wit:
Her sister Calharine, wife Of jacob Sentz,
| of Carroll county, aud her sister Elizabeth,
wife Of George Wilhelm, of the State of
Ohio, and the following named children Of
her deceased brother, George Winters.
namely: David Winters, Mary Ann, wife
of George Garner. Isaac Winters, Stephen
Winters, Susan, wife of Geotge Crabbs,
July Ann, wife Of John V. Syoek, all of
whom reside in the State OF Iowa, and
Reuben Winters and George Winters, of
| Carroll county, and Elizabeth, wife of MIN.
rod Smith, of Howard county, aud til fol.
lowing named children ofherdecd. brother,
Joseph Winters, namely; Ephuim Win
ters, Deborah, wife of Frederick Flickin.
ger, aud Mary E. Winters, OF Carroll coun.
ty, and the following named children of
her deceased sister, Mary Davis, namely:
John W. Davis, of the State of Peursyva
MIA, Aaron Davis, Of Frederick county,
Joseph Davis, William DAVIS, and Ann NJ.
Davis, Of Carroll county.
The bill prays that the defendants shall
answer the same, and for q sale Of said real
estate or SO much thereof es may be neces.
sary to pay the debts Of said teslator, and
pFays for general relief, for an order of
publication against the nonresident defen.
dants and for subpenas against the resi-.
dent defendants.
tits thereupon, this 10th day OF MAY, 1870,
adJudged and ordered that the complainant
by causing q copy Of this order to be inser.
ted IN some newspaper published in Carroll
county, Maryland, once Il week for four
successive weeks before the 10Th day Of
June, 1870, give notice to the said George
Wilhelm aud Elizabeth Wilhelm, his wife,
David Winters, Isaac Winters Stephen
Winters, George Garner, and Mary Ann
Garner, his wife, George Crabbs and Susan
Crabbs, his wife, John Y, Syock and July
Ann Syock, his wife, and John W. Davis,
the said absent defendants of the object and
substance Of this bill, and warn them to an.
pear in this Court inperson or by solicitor, on
or before the 26th day Of September, 1870,
to answer the premises and shew cause, ii
any they have, why decree ought not to
pass as prayed.
JNo. D. BOYLE, Clerk.
True copy,-Test:
may l0-it Jxo. d. Boyle, Clerk.