The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-03-01

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In the Circuit Court for Carroll County,
as Court of Equity.
JANUARY TERN, 1884.
George Warehime and wife, John Warehime
and wife, and others, against John Downey
and wife, Thomas Armagost and wife and
others.
The object of this suit is to obtain a decree
for the sale, under the directions of this Court,
of ninety-eight acres of land, more or less,
situate in Carroll county, which has descended
from Philip Warehime, late of said county, to
his collateral relatives, his heirs, that the
money arising from such sale may be divided
among the parties entitled according to their
respective rights
The Bill, in substance, charges that George
Warehime, late of Carroll county, by his last
will, devised to his son, Philip Warehime,
ninety eight acres of land, more or less, stu
ate in said county; that on the 9th of Deem
Der, 1888, the said Philip died interstate in
said county, seized in fee simple of said land;
that the said Philip Warehime, at the time of
his death, left no widow or child or descend
ant, but that he left brothers, sister and
nephews and neices of deceased sisters, to
whom all the land of which he died seized
descended, and who are entitled to the same
as his heirs at-law.
That the said Philip Warehime left surviv-
ing him three brothers, all of whom reside
in Carroll county, namely, John Warehime,
George Warehime and Samuel Warehime, and
one sister, namely, Susanna Downey, the wife
of John Downey, who reside in Baltimore
city; and the following nephews and neices
1.-THE children of said Philips sister Mary, who
died in the lifetime of her said brother Philip,
and who was in her lifetime the wife of GER
tain William ]. Hoffman, namely, William
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| Hoffman, Catharine Belt, the wife of G. Dor
sey Belt, and Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas
Armagost, all of whom reside in Baltimore
county; and Susannah Sharrer, the wife of
Ephraim Sharrer, who reside in Carroll coun-
ty; and the following nephews and neices
(the children of said Philips sister Catharine
who died in the lifetime of her said brother
Philip, and who in her lifetime was the wife
of a certain Adam B. Wentz), namely, Adam
Wentz, Mandilla, the wife of Adam B. Sny
der; Emanuel W. Wentz, Catharine, the wife
of Peter Lucabaugh; Margaret, the wife of
Daniel Kerchner; and Mary A., the wife of
John Snyder; all of whom reside in York
county, in the State of Pennsylvania; and
Valentine Wentz and George Wentz, both of
whom reside in the State of Ohio; and the
following nephews and neices children of the
said Philips sister Elizabeth, who died in the
lifetime of her said brother Philip, and who
in her lifetime was the wife of certain George
Strevig), namely, Edward Stevig, Emanuel
Stevig, Elizabeth, the wife of Uriah Fogle-
song, and Julia Ann, the wife of Jacob Myers,
all of whom reside in Carroll county; and
Samuel Strevig, Mandelia Trout, the widow
of Jacob Trout, and Noah Strevig, all of
whom reside in Baltimore county; and Mary
Ann, the wife of Ephraim Bollinger, and Sa-
rah Ann, the wife of Samuel Neal both of
whom reside with their husbands in Fulton
county, in the State of Illinois.
That the said land has descended to the
said brothers, sister and nephews and neices
of the said Philip, and cannot be divided
without loss and injury to the parties inter-
ested, and that it would be to their interest
and advantage to have the same sold under
the decree and direction of this Court, and
the money arising from the sale DIVIDED
among the parties according to their respec
tive rights; and that the defendants, Valentine
Wentz and Rachel Wentz, his wife, George
Vent and Abeline Vent, his wife, and the
said John Snyder and Mary A. Snyder, his
wife, Ephraim Bollinger and Mary Ann Boil
| linger, his wife, and Samuel Neal and Sarah
| Ann Neal, his wife, reside out of the State of
Maryland.
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered, this
twelfth day of February, A. d. 1884, that the
complainants, by causing copy of this order
to be inserted in some newspaper published
in Carroll county once week for four success
sive weeks before the 18th day of March next,
give notice to the said absent or nonresident
defendants of the object and substance of this
Bill, and warn them, and each of them, to
appear in this Court, in person or by solicitor,
on or before the 18th day of June next, to
answer the premises and show cause, if any
they or either of them have, why decree
ought not to be passed as prayed.
| FRANK 7. SHAW,
Clerk Circuit Court for Carroll County
True Copy,-Test:
feb16-4t FRANK L. SHAW, Clerk.