Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-06-10
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION.

AHe opJect OF TINS proceeding is
to procure a decree declaring the
infant Fred Whipple to be the leg-
ally adopted child iof petitioners.
Henry Frederick Legges and Mar
ion Elmo Corrick Legge, his wife.
and to change the name of said
infant to that, of Henry Frederick
Legge, Jr.. and for general relief.
The petition states that petition
ers are citizens of the Tilted
States and residents of Montgoun-
cry County, Maryland. residing At
252l Forest Glen Road, Silver
Spring; are husband and wife of.
legal age, and file their petition
herein Jointly in their own resDec.
tive rights; that there was born atl
the Columbia Hospital, Washing.
ton. ID. c.. on October 70, 1877 FL
male white child whose natural
mother is Helen Jean Whipple:
that said child's birth was div
reported to the Health Depart
ment of the District of Columbia,
and a certified copy Of said birth
record is filed hereiD:s that the
reported address of the natural
mother of said child Is 1000 Rose
mont Avenue, NV, Washington.
d. C. F 80 y" - 2 ~
That on November 16; 1947 said
child was given over unto the care
and custody Of petitioners BY its
natural mother for the purpose Of
adoption and has since been. and
IS now, in the continuous care and
custody of petitioners; that on
November 10, 1947 the said nat
ural mother of said child duly eye
cuted an affidavit, which ia filed In
this cause. wherein she reli6E
quished and released all her right
or claim to said child unto peti-
TONERS for the purpose of adop-
ton. - ~
That petitioners are willing and
able to become respon-
sible for the care, CUSTODY.
maintenance and education, of said
child. and are well qualified theresl
for, being of good moral characy
ter and of excellent reputation in
their community, that petitioners
desire to adopt said child in full
conformity with the laws of Mary
land, and to give said child their
own name to all intents and DUR
poses as if said child was born to
them as a result of their mar
rage; petitioners have no other
children. and said male child Is not
related to them in any way: that
petitioners own their own home,
and no other person except them
selves and said child reside there
in: that said male child is of the
white race, and both he and petit
TONERS are of the Protestant re-
llgion; that petitioner husband is
regularly employed as a fireman
with the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia. and petitioner
wife is housewife and has her
entire time to devote to said child's
welfare. sE',s
The petition then prays that a
decree be passed declaring the
said infant to be the legally adopt
ed child of petitioners. and that its
name be changed to Henry Fred
relief. y
1t is, thereupon, this Bird day Of
June. 1913, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County. Mary
land, sitting as d Court Of Equity,
ordered sthat the petitioners by
causing copy of this Order to be
inserted in some newspaper. pub
lished in Montgomery County.
Maryland, once in each of foi1
successive weeks before the 1Oth
day of July, 1913, giving notice
to the said nonresident natural
mother, Helen Jean Whipple. of.the
object and substance Of this pc
tition, and warning her to be and
appear in this Court in person
or by solicitor. on or before the
10Th dav of July, 1913, to show
cause, if any she has; why q de-
cree ought not be passed as
(Signed) e IN
STEDMAN PRESCOTT. y
Judge Of the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Md.
Smith, Lamar, Cantrele'& Noyes,
BY; Joseph A. Cantrel,
Solicitor for Petitioners. n
True CoDy-Test: W ~
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,