Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-04-09
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Suitland, Wash. "a, DC.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MARYLAND
Adoption-Equity No. ITO
IN RE: Adoption of Sally Ann
Butcher, minor, and Change
of Name to Sally Ann Tolsor
Order of Publication
The object of this suit is for
the adoption of Sally Ann
Butcher, minor, and the change
of name of said minor to Sally
Ann Tolson. The Petition fol
Adoption and Change of Name
is as follows:
That your Petitioners are
adult citizens of the United
States of America and residents
of Montgomery County, Mary
land, residing at 1922 Nor
Drive, Rockville, Maryland; that
the Petitioner, Betty Ellen Toll
son was formerly married tc
Fred E. Butcher, to whom was
born, on the Goth day of May
1948, a white female child, viz,
Sally Ann Butcher; that the Pc
titioner Betty Ellen Tolson was
divorced, A Vinculo Matrimonii
from the said Fred E. Butcher in
1852 in the District of Columbia
that the said Fred E. Butcher
has never contributed to the sup
port and maintenance o T the
minor child Sally Ann Butcher
during the past nine 90 years;
in that the said Fred E. Butcher
has not since or made any effort
to contact the Petitioner Betty
Ellen Tolson or said minor child
that the whereabouts Of the said
Fred E. Butcher, the natural ia
ther of the minor child Sally
Ann Butcher is unknown unto
the Petitioners; that your Pc
titioners were married on OF
about December u, 1853, in thu
District of Columbia; that the
said Petitioner Betty Ellen Tol
son joins In this Petition for the
purpose Of consenting to the
adoption of her minor chile
Sally Ann Butcher by the Pc
titioner George C. Tolson; thai
the Petitioner George C. Tolsor
Is self-employed as an automo
bile mechanic at Horsman',
Amoco Station, Wheaton, Mary
land and earns a minimum an
nual salary of Nine Thousand
Dollars $4,000; that your Pc
titioners and the said minor
child are of the Methodist de
nomination and attend services
regularly at the Rockville Meth,
odist Church In Rockville, Mary.
land; that your Petitioner
George c. Tolson decided to
adopt the said minor child as
provided by Article Sixteen (16)
Of the Public General Laws OF
the State of Maryland and that
said child Is presently residing
with your Petitioners at the
aforesaid address; that your Pc.
titioners aver that the interest
and welfare of the said minor
child Sally Ann Butcher will be
best promoted by allowing the
Petitioner George c. Tolson to
adopt the said child; that your
Petitioner desires to change the
name of the said minor child
Sally Ann Butcher to Sally Ann
FOLSOM; WHEREFORE, the
premises considered, your Peti,
TONERS pray as follows: That
this Honorable Court pass a De.
cree declaring that the said mi.
nor child Sally Ann Butcher
born to Betty Ellen Tolson
tButcher) and Fred E. Butcher
be the legally adopted child Of
the said Petitioner George c
Tolson; that the name of said
minor child be changed from
Sally Ann Butcher to Sally Ann
Tolson; And for such other and
further relief as the nature OF
this cause may require.
TT Is THEREUPON, this 9Th
day of April, 1859, ORDERED
by the Circuit Court for Mont.
gomery County, Maryland, sit,
ting in equity, that the Petition,
ers, by causing a copy of this
Order to be inserted in some
newspaper published in Mont
gomery County, Maryland, once
In each of four az successive
weeks before the LIST day of May
1889, giving notice to the said
natural father, Fred f. Butcher
whose address is unknown, Of
the object and substance of the
said Petition, warning him tc
be and appear in person or by
solicitor on or before the Isl
day Of June, 1859, and file hi:
answer or other defenses, show
ing cause, il any, he has why q
Decree should not be passed a:
prayed.
KATHRYN ]. LAWLOR,
True Copy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS