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X374 WML AND DEGREE RECORD No. c IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA. In the matter of the estate) ) of ) FINAL DECRRE. FOUIE'TAIN HAI GIS, ?IBC WgFD ) Now on this 27th day of January, 1917, this cause came on for hearing upon the final report o1 Mary A. Hargis, administratrix of the estate of Fountain Hargis, deceased, it appearing to the ' satisfaction of the court that notice of the filing of said rep©rt and of the time and place i I fixed for final settlement of said estate has been given to all persons interested by publication of such notice for one week prior to the 27th day of January, 1917, in the Grand Island Independ ent, as required by order of court dated January 15, 1917. I On consideration of said report and of the files and records in this estate, the court finds that the report is correct in all respect and ought to be allowed. The court finds that notice was given to all creditors of the time allowed and place appointed for filing claims against the estate of Fountain Ha�rgis, deceased; that the time limited for fil� i ing claims was six months from the 25th day of October, 1915, and that said time has long since expired; that all claims filed and allowed against the estate of said deceased have been fully paid and satisfied. The court further finds that all claims or demands outstanding against the estate of said Fountain Hargis, deceased, and not so filed within the time allowed for filing claims, if any such there be, are therefore, forever barred. It is, therefore, considered by the court that all persons are forever barred, excluded and precluded from filing or setting up any claims or demands against the estate of Fountain Hargis, deceased, and that said estate is fully settled and closed. It is further considered that the report of Mary A. Hargis, administratrix, be and the same hereby is approved and allowed as and for her final account, and she is discharged of her trust' and her bond released. The court finds that Fountain Hargis departed this life on the 5th day of September, 1915, being at the time of his death a resident of Hall County, Nebraska, and that he died intestate. The court finds that the said Fountain Hargis left surviving him as his heirs at law, and his only heirs at law, the following named persons: Mary A. Hargis, his widow; Alma Rickard. (born ;I I Hargis); Amanda J. Nelson, (born Hargis); and Louisa E. Mackan, (born Hargis), his daughters. The court finds that the said Fountain Hargis died seized and possessed of the following des- . cribed real estate, situate in the County of Hall, and State of Nebraska, to -wit: The Northerly one hundred and two and one -half (102J) feet of lot number one, (1), in block number fifty-nine (59) in the original town, now city, of Grand Island, Nebraska. The same being a rectangular piece of ground having 102J feet fronting on Cedar Street in said City by sixty -six (66) feet in depth off of the Northerly end of said lot. That the same was the home and homestead of her husband and herself at the time of his death and continuously occupied during several years immediately prior thereto. The court finds that under the provisions of the law of descent of the State of Nebraska, the above mentioned and described real estate did pass and descend at the death of Fountain Hargis, intestate, in the manner following: To Mary A. Hargis, his widow, one -third part thereof in absolute title. To Alma Rickard, Amanda J. Nelson and Louisa B. Mackan, his daughters, the remaining two- thi3�lis part thereof in absolute title, subject however, to the homestead right of the said Mary A. Hard lis in and to said real estate. It is therefore considered and adjudged by the court that at the death of Fountain Hargis al 1 I. J u