The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-25

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of Charlestown. iowa, old Amish
church Of Charlestown. Iowa, Mrs. M.
d. Weber, member of Mennonite
church OF Franklin, Iowa, Mennonite
church Of Franklin, Iowa, s. X. Miller,
Fred Wedrick and Michael Miller,
trustees Of Apostolic Christian church
of Pulaski, Iowa, Apostolic Christian
church of Pulaski, Iowa, August Kreh-
bill, august Hirschler, John Snebley,
Eli Weber, trustees OF Mennonite
church Of Donnellson, Iowa, Mennonite
church Of Donnellson, Iowa. and also
against the heirs and husbands and
wives of any OF the herein named or
described defendants, defendants.
To the above named defendants and
each Of them:
You and each OF you, are hereby
notified that a petition is now on file
in the clerks office Of the District
Court Of Lee county, Iowa, at Fort
Madison, in behalf of the above named
plaintiffs, against you, and each of you,
and claiming judgment and decree of
SeAAN SOuAtt lAdt IAS 1OllOWlAS uS'
scribed real estate be partitioned and
that referees be appointed to partition
same and that the interest OF these
plaintiffs and defendants be deter
mined and that the shares OF the
p 'ntias and defendants set out below
in and to said real estate, be estab-
lished and confirmed and that sale
Of said promises be ordered and dis
tribution of the proceeds be made be-
tween said parties according
to their respective shares, and
that John Kimler, as guard
ian Of George Kimler, make
al accounting OF the rents, profits and
income Of said real estate, and that
the statutory attorneys fees be allow
ed plaintiffs attorneys for their tees
in said action and for such other and
further relief as to equity and good
conscience belong and for costs of suit,
the said real estate being the
following to-wit: Ten (1O)
acres described as follows:
commencing 1853 chains due
south Of the northwest corner of
fractional section eight (s) In town
ship sixty-seven (67) north of range
six (6) west, Lee county, Iowa; thence
degrees east 1859 chains; thence
north 5.26 chains; thence west
1858 chains to the point OF
beginning. This property Is q
part Of lot in said section.
Also all Of the northeast quarter Of the
southeast quarter of section nine COY
and all OF the southeast quarter Of the
northeast quarter of section nine (9)
i lying south of the north line Of the
Half Breed Tract, all being in town
|ship sixty-seven (67) north Of range
six (6) west of the Fifth Principal
Meridian, Lee county, Iowa.
Said petition also alleges that Peter
4 Rookie died in Lee county, Iowa. in
i the year 1883 and that at the date Of
/ his death he was the unqualified own
er in fee simple in and to the afore
said real estate and that he left will
4 leaving said property to his wife
Catharine Rookie during her lifetime
and after her death to his adopted
son. George Kimler, during his life.
4 tile and that at the date Of his death
/ il said George Kimler did not marry
and have children, same should 60 to
4 the church to which said Peter Rookie
| belonged at the time of his death and
said petition further alleges that said
Catharine Rookie and said George
Kimler are both dead and that said
George Kimler did not marry and left
no heirs and that the was no church
as provided by said will of Peter
Rocke, deceased, to inherit said prop
erty and that said property passed to
TIE heirs Of Peter Rookie, deceased,
and that these plaintiffs together with
the following defendants inherited the
aforesaid real estate and at the date
OF the death of said George Kimler
said plaintiffs and said following de
1 PENDANTS became the absolute and I'M
4 qualified owners of the following un.
4 divided interests in and to said real
estate as follows, to-wit: Plaintiff
/ Chris Rookie, LAP of said estate; de
PENDANT Elizabeth Delhi, former wild
ow Of Henry Rookie, 1-1S; John l.
Rookie, her son, 10; Catharine Rookie
widow OF Jacob Rookie, 1-1S; her chill
DIR y. Joseph Rookie. John Rookie
Samuel Rookie and Mrs. Mary WED
rich, each 1-36: the children Of Mrs
i Magdalena Very as follows: Barbara
Garick, Anna Garick, Kate Filler
Jacob Very. Chris Very, and Lena
4 Kesel, each LAP; and her grandchil
a dren as follows: Agnes Alter and
Lena Dolen, each 1874; the children Of
4 Chris Kinsinger as follows: Chris
! Kinsinger, Joseph Kinsinger William
Kinsinger, Jacob Kinsinger. Peter
Kinsinger, and Samuel Kinsinger
each 1856; the children OF Elizabeth
Rookie, deceased, as follows: Francis
i Holdefer, Barbara Bowers, Louisa
Strahler and William Rookie. each
1-42; and her grandchildren, Susie
Seymour, 1-126. and Lizzie Mcmillan
1-126; and their mother, Margaret
Rookie, the widow of John Rookie, the
deceased son of Elizabeth Rookie
1-126, and Joseph Sears and William