Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-09-18
Original Notice

County, Iowa, October Term 1913.
John H. Parnham and Charles
Robert Parnham, Plaintiffs.
Millicent Butterton, John But.
terton, f. A. Sheets Clara
F. Sheets, Odessa Rieck Paul
w. Rick, Carl Wilson, Goldie
Sheets, Charles Sheets, Hazel
Lafoy, Rose Lafoy, Mary E.
Lafoy, Walter Scott Parnham,
Julia Parnham, John Butter
ton, guardian of said Hazel
Lafoy, Rose Lafoy, Mary 4.
Lafoy, and Goldie Sheets,
minors, Henry l.. Kile, q. w.
Hoover John McFarlane, John
II. Parnham, guardian of said
Carl Wilson, a minor, Evalyn
Hayes, formerly Evalyn Shupe.
r. B. Hayes, Matte Hite,
John II. Parnham, as executor
of the estate of Millicent Parn-
ham, deceased, F. r. Weeks,
as administrator of the estate
of George Parnham, deceased,
Effie Sheets, Alice Parnham,
Leah Parnham, Charles Parn-
ham, Harold Parnham, George
Parnham, and Francis Parn-
ham, Defendants.
To said above named defendants
You and each of you are hereby notified
that said plaintiffs, John H. Parnham
and Charles Robert Parnham. have filed
their petition IN the Office of the Clerk
of the District court of Audubon county,
Iowa, wherein they claim that one,
Millicent Parnham died testate ON
July 9th, 1909, seized in fee simple of
the following described real estate
located in Audubon county, Iowa, to.
wit:
The E. ! of the N. E. of the s. E.
of Sec. 80, Twp. 80 North, range 35,
West of the 9TH, P. M. Also of the n.
w. of the s. w. /; the S. w. ! of the
N. w. /; the N. / of the s. E. ! and the
N. f of the N. w. of Sec 81 in
Twp 80 North, range "a, West of the
9Th P. NJ Also the West 10 feet of
Lot IL and the E. of Lot IA all in
Block 10 in the town of Audubon, Iowa.
That said decedent left last Will and
testament which was duly admitted to
probate in the District Court of Audu-
bon county, Iowa, on the 18th day of
October, 1909, that said decedent left
SUI NlNlhS hCl, hOl hu5udhu, NCOlkO
Parnham, who died intestate, a resident
of Audubon county, Iowa, on OF about
July 4th, 1911, that said plaintiffs, and
that the following named defendants.
werechildren of said Millicent Parnham
and said George Parnham, o-wit: Walter
Scott Parnham, and the defendants, +.
A. Sheets, Goldie Sheets, Charles Sheets,
and Millicent Butterton, are grand.
children and heirs at law of said dece-.
dents. being children of deceased
daughter of said decedent; that Odessa
Rick and Carl Wilson, are grand chill
dren of said decedents, being children
and only heirs at law of said decedent.
That said defendants, Hazel Lafoy,
Rose Lafoy and Mary E. Lafoy, are
at-grand children of said decedents,
being the only children and heirs at
law of deceased grand. daughter of
said decedents. That by the terms of
the Will of said Millicent Parnham,
subject to a life estate in all her prop.
erty she willed, devised and bequeath-
ed the undivided one.half interest in
the undivided two-thirds part of all of
said real estate to said plaintiff, John
II. Parnham, and the undivided one half
interest in and to said undivided two
| thirds part thereof to said plaintiff,
! Charles Robert Parnham to have and
to hold the same during his lifetime,
the fee title thereto to go to his widow
and children at his death, provided said
George Parnham did not elect during
his lifetime to take the requests made
to him in said will, and plaintiffs will
claim that said George Parnham did
not so elect during his life time and
that by the terms of said will said John
II. Parnham became and is now the
absolute and unqualified owner in fee
simple of an undivided one-third inter.
est in and to all of said real estate and
said plaintiff, Charles Robert Parnham
is the owner of the life estate during
his life in the undivided one-third part
of all of said real estate, and that his
wife and children, to-wit: The defen.
dants Alice Parnham, Leah Parnham,
Charles Parnham, Harold Parnham,
George Parnham and Francis Parnham,
are the owners of the fee simple title to
the part of said real estate in which
said Charles Robert Parnham holds a
life estate; that by the terms of the will OF
said Millicent Parnham, the improve,
ments placed upon said real estate by
said John II. Parnham, are his property
or should be paid for by his said Co ten
ants and that he holds a lien upon all of
said real estate to secure the payment to
him of the cost price of said improve
ments; that said plaintiffs have com
piled with all of the terms and condi.
tions of said will to be performed by
them that since the probate of said will
the defendants, Walter Scott Parnham,
and his wife, Julia Parnham, and
Odessa Rick and Paul w. Rick, her
husband, and Charles Sheets and Efiie
Sheets, his wife, have conveyed to said
John H. Parnham all of their interest
in and to the f. of NE. of Sc / OF
Sec 80, Township 80, range 35, West
9TH p. M and the NV. of SW. I and
the SW. ! of NV. /, Sec. 81, in Town
ship 80, North, range "a, West 5th p. NJ.
And said defendant, Walter Scott
Parnham, and his wife, Julia Parnham,
Odessa Rick and Paul w. Rick, her
husband, F. A. Sheets and Clara F..
Sheets, his wife, and Charles Sheets
and Effie Sheets his wife, have convey
ed to the plaintiff, Charles Robert
Parnham, all of their interest in the
following described real estate to-wit:-
The n. of Sc /, and the NE. I of SW
/ of Sec 81, Township so, North, range
"a, West 9Th p. M. that John H. Parn.
ham, is executor of the estate of Milli-
cent Parnham deceased, that f. r.
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