THE AUG USTI NE CO. 20112.2.41
<br />DECREE
<br />�N THE
<br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE )
<br />OF )
<br />JAMES G.RHODES, DECEASED. )
<br />COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />D E C R E E
<br />This cause coming on for hearing on this 22nd day of September, 1943, upon the petition of
<br />Cloyd D.Rhodes, a son of James G.Rhodes, deceased, - graying for a determination of heirship and the
<br />succession of real estate, and the Court being fully advised in the premises from the evidence
<br />adduced, finds that due and legal notice of the filing of said petition and of this hearing has
<br />been given by publication as required by law; that this Court has acquired juridiction of the
<br />subject matter, and of all the heirs, creditors and other persons interested in said estate; that
<br />the decedent, James G.Rhodes, died intestate on the 10th day of August, 1939, a resident of Hall
<br />County, Nebraska, and was then seized of the following described real estate, situated in Hall
<br />County, Nebraska, to -wit:
<br />Lots Five (5), and Six (6), Block One, (1), William J.Burger's Addition to the Village of
<br />Doniphan, Nebraska.
<br />That no application for the appointment of an administrator, either by the heirs, or by persons
<br />claiming to be creditors of said decedent has been made, and no proceedings have been had in any
<br />County in the State of Nebraska, for the administration of his estate; that all of the debts of the
<br />decedent, including the expenses of his last illness and burial, have been paid in full; that the
<br />said James G.Rhodes left surviving him a widow, Luella J.Rhodes, Lawrence G.Rhodes,son; Maggie
<br />Henry, daughter; Guy Rhodes, son; Joe Rhodes, son; Cloyd D.Rhodes', son; Joy Rhodes, son; Beulah Eastman,
<br />daughter; Bernard Kline,grandson, the son of Ida Kline, daughter, deceased, all of legal age; that
<br />they are the sole and only heirs -at -law of his estate and interested therein; that he left no other
<br />living children or the living issue of any deceased children.
<br />IT IS, THEREFORE, CONSIDERED, ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED BY THE COURT that the said James
<br />G.Rhodes died intestate on the 10th day of August, 1938, a resident of Hall County, Nebraska; that
<br />he died seized of the real estate hereinabove described; that no application has been made ih the
<br />State of Nebraska, for the appointment of an administrator of the estate of said decedent; &nd;�
<br />that all claims and demands against the estate of said decedent are forever barred.
<br />IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, A'vD DECREED that all of the real property of which the said
<br />James G.Rhodes died seized of and being the real estate hereinabove described passed and descended
<br />to his heirs -at -law; that his said heirs- at- law;are Luella J.Rhodes, his widow; Lawrence G.Rhodes,
<br />son; Maggie Henry, daughter; Guy Rhodes, son; Joe Rhodes, son; Cloyd D.Rhodes, son; Joy Rhodes, son;
<br />Beulah Eastmen,daughter; Bernard Kline,grandson, the son of Ida Kline,daughter, deceased; that the
<br />aforesaid real property x)assed and descended to said heirs -at -laws in the following proportions,;
<br />to -wit: to Luella J.Rhodes, his widow, an undivided one -third (1/3) thereof, and to Larence G.
<br />Rhodes, Guy Rhodes, Joe Rhodes, Cloyd D.Rhod(-,s, Joy Rhodes, sons, Bernard Kline, granAson, sson of Ida
<br />Kline, daughter, deceased, Mag ie Henry, Beulah Eastman, daughters, and to each of them, an un-
<br />divided three- twenty - sevenths 6/27) thereof, and said real property is hereby assigned to said
<br />heirs in said proportions and as provided by law.
<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 )` that I have compared the foregoing cony of becree entered IN THE MATTER
<br />OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES G.RHODES,DECEASED, with the original record thereof, now remaining in said
<br />Court, that the same is a correct transcript thereof, and of the whole of such original record;
<br />that said Court is a Court of Record having a seal which seal is hereto attached; that said Court
<br />has no Clerk authorized to sign certificates in his own name, and that I am the legal custodian
<br />of said Seal and of the Records of said Court, and that the foregoing attestation is in due form
<br />of law.
<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, at
<br />Grand Island, this 29th day of September, 1943-
<br />Paul N.Kirk
<br />(SEAL) County Judge
<br />Filed. for record this 29 day of September, 1943, at 1:00 o'clock P.M. 01 "�
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<br />WILL ADD DECREE.
<br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HENRY ROENFELDT AND
<br />MARGARET ROENFELDT.
<br />We, Henry Roenfeldt and Margaret Roenfeldt, husband and wife, of Hall County, Nebraska, both
<br />being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make and publish our mutual and irrevocable
<br />last will and testament, in the manner and form following, that is to say:
<br />Whereas we, the said Henry Roenfeldt and Margaret Roenfeldt, husband and wife; are the owners
<br />of certain real and personal property, said real estate being described as follows: the west half
<br />of Lot 3 in Block 14, Original Town of Grand Island,tn Hall County, Nebraska, title to which is in
<br />the name of Henry Roenfeldt and Margaret Roenfeldt, and Lot 4 in Block 14, Original Town, now City,
<br />of Grand Island, in Hall County, Nebraska, title to which is in the name of Maggie Roenfeldt, who
<br />is the testatrix herein named Margaret Roenfeldt, and it is the desire of the testatrix and testa-
<br />tor hereof to mutually and satisfactorily provide for each other, and to make a fair division and
<br />distribution of their property among their children, and in consideration of the division and dis-
<br />tribution herein provided and the mutual agreements between said parties, we do hereby make and
<br />publish this, our mutual and last will and testament:
<br />FIRST.
<br />We direct that our executors, hereinafter named, do pay our funeral expenses, costs and
<br />expenses of administering our estates, and our just debts, if any.
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<br />SECOND.
<br />We give and bequeath to our grandchildren, Marie Degen and Ernest Degen, the sum of Fifty
<br />Dollars ($50.00) each, and same to be a charge upon the real estate devised in paragraph
<br />fourth hereof.
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