The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-08
THE DAILY GATE CITY
80, Township es. Range 8. lying souti
and east Of Lost Creek Levee.


80. Township es, Range 8. lying south
and east Of Lost Creek Levee,
Albert L. Brouse:
That part Of Section 20, Township
6s. Range 8, lying south OF Green
Bay Slough.
That part Of Section 80, Township
IS, Range 8, lying south OF Green
Bay Slough and north Of the levee,
except small tract in the northeast
corner south Of the bay excepted IN
the deed from the Mississippi River
Power Company to said Albert l..
Brouse.
All Of the property above described
being in Lee County, Iowa.
Carl E. Lange has refused on re-
quest to execute a quit claim deed
more than twenty days before the
filing of this suit.
That the interests Of all Of the de-
PENDANTS are junior and inferior TO
the interests and titles Of the plain
tiffs herein.
That the plaintiffs are the owners
in fee simple of the real estate above
described and they and their prede-
cessors in title have had the open,
notorious, exclusive, uninterrupted.
adverse possession Of all Of said
property for the past twenty years
under color OF title and claim OF
right.
That the interests and claims OF
the defendants arise from the fol-
lowing facts:
Benjamin Adamson died in 1851
seized Of the West half of the South
west quarter Of the Northeast quar-
ter of Section IL, Township 6S, Range
8, leaving as his heirs
Catherine Carmen. whose husband
was Benjamin Carmen, daughter:
Hannah Morris, whose husband
was Jonathan d. Morris, daughter;
Srlsannah Moore, whose husband
was Charles A. Moore, daughter;
Cassay Ann Flick. whose husband
was William Flick, granddaugh :er,
and
Sarah Jane Brown. granddaugh-
ter, the two last being daughters OF
Charlotte e. Brown, daughter OF
Benjamin Adamson, who died before
he did;
Henry Adamson. a son:
Benjamin Adamson. son;
Hester Ann Johnson, daughter
whose husband was James Harrison
Johnson.
All of the interest of the above
named heirs and all interest that
had formerly vested in Benjamin
Adamson, deceased was by the
referees deed in the partition suit
among the heirs vested in Joseph
Adamson on October "a, 1855, by
deed recorded in Book 6, page 1858.
That the referees in said deed
actually conveyed the property last
above described by said deed and the
said Joseph Adamson by deed dated
November "a, 1855, and recorded In
Book 6, page 391, actually conveyed
the above described property to Mil
ward H. Rogers.
Jacob Ash died about May 6, 1879,
seized of an interest in the West part
Of the Northeast quarter OF Section
-, containing 20 acres, more or less,
and the West part of the Southeast
quarter of Section ~, all in Town
ship 6S, Range 8. containing in all
1O5 acres, and leaving last will and
testament which was admitted to
probate in Lee County, Iowa.
All of his heirs were made parties
to the proceedings brought in 1880
by Henry Fostering and others to
partition said property and the en-
tire interest in the said premises
formerly owned by Jacob Ash passed
to Henry Fostering by the referees
deed in said case recorded IN BOOK
M, page SO.
Jacob Ash left all this property to
the heirs of Magdolen Raber Ash,
formerly Magdolen Raber, as fol-
lows: Daniel Ash, Solomon Ash, the
heirs Of Mary Williams, the heirs OF
Christina Kelly and Catharine Deer
duff.
P. H. Babcock on July 16, 1852, &C
uuired tax deed to Lot l, in Sec
ton 25, Township 6S. Range 8. and
on September IS, 1854, conveyed all
the interest he had in said property
to Samuel Gore, but his wife did not
join in the deed.
The heirs of the wife Of the said
P. H. Babcock were Emmett Babcock,
son, now deceased, and Emma c.
Kiel, a daughter. The heirs Of the
said Emmett Babcock are Charles
Joseph Babcock, son, and Adlet g.
Haas, whose husband Is Charles L.
Haas, and Charity B. Fisk, his daugh
tiers.
All of the above named heirs ex
cept Adlel E. Haas and Charity u
Fisk have executed deeds conveying
their interest in said property.
All of the interest in said property
formerly vested In P. Fl. Babcock is
now the property of the plaintiffs
herein.
James H. Bacon, prior to his death
on June 20, 1882, acquired title tt
East half Section 81.
West half Of the Northwest quar-
ter of Section 81,
| East half Of the Southwest quarter
of Section 81.
Northwest quarter of Section %,
North half Of the Northeast quar-
ter Of Section %.
| Lot ], Southeast quarter OF the
Northeast quarter of Section 20,
| Lot 7 in Fractional Southeast quar-
ter of Section %.
/ North half of the Northeast quar-
ter Of Section 20,
| East half of the Southeast quarter
of Section 29, and other property il
Township 6S, North Of Range 8 West
and he is the same person Whose
estate under the name Of ]. H. Bacon
was probated in the Circuit Court o
the State of Iowa in and for Lei
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