Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-03
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
In the District Court Howard County,
Iowa, Deem Der term, 1911.
Christian Gronwoldt, Plaintiff,

| Christian Gronwoldt, Plaintiff,
|
The unknown claimants OF the swl OF sec.
8, twp. 80, range r. west of the 9Th p. M,
Ozias T.. Palmer, o. G. Wanless T.. r.
Thomas, Marsh 4 Lambert, Caleb F. Harris
Emily S. Harris, and the unknown heirs, de-
visees, spouses, legal representatives. assign
ees and success RS in right Of the above
named defendants, and all claimants OF said
premises, or any part thereof claiming by,
through or under the above named defend
ants or any OF them: Defendants.
To the above named defendants:
You and each Of you are hereby notified
that there is now on HE in the Office of the
clerk of the district court of Howard coun-
ty, Iowa, the petition OF the plaintlff, Chris
tian Gronwodt, claiming that he is the ali
solute owner In fee simple title of the above
described real estate, to-wit: The swI of
section s, township 30. range ~, west OF the
5th p. M: that he and his grantors, under
whom he claims title, have been for more
than ten years last past, and plaintiff is now
in the actual, continuous. visible. notorious,
OK elusive, hostile and adverse possession of
said real estate under color of title and claim
ofright. That he Is credibly informed and
believes that the defendants make some
claim thereto adverse to his right and title
therein, but that In fact defendants have no
interest III said real estate, and any interest
that may appear In the record title thereof
in them is cut Off by conveyances and by
will and is abandoned and barred by the
statute of limitations: that the names of the
said unknown claimants and their resi-
dences are unknown to plaintiff and he has
sought diligently to learn the same
| That the apparent in crest Of We find
ants AMI the Unkno II :inai Is under
each OF trem respectively is derived ~
reason OF tie 70 .lowin COZ ditions OF the
reco d Ute, and the mode )f de< olutiOn
the eof in each instance as is hereinafter
stated; to-wtt The defendant Ozias l.. Pal
mer became owner of the W u of the said
premises and conveyed the same to Thomas
p. Davies, but signed his name o. f. Palmer
In said conveyance, and the said Ozias T..
Palmer and o. T.. Palmer are one and the
| same person.
The defendant 0. 6. Wanless acquired
| title to the VIZ OF said premises and convey
| ed the same to w. ID. Darrow, but signed his
name Oliver q. Wanless in said conveyance
and said o. G. Wanless and Oliver G. Wan
less are one and the same person.
That the defendant T.. +. Thomas became
| the owner of an nndivIde half of the e.. of
defendant Caleb F. Harris, but in said con-
veyance signed his name Edward +. Thomas
and that Edward r. Thomas and f. F.
Thomas are one and the same person.
That the defendant Marsh 4 Lambert WIS
a co-partnership, It's members being 1. p,
Marsh and S. S. Lambert, and 1t acquired
title to the VIZ OF said premises ;n1 ane
wards dissolved, and Its property be-: IN
the property OF It's individual members
named and they conveye- the said We of
said premises to A. p. Hewett.
That the defendant Caleb +. Harris, who
also writes his name :Ld one and the
stme person with Caleb Fiske Harris ac-
CURED title to the e1s of the abve described
real estate In 1862, land he died testate seized
thereof In 1881, leaving lust will and te-ta-
ment by which all his property, including |
the above described, was devised to his wife,
the defendant, Emily :. Harris, whose name
is also written Emily Stephenson Harris,
and said Emily Stephenson Harris and /
Emily S. Harris are one and the same per-
son, and she and her heirs acquired title to
the en- of said premises by virtue of the will
of said Caleb F. Harris. That said Emily S.
Harris died intestate ut the same time and
In the same catastrophe with her husband
the defendant Caleb +. Harris, and her heirs
thus acquired title to said e12 of said premi
ses. That she left heirs, but their names and
residences are unknown to PLAINTIFF, and he |
has sought diligently to learn the same
That they have abandoned any right or title |
they might appear by the record to have in
| said premises and permitted same to be con-
Veyed by the heirs OF Caleb F. Harris the |
PLAINTIFFS grantors who took title to the |
same In ignorance Of any right or claim of
said heirs and paid therefor and have been
in possession thereof. as above stated, and |
the rights of the said unknown heirs of
Emily s. Harris have been forfeited, aban-
doned and barred by the statute of limita- |
lions. |
That at the time of his death Caleb Fiske !
Harris left rs his sole heirs the following:
One brother stephen Harris. and Francis
Chambers Harris. who was a grandson of Il
brother Cyrus then deceased and whose son |
the father of Francis Cham bers Harris was
also dec yased and the following named
childr II of his sister Eliza Green Smith also |
decea Ell, to-wit: Eliza II. Smith, Sarah
Smi II, Florence Smith and Maria NJ. VIII
liams al Of whom conveyed said premises
t. Henry q. Salisb .rv. but In fact said heirs
had 10 interest, unless they acquired some
by QUIT claim deed I, ON James Mc,iregor
and Charles Rye, who at on time I'D some
claim on the said premises and .Onvs ed
same to the heirs of G. F. Harris, decea ;ed !
said G. F. Harris being Identical with Caleb
F. II irrs.v
Full particulars rs to the c~nvey noes ana
viii mentit ned herein, with boc'' and p &c
where recorded, are fuzzy set nth in the
said petition to which fufcnd: MS are refer |
red. And plaintiff ask for decree If said
court quieting In him the til Z to So prem. |
scs and forever barring and estopping the
defendants and all persons 81 Inning by,
through or under them or either CT lhem
from having or claiming any Interest III said |
premises adverse to his title.
And that unless you appear thereto ana
defend on or before noon of the second day !
of the next December term of said court 1871
which Will commence and he held at Cresco
in said county on Monday the 4th day of De
cember, A. ID. 1871, default will be entered