Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1895-01-04

gomery county, Maryland.
The bill states that ames Lawson, late o
Montgomery county, deceased, was in BIZ
lifetime and AT the time of bis death seized
and possessed in fee simple of tract Of land
called Trouble Enough" containing l24I
acres, and also tract of land called "Addi
ton to Sherlock's Purchase" containing ivt
acres of land, lying in said Montgomery coun.
ty, which was not sold
That The said James Lawson departed thi;
life in the year 1845 without leaving a
widow surviving him, and leaving las
will and testament duly executed to pass
rea estate in this State, which said will has
oeen admitted to probate by the Orphans
Court OF said county and is now OF record in
the Office of the Register of Wills of the
same, 10 will Book Liber Il, folio 237, duly
certified copy, marked Exhibit A, being lied
with the bill.
That by said will he said James Lawson
devised unto his FIVE daughters, viz, Mary,
Glory, Hester Ann, Hannah and Elizabeth,
his plantation whereon he dwelt, called
"Troube Enough" containing l244 acres
Of land more or less, TO them ana their heirs
forever, and TO bis son, George home with
his sisters so long as be should think fit, and
TO his granddaughter, Macy Hammond Law
son, maintenance during her single life.
He authorized his executor TO sell the above
described five acres to pay his debts, pro-
vided the personal estate was insufficient ;
IN the event OF The said five acres not being
sold it 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-aw of the said Mary, Clary, Hester
Ann, hanuah and Elizabeth Lawson, the
deVisees under his 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 lett surviving him five daugh-
ters, who were the devisees under his wi
W. Mary, Clary, Hannah, Hester Ann and
Elizabeth Lawson; Of these the last two
named are still living and are parties plain
titfs TO this Bill
That the said Gabriel h. D. Lawson de-
parted this life in the year 1884, leaving the
following as his heirs-at-law, viz Josiah
W Lawson and Lucretia his wife, Caleb
c, Lawson and Alice, his wife; Mary W.
Burdete and William W. Burdeette, her hus-
band Sarah E. Beale and Richard G. Beale,
her husband Emma j. Day and James f
Day, her husband, all residents OF said Mont
That the said John Lawson departed thi 5
life in the year 1850, 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 oil
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 a deceased daughter named Deilah
jerome Lyddard, husband of deceased
daughter named Nancy Hammond John c
Lyddard, Mary G. Lyddard, Hannah R
Beale, widow Ellen Jane Lyddar6 and De.
liah Browning and Benjamin Browning, her
husband all of whom are residents OF said
Montgomery county and State of Mary land
Miles Birgee husband of deceased daugh
ter, Elizabeth; Aman Bryce, Oslo Linthicu m
and Charles Linthicum, her husband Keifer
Bryce, Nellie Bryce, Gabriel Bryce, an in.
FAINT, and McSherry Bryce, an infant, all o.
whom reside in Frederick county, in this
State, except Nellie and Ke;er, who reside il
this county.
That said james Lawson, Jr departed this
life in the ear 1874, leaving surviving him
as his only heirs-at-law, viz: Hammond Law.
son and Margaret Lawson, his wife John W
Lawson, Charles Z. Lawson and Susan Law
son, his wife Alfred Lawson and Lillian
Lawson, his wife, all of whom reside in the
State of Virginia, aud all Of whom are non
residents oil the State of Mary land. William
and Annie, his wife; Sarah l. Piquett and
John 7. Piquett, her husband Eli S. Law.
son and Mary, his wife George H. Lawson
and Ella, his wife Susan Ashton and Johr
Ashton, her husband; William Wolfe,
husband OF deceased daughter Hester Ann
who departed this life in the year 1883, leav
ing the following children Ollie, George
Clifford, an infant, and Beulah, an nfan
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 lie 10 III,
year 1870, intestate, unmarried and without
issue
That the sal Mary Lawson departed this
life in the year 1860, intestate, unmarried ant
without issue.
Thai the said Clary Lawson departed lhi,
and without issue.
That the said Hannah Lawson departed thi!
life in the year ls45, intestate, unmarried
and without issue.
That the heirs OF the aforesaid George
Mary, Clary and Hannah Lawson are theii
brothers aud sisters and their descendants
parties 10 this Bill.
! That said property is not susceptible o.
partition among the parties entitled thereto
without greatoss and injury 10 them.
That it would be 10 the advantage OF al
the parties concerned to have the property
sold and the proceeds distributed among the
parties entitled thereto.
1t is tbereupon, 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 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
TO be and appear ia 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
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