The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-09-15
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF LAFAYETTE-ss
In the Circuit Court Of Lafayette
County, Missouri, October Term, 1916,
at Lexington.
Harvey A. Farrell, William Alvin
Farrell, Emma F. Ward, Charles w.
Farrell, Bernetta M. Hamilton, John
C. Farrell, James Thomas Farrell, and
Earl Rowe and Thelma Rowe, minors,
by Edward Rowe their Guardian and
Curator-Plaintiffs.
VS..
The Unknown Heirs of Augustine
F. Alexander, deceased and their con-
sorts-Defendants.
Order of Publication, in Vacation,
August II, 1916.
Now at this day come the Plain
tiffs herein by their attorney, and
file their petition verified by affidavit,
alleging among other things, that
Defendants, the unknown heirs Of
Augustine F. Alexander, deceased,
and their Consorts, are interested in
the subject matter Of said petition
as further recited below and whose
names they can not insert therein
because they are unknown to them,
and plaintiffs have been unable, after
due effort to ascertain such names:
W%hereupon it is ordered by the
Clerk of said Court in vacation as
follows:
To the said Defendants, the I'M
known heirs of Augustine f. Alex
ander, deceased and their consorts,
you are hereby notified that the plain
tiffs have commenced a suit against
you in this Court, the object and gen
eral nature of which is to try, ascer-
tain and determine the interest Of
the plaintiffs and defendants herein
and TO obtain an order and judgment
of said Court to perfect plaintiffs
record title and to declare their til
tie vested in them by limitation un-
der the Provisions of section 1884,
Chapter 81, Article VIII of the Re-
vised Statutes of Missouri for 1909,
to the following tract of land situate
in Lafayette County, Missouri; to-wit,
The Northwest quarter of tn e
Northwest quarter of the Northeast
quarter of section 16, Township 48,
Range %; and that the Plaintiffs are
the sole heirs of Uriah Farrell, de-
ceased, who died intestate, seized and
possessed of said tract of land; al
leging among other things, that the
title emanated from the United
States government to the State of
/ Missouri, by the act of Admission
/, granting school land, more than
{ eighty years ago, that prior to the
! year 1854 said tract of land was by
{ order of the County Court of Lafay.
r cite County, Missouri, sold to Frank.
t lin Mock, and a. patent was ISSUED
2 to him by the State of Missouri, Dec
e ember 26th, 1871, That the title tt
= said tract of land, vested in Au
= gustine F. Alexander by a sheriff
e deed dated July 9Th, 1870, by a sal,
e under and by virtue Of a judgmen
and execution against Franklin Mock
:, that in the life time of said Angus
d tine F. Alexander, possession Of sal
land was taken by Uriah Farrell
under whom plaintiffs claim as heir
under a deed from Franklin Noel
dated August 30th, 1871, and tina
ever since August Both, 1871, tn
said Uriah Farrell and those claim
ing under him, including these plain
y tiffs have had actual, continuous, oper
adverse. peaceful and lawful possess
d ion of the same claiming title thereto
that the said Augustine F. Alexande
g as appears of record has never cor
Is veyed said tract of land to anyone
% that he died single and intestate j
If the year 1899, and that title to sal
S, land formerly vested in him appear
is of record to be in his heirs, and b
reason thereof they are interested
IS the subject matter Of this petition
l. that the said Augustine f. AlexandC
10 has not, MOI has any person claiminI
or who might claim said land undo
re his, been in possession thereof, fC
more than thirty-one consecutiV
years, nor has said Augustine F. A
e. exander nor his heirs, nor any perso
or claiming or who might claim the san
m under him paid any taxes upon sa
ny land, OF any part thereof during q
Il those periods of time, nor has al
n, such person at any time brought ar
to action to recover the same, and tn.
the defendants. said unknown hei
er of Augustine F. Alexander, decea
he ed. and their ~consorts, derive the
i, title by descent from the said Augu
IS tine f. Alexander, deceased, and a
ty barred from all title thereto by lir
%itation; that plaintiffs cannot inse
at the names of said heirs nor Of the
st, consorts in the petition because u
he same are unknown to the plaintiff
m and they, after due effort, have be
unable to ascertain such names, a
of pray for a decree vesting the title
said land in plaintiffs and diyestil
IN, your apparent title of record fro
you; and that unless you, the said u
ie- known heirs of Augustine F. Ale
Id ander deceased, and their %consorts
DIV and appear at this court at the ne
as term thereof, to begun and held
the Court House in the City of lie
he ington, in said County, on the
It's, day of October, 1916, next and on
ay before said day answer or plead
lg- the petition in said cause, the sal
nd will be taken as confessed, and jud
his ment will be rendered according
to And it is further ordered, that
use copy hereof, be published Accord
aid to law in the Lexington Intelligenc
of a newspaper published in said Cour
ler, Of Lafayette for four weeks suceei
lively, published at least once a WEI
in the last Insertion to be at least I