Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-01-24
No. 1851 Equity.
In the Circuit Court for Frederick C0un-
tvas Court of Equity.
November TERN, 1888.
Eliza Catharine Bell,

Eliza Catharine Bell,
John Henry Bell, administrator, &C., of Mary
Bell, deceased, Susan w ORTIZ and Lewis Wortz
her husband and others.
TNHE object of the bill filed in this cause
l. is to procure decree for the sale of the
real estate of which Mary Bell died seized
and possessed for the purpose of paying her
just debts and distributing the surplus among
the parties entitled in proportion to their
respective rights.
The Bill states that certain Mary Bell
late of Frederick County was in her lie time
indebted unto the plaintiff in the sum ofsev
en- hundred and seventy-nin dollars for Ia
Dor and services rendered from about July LIT
1873 to the time of her death, all Of which il
due and unpaid; that being thus indebted to
plaintiff and also indebted unto various 9TH
er persons, and having real and personal e.
tate, she died intestate in the year 1883, leav-
ing as her heirs at law, daughter Eliza
Catharne Bell, d daughter Susan wife Of
Lewis Wortz, a son John Henry Bell the
name of whose wife is Annie Bell, a daugh-
ter Mary wife of Washington Shryock,
daughter Sarah wife of Eugene Saub, son
Benjamin Bell the name of WHOSE wife il
Emma Bell, daughter Margaret wife of
James Beverly Buxon, a son George Bell tho
name Of whose wife is Ida Bell all adults re-
siding in Frederick County, and daughter
Georgianna Rebecca now wife OF James
Bowersox and daughter Florence now wife
Of Jacob Isanoele all adults, non-residents of
the State of Maryland and believed to reside
in the State of Virginia; that administration
of the personal estate Of said Mary Bell hath
been duly granted to John Henry Bell who
has possessed himself of said personal estate;
that said personal estate is not sufficient to
discharge all the just dctts of said Mary
Bell and that the same ought to be applied
to the payment of said debts and the de-
ficiency supplied by the sale Of said real es.
tate that said real is situated in Frederick
County and is described in q deed from
Christopher Baker and wife copy whereof
is exhibited that said real estate cannot be
divided without loss or injury to the parties
interested and that each of the children Of
said Mary Bell has been advanced to the ex-
tent of one hundred and twenty dollars. The
Bill then prays that the personal estate may
be applied to the payment of the debts of
said intesate due plaintiff and all others who
will come in and contribute to the expenses
of this suit and that said real estate may be
sold and SO much of the net proceeds thereof
as may be necessary applied to the payment
Of so much Of said debts as may then remain
unpaid and the remainder be distributed
among the parties entitled thereto in proper
ton to their respective rights, and for gen
eral relief and for process.
1t is thereupon this 27th day of December
A. D., 1853 by the Circuit Court for Freder-
ick County as Court Of Equity and by the
authority thereof adjudged and ordered that
the plaintiff by causing q copy Of this order
to be published once week for four sue
cessive weeks prior to the third day of Feb
ruary A. D. 1884 in some newspaper pub
lishtd in Frederick County, give notice to
the said Georganna Rebecca Bowersox and
James Bowersox her husband, and Florence
Isanog,e and Jacob Isanogle her husband,
the nonresident defendants, believed to re-
side in the State of Virginia, of the substance
and object Of this bill and warn them to ap-
pear in this Court in person or by Solicitor
on or before the sixth day of May A. D.
1884 and shew cause if any they have why
the relief prayed should not be granted.
ADOLPHUS FEARHAKE, JR,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Frederick Co.
Jan st.