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<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.
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<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
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