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<br />42654- -KLOPP 4 BARTLETT GO., PRINTING, LITH OGRAPH; MG, STATI ONERT i OKAMA `
<br />IN THE COUNTY COYRT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
<br />In the matter of the estate of)
<br />FINAL DECREE.
<br />William W. McCoy, deceased,)
<br />Now, on this 23 day of August,1915, tAis cause came on
<br />for hearing upon the final report of Lafayette Watkins, executor of the last will and testament of
<br />the said AVilliam W. McCoy, deceased, heretofore filed herein, and the court having examined the
<br />proofs on file and being fully advised in the premises, finds that due and legal notice had been
<br />given to all persons interested in said estate of.the time and -elate fixed for the hearing upon
<br />said final report in the manner provided by law and as heretofore ordered by this court.
<br />And the court having carefully examined the report of said executor finds that said executor
<br />has fully accounted for all of said estate which has come into his possession or under his control;
<br />that said report is true and correct in all things and that the same ought to be approved and al-
<br />lo,P�ed as and for the final report of the said Lafayette Watkins as such executor, said executor
<br />discharged and said estate closed.
<br />The court further finds that the personal estate of the said William W. McCoy, deceased, con-
<br />silted of $ 419.70 in cash, that said executor has lawfully disbursed the sum of $214.40, leaving
<br />a balance in his hands for distribution amounting to the sum of $205.30 for distribution under
<br />the terms of said will as follows: $10 to Susie Pfunder, legatee under said will, and $195.30 to
<br />Lafayette Watkins as residuary legatee under said will, and that the said Lafayette Watkins, as
<br />such executor, Yias paid into this court thevsum of $10 for the use and benefit of the said Susie
<br />Pfunder, legatee, and that the funeral expenses of said deceased and the costs of administration
<br />have been fully paid.
<br />And the court further finds that the said William W. McCoy died seized, as the owner in fee
<br />simple, of the following described real estate situated in the County of Hall and State of Nebraska,
<br />towit: the South half of the Northeast quarter and the North half of the South east quarter of
<br />Section Eighteen (lg), in Township Twelve (12) North, Range Eleven -(11) West of the 6th P.M. and
<br />that by the terms of the last will and testament of the said William W. McCoy, deceased, Ida Mar-
<br />tindale, a daughter of said deceased, becomes the owner of a life estate in the East half of the
<br />South half of the Northeast quarter of said Section 18, in Township 12 North, Range 11 West, in
<br />Hall County, Nebraska, and that upon the death of the said Ida Martindale the said East half of t�ie
<br />South half of the Northeast quarter of Section 18, in Township 12 North, Range 11 West, in Hall
<br />County, Nebraska, passes, by absolute title, to Walter Lafayette Martindale, Richard R. Martindale
<br />and William Martindale great grandsons of said deceased and being sons of Walter Martindale, a
<br />grandson of said deceased, and to
<br />of said will the West half of the
<br />Southeast quarter of said Section
<br />does pass, by absolute title to L
<br />The Court further finds that
<br />the survivors of them, share and share alike, and by the terms
<br />South half of the Northeast quarter and the North half of the
<br />18, in Township 12 North, Range 11 West, in Hall County, Nebraska,
<br />ifayette Watkins.
<br />due and legal notice was given to all persons of the time and
<br />place fixed for filing claims against said estate and that the time so fixed has fully expired and
<br />that no claims havre been filed against said estate.
<br />It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that the report of the said Laf-
<br />ayette Watkins, as executor of the last will and testament of the said William W. McCoy, deceased,
<br />be and the same hereby is in all things allowed and approved as and for his final report and said
<br />executor is hereby discharged and estate settled and closed.
<br />It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that any and all persons having claims against
<br />the estate of the said William W. McCoy, deceased, if any such there be, are forever barred, en-
<br />joined and excluded from setting up or asserting any claims against said estate.
<br />It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the said Lafayette Watkins, as such executor,
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