Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-08-29


Ephraim l.. Bobltz ~, sitting as Court
and Samuel Pencil, of Equity.
The object OF this Bill is to procure de;
cree for the sale of certain property, situated
of which Dorcas Pencil. died seized and
possessed, and for the application Of the pro.
ceeds of sale TO the payment of the claims OF
the Complainant, Dr. James K. Waters and
the claims of the other creditors Of the said
Dorcas Pencil.
The Bill states that the said Dorcas Pen
nell was at the time of her death indebted
unto the said Complainant in the sum of
fourteen dollars and eighty five cents for sun
dry matters and things properly chargeable
in account and for professional services and
that the said Dorcas Pencil was also at the
time of her death indebted unto a certain
Carrie V. BobIitz In the sum of twenty six
dollars, for sundry matters and things prop
erly chargeable in account and FOR services
rendered, which said account has been as
signed to the Complainant, DIR. james X :.
Waters, both of said accounts being filed
with said Bill as Exhibits "A" and "B".
That the said Dorcas Pencil being so in
debted and being also indebted unto divers
parted this life intestate, on or about the 18th
day of March in the year 1901, in Frederick
County, Maryland.
That no letters of Administration have
eyer been taken out on the personal estate
of said deceased, and that the said personal
estate Is exceedingly small and largely insult.
ficien, to pay the debts due and owing at the
time of her death and the costs of Admins
tratiOn, and that the personal estate being
insufficient as aforesaid. the real estate OF
which the said Dorcas Pencil died seized
and possessed should be sold and the pro-
ceeds. after the payment of costs aud expen-
SEES applied to the liquidation Of the said
Compartments claims and the claims Of all
other creditors who may come in and con-
tribute TO the expense of these proceedings.
That the real estate of which the said Dor.
cas- Pencil died seized and possessed con.
sisted of improved property situated In the
town Of Thurmont, formerly Mechanics
town. Frederick County. Maryland, and
which is more fully described in deed from
Warner T. Grimes bearing date January ~,
1870, a certified copy of which deed is filed
with said Bill marked Exhibit &c"
That at the time of the death of the said
Dorcas Pencil she left surviving her the
following persons as her heirs at law, name
ly, Samuel Pencil, an adult son, Emma J..
Bobitz al adult daughter whose husbands
name is Ephraim l.. Boblitz; and who are
residents of Frederick County, Maryland /;
Clarence Foreman and George Foreman who
are adults, the former residing In Washing.
ton City, DC. the latter in Baltimore. Ma
ryland, Mary Foreman, Alice Morgan whose
husbands name is Sherwood Morgan. Stella
Kennedy whose husbands name is Thomas
Kennedy all of whom are non residents of the
State of Maryland and reside in the City OF
Washington, d. G., being children OF Ada
Foreman deceased daughter of the said
Dorcas Pencil also Mary Collins, daugh.
ter. who is a widow, residing in the City Of
Washington, D. c.: also Mrs.--Larramore
whose husbands name is John Larramore,
who is child of A. Pencil deceased son
of said Dorcas Pennell; who also reside in
the City of Washington. d. c.; also the chill
dren of Cost Pencil deceased son OF Dor.
cas- Pennell, namely, Mary Pencil, Carrie
Pencil and Ida Pencil who are also non
residents of the State of Maryland and re.
side in the State of Virginia.
The Bill then prays that the said real es
tate may be decreed to be sold for the pay
ment of the claims of the Complainant and
the claims Of such other creditors Of said de.
the costs OF these proceedings, and for gen
eral relief.
1t IS thereupon this 10th day IF August A.
D. 1901, by the Circuit Court for Frederick
County sitting as Court of Equity, order
ed, that the Plaintiff. by causing a copy of
this order to he inserted IN some newspaper
published in Frederick County once in each
of tour successive weeks prior to the l4th
day OF September 1901, give notice to the said
absent and non resident defendants OF the
object and substance of this Bill, warning
them to be and appear in this Court in per.
son or by solicitor on or before the I'd day of
October 1901, to show cause. If any they have,
why decree should not be passed as prayed
Test: DOUGLASS II. HARGETT,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court for
Frederick County
True Copy-Test:
Coblentz & Waters, Douglass H Hargett,
Solicitors. Clerk.
Aug155t. August 10, 1901.