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<br />TNEAUGUSTINECO. 20112.2.41
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />STATE OF NEBRASKA )Ss. I, Paul N.Kirk, County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby certify
<br />HALL COUNTY ) that I have compared the foregoing copy of Decree of Heirship entered
<br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF.CHRISTIAN W.HARFST, 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 legal
<br />custodian of said Seal and of the Records of.said Court, and that the foregoing attestation is in
<br />due form of law.
<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed.the seal of the County Court,
<br />at Grand Island, this 16th day of December, 1942.
<br />Paul N.Kirk
<br />(SEAL) County Judge
<br />Filed for record this 16 day of December, 1942, at 4:00 o'clock P.M.
<br />egister of Deeds
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<br />FINAL DECREE ;
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE )
<br />OF NIELS P.SONDERGARD, ALSO )
<br />KNOWN AS N.P.SONDERGARD, ) FINAL DECREE
<br />DECEASED. )
<br />NOW on this 7th day of October, in the year 1942, this cause came on for hearing upon the final
<br />report filed herein by Georgia Sondergard, the duly appointed, qualified, and acting administratrix
<br />of the estate of Niels P.Sondergard, also known as N.P.Sondergard, deceased, and the Court having
<br />examined the filed and records of said estate, including said final report together with the
<br />vouchers attached thereto, and being fully advised in the premises, finds as follows:
<br />That on the 8th day of April, in the year 1942, Georgia Sondergard filed in this Court a petition
<br />alleging among other things that the said Niels P.Sondergard, also known as N.P.Sondergard, departed
<br />this life intestate a resident of Hall County, Nebraska, on the 2nd day of April, 1942, leaving as
<br />his heirs at law and only heirs at law Georgia Sondergard, his widow, a resident of Grand Island,
<br />Nebraska; Niels P.Nielsen, Pete Nielsen, Arthur Nielsen, and Olga Nielsen, children of a deceased
<br />sister, Mary Nielsen; all of whom have attained their majority and are living in New York City,
<br />New York; gems Sondergard and Pete Sondergard, brothers, both residents of the Village of Dannebrog,
<br />Nebraska; Martin Sondergard, a brother Grand Island, Nebraska; John Jensen, half- brother, a resident
<br />of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Burkett, Nebraska; Anna Nielsen and Otina Thiebault, sisters,
<br />of Dannebrog, Nebraska; all of whom have attained their majority.
<br />The Court further finds that a hearing was had on said petition after due notice as provided by
<br />law, and Georgia Sondergard was issued Letters of Administration by said Court on the 6th day of
<br />May. 1942. to administer the assets of said estate.
<br />The Court further finds that notice was given to creditors as provided by law and the time for
<br />filing claims against said estate fully expired on the 3rd day of September, in the year 1942, and
<br />that all persons having claims, if any such there be, not filed within the time provided by the order
<br />of this Court, should be forever barred and excluded from setting up or asserting any such claims
<br />against said estate.
<br />The Court further finds that said estate is not subject to the payment of any inheritance tax
<br />either to Hall County, Nebraska or to the Federal Government, and that all the assets of said
<br />estate, after payment of Court Costs, administration fees, and debts against said estate, descends
<br />to the heirs at law free and clear and exempt from payment of any inheritance tax either to Hall
<br />County, Nebraska,or to the Federal Government.
<br />The Court further finds that said decedent departed this life the owner of real estate
<br />situated in Hall County, Nebraska, and Howard County, Nebraska, described as follows:
<br />Lots One (1) and Two (2), Block Four (4), Gilbert's Second Addition to the City of Grand
<br />Island,Hall County, Nebraska, and
<br />An undivided one - eighth (1/9) interest in the South half of the Northeast Quarter (SAM) and
<br />the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NEJ SE4) of Section Four (4), Township Thirteen
<br />(13), Range Eleven (11), West of the 6th P.M., Howard County, Nebraska; which said decadent
<br />inherits from the Estate of Otilla Jensen, deceased, now in probate in Howard County, kebraska;
<br />all of which real estate hereinbefore described did descend by operation of law to said widow a
<br />one -half interest in fee therein, and the remaining one -half interest therein to the aforesaid
<br />named brothers, sisters, and half - brother in equal shares, and the children of the deceased sister,
<br />Mary Nielsen, taking by right of representation their motheHs one - seventh interest in the remain-
<br />ing one -half or one -f ourtb enth interest in the entire estate, share and share alike, however,
<br />said nieces and nephews, as well as the brothers and sisters, take their prop °ortionate share in
<br />the real estate situated in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska, subject to the homestead right of
<br />Georgia Sondergard, widow of said decedent.
<br />The Court further finds that said administratrix and widow of said decedent has expended the sum
<br />of $779.63 of her own funds in payment of claims filed and allowed against the estate, administration
<br />fees, and attorney fees, and for which she is entitled to have a lien against all the real estate
<br />in said estate, in addition to her homestead right$ in and to the real estate situated in Grand
<br />Island, Hall County, Nebraska, and her undivided 1/2 interest in fee in and to all the aforesaid
<br />described real Estate.
<br />The Court further finds that said final report filed herein by said administratrix is true and
<br />correct in all things and should be approved and allowed as and for her final report, said estate
<br />settled and closed, and said administratrix discharged and her official bond released from any fur-
<br />ther responsibility or liability in said estate.
<br />IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED BY THE COURT that all persons having claims
<br />against said estate not filed within the time provided by the order of this Court, if any such
<br />there be, be and they are forever barred from setting up or asserting any such claims against
<br />said estate.
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