The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-03-29
OF PUBLICATION.
NO. 2221 EQUITY.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll county,
sitting in Equity.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll county,
sitting in Equity.
Lydia E. A. Lester and Nathaniel Lester,
her husband, Harriet S. Coker and John
Coker, her husband, plaintiffs, VS.. Susan
Z. Zimmerman, administrative, Noah r.
Keller, Susan E. Zimmerman and Christian
Zimmerman, her husband, Margaret A. c.
Keller, Lewis Plowman and - Plow-
man, his wife, George Plowman and -
Plowman, his wife, Mary Scott and William
W. Scott, her husband, Margaret Plowman,
Susan House and -- House, her hus.
band, James A. Barry, Saranda Forsythe
and George Forsythe, her husband, and the
heirs and legal representatives Of Julianna
Fritz, deceased, defendants.
The object of this suit is to procure decree
for sale of certain real estate and improve
ments thereon in Carroll county, Maryland,
that were devised to Samuel Keller, now
deceased, by the last will and testament of
Henry Keller, deceased.
The Bill states that by the last will and tes
lament of Henry Keller, deceased, duly adj
nitted to probate in the Orphans Court of
Carroll county, certain parcel of land, there
in described, containing 20 or so acres Of
land, more or less, in Carroll county afore
said, was devised to testator's son, Samuel
Keller, on condition that said Samuel, "hs
heirs, executors or administrators pay out the
sum of 81 500, in payments of $3.50; the first
payment to be paid one year after the death
of testator's wife, Elizabeth, and so on annu-
ally to testators five daughters, share and
share alike, to wit: Mary Ann Plowman, wife
of Noah Plowman; Lydia Elizabeth Ann
Lester wife of Nathaniel Lester; Margaret
Ann Barry, wife of William Barry; Harriet
Savilla Coker, wife of John Coker; and Sa-
randa Forsythe, wife of George Forsythe, to
them, their heirs and assigns said payments
to be and remain lien on said land until
said sum of 81 800 is fully paid and satisfied
That said Samuel Keller died interstate in
Carroll county aforesaid, leaving Susan +.
Keller, his widow, and the following children,
his only heirs law: Noah r. Keller, Mar
garet A. C. Keller, and Deliah S. Keller; the
last mentioned has since died intestate, I'M
married, and without issue. Letters of adj
ministration on the estate of said Samuel
were granted to his widow, said Susan h.
Keller; the latter has since married Christian
Zimmerman; that said Susan E. Zimmerman
and Christian Zimmerman, her husband,
Noah r. Keller and Margaret A. c. Keller
reside in Mason county, Illinois, and said
Noah R. and Margaret A. c. Keller are in
fants, under twenty-on years of age.
That said Margaret Ann Barry was divorced
from her husband, William Barry, and sub
sequently died interstate, leaving son, James
A. Barry, her only heir-a t-law, who resides
in Baltimore county, Maryland.
That said Elizabeth Keller died on or about
March IS, 1883, and that more than one year
has expired since the death of the said Eliza
beth Keller, widow, as aforesaid, the time
provided by said last will and testament for
the payment of the annual payments therein
mentioned
That said Saranda Forsythe resides in Lee
- H., ho,. hue
band, George Forsythe, is unknown.
That said Mary Ann Plowman and her hus-
band, Noah Plowman, are both dead, and
left surviving them the following six children
and only heirs t-law: (1) Juliana Plowman,
who married a man named Fritz, both OF
whom are now dead; (2) Lewis Plowman,
who has since married, but his wife S christian
name is unknown, and they do not reside in
the State of Maryland; 81 George Plowman,
who is married, but his wife's christian name
is unknown, and they reside in the State Of
Kansas; az Mary Scott and William w. Scott,
her husband, who reside in the State of Iowa;
(5) Margaret Plowman, who is married, but
her husbands christian and surname is I'M
known, and he is believed to be dead, and
said Margaret lives in the State of Iowa; (6)
Susan Plowman, who married a man named
House, whose christian name is unknown,
and they reside in the State of Iowa, and said
Susan is an infant, under the age of twenty
one years.
That administration upon the personal es-
tate of Samuel Keller, deceased, was by the
Orphans Court of Carroll county granted to
Susan Z. Keller, as appears by exhibit &C.
that the said Susan L. Keller NOW thinner
mani in her own right and as administrative
refuses to pay said annual payments, and
said infant children and heirS-at-law have
also refused, and still refuse, to do so.
That the said plantation in said will men
toned has been and is now unoccupied by
said widow and children, now living, almost
all the time since the death of said Samuel
Keller, deceased; that they are advised and
so charged that said respective payments are
liens upon said land mentioned in the will of
said Henry Keller, deceased, and that they
are entitled to have the same sold for the
payment thereof under decree of this court.
The Bill then prays that said land, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be sold
for the payment of said annual payments, for
general relief, and an Order of Publication
against Susan Z. Zimmerman, administrative
of Samuel Keller, deceased; Susan E. Tim
norman and Christian Zimmerman, her hus-
band; Noah r. Keller and Margaret A. c.
Keller, of Mason county, in the State of Hi
nois; Mary Scott and William W. Scott, her
husband; Margaret Plowman and --P low-
man. her husband; Susan House ana --
House, her husband; Lewis Plowman and =
Plowman, his wife, of the State of Iowa;
Saranda Forsythe, of Lee county, in the State
of Iowa, and George Forsythe, her husband,
whose residence is unknown, to the com
plainants, George Plowman and ---
Plowman, his wife, whose residence is un-
known to the compliments and to the heirs
and legal representatives of Julianna Fritz,
whose names and residences are unknown to
the complainants, and for subpoena against
James A. Barry, of Baltimore county, Mary
land.
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered that
the compliments, by causing a copy of this
order to be inserted in some newspaper pub
lished in Carroll county, Maryland, once in
each of four successive weeks, before the 23d
day of April, next; give notice to the said alb
sent defendants of the substance of this bill,
and warn them to appear in this court in per
son or by solicitor, on or before the Both day
of July, next, to answer the premises and
show cause if any they have why decree
ought not to pass as prayed.
FRANK T. SHAW, Clerk.
True copy,-Test:
mar 22-4t FRANK L. SHAW, Clerk.