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<br />;intestate at Wood River, Nebraska; that he died on the 1st day of June 1914, and that at the 
<br />time of his death he was a resident and inhabitant of Wood River in Hall County, Nebraska. 
<br />that more than fifteen years have elapsed since the death of the said William J.Likes; that 
<br />no administration has ever been had or applied for upon the estate of the said William J. 
<br />Likes, deceased, in the State of Nebraska; that the said William J.Likes died seized as the 
<br />owner of an undivided one - twelfth interest in fee simple of an estate of inheritance in and to` 
<br />the East Half of the Northwest Quarter (EJNWJ) and the West Half of the Northeast Quarter 
<br />(Wf1NEJ) of Section Sixteen (16),Township Ten (10),Range Eleven (11) in Hall County,Nebraska; 
<br />that he left surviving him Mary B.Likes,his mother.; that the said William J.Likes was nine 
<br />years of age at the time of his death; that he was never married, and left no surviving child 
<br />or children, and that he left as his heir at law and only heir at law Mary B.Likes, his mother;l 
<br />that under the laws of descent of the State of Nebraska in force at the time of the death of 
<br />the said William J.Likes, the real estate herein described,passed and descended to Mary B.Likes 
<br />and to her heirs and assigns forever, and that the same is hereby awarded to her; that all debts 
<br />of said deceased, and all debts against the estate of said deceased, if any such existed, are 
<br />forever barred and precluded and further administration of the estate of the said William J. 
<br />Likes,deceased, is hereby dispensed with, and said estate is rorever setiziea ana closeu. 
<br />Paul N.Kirk 
<br />County Judge 
<br />STATE OF NEBRASKA ) In the County Court of Hall County,Nebraska. 
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<br />HALL COUNTY I, Paul N.Kirk, County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby certify 
<br />that I have compared the foregoing copy of FINAL DECREE entered in the Estate of William J. 
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<br />Likes,Deceased, with the original record thereof, now remaining in said Court, that the same i 
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<br />a correct transcript thereof, and of the whole of such original record; that said Court is a 
<br />Court of Record having a seal,which seal is hereto attached; that said Court has no Clerk auth 
<br />orized to sign certificates in his own name, and that I am the legal custodian of said Seal 
<br />and of the Recor "ds of said Court, and that the foregoingattestation is in due form of law. 
<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and afixed the seal of ,the County Court, at' 
<br />Grand Island,this 17th day of May, 1930- 
<br />Paul N.Kirk 
<br />County Judge 
<br />(SEAL) By- Clerk- County 'Court. 
<br />Filed for record this 17th day of May, 1930, at 3:00 o'clock P.M. 2�� 
<br />Register of De 
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<br />FINAL DECREE 
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 
<br />In the Matter of the Estate of ) 
<br />D E C R E E 
<br />Jennie Metro, Deceased. 
<br />BE IT REMEMBERED that on this 22nd day of May, A.D.1930, this cause came on for hearing upon !, 
<br />the petition of Lemuel Metro,husband of Jennie Metro, deceased, praying for a determination 
<br />of heirship, and the evidence, and the Court being fully advised in the premises, finds that 
<br />due and legal notice of the filing of said petition, and of this hearing has been given by 
<br />publication as required by law; that this Court has acquired jurisdiction of the subject mattler, 
<br />and of all the heirs, creditors, and other persons interested in said estate; that the decedent, 
<br />Jennie Metro,died intestate on the 27th day of January,A.D.1924, a resident of Hall County, 
<br />Nebraska, and seized of the following described real estate,situated in the town of Doniphan,' 
<br />Hall County, Nebraska,to -wit: Lot Fifteen (15) of County Subdivision of part of the South 
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