Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1895-01-11

gomery county, Maryland.
The bill states that J ames Lawson, late Of
Montgomery county, deceased, was in his
lifetime and at the time Of bis 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 Purchase, containing FIVE
acres of land, lying in said Montgomery coun-
ty, which was not sold
That the said James Lawson departed this
life 10 the year 1S4j without leaving a
widow surviving him, and leaving a last
will and testament duly executed TO pass
real 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 T., folio 237, duly
certified copy, marked Exhibit A, being filed
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 wherein he dwelt, called
Trouble Enough" containing l243 acres
Of land more or less, 10 them and their heirs
forever, and to his son, George, a home with
bis sisters so long as be should think fit, and
10 his granddaug hter, Nancy Hammond Law
son, a maintenance during her single life.
He authorized his executor 10 sell the above
described FIVE acres to pay his debts, pro-
yded the personal estate was insufficient
in the event of the said i've 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 tue Land
Records Of said county said FIVE acres were
never disposed of as directed by said will,
50 that the title TO the same is now in the
heirs-at-law of the said Mary, Cary, Hester
Ann, fiaunah 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-
tiers, twho were the devisees under HE will J
VIZ: Mary, Clary, Hannah, Hester Ann and
Elizabeth Lawson of these the last two
named are still living aud are parties plain
tiis 10 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
W Lawson and Lucretia, his wife; Caleb
C. Lawson and Alice, his wife; Mary W.
Burdetre and William W. Burdeette her hus-
band Sarah E. Beale and Richard G. Beale,
her husband Emma j. Day and James E
| Day her husband, all residents OF said Mont
I gomery county aud State Of Maryland.
That the said John Lawson departed this
1 life in the year 1850, leaving The following as
/ his only heirs-at-law, viz Uriah Lawson
and Katherine, bis 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 deceased daughter named Delilah
! g -
| daughter named Nancy Hammond John G.
/ Lyddard, Mary G. Lyddard, Hannah r
/ Beale, widow; Ellen Jane Lyddard and De
| lilah Browning and Benjamin Browning, her
husband all of whom are residents Of said
1 Montgomery county and Stale Of Mary land
4 Miles Bryce, husband of q deceased daugh
ter, Elizabeth Aman Bryce, Oslo Linthicu n
aud Charles Linthicum her husband Keifei
/ Bryce, Nellie Bryce, Gabriel Bryce, an in
FAINT, aud McSherry Bryce, an infant, all o
whom reside in Frederick county, in this
State, except Nellie and Kei;er, who reside il
/ this county.
/ That said James Lawson, Jr, departed thi;
/ life in the year 1874, leaving surviving hin
as his only heirs-at-law, viz Hammond Law
/ son aud Margaret Lawson, bis wife; John W
! lawson Charles I. 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.
1 residents oil the State of Mary land, William
and Annie, his wife, Sarah l. Piquett and
John T. Piquelt her husband; Eli S. Law
son and Mary, his wife George l.. Lawson
and Ella, his wife Susan Ashton and John
/ Ashton, her husband William Wolfe,
husband of deceased daughter, Hester Ann
who departed this life in the year 1888, leav.
/ ing the following children Ollie, George
| Clifford an infant, and Beulah, an infan
| all of the above-uamed reside in said Mont.
gomery county except the last-named two
who reside in said Frederick county.
That said George departed this lite in The
year 1870, intestate, unmarried and without
! issue
That the sal Mary Lawson departed this
4 life in the year 1860, intestste, unmarried and
/ without issue.
Thai the said Clary Lawson departed this
! life in the year 1872, interstate, unmarried
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 their
brothers and sisters and their descendants,
parties 10 this Bill
That said property is not susceptible oil
partition among the parties entitled thereto
without great loss and injury 10 them.
That it would be 10 the advantage OF all
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 caus-
ing copy of this order to be inserted in
some newspaper printed aud 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
to be and appear in this Court, in person or
by solicitor, on or before the lst day of Feb
ruary, 1895, to show cause, il any they have,
why decree ought not 10 pass as prayed.
JAMES ANDERSON, CPk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
JAMES ANDERSON, Cl'k.
FRANK HIGGINS,
ALEXANDER KILGoUR,