Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-02-14
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
JAMES W. BARNES AND MARGARET B..
BARNES, HIS WIFE,
cHAs. H. cooPARD AND OTHERS.
In the Circuit Court for Montgomery County,
sitting as a Court Of Equity.
January Term, 1878,

TIME object Of this suit is TO obtain De-
cree for the partition of the rea estate
OF which Charles Coopard, late OF Montgom-
cry county, died seized and possessed, among
the devisees of said deceased.
The Bill states that heretofore certain
Charles Coopard, late Of Montgomery county,
deceased, was in his lifetime, seized and pos
sessed of certain real estate, lying and being
in said county, and being so thereof seized
and possessed, sometime in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty. one, departed this lie,
leaving a last will and testament duly execu-
ted in his lifetime, with all the formalitles
necessary 20 pass real estate, TO which his
name is signed as ''Charles Cooper, such be-
ing the name by which he WAS generally
known in the community in which he resided,
which said last will and testament was duly
admitted 10 probate by the Orphans Court OF
Montgomery county, and is now Of record IN
the office of the Register Of Wills Of said
county, and by which said last will and les
lament he devised said real estate to his wile
Mary, for and during the term of her natural
life, or the continuance of her wdoWhood,
and upon her death or marriage he devised
the same to his children, Frances, Mary, Ann
Catharine, Martha, Charles Henry and Mar
g2ret, and their heirs respectively, to be d.
vided in equal shares between them, and duly
nominated and appointed his said wife, Mary
The Bill further states that the said widow,
Mary Coopard, departed this life sometime in
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three;
that the said Frances Coopard intermarricd
with a certain Charles Clarke, Of Monigom-
cry county, who has departed this life, leav-
ing the said Frances surviving him; that the
said Mary Coopard daughter Of the said Chas.
Coopard is intermar:icd We, certain 10 s.
Hopkins, and resides with her husband in said
Montgomery county that the said Ann Cath
arine is iutermarricd with certain Oliver II.
P. Clarke, and resides with her husband in
said county; that the said Charles II. Coop
ard is intermarred with certain Isabella
Coopard. and resides with his wife in said
county; that the said Martha A C0opard in
termarried with certain William Baker, and
resides with her husband in Washington
city, in the District of Columbia; aud that
the said Margaret is the complainant Marga-
ret E now intermarried with the complain
ant. James VIM. Barnes.
The Bill charges that the said real estate is
susceptible of partition among the parties en-
titled thereto, but hey have not been able TO
agree upon a division thereof
The Bill further states that the said William
Baker and Martha A. Baker, his wife, do not
reside in the Stale of Maryland.
II is thcreupon, this twelflh day Of Febru-
airy, in The year eighteen hundred and seventy
three, adjudged and ordered that the com
plainants by causing Il copy of this order TO-
gether with the object and substance Of the
bill to be inserted in some newspaper pub
lisheG at Rockville, in said Montgomery cuun-
ty, once a week for four successive weeks he
fore the eighth day of March hext give notice
10 the said William Baker and Martha A. l}a-
ker, his wife, and warn them toappear in ibis
Court, in person or by solicitor, on or before
the ninth day Of June next, TO answer the