Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1894-12-21

widow William Lawson, Henry Clay
Lawson and Laura Lawson, bis wife /;
Miles Bryce, Aman Bryce, Oslo
Linthicum and Charles Linthicum,
/ her husband Hammond Lawson and
Margaret Lawson, bis wife JohD
w. Lawson, Charles T. Lawson and
Susan Lawson, his wife; Alfred Law
/ son and Lillian Lawson, his wife I;
and Gabriel Bryce, infant; McSherry
Bryce, infant Clifford Wolfe, in
faut, and Beulah Wolfe, infant, De-
PENDANTS.
/ Ia the Circuit Court for Montgomery county,
as Court OF Equity. No. 26l Equity.
HNHE OBJECT Of this Bill is to obtain a
l. Decree for the sale of land in Mont
gomery county, Maryland.
The bill states that ames Lawson, late of
Montgomery county, deceased, was in his
lifetime and at the time of his death seized
and possessed in fee simple of tract Of land
called "Trouble Enough" containing l244
acres, and also tract of land called "Addi-
/ ton to Sherlock's Purchase, - containing i've
acres of land, lying in said Montgomery coun-
ty, which was not sold.
That the said James Lawson departed this
life in the year 1845 without leaving a
widow surviving him, and leaving last
will and testament duly executed TO pass
real estate in this State, which said will has
been admitted 10 probate by the Orphans
Court OF said county and is now of record in
the Office of the Register of Wills of the
same, in Will Book Liber 4, folio 237, duly
certified copy, marked Exhibit A, being filed
with the bill.
! That by said will the said James Lawson
devised unto his FIVE daughters, viz, Mary,
Glory, Hester Ann Hannah and Elizabeth
his plantation wherein he dwelt, called
Trouble Enough" con attaining l243 acres
Of land more or less, to them and their heirs
forever, and TO his son, George, home with
his sisters so long as be should think fit, and
10 his granddaughter, Nancy Hammond Law
son, maintenance during her single life
he authorized his executor TO sell the above
described five acres to pay his debts, pro-
vded the personal estate was insufficient
in the event of the said i've acres not being
sold ii was to be divided amoRg his said i've
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, Clary, Hester
Ann, Hannah and Elizabeth Lawson, the
devisees under bis will.
That said James Lawson left surviving him
four sons, viz Gabriel l.. D., George, John
and James Lawson, Jr. all of whom are now
! dead, and also left surviving him five daugh-
ters who were the devisees under his wi l.
VIZ: Mary, Clary, Hannah, Hester Ann and
Elizabeth Lawson; of these the last two
named are still living and are parties plain
tifis to this Bill.
That the said Gabriel L. D. Lawson de-
parted this life in the year 1881, leaving the
following as his heirs-at-law, viz: Josiah
". Lawson and Lucretia, his wife, Caleb
G. Lawson and Alice. his wife; Mary W .
Burdette and William W Burdeette, her hus-
band Sarah h. Beale and Richard G. Beale,
her husband; Emma j. Day and James Il.
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 follow ing as
his only beirs-at-law, viz Urah Lawso u
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 in
said Frederick county; Henry Clay Lawson
and Laura, his wife, Andrew J. Tabler, hus-
band of deceased daughter named Delilah !;
jerome Lyddard, husband of deceased
daughter named Nancy Hammond John G..
Lyddard, Mary G. Lyddard, Hannah r.
Beale, widow; Ellen Jane Lyddar6 and De-
ilah Browning and Benjamin Browning, her
husband all Of whom are residents OF said
Montgomery county and State of Mary land :;
Miles Bryce, husband OF a deceased daug h-
ter, Elizabeth Aman Bryce, Oslo Liuthicu m
and Charles Linthicum, her husband Keifer
Bryce, Nellie Bryce, Gabriel Bryce, an in
FAINT, and McSherry Bryce, an infant, all of
whom reside in Frederick county, in this
State, except Nellie and Keiter, 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-aw, viz Hammond Law
son and Margaret Lawson, his wife John w
| lawson, Charles T. Lawson and Susan Law
son, his wife Alfred Lawson and 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 vile Sarah l. Piquett and
John 7. Piquelt, her husband Eli S. Law
sou and Mary, his wife George l.. Lawson
and Ella, his wife; Susan Ashton aud John
Ashton, her husband William Wolfe, a
husband OF deceased daughter, Hester A I'M,
who departed this life in the year 1888, leav-
ing the following children Ollie, George,
Clifford, an infant, and Beulah, an infant
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, intestate, unmarried and without
issue
That the sal Mary Lawson departed this
life in the year 1860, intestate, unmarried and
without issue
That the said Clsry Lawson departed this
/ life in the year 1872, intestate, unmarried
and without issue.
That the said Hannah Lawson departed this
| life in the year ls45, intestate, unmarried
and without issue.
That the heirs of the aforesaid George
Mary, Clary and Hannah Lawson are their
brothers and sisters and their descendants,
parties 10 this Bill.
| That said property is not susceptible of
partition among the parties entitled thereto
without greatloss and injury TO them.
That it would be 10 the ad Vantage of all
the parties concerned to have the property
sold and the proceeds distributed among the
parties entitled thereto.
1t is tbereupon, this 9Th 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 caus-
ing 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 bill and warning them
10 be and appear in this Court, in person or
by solicitor, on or before the LIST day of Feb
ruary, 1895, TO show cause, if any they have,
why decree ought not TO pass as prayed.
JAMES ANDERSON, CPk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
JAMES ANDERSON, Crk.
FRANK HIGGINS,
ALEXANDER KILGOUR,