The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16

B.,-., ,,u.ea .'.Aet Nets Louisa !
Mellon George Mellon. SAIcoru George |
IhomaS Robinson, MaBamueI Teeters. |
AIcorn, Mary r.. TectG- NIarliev John /
frances >. Marley ey, James Darn
= htiI>, Mary VI. Onward Lease, Will
ley, Rachel J. Leas ain T. Nictts. Alex
a '.'i'5 II ,I nff,S ia Metts, Hebecca
pmie ero1' JoSieR Il M N 9ts defendants.
No. c5s Equity I5soaHn County, o'"'' I0' '''''-
The object orf i$lit is TO- obtain decree
J2r me sale 5, Oh I'd state of Maryland, Of
With one WAN Barnes died seized and
possessed.
rla hin sts5s that the said William Barnes
diai about lie year A. d.. 1921, seized and
noss11Ssed certain real estate situated in
5bjieganv COW GARRETT county State aiOre-
said, deScibed as follows: Known and deS-
ignafed rs Military Lots Nos 1850 and 1851,
containing fifty acres each, and being the
same land which was patented to the said
William Barnes by the State OF Maryland on
the 18Th day of october, 1901.
The bill further states that the said William
Barnes left a will which was duly probated in
The Orphans Court for said Allegany county,
wherein he devised said real estate to his
daughter Abigail for life and at her death to
her son John Barnes.
The bill further states that the said Abigail
Barnes ana John Barnes are both dead and
that by a proper construction of the will of
William Barnes the said Abigail and John
Barnes took but life estates in the said real
estate and that the said William Barnes died
interstate of the rcVeTSiOn and that his heirs
at-law are now entitled to said real estate.
The bill further states that the said William
Barnes lett surviving MN seven GhlIufeh ana
helrS-at-iaW as loiIOWS Johh bdri'eS, w IL
liam Barnes, Elizabeth barnes, Saran barnes.
Hulda Barnes. Abigail Barnes and Ruth
barnes, OF whom " imam ,IaTneS, EIiElneln
B3lneS, SitTan I1HlIles tvuu IltluI !dllSN went
West a great many yeal ago and that neither
they nor their descendants lii amy they ever
had have ever been heard OF for at least fifty
heard
OfalthOugh diligent search and inquiry has
Deg i'' iG9I i1i S' a chiIdren nhn Rrnns
ana HnIdnh Barnes. the said John having
died during the spring of the present year,fn-
tnstata len vino STRIVING him thn fSII0,viuu
childran and heirS-af-IaN. Cafharinc who
intermarried with Jacob Green; Annie. W no
intermarried with Abraham Grow; WHO
intcrmarrIcd with a certain Jefferson KEYS,
and - who intermarricd with a certain
- KYLE and ali of who reside in Alleeany
county aforesaid TIuidah Barnes intermaT-
Tiej With William Netts n son of Ruth Metts
both of whom are dead intc>tate leaving the
following children and hcirs-at-Iaw. Isaac
n " N9tts Emily NcttS Holm NettS Eliza
Netts ana FIiZa6eth Nets. Isaac y. W,
Nets resides i'm WestmOreland county Penn
SvIyania; Emily intermarried with William
Sp1llpr and resides i, Garrett county: neither
HE said John NIetts noI any issue he may have
had have been heard OF for more than thirty
wears: Eliza intermarried with Andrew Hew.
1T and died intestate leaving surviving her
her husband Andrew Hewitt and one child
Ellen Hewitt; and Elizabeth intcrmarried
with Milton Morrow and all reside in the
State of PENNSYLVANIA: Ruth Barnes daugh-
Ter of William Barnes the original ancestor
intermarried with Isaac Nets both Of whom
are dead intestate leaving the following
children and heirs-at.law: William Nets
Abigail Metts Sarah Nets, Isaac Metts, Ma
tiIda Nets, Elizabeth Metts and Eliza
Nets. Ruth Nets and John Metts, two
other children by this union, died in infancy
before their mother, who died in the year \.
p. 1863. Elizabeth intermarred with -
1{bon G issue u Eiz9 inermarred With MESH