Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1894-12-28

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Bryce, infant Clifford Wolfe, H.
FAINT, and Beulah Wolfe, infant, De-
PENDANTS.
/ 10 the Circuit Court for Montgomery county,
as Court Of Equity. No 1851 Equity.
,EHg OBJECT Of this Bill is 10 obtain :
4 Decree for the sale Of laod 10 Mont
gomery coonty, Maryland.
/ The Dill states that James Lawson, late Of
Montgomery county, deceased was in biz
lifetime and at the time Of bis death seized
/ and possessed 10 fee simple Of tract Of land
called Trouble Epongh,' containing l24s
acres, and also tract Of land called add
ton to Sherlocks Purchase, p" containing ere
acres OF land, lying in said Montgomery couu-
ty, which was not sold.
That the said James Lawson departed this
life 10 the year l545 without leaving
widow surviving him, and leaving last
will and testament duly executed TO pass
real estate in this State, which said will has
oeeu admitted 10 probate b. the Orphans
Court OF said county and is now Of record in
the office Of the Register Of Wills Of the
same, in VIII Book Liber T. folio 237, duly
certified copy, marked Exhibit A, being flied
With the bill
Thai By said will he said James Lawson
devised unto his five daughters, viz Mary,
Glory, Hester Ann, Hannah and Elizabeth,
his plantation HheTeon be d1elt, called
"Tfouble Enough" containing 1874 acres
Of iaud more or less, 10 them ana their heirs
forever and TO bis son, George, home with
his sisters 20 long as be should think ht, and
10 his granddaughter, MACY Hammond Law
son, maintenance during her single lite
He authorized his executor 10 sell the above
d.sux. had E-a h. hzfaf
yided the personal estate was insufficient
in the event Of The said FIVE acres not being
sold il was to be divided among his said FIVE
daughters
The said James Lawson appointed his son,
Gabriel l.. D. Lawson, his Executor, who
never qualified, and as appears from the Land
Records of said county said FIVE acres were
never disposed Of as directed by said will,
so that the title to the same is now in the
heirs-at-law Of The said Mary, Ciary, Hester
Ann, Hannah and Elizabeth lawson, the
deyisees under bis will
That said James Lawson Jeff Surviving him
four sons, viz Gabriel l.. D., George, Jobu
and James Lawson, Jr. all Of whom are now
dead, and also left surviving him five daugh-
iefs, who were the degisees under bic wi l.
VIZ Mary, Clafy, Hannah, Hester Ann and
Elizabeth Lawson; Of these the las, two
named are still living and are parties plain
tfig 10 this Bill.
That the said Gabriel L. D Lawson de-
parted this life in the year 1891, leaving the
following az his heirs-at-iaw, viz Josiah
W Lawson and Lucretia, his wite Caleo
G. Lawson and Alice his wife: Mary W
band Sarah &. Beale and Richard C. Beale,
her husband; Emma J Day and James E.
Day her husband, all residents OF said Mont
gomery county and State OF Maryland
That the said John Lawson departed this
life in the year 1885, leaving the following as
his only heirs-at-law, viz Uriah Lawson
and Katherine, his wife, residing in this
county William p. N. Lawson, resident OF
Frederick county Sarah Lawson. widow /:
William Lawson, both OF whom reside 10
said Frederick county Henry Clay Lawson
aud Laura, his wife, Andrew J. Tabler, hus-
baad OF a deceased daughter named DeIilah ;
Jerome Lyddsrd, husband of deceased
daughter named Nancy Hammond John C.
Lyddard, Mary g. Lyddard, Hannah r.
Beale, widow Ellen Jane LyddarG and De-
lilah Browning and Benjamin Browning her
husband all Of whom are residents OF said
Montgomery county and State of Maryland ;
Miles Bryce, husband OF a deceased daugh-
ter, Elizabeth Aman Bryce, Oslo Lintbcu IN
and Charles Linthicum, her husband Keifer
Bryce, Nellie Bryce, Gabriel Bryce, an iu-
lhuls huu hEDUbEIN TylERbt, an lufhHi, all OF
whom reside in Frederick county, in this
State, except Nellie and Ksi:er, who reside in
this county.
That said James Lawson, Jr departed this
life in the year 1874, leaving surviving him
as his only heirs-at-law, viz Hammond Law
son and Margaret Lawson, his wife John w
lawson, Charles T. Lawson and Susan Law
son, his wife Alfred Lawson aud Lillian
Lawson, his wife, all OF whom reside in the
State OF Virginia. and all OF whom are non
residents OF the State Of Mary land. William
and Annie, his wife Sarah Il Piqaett and
John T. Piqueu, her husband Eli s. Law
sou and Mary, his wife George l.. Lawson
and Ella his wife Susan Ashton and John
Ashton, her husband William Wolfe, a
husband OF deceased daughter, Hester nm,
who departed this life in the year 1888, leav-
ing the following children Ollie, George,
Clifford, an infant, and Beulah, an iniant ;
all OF the above-named reside in said Mont
gomery county except the last-named two,
who reside in said Frederick county.
That said George departed this lite 10 the
year 1870, interstate, unmarried and without
issue
That The sal Mary Lawson departed this
life in the year 1860, intestste, unmarried and
without issue.
Thai The said CIsry Lawson departed this
lite 10 the year 1872, intestate, unmarried
and without issue
That The said Hannah Lawson departed this
life in the year l545, intestate, unmarried
and without issue.
That the heirs OF the aforesaid George,
Mary, Clary and Hannah Lawson are their
brothers aud sisters aud their descendants,
parties 10 this Bill.
That said property is not susceptible OF
partition among the parties entitled thereto
without great loss and injury to them.
That it would be TO the advantage of all
the parties concerned TO have the property
sold and the proceeds distributed among the
parties entitled thereto.
II is thereupon, this 18th day of December,
in the year 1894, ordered by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery county, sitting as a
Court OF Equity, that the plaintiffs by csus-
ing Il copy of this order to be inserted in
some newspaper printed and published in said
Montgomery county, once in each of four
successive weeks before the l4th day of Jan
uary, in the year 1895, give notice TO the
said nonresident defendants of the object
and substance of this dill and warning them
10 be and appear 10 this Court, in person or
by solicitor, on or before the LIST day of Feb
ruary, 1895, to show cause, it any they have,
why a decree ought not 10 pass as prayed.
JAMES ANDERSON, CPk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county
True copy-Test:
JAMES ANDERSON, Crk.
FRANK HIGGINS,
IN gysN