The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-02
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

court L OF ddIItlI NpulALgs
Maryland.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The object of this suit is to procure
the passage Of a decree for the sale
Of the real estate Of Jessie Theodosia
Shank, late of Garrett County, Mary
land, deceased, situate in Kitzmiller,
Garrett County, Maryland, and for
the distribution of the proceeds there
FROM The bill states:
That Jessie Theodosia Shank, late
of Garrett County, Maryland, de-
ceased was in her lifetime and at the
time of her death, seized and pos
sessed of the following real estate
situate. lying and being in the town
of Kitzmiller, in Election District No.
Is of Garrett County, Maryland, to-
wit:
Q) All that lot, piece or parcel of
ground known and designated as Lot
No. 16 in Rafter's Addition to the
town of Kitzmiller aforesaid.
(2) All that piece or parcel OF
ground known and described as Lot
No. 55 in Rafter's Addition to the
town of Kitzmiller aforesaid.
CD All those pieces, parcels or lots
of ground known and described as
Lots Nos. 81, AZ and "A in Rafter's
Addition to the town of KitZmiller,
Garrett County aforesaid.
The above parcels of land are the
same which were conveyed unto the
said Jessie Theodosia Shank as the
second, fourth and fifth items in a
deed from Ernest Ray Jones, Trustee,
dated January %, 1928, and recorded
in Liber EFT. No. 81, folio los, one
Of the Land Records of Garrett
! County, Maryland, which said deed is
: filed herewith, marked as "Plaintiffs
Exhibit No. u.
That while so seized and possessed
of the aforesaid real estate the said
Jessie Theodosia Shank departed this
life, intestate, on February 5, 1914,
| leaving surviving her as her next OF
kin and heirs at law the following
Earl S. Shank, a son, whose wife IS
| Mary r. Shank, William Shank,
son. whose wife is Ida Shank, ElwOod
Z. Shank. a son, who is unmarried,
Louise Shank Quent, a daughter,
whose husband is Charles Quent,
Frank w Shank, whose wife is Helen
Shank, Robert Burrell, a grandson,
whose wife is Vauda Burrell, Dixie
Burell Phillips, granddaughter,
whose husband is Ross f. Phillips,
Elsie BuIrell, an unmarried infant
granddaughter. said Robert Burrell,
! Dixie Burrell Phillips and Elsie Bur
rell being the children of Edna Shank
Burrell, who pre-deceased the said
Jessie Theodosia Shank, and Elva
Shank Lancaster, daughter who has
since departed this life, intestate,
leaving as her next of kin and heirs
at law her husband, William Lancas-
ter, and two children, namely, Mary
X. Lancaster and Betty Jane Lancas-
ter, both infants and unmarried.
That said real estate is not sus-
ceptible to partition in kind without
material loss and injury to the parties
entitled to interests therein and it
would be to the benefit and advantage
of all the parties hereto to have said
property sold and the proceeds de-
rived therefrom divided among those
entitled to the same according to their
respective rights and interests.
That all of the parties hereto, eX-
cept the said Elsie Burrell, Mary K.
Lancaster and Betty Jane Lancaster,
are of full legal age.
That the said Earl S. Shank and
Mary R. Shank, his wife, Robert Bur-
rell and Vauda Burrel, his wife, Dixie
Buwell Phillips and Ross E. Phillips,
her husband, Elsie BuIrell and Fitz-
hugh Burrell, her father, are all resi-
dents of Garrett County, Maryland;
that the said William Lancaster,
Mary X. Lancaster and Betty Jane
Lancaster, are residents Of Baltimore
City, Maryland; that the said William
Shank and Ida Shank, his wife, Frank
w. Shank and Helen Shank, his wife,
are residents of Baltimore City,
Maryland, their address being "1203
N. Curly Street.; that the said Louise
Shank Quent is a resident of Baltl-
more City, Maryland, her address be-
ing "194 Newington Avenue; that
Elwood f. Shank is a nonresident of
the State of Maryland and does not
reside therein; that the residence and
whereabouts of the said Charles
Quent are unknown.
The bill then prays for decree for
the sale of said real estate and for
the distribution of the proceeds de-
rived therefrom and for general re-
lief
1t is thereupon this 18th day of Au-
gust, 1913, by the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, Maryland in Equity,
ordered that the plaintiffs, by having
copy of this order inserted in some
newspaper published in Garrett Coun-
ty, Maryland, once a week for four
successive weeks before the 10th day
Of September, 1913, give notice to the
said absent defendants, Elwood E.
Shank, unmarried, and Charles Quent,
husband of Louise Shank Quent, of
the object and substance of said bill,
warning them to be and appear in this
Court in person or by solicitor, on or
before the 25th day of September,
1913, to show cause, if any they have,
why decree should not be passed as
prayed,
RICHARD L. DAVIS,
True Copy, Clerk.