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<br />CERTgFIRD COPY OF FINAL DECREE..
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
<br />In the Matter of the Estate of )
<br />DECREE.
<br />SAMANTHA. BOWEN, DECEASED
<br />Now on this 22nd day of May, 1919, that being the day fixed by the former order of this C
<br />for a hearing upon the petition of Maud Bowen Baker, nee Bowen, heretofore filed in this cause
<br />on the 16th day of April,1919, said cause came on for hearing and upon consideration of the re-!j
<br />cord and the evidence the Court finds, that due and legal service of the hearing upon this petiion
<br />has been duly had by publication in manner and form as ordered by the Court and as provided by
<br />law.
<br />Whereupon said cause came on further to be heard and upon consideration of the record and t
<br />evidence, the Court finds:
<br />That upon the 16th day of April, 1919, Maud Bowen Baker, nee Bowen, filed her duly verified]
<br />petition in this Court, praying among other things that the Court fix a time and place for a
<br />hearing upon said petition, and there apon said hearing it be 'ordered by decree of this Court,
<br />the time of the death of Samantha Bowen, deceased, a decree of the heirs of said deceased and
<br />decree 41nship and the right of descent of said real estate belonging to the said deceased
<br />at the time of her death, and that said real estate descended free and clear of all debts
<br />against said estate.. And the Court further finds that thereafter and upon said 16th day of April,,
<br />19198 this Court made and entered an by order fixing this day and hour as the time -'or heari
<br />upon said petition and ordered that notice of said hearing be given by publication of a notice
<br />thereof for three consecutive weeks in the North Platte Tribune, a legal weekly newspaper print
<br />and published and of general circulation in Line4ln County, Nebraska, and the Court finds that
<br />said notice hap been duly given and that the Court now has jurisdiction of all parties interest
<br />in this matter and has jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof*.
<br />Whereupon said cause came on further to be heard, and upon consideration of the record and
<br />evidence, the Court finds:
<br />1. That Maud Bowen Baker, nee Bowen, is the fee simple title owner of an undivided one -half In-
<br />terest in and to all of the following described real estate, towit: Lots numbered 11 and 12 in
<br />Block number 21, in the original town of Wood River, State of Nebraska, also an undivided one -
<br />half interest in the SE1 of NE" and the NXJ of the SE-11, of Section 17, Township 10, North of
<br />Range 11 West of the 6th P.M. in Hail County, Nebraska.
<br />?,..That Samantha Bowen late of the County of Lincoln and State of Nebraska, departed this
<br />life at North Platte in Lincoln County, Nebraska, on the 24th day of March 1913, being at the
<br />time of her death a resident and inhabitant of said County of Lincoln and State of Nebraska.
<br />3• • That Samantha Bowen at the time of her death was the fee simple title owner of all of the
<br />above described real estate and that said real estate is of the value of about 416,000.00.
<br />4.. That the petitioner, Maud Bowen Baker, nee Bowen obtained her title to said real estate
<br />by inher -itance from the said Samantha Bowen, who was the mother of the petitioner herein, and
<br />Jerry Bowen, who was the father of the petitioner herein,,
<br />5. That more than two years have elapsed since the death of the said Samantha Bowen and that
<br />the said Samantha Bowen died intestate a resident and inhabitant of Lincoln County,Nebraska,
<br />and that said deceased during her life time and at the time of her death was seized of an esta
<br />of inheritance in the real estate' heretofore described..
<br />6. That no application has ever been made in the State of Nebraska for the appointment of an
<br />administrator of the estate of Samantha Bowen eigher by her heirs or by persons claiming to
<br />be creditors of suid.wdeceased, and that no administrator has ever been applied for or appointed
<br />in the State of Nebraska.
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