The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-02-20
W. BEAI IA HARLAN, SOliCit(
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
Ava B. Maxwell ct al. ! In the Circuit Court
StOT Hartford County.
Richard d. Rush ct al In Fuuity

Ava B. Maxwell ct al. In In the circuit Court
Richard d. Rush, ct al. In Equity.
The object of this suit is to procure decree
for the sale of the real estate of the late James
Jeffrey for the purposes of partition. and an
order of publication having been passed and
published and testimony having been taken it
appeared from said testimony that John 7.
Jeffrey, son of the said James Jeffery, had long
prior to the year 1860 left the United States and
that he was last heard OF i'll Hong Kong, China, at
which time he stated his intention of returning
home to his fathers house but he never did so
and that he was believed to be long since dead
unmarried interstate and without issue, and it
further appeared from said testimony that
Fanny NJ. Jeffrey, the widow of J. Winfield
Jeffrey was still living and was nonresident
Of the, State of Maryland, residing in the
City of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,
and thereupon the Court upon the petition
of the plaintiffs on the nth day of Feb
ruary, in the year 1905 passed an order
and if dead, then his heirs, if any, and the said
Fanny NJ. Jeffrey, widow of J. Winfield Jeffrey,
parties defendant i'll said suit and directing
that all order of publication issue against them
i'll pursuance of which order of the said Court
this order OF publication is passed and publish
The bill and petition state that the late James
Jeffrey, who died in October, 1886, was seized
and possessed of a certain tract of land, con
tanning forty acres. more or less, situated III
Hartford county.
= That by his Last Will and Testament the
said James Jeffrey devised and bequeathed all
of his property, real, personal and mixed to his
wife, Jane y. Jeffrey.
). That said Will OF James Jeffrey. dated OH
the 3rd day of January. 1874, was effectively
executed to pass real estate.
i. That the said lands and premises therefore
descended TO the heirs at law of the said James
Jeffrey.
5. That the heirs at law of the said James
Jeffrey are:
laJ First, Ava Benton Jeffrey, the only living
child of said James Jeffrey, who has intermar-
ried the Samnel NJ: Maxwell. The said Ava
B. Maxwell is entitled to one-thiId of said real
estate.
(b) Second. Ava NJ Jeffrey, the only child of j.
Winfield Jeffrey, deceased son of the said
James jeffrey, who is entitled to oue-third of
said real estate, subject to the dover right
therein, if any, of her mother, Fanny NJ. Jeffrey.
(c) Third, the descendants of Eliza Jane
Jeffrey familiarly, called LyIel deceased
daughter of the said James Jeffrey are jointly
entitled to one-third Of said property as follows
viz: The said Eliza Jane married, first time,
John P. Davis and had issue, Laura! j. Davis,
May Davis, Virginia B. Davis and John NJ.
Davis. After the death of her first husband the
said eliza Jane Jeffrey Davis married DR..
David G. Rush. The only issue of which second
marriage was Richard d. Rush, who is entitled
to one-ninth ofsaid property.
The said Eliza Jane Rush Jeffrey died about
1879. Laura ]. Davis married Francis Gridley
and died about 1877 leaving no issue. May
Davis married Francis Squair and died about
1895 leaving issue, Virginia and Francis who
are each entitled to one-eighteenth of said prop
erty. Virginia B. Davis married Francis Grid
ley and died about 1881, leaving no issue. John
NJ Davis married - and died about
1891, leaving three children, viz: John J. Davis
and Frank X. Davis, both now of legal age, and
Edward ]. Davis, now about twenty years of
age, who areeach entitled to acknowledgements
OF said property.
(d) Fourth, that Tohn T. Jeffrey, a son, who
about the year 1861 disappeared and has never
since been heard Of would, ifliving, identified
to one fourth interest in said lands or il dead
leaving descendants said descendants in his
stead would be entitled to 4 onefourth interest
i'll said lands, but said John T Jeffrey is believed
by his friends and relatives TO be long since
dead, unmarried interstate and without issue,
but if living if dead leaving descendants
who would be entitled to claim in his stead,
then the shares OF the parties as set out i'll the
Bill would be proportiOnally reduced.
6. That the said real estate is not susceptible
of partition without material loss and injury
to the said parties entitled to interests therein,
and that in order to make the division of said
it will be necessary that said real es-
tate be sold and the proceeds thereof divided
amongst the parties according to their several
interests.
7. That the said Richard D. Rush is non
resident of the State OF Maryland, being resi-
dent OF the City of Washington in the District
of Columbia. That the said Virginia and
Francis squair and Francis squair, Senior, are
of the State OF Maryland, being
residents of the City of Chicago i'll the State of
K. Davis, Edward ]. Davis and the unknown
wife of John NJ Davis ,flving are non residents
OF the State of MARYLAND, being residents OF the:
City of Chicago i'll the State of Illinois. That
the said Fanny NJ. Jeffrey is a nonresident of
the State of Maryland, being resident of the
City OF Chicago i'll the State of Illinois. That
the said John T. Jeffrey, if living, and il dead,
his descendants, if any, are believed TO be non
of the State of Maryland and cannot
be found.
S. That the said Virginia Squair, Frank
Squair and Edward ]. Davis are infants, not of
legal age.
The Bill then prays for a decree for the sale of
said property and the distribution of the pro-
ceeds among the parties entitled thereto and
for further relief.
II is thereupon this nth day Of February,
1908, ordered that the Compainants by causing
a copy of this order to be inserted i'll some
newspaper published in Hartford county, once
in each of four successive weeks, fifteen days
before the goth day of March. 1905 give notice
TO the said absent defendants, John T. Jeffrey if
living, and if dead, then his heirs, if any, and
the said Fanny NJ. Jeffrey, widow of ]. Winfield
Jeffrey, of the object and substance Of this Bill
and warning them to appear in this Court i'll
person or by solicitor on or before the 5oth day
of March, 1908, to answer the premises and
show cause, if any they have why 4 decree
ought not to be passed as prayed.
WM. $. FORWOOD, JR., Clerk.
True Copy-Tcst:
WM. S. FORWOOD, JR., Clerk.