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Il GLBZ <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />2i3 <br />FINAL DECREE:- <br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA. <br />,In the matter of the estate of) <br />F I N A L D E C R F F. <br />John Harper,.........deceased.) <br />Now on this 16th day of June, 1917, this cause came on for hearing upon the final report of <br />I.Tohn Edward Harper, administrator of the estate of John Harper, deceased, it appearing to the <br />satisfaction of the court, from the proof now in file, that notice of the filing of said report <br />land of the time and place fixed for the hearing thereon has been given to all person interested by <br />jpublication of such notice for one week prior to the 16th day of June, 1917, in the Grand Island <br />Semi- weekly Independent, a legal newspaper, as required by the order of court dated June 6th,1917, <br />;and there being no objection or protest on file, and no one having appeared to object to or protes <br />lagainst the allowance of said final report. <br />On consideration of the testimony, the report and the files of this office, the court finds <br />that said report is correct in all respects and ought to be allowed; that the administrator has <br />laccounted for all of the estate which came into his hands and that there remains no money or othe <br />(property in his possession for distribution. <br />It is, therefore, considered and adjudged by the court that said report be and the same here <br />Iby is approved and allowed as and for the final account of said administrator. <br />The court finds that said John Harper departed this life on the 29th day of May 1916, and <br />that he was immediately preceding his death, a resident of Hall county; that he died intestate; <br />that he left surviving him as his heirs at law and his only heirs at law the following named per- <br />(sons: Lucinda J. Harper, his widow; Emma. J. Reisland, Samuel D.Harper, Nora M. Brunner, Bertha <br />(Stone and John Edward Harper, his children; <br />The court finds that the said John Harper died possessed in fee of the following described <br />Ireal estate situate in the county of Hall and State of Nebraska, to -wit: <br />All of Block No. Five (5) in Brett and Johnson's Addition to good River, and Lot No. Two (2) <br />lin Block Three (3) in Dodd and Marshall's Addition to Wood River. <br />The court finds that under and by virtue of the law of descent of the State of Nebraska, all <br />lof the above mentioned and described real estate did pass and descend at the death of the said <br />(John Harper in the manner following, to -wit: <br />To Lucinda J- ,Harper, widow of the said John Harper, one -third part thereof; AND <br />To Emma J. Reisland, Samuel D. Harper, Nora M. Brunner, Bertha Stone and John Edward Harper, <br />Children of the testator, two- thirds of said real estate, in equal shares as tennants in common, <br />subject, however to the homestead right of the said Lucinda J. Harper, widow, in and to said real <br />estate. <br />It is therefore by the court considered and adiudged that all of Block 5 in Brett and John- <br />son's Addition to the village of Wood River, in Hall County, Nebraska, and Lot 2 in Block 3 in <br />Dodd and Marshall's Addition to the village of Wood River, in Hall county, Nebraska, did pass <br />descend at the death of John Harper under the law of descent of the State of Nebraska, in,the <br />manner following, to-wit: <br />To Lucinda J. Harper, <br />To Emma J.Reisland, <br />To Samuel D. Harper, <br />To Nora M, Brunner. <br />To Bertha Stone, <br />To John Edward Harper <br />one-third part <br />two - fifteenths <br />two - fifteenths <br />two - fifteenths <br />two - fifteenths <br />,two-fifteenths <br />thereof, <br />part thereof, <br />part thereof, <br />part thereof, <br />part thereof, and <br />part thereof. <br />The above named children of the said John Harper, deceased, taking subject to the homestead right <br />of the said Lucinda J. Harper in and to said real estate. <br />The court finds that by order of court dated July 3, 1916, creditors of the said John Harper, <br />deceased, were allowed six months from the 24th day of July, 1916, in which to present their cla.in <br />with the proof thereof in the office of the County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, for allowance; <br />