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453 <br />No. 8 HALL COUNTY <br />has been given, and that there are no objections on file; and the court, after having examined the <br />records and files in this case, finds that said Final Report is in all things true and correct; <br />IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that said Final Report of Ella Edna <br />Schooley, executrix, be and the same is hereby approved. <br />The Court further finds that Ella Edna Schooley, Ella E.Schooley and Mrs. William T.Schooley are <br />one and the same person. <br />The Court furth -r finds that notice has been given in the manner and fo -m provided by law of the <br />time fixed for filing claims and that no claims have been filed; <br />IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that all claims not now on file be <br />and. the same are hereby forever barred. <br />The Court further finds that the expenses of last illness, funeral expenses, expenses of ad- <br />ministering the estate, court costs and attorney fees have been paid in full by the executrix, who <br />has waived any claim therefor. <br />The Court further finds that said estate was not subject to federal estate tax or state in- <br />heritance tax. <br />The court further finds that the only asset, so far as is known, of the said William T.Schooley <br />at the time he died, was an undivided one -half interest in and to Lots Four (4) in Block Two (2) <br />of Dodd and Marshall's Addition to the Village of Wood River, Hall County, iebraska; that said <br />real estate was of the value of less than Two Thousand Dollars, and the same was occupied by the <br />said William T.Schooley and the said Ella Edna Schooley, husband and wife, as their home and <br />homestead at the time of the death of the said William T.Schooley, and that the same was free from <br />any persons whomsoever claiming to be creditors of the said William T.Schooley or of the said <br />Ella Edna Schooley as of the date of the death of the said William T.Schooley. <br />The Court further finds that the said Ella Edna Schooley has accounted for all the assets of the <br />said William T.Schooley which have come into her knowledge or possession; <br />IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT, that the said Ella Edna Schooley <br />be and she is hereby discharged as executrix of said estate. <br />The Court further finds that William T.Schooley died on November 24, 1941, a citizen and resident <br />of Hall County, Nebraska, leaving a last will and testament, which has heretofore been admitted <br />to probate; that he left him surviving no child or children, nor the issue of any deceased child <br />or children, but that he left a Taidow, Ella Edna Schooley, and that the said Ella Edna Schooley <br />has not elected to take under the Statute of Distribution; that he left him surviving, in addition <br />to said widow, as his sole and only heirs -at -law, a. brother, Harold Schooley and a sister, Mary <br />ftUghton, and the following nephews and nieces, who were the children of a deceased sister, Iva <br />Shriner, as follows: Ben Shriner, Oliver Shriner, Theodora Shriner, Calvin Shriner,Jr., John <br />Shriner, Roy Shriner and Margaret Sheffield. <br />IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AkdD DECREED BY THE COURT that said real estate, together with <br />any and all other real or personal property .of the said William T.Schooley, which is now unk�hown <br />be and the same is hereby xet off unto the said Ella Edna Schooley in accordance with said last <br />will and testament, and that this estate be and the same is her -by closed. <br />Charles Bossert <br />COUNTY JUDGE <br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA <br />CERTIFICATE <br />ATATE OF NEBRASKA ) I, Charles Bossert, County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby <br />HALL COUNTY )ss' certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of Last Will and Testament, <br />Certificate of Probate of Will and Final Decree - IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM T.SCHOOLEY, <br />DECEASED, with the original record thereof, now remaining in said Court, that the same is a correct <br />transcript thereof, and of the whole of such original record; that said Court is a Court of Record <br />hating a seal, which seal is hereto attached; that said Court has no Clerk authorized to sign <br />certificates in his own name, and that I am the legal custodian of said Seal and of the Records <br />of said Court, and that the fo e o ng attestation is in due form of law. <br />IN TESTIMONY WHD'.EOF I have, -my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, at Grand <br />Island, this 26th dny of April, 1944. <br />Charles Bossert <br />(SEAL) County Ju e <br />Filed for record this 26th day of April, 19,44, at 2:30 o'clock P.M. <br />Register of eel eds- <br />0-0-0-0-0-0-0-�-'0-'�-0_0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0- <br />DECREE <br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA <br />IN THE 14ATTER OF THE ESTATE ) <br />OF ) DECREE. <br />MAY GADDIS, DECEASED. ) <br />Now on this 3rd day of May 1944, this matter came on to be heard upon the pleadings and the <br />evidence, and was submitted to the Court on consideration whereof the Court finds that due and <br />legal notice of these proceedings have been given to all persons interested in said matter, both <br />creditors and heirs, as required by law; that all of the statements and allegations set forth in <br />said petition are true; that the said May Gaddis died intestate in the State of Illinois on January <br />141 1905, and that she was one of the children and heirs of the body of Helen McMillan Ellis who <br />died July 13, 1925; that the real estate described as the Northwest Quarter (NWT) of Section Twenty - <br />Eight (29) in Township Eleven North (11N),Range Ten West (1OW) of the 6th P.M., Hall County, Ne- <br />braska, passed and descended under the terms and provisions of the last will and testament of <br />David Gilchrist who died on or before April 16, 1902, to Helen McMillan Ellis for and during her <br />natural life T,,aith the remainder to the heirs of her body; that there were six children born to <br />the said Helen McMillan Ellis, including the said May Gaddis, who were the remaindermen,aa the <br />heirs of the body of Helen McMillan Ellis, and that by reason thereof the said May Gaddis acquired <br />