The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-10-26
So PER ANNUM
OF PUBLICATION.
NO. 27S0 EQUITY.
Tn the Cireuit Court for Carroll County.

NJ. 2fSO EQOll1
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County
Mary Dempsey, William Dempsey, her hus-
band, Airy A Gillis, John II. Gillis,
Daniel T. Gillis, Otis Y. Miles, by his next
friend William Dempsey, Plaintiffs,
VS..
Joseph H. Gillis, Trustee, Charles I.
Reifsnider and James A. c. Bond, Admin
istrators and Trustees, John Lederer, and
unknown heirs, of John Lederer if dead;
Aaron Gosnell, Frank Gosnell, Jesse X.
Gosnell, Margaret Harrison and John
Harrison, her husband, Hampton Alevia
Mammalian. Mammalian her husband,
George Gilhs, Cecilia jenkins, Rebecca
Cover and William Cover, her husband
and unknown heirs of Rebecca Cover, if
dead; Frances Dauphin and - Daa.
phin, her husband, and unknown heirs OF
said Frances, if dead; Thomas H. Gillis,
Elijah Gillis and their unknown heirs, if
dead; Rachel Gartrell, and Edward Gar
trell, her husband and the unknown heirs
of said Rachel, if dead; and to the unknown
heirs of Gassaway G. Gillis, Defendants.
The object of this suit is to procure con
struetion of the last will and testament of
Porcius Gillis, late of Carroll county, deeeas-
ed, and to require Joseph Ii. ellis, trustee
appointed under said WILL and Charles I.
Reifsnider and James A. G. Bond, admins
traitors of the will of Porcius Gillis annexed,
TO pay over to the Plaintiffs in the above suit
the sum Of SS5s. 80, being the proceeds of
sales Of real estate devised by said Porcius
Gillis, 10 said Joseph FL. Gillis, and Reuben
War6eld, in trust for Thomas Gillis, son of
said testator. The bill alleges the death OF
Porcius GilIis, in the month of March, 1862,
leaving a last will and testament wherein
were appointed said Gillis and Warfeld, ex
g. hat Gafd ar
field, after the settlement of said estate in
the Orphans Court, of Carroll county, retir-
ed from the further execution of said trust,
upon the order of the Circuit Court for Car
roll county as a Court Of Equity; that said
Gillis continued to act as trustee under sand
will, and accounted for the trust funds OF said
estate in three (S1 several Auditors accounts
in cause No. 1915 Equity, in the Circuit
Court for Carroll county; that said testator
left widow, Elizabeth ellis; daughter,
Margaret Lederer; a daughter, Elizabeth
Gosnell; q grandchild, George Gillis;
granddaughter, Rebeeca Cover; a grand
daughter, Frances Dauphin; granddaughter,
Cecilia jenkins; a grandson, Thomas h.
Gillis: a granddaughter, Rachel Gartrell; a
grandson, Elijah ellis; and children of a
grandson, Gassaway g. ellis, and also
son, Thomas Gilhs. That said Thomas Oil
lis died in 1882, leaving the Plaintiffs as his
children and heirs at law, and the bill
further alleges that the Plaintiffs claim said
sum of money as belonging to them under a
proper construction Of said will, whereas it is
claimed by other heirs of said Gillis that be
died intestate thereof. upon the death Of said
Thomas ellis The bin alleges further, that
John Lederer, grandson of the testator, left
the state of Maryland number Of years ago,
and his whereabouts unknown, and the
children of Alexander Gillis and Gassaway G.
ellis, testatofs two sons, are also unknown,
except two children, Cecilia jenkins and Geo.
GiElis. 1t is therefore adjndged and ordered
this 1st ay of October, 1889, that the Plaintiffs
By causing copy of this order to be inserted
in some newspaper published in Carroll eoun
y,once in each offour successive weeks before
the 4th day of November, 1889, give notice
TO the said absent and unknown defendants
and heirs NJ law of the object and substance
OF this bill, and warn them and each Of them
to appear in person, or by solicitor, IN this
Court, on or before the 2Jth day Of November,
1889, to answer the premises and show cause,
If any they have, why an order and decree
should not pass as prayed.
JOHN E. SMITH,
Judge Of the Circuit Court
True eopy,-Test:
oct5 81 VIZ. ~ MARTIN, Clerk.