Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1871-01-13
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
PATRICK LAHE AND MARTHA JANE LA
HE, HIS WIFE,
VS..
JAMES 0. JONES AND OTHERS.
In tie Circuit Court for Montgomery County,
sitting as Court Of bQaity.'

TIME OBJECT of this suit is TO procure a
4 decree of the sale of certain real estate,
lying and being in Montgomery county, in the
State of Maryland, which was devised BY Owen
D. Jones, late of said county, deceased, to his
wife, Elizabeth Jones, during her natural life,
| or widowhood; and upon the death or marri-
age of the said Elizabeth Jones, was TO be di-
yided among the children Of the testator.
The bill states that the said Owen d. Jones,
was, in his lifetime seized and possessed of
certain real estate, lying and being in said
Montgomery county, and being 80 thereof
seized and possessed, sometime in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-one departed this
life, leaving last will and testament 10 wri-
ting, duly executed in his lifetime, which has
been duly admitted to probate by the Orphans
Court of said Montgomery county, and is now
Of record in the office OF The Register of Wills
Of aaid county; and, among other things in
said will contained, is the following deyse-to
wit:
Secondly. | will and devise that my be-
loved wife, Elizabeth Jones, shall keep, have,
possess and enjoy the whole of my estate, both
real and personal, and all the profits and
emoluments arising thcreupon, during her
natural life-provided she shall continue to
live single or unmarried until the time Of her
death and, at her decease, or in me event of
her being again married that then, and in
either case the whole Of my estate shall be
equally divided among my children, share and
share alike"
OF which said last will and testament, the
said Elizabeth Jones was therein appointed
sole executrix all of which will more fully
appear by reference to a properly certified copy
of said last will and testament, filed with said
bill as part thereof and marked Exhibit A -
That some time in the year eighteen hundred
and seventy, the said Elizabeth Jones departed
this life, intestate, without having married
again, leaving as be: only children and heirs
at law, who are also the only children and
heirs at law of the said Owen b. Jones, two
sons and five dauRhters-Syiz James o Jones,
| Benjaman Jones, intermarried with certain
| Sarah Il. Maccubbin; Elizabeth intermarried
with a certain james Wright Frances who
| ntermarried with certain William Fillmore,
and has since died, leaving her husband, VIM.
| Kilmore, and daughter, Elizabeth, surviving
her. Mary Ann, ntermarried with certain
| Washington Dean; Ellen, intermarried with
a certain George Srebeck, and the complain
ant, Martha Jane Lahe.
The bill further shows, that said real estate
is not susceptible Of division, and that no di-
vision could be made, except by greatly in
juring and depreciating the value Of said real
estate.
The bill further shows that the said James
O. Jones, Washington Dean, and Mary Ann
Dean, his wife, George Strebeck and Ellen
Strebeck, his wife, are non residents the State
Maryland.
1t is thercupon this 10th day Of December
in the year 1870, adjudged and ordered by the
subscriber, Clerk of the Circnit Court for
Montgomery county, that the complainants,
by causing copy Of this order to be inserted
in some newspaper printed in Rockville, in
said Montgomery county, once in each Of four
successive weeks, before the l4ih day Of Janu-
airy next, give notice to the said absent de-
PENDANTS Of the object and substance Of this
bill, and warn them to appear in this Court,
in person or by solicitor, on or Jefore The 18th
dug Of 1prH ne1t and show cause, if any they
have, why decree ought not to pass as pray
ed. Il. b. PRETTYMAN, CFk.
True copy-Tcst,
dec 23-4tn. Il. b. PTETTYMAN, CTk.