Saint Mary's beacon., 1911-05-25
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
AND NOTICE To ALL UNKNOWN
HEIRS, IF ANY THERE BE, OF
KATHLEENM. PEcKHAM. wHETH-
ER THEY BE RESIDENTS OR
N0N-RESIDENTS OF THE
STATE OF MARYLAND.
The First National Bank Of st. Mary's
at Leonardtown.a corporation, and
Lillian M. Lynch, Plaintiffs.
vs.
Frederick W. Il. Peckham, Frederick W.
ii. Peckham, Jr., and Mary C.
Peekham, Deiendants.

In the Circuit Court for St. Mary g County,
In Equity, No. 1854 N. E.
The object OF this suit is to procure a
decree for the sale Of certain real estate
in Saint Mary's County, State Of Mary
land, OF which Kathleen NJ Peckham
died and seized and possessed, situated
In the Third Election District Of said
County, and called and known as Part
Bloomsbury" or"Waverly' and lately
known as "Riversfde containing 224
acres of land. more or less, for the pur-
pose of paying the debts due by the said
deceased to the plaintiffs and all other
creditors who will come and contribute
to the expenses OF this suit
The bill states,
That the said Kathleen N. Peck
ham was. in Der lifetime indebted unto
the eplaintif. the said National Bank, on
judgment in sums of $I719S with in
terest from September IS. 1908 as re-
presented by copy of said judgments
filed In the above eanse, and to the plain
till Lillian III. Lynch, on q judgment in
the sum OF $307.20, with interest from
April 2S, 1904, as represented by copy
OF Judgment filed in the above cause,
and $S.05 costs.
That the said Kathleen II. Peckham
being indebted unto the plaintiffs and
having real estate in fee simple OF
value, died during the year 1908, intes-
tate, leaving her husband, Frederick W.
II. Peckham and Two children known TO
plaintiffs. as her heirs at law, viz. FIRE.
derrick W. III. Peckham, Jr., and Mary
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under the age of twenty -one years
That said defendants are non-resi-
dents OF the State of Maryland.
4 That the real estate in Saint Mary's
County OF which the said Kathleen NJ.
Peckham died seized and possessed, was
conveyed to her by deed from Giles F.
Dyer recorded in Liber E. b. A. No. 3,
folio 1S9, one OF the Land Records of
said County, and that under a proper
construction OF this deed the said Kath-
leen Nj. Peckham was entitled to a fee
simple estate in the land in said deed
mentioned.
That no letters OF administration
have ever been granted upon the estate
OF the said Kathleen NJ. Peckham and
that said deceased left no personal es-
tate sufficient to pay all the just debts
due and owing by her at the time of her
death and that plaintiffs and all other
creditors of the said Kathleen NJ. Peck
ham are entitled TO have their claims
paid out of the real estate of the said
deceased in the possession of her heirs at
law.
Ii is thereupon, this | 1sth day of April,
1911, ordered by the Circuit Court for
Saint Mary's County, in Equity, that
the plaintiffs. by causing a copy OF this
oraer 20 be inserted in some newspaper,
published in Saint Mary's County, once
in each of four successive weeks before
the 18th day of May, 1911, give noti~e
to the said absent defendants, and to all
unknown heirs il any there be, of Kath-
len M. Peckham, whether they be resi-
dents or non-residents OF the State oi
Maryland, of the object and substance
OF this bill, warned them to appear in
this Court in perso n or by solicitor, on
or before the 9Th day Of June 1911. to
show cause, II any they have. why a de-
cree ought not to pass as prayed.
ENOCH B. ABELL, Clerk.
True copy-Test:
ENOCH B. ABELL, Clerk.
April 2O-td.