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<br />CERTIFICATE OF PROBATE
<br />STATE OF NEBRASKA)
<br />HALL COUNTY )ss At a session of the County Court held in the County Court Room in Grand
<br />Island, in said County, on the 13th day of February, A.D. , 1942.
<br />Present Paul N.Kirk, County Judge
<br />In the Matter of the Estate of
<br />George Ludwig Mattke, deceased.
<br />I, Paul N.Kirk, Judge of the County Court, in and for said County, do hereby certify that on
<br />the 15th day of January, 1942, the instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of
<br />George Ludwig Mattke, deceased, was filed for probate in this Court. That on the 13th day of
<br />February, 1942, said instrument to which this certificate is attached was duly proved, probated
<br />and allowed as the last will and testament of the real and personal estate of said George Ludwig
<br />Mattke, deceased, and the same was ordered to be recorded in the records of the Court aforesaid.
<br />In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, this
<br />13th day of February, 1942.
<br />Paul N.Kirk
<br />(SEAL) , County Judge
<br />FOURTH
<br />The Court further finds that said Matilda Mattke named in said petition was, upon her giving bond
<br />in the sum of $2500.00 as ordered by this Court, duly appointed Executrix as prayed and that she
<br />took her oath as Executrix, which was duly filed therein, and Letters Testamentry were duly issued
<br />to her by this Court on February 13, 1942, and was allowed one year in which to settle said estate
<br />from the 13th day of February, 1942; the Court further finds that the deceased at the time of his
<br />death was a married man and that he left the following heirs -at -law, to -wit: Matilda Mattke, his
<br />widow, Helen Mattke, a daughter, Anna Mattke Menck, a daughter, and Otto L.Mattke, a son.
<br />FIFTH.
<br />That on the 13th day of February, 1942, an order of this Court was made allowing creditors three
<br />months from and after the 11th day of March, 1942, in which to file their claims with the proof
<br />thereof, against said estate and that all claims outstanding against this estate, not so filed
<br />within the time so limited, should be forever barred, and that a hearing be had at the office of
<br />the County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, on the 13th day of June, 1942, at 9 o'clock A.M. on all
<br />claims filed against this estate, and further ordering that notice of the time allowed and place
<br />appointed for filing claims against the estate of said George Ludwig Mattke, deceased, and of the
<br />time fixed for hearing on said claims against said estate, be given to all persons interested by
<br />publishing such notice for three successive weeks in the Grand Bland Independent, a legal news-
<br />paper published and circulating in said Hall County, Nebraska, prior to the 11th day of March, 1942,
<br />and it appears by proof on file that notice of said order was published as ordered by this Court.
<br />SIXTH.
<br />The Court further finds that on the 29th day of May, 1942, the said Matilda Mattke, as Executrix
<br />filed in this Court here inventory of the property of said estate, and that according to said in-
<br />ventory, the deceased died seized and possessed of the following described property, to -wit:
<br />Fractional Lot No. Seven (7) in Block Twelve (12) of the Original Town now City of Grand
<br />Island, 1ebraska, and its complementary frictional Lot Seven (7) in Block Eighteen (19) in
<br />H.G.Clark's Addition to the City of Grand sland,Nebraska.
<br />Lots One Hundred Forty -one (141) and One Hundred Forty -two (142) in "Belmont ", an Addition
<br />to the City of Grand lsland,Nebraska.
<br />Personal property of the value of about $2900.00.
<br />SEVENTH.
<br />That according to the terms and conditions and provisions of the Last Will and Testament of
<br />said George Ludwig.Mattke, deceased, said property was deivsed and bequeathed unto said Matilda
<br />.Mattke, his widow, absolute in fee simple.
<br />EIGHTH
<br />The Court further finds that on the 13th day of June, 1942, an order of this Court was made
<br />barring all claims not filed against said estate; that all debts and claims against said estate
<br />and the costs of administration in said estate, have been paid and said Executrix has made settlement
<br />with herself of all personal property belonging to said estate.
<br />NINTH.
<br />The Court further finds that there is no inheritance tax due and payable to the County Treasurer
<br />of Hall County, Nebraska, nor to the United States of America whatsoever herein.
<br />IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that the final report of Matilda
<br />Mattke as Executrix of said estate, also sometimes known as Mathilda Mattke and being one and the
<br />same person, be and the same is hereby approved and allowed as such; further that Matilda Mattke,
<br />widow of said testator, Helen Mattke, a daughter, Anna Mattke Menck, a daughter, and Otto L.Mattke,
<br />a son, are all and the only heirs -at -law of said deceased, and that the property described in
<br />paragraph Sixth hereof, descends according to the terms of said Last will and Testament as set
<br />forth in paragraph Seventh of this decree; further that said Executrix has fully carried out all
<br />the terms and conditions of said Last Will and Testament and has made settlement according to law,
<br />and that she be and hereby is discharged as such Executrix and her bond released.
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the County Court of Hall County
<br />at Grand Island,Nebraska, this 22nd day of July, 1942.
<br />Paul N.Kirk
<br />County Judge
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />CERTIFICATE.
<br />STATE OF NEBRASKA ) I, Paul N.Kirk, County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby certify
<br />HALL COUNTY )ss that I have compared the foregoing copy of Final Decree entered IN THE
<br />MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE LUDWIG MATTKE, DECEASED, with the original record thereof, now
<br />remaining in said Court, that the same is a correct transcript thereof, and of the whole of such
<br />original record; that said Court is a Court of Record having a seal,which seal is hereto attached;
<br />that said Court has no Clerk authorized to sign certificates in his own name, and that I am the
<br />legal custodian of said Seal and of the Records of said Court, and that the foregoing attestation
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