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<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
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<br />In the matter of the estate of )
<br />FINAL DECREE
<br />Ward B.Smith, deceased, )
<br />Now on this 1 day of February A.D. 1912, this cause came on for hearing upon the final report
<br />of Jessie Smith, administratrix of the estate of Ward B.Smith, deceased, and, it appearing to the
<br />Court, from the proofs now on file, that notice has been given to all parties interested in said
<br />.estate of the filing of said report as provided by law and required by the orders of this Court;
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<br />and, it further appearing, after a fully examination of the accounts exhibited by said administratrt-
<br />rix, that all claims filed against said estate and allowed by the Court have been fully paid and
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<br />.satisf.ied, that the costs of administration and the funeral expenses have been paid and that there]
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<br />remains nothing in the possession of said administratrix belonging to said estate and that all
<br />claims outstanding against said estate and not filed, if any such there be, are barred and exclud-
<br />ed and that notice was given to all creditors, in the manner provided by law, of the time and place
<br />.for presenting claims against said estate and that the time allowed for filing claims has fully
<br />:expired,
<br />It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed that the report of the said Jessie Smith, as
<br />administratrix of the estate of Ward B.Smith, deceased, be, and the same hereby is, in all things,
<br />approved as and for her final report; that the said Jessie Smith is hereby discharged as such
<br />administratrix and that all persons are forever barred from filing; or setting up any claims or
<br />(demands against the estate of the said Ward B.Smith, deceased, and that said estate is fully
<br />!settled and closed.
<br />The Court further finds that the said Ward B.Smith, deceased, left surviving him, as his heirs'
<br />`at law and his sole and only heirs at law, Jessie Smith, his surviving widow, and Harold R.Smith,
<br />a son.
<br />!The Court further finds that the said Ward B.Smith died possessed, as the owner in fee simple, of
<br />the following described real estate situated in the County of Hall and State of Nebraska, towit;
<br />Lot Number Six (6), in Block Number Two (2), in Spaulding & Gregg's Addition to the city of
<br />Grand Island.
<br />That at the time of his death the above described premises was the homestead of the said Ward B.
<br />Smith and his wife, Jessie Smith, and that the same is now the homestead of the said Jessie Smith
<br />surviving widow of the said Ward B.Smith, deceased, and that the said Jessie Smith has a homestead
<br />estate in said premises.
<br />That upon the death of the said Ward B.Smith the above described real estate did pass and descend
<br />by absolute title, under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Nebraska, to the said Jessie
<br />Smith and Harold R.Smith, share and share alike, subject, however, to the homestead estate therein
<br />of the said Jessie Smith.
<br />J.H..MU11in
<br />COUNTY JUDGE
<br />State of Nebraska, )
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<br />Hall County ) IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />I, J.H.MUllin, County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby certify that I have compared the
<br />foregoing copy of the Final Decree with the original record thereof, now remaining in said Court,
<br />that the same is a correct transcript thereof, and of the whole of such original record; that said
<br />.Court is a Court of Record having a seal, which seal is hereto attached; that said Court has no
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<br />Clerk authorized to sign certificates in his own name, and that I am the legal custodian of said
<br />Seal and of the Records of said Court, and that the foregoing attestation is in due form of law.
<br />IN TESTI1TONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, at
<br />.Grand Island, this 29th day of February 1912
<br />(SEAL) J.H.2o.illin
<br />County Judge
<br />Filed for record on the 29th day of February 1912 at 3 O'clock P -M-
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