Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-07-10
James B. Davis
Attorney at Law
Professional Building
ROoLrx,i11o MARYLAND

AVE- AO1S
Exparte in the matter of petit
ton of Benjamin Frank
Meyers and Missouri Alice
Meyers, his wife, for the
adoption of a minor
Order of Publication
The object of this suit is to
procure a decree of adoption by
the petitioners, Benjamin Frank
Meyers and Missouri Alice Moy-
ers, of Helen Maybelle Harris
and change her name to Helen
Maybelle Meyers.
The petition states in sub
stance that the petitioners are
adult residents of Montgomery
County, Maryland, are husband
and wife, and reside at LOG
Ridge Road, Washington Grove,
Maryland; that the petitioner,
Benjamin Frank Meyers, is EN-.
ployed by the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Lab.
oratory, 1921 Georgia Avenue,
Silver Spring, Maryland, and is
aged 50 years as of December
22nd, last, and that your petit
toner Missouri Alice Meyers, is
a housewife and is aged 46 years
as of February 9th, last; that
the adoptee is a female child,
was born on the 18th day OF
July, 1856 at the Montgomery
County General Hospital, Sandy
Spring, Maryland to Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Harris.
That your petitioners have
two children born as a result of
their marriage, namely. Mary
Sue Gunsan, 313 Brown Street,
Washington Grove, Maryland
and Francis Eugene Meyers,
4816 Bradley Boulevard, Chevy
Chase Is, Maryland, and that
your petitioners are not related
in any manner to the minor in.
FAINT female child they wish to
adopt.
That your petitioners are of
the Caucasian Race and Protes.
tant Religion and that the minor
infant female child, Helen May,
belle Harris, is of the Caucasion
Race and Protestant Religion
and that her parents were of the
Caucasian Race and Protestant
Religion.
That since July 20, 1856 your
petitioners have provided a fos.
ter home for the infant female
child, Helen Maybelle Harris,
and that from the date of her
birth, July IL, 1856 until July
20, 1856 said minor female child
was in the care and custody of
her parents; that the minor fe.
male child on July 20, 1856 was
placed in your petitioners home
by the Montgomery County Wei.
fare Board under commitment
from the Juvenile Court for
Montgomery County and that
on March II, 1859 by Order of
the Juvenile Court for Mont
gomery County, Maryland, the
commitment to the Montgom-
cry County Welfare Board was
rescinded and that the minor fe-
male child was placed in the
care and custody of your peti.
TONERS under the continued jur-
isdiction of the Juvenile Court
and pending further Orders of
that Court.
That no consents, as required
by law, are filed with said peti.
ton because the residence of the
natural parents is and has been
unknown.
That your petitioners desire
the name of the minor female
child to be changed to Martha
Helen Meyers.
1t is thereupon, this LIST day of
July, 1859, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Mary
land, sitting as a Court of Eq-
uity.
ORDERED. that the petition
ers, by causing a copy of this
order to be published in some
newspaper published in Mont
gomery County, Maryland once
a week in each of four success.
sive weeks before the Bird day
of August, 1859, give notice to
said absent Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Harris of the object and sub
stance of the said petition warn.
ing them to file their initial
pleading on or before the 4th
day Of September, 1859, to show
cause, if any they have, why a
decree should not be passed as
prayed.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
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