Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-02-20

Keys. Dorothy Ray Sticket and Frederick
Sticket. her husband Audrey NJ. Keys.
Francis P. Keys and Frank P. Keys.
defendants.
In the Circuit Court for MONTGOMERY county,
as Court Of Equity. No. 1897 Equity.
The object of this suit is TO procure a
sale Of part of the real estate of which
Charles M. Keys died seized for the purpose
of partition.
The bill states that Charles NJ. Keys died
in the year 1874, seized Of Lots numbered
Six (6), Seven ~, Eight (6). Twelve Q2),
Fourteen IA and Fifteen (l5), in subdivis-
ion of land situate in Montgomery County,
State of Maryland, laid out and numbered
in Lots from One % to Eighteen Q8). in
elusive. under the name Linden" lying
on the Metropolitan Branch Of the BaIti-
more and Ohio Railroad andon the east side
thereof between the stations on said road
known as Silver Spring and Forest Glen. a
plat of which subdivision is recorded among
the Land Records of Montgomery County,
in Liber E. B. P. II. folio SO, ETC., said
subdivision being part Of tract of land
called "Josephs Park = that said Charles
NJ. Keys left surviving him his widow,
Sarah E. Long. Charles F. Keys. Dennis A.
Keys and Clara M. Houghton, children by
first marriage. and your orators, Eliza
beth R. Keys. Florence X. Randall, nee
Keys. Enos c. Keys. Harry M. KEYS and
Edward A. Keys. and certain Frank R.
Keys, children by a second marriage with
said Martha A. Keys; that said Sarah L.
Long and Isaac M. Long. her husband
Charles F Keys and Fannie Keys. his wife
Dennis A. Keys. unmarried, and Clara M.
Houghton and Wilson H. Houehton, her
husband. by their deed dated May 8, 1882,
and which is recorded among the Land
Records of said Montgomery County in
Liber Z. P. B. No. 81, folios 1853, etc., con-
veyed to said Martha A. Keys their interest
in said lots of which Charles M. Keys died
seized that said Martha A. Keys, Eliza
beth r. Keys. Frank R Keys, Harry M
Keys, Florence M. Randall and Charles F.
Randall, her husband, (noW deceased), by
their deed dated July IA, 1904, and which
is recorded among the Land Records Of
Montgomery County in Liber No. 1870. foiios
"a. etc., conveyed to said Enos c. Keys
their interest in the southern portion of
Lot numbered Eight (6) in said subdivision
Of Linden; that said Edward A. Keys by
deed dated January IL, 1905, and
which is recorded among the Land
Records of Montgomery County in Liber
No. 1870. fOlios 7. ETC., conveyed to said
Enos c. Keys his interest in the southern
portion of Lot No. Eight (8) in said subdi-
vision of Linden; that said Dennis A. Keys
died In the year 1908, intestate, unmar-
RED and without issue that said Sarah
Z. Long died prior to the year 1911, leaving
surviving her the following children as her
only heirs-at-laW and next of kin, Mamie
E. Long Leps. who married Louis E. Leps
May Keys Scherer who married Charles
Howard Scherer; Fred A. Long. who mar
ried Edna G. Long; Edward Keys Ions,
who married Mary E. Long. and Elizabeth
Long Livingstone. who married John G.
Livingstone; that said Frank R. Keys died
in the year 1911, intestate. unmarried, and
without issue. leaving surviving him the
plaintiffs and his half-brother, Charles F.
Keys. and his half-sister. Clara M. Houeh-
ton, and the said surviving husband, and
issue of his half-sister, Sarah E. Long, mis-
only heirs-at-law and next of kin; that
said Charles +. Keys died in the year 1914,
interstate, leaving surviving him his widow.
H. Fannie Keys. who resides in the Dis
trict Of Columbia and is a nonresident of
the State Of Maryland, and the following
children Sarah Elizabeth Keys and Olive
NJ. Keys. who reside in the District of Co.
lumbia. and are n0n-residents of the State
of Maryland, and Florence Pauline Haas,
who married John p Haas, and no
reside in the City of Baltimore, in the
State Of Maryland, and Frank P. Keys,
who married Marie Keys That il is
unknown whether said Frank P. Keys
be living or dead. but if he be living
he is nonresident of tie State of Mary
land. II he be dead he left surviving him
his widow. the said Marie Keys, who re-
sides in the District Of Columbia, and is a
nonresident of the State Of Maryland,
and the following children: Dorothy Ray
Sticket. who married Frederick Sticket,
and who reside in the County OF Oklahoma,
in the State of Oklahoma, and Audrey M.
Keys. unmarried, and Francis p Keys, un-
married, and who reside in the District OF
Columbia, and all are non-residents of the
State of Maryland that Clara May Houeh-
ton died in the year 1920, leaving last
will and testament executed in due form
to pass real estate by which she devised
all OF her real estate to her husband, the
said Wilson II. Houghton; that said Martha
A. Keys departed this life on April IS, 1918,
interstate, leaving surviving her the plain
tits, who are her children, and her only
heirs at-law and next of kin; that said
Mamie Z. Long Leps and Louis E. Leps,
her husband. May Keys Scherer and Charles
Howard Scherer, her husband, Fred A..
Long and Edna q. Long. his wife. Edward
Keys Long and Mary E. Long, his wife, and
Elizabeth Long Livingstone and John G.
Livingstone. her husband. by their deed
dated the 9Th of April. 1928. and which is
recorded among the Land Records of said
MONTGOMERY County, in Liber No. $40
folio 2S4, ETC., conveyed to your plaintiffs,
| ElizahAfh Kava Ef0eanoa Y
Enos c. Keys, Harry NJ. Keys and Edward
A. Keys, all their right, title and interest
that they or any Of them inherited from
said Frank p. Keys. deceased. in said land
described in paragraph one of the bill of
complaint; that said Wilson H. Houghton
by his deed dated June S. 1928, and wI1ic
Is recorded among the Land Records of
said Montgomery County. in Liber $40,
folio 267, etc. conveyed to said Elizabeth
X. Keys, Florence X. Randall, Enos C. Keys
and Edward A. Keys, all his right, title
and interest in said land described in
paragraph one Of the bill Of complaint,
u bein2 all the right title and interest
inherited by his wife. Clara NJ. Houehton,
now deceased, from the said Frank R.
Keys. and which was devised by the said
Clary M. houghton TO the said Wilson H.
Houghton by the last will and testament
hereinbefore referred TO; that said Enos C.
Keys intermarried with certain Sarah B.
Keys: that said Harry M. Keys intermarried
with certain Louise Keys; that said
Edward A. Keys intermarried with cer-
tain Amy Keys; that said Florence X.
Randall is widow. her husband, Charles
+. Randall, having departed this life that
said Elizabeth r. Keys is unmarried that
the said real estate is not susceptible of
Partition without material loss and injury
10 the parties entitled to interests therein
as above stated and that in order TO make
division Of said interests il will be neces-
sary that said real estate be sold, and
the proceeds thereof divided amongst the
parties according to their several interests
The bill then prays that a decree be passed
for the sale Of the said real estate and the
proceeds thereof be distributed among the
persons entitled theretn and 90, aano,al