Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-08-16
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION


In the Matter of the Petition of
William C. Ockey and Lucia
Emilia Ockey for the Adoption
of Clara Jean Baker and Lucy
Lee Baker, infants.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
i MARYLAND
No. 1859 Equity.
To the Honorable, the Judges of
said Court
The object of his suit is to Sc
cure a decree legalizing the adop-
ton of Clara Jean Baker and Lucy
Lee Baker by the petitioner Will
liam C. Ockey, and to make them
the heirs at law of said petitioner.
That the said petition alleges
that Clara Jean Baker is an in
FAINT, II years of age, having been
born on September 9th, 1927; that
the said Lucy Lee Baker is an in
FAINT, Is years of age, having been
born on October 2, 1928 and are the
daughters of the petitioner, Lucia
Emilia Ockey, who was at the time
of their birth the wife of Walter
Henry Baker, from whom she was
divorced by decree of the Superior
Court of the State of California
in and for the County of Alameda
on April 18th, 1882, and the said
Walter Henry Baker shortly after
said divorce remarked and your
petitioner Lucia Emilia Ockey is
informed and believes he has three
children by his second wife and is
residing in the State of California,
but his exact whereabouts or post
office address is unknown to the
said petitioner.
1t further alleges that the in
fants from the time of their birth
have been in the care and custody
of the petitioner Lucia Emilia
Ockey, and since her marriage to
the said William C. Ockey on Octo-
Der 10th, 1888 have been residing
in the household of both Of the
petitioners, who have lived to-
gether since the date of their mar
riagc.
1t further alleges that the pc
titioner, William c. Ockey, desires
to adopt said infants as his own
children, and to make them his
heirs at law, and to have conferred
upon them the same status as they
would have if they had been born
to your petitioners of their said
marriage, and to legally change
their names to Clara Jean Ockey
and Lucy Lee Ockey.
1t further alleges that the pc
titioner, Lucia Emilia Ockey, who
is the mother and natural guar
dian of the said minors gives her
permission to such adoption with
out waving her rights as the
mother of said minors, it being
the purpose and intention of the
petitioners to have conferred upon
the said minors the same status as
they would have if they had been
born to your petitioners of their
said marriage.
1t further alleges that the petit
TONERS are well able to support,
maintain and educate the said min
ors, and believe that their best
interests and welfare will be pro-
NOTED by their adoption by the
petitioner William C. Ockey, and
that the said minors have no estate
known to your petitioners.
1t is thereupon this 30th day of
July, 1915, by the Circuit Cour;
for Montgomery County, Mary
land, in Equity ordered that the
petitioners, by causing a copy of
this order to be inserted in some
newspaper published in Montgom-
cry County, Maryland, once a week
for 3 successive weeks before the
25th day of August, 1915, giving
notice to the said absent and non
resident Walter Henry Baker of
the object and substance of this
petition and warning him to APP
pear in this Court in person or
by solicitor on or before the 18th
day of September, 1915, to show
cause if any he may have why a
decree ought not to be passed as
prayed.
STEDMAN PRESCOTT,
Judge of the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Md
True Copy-Test:
| CLAYTON X. WATKINS.