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<br />Fannie Campbell,who is one and the same person as Fannie Cooley,her maiden name being Fannie
<br />Cooley;and
<br />Esther L.Phillips,who is one and the same person as Esther Phillips and Ettie Cooley,her maiden
<br />name having been Esther Cooley,and she having been commonly known as Ettie Cooley prior to her
<br />marriage to one Samuel Phillips.
<br />The Court further finds that the said Mortimer W.Cooley was a single man at the time of his deat}';,
<br />his wife having predeceased him,and that the foregoing named heirs at law were the children and
<br />all of the children of the said Mortimer W.Cooley,and that there was no issue of any deceased
<br />child or children,and that the petitioner claims title through mesne conveyances made by the said
<br />heirs at law of the said Mortimer W.Cooley.
<br />IT IS,THEREFORE,ORDERED,ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that Mortimer W.Cooley died intestate on
<br />July 10,1892,a resident of Hall County,Nebraska; that more than two years have elapsed since his
<br />death;that he had made entry on government lands and had not received patent therefor,to -wit:
<br />The South Half of the Northwest Quarter (S,NWJ) of Section Eight (8) in Township Ten (10),North,
<br />of Range Eleven (11),West of the 6th P.M.,in Hall County,Nebraska.
<br />That an administrator was appointed,but no decree of heirship was entered in his estate;that a patent
<br />was issued to the heirs of Mortimer W.Cooley;that he was a single man at the time Of his death and
<br />that the sole and only heirs at law were Thomas W.Cooley.otherwise known -as T.W.Cooley;Walter A.
<br />Cooley,otherwise known as W.A.Cooley;Daniel J.Cooley;Helen M.Dodge; Fannie Camp.bell,whose maiden
<br />name was Fannie Cooley;and Esther L.Phillips,who is otherwise known and described as Esther Phillips
<br />and Ettie Cooley.
<br />IT IS FURTHER ORDERED,ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that the degree of kinship of the afore
<br />mentioned heirs at law was that of being sons and daughters of the said Mortimer W.Cooley,and
<br />that the right of descent of the real property belonging to the deceased was to the afore mention-
<br />ed heirs at law,share and share alike,as tenants in common;that said real estate did upon the death
<br />of the said Mortimer W.Cooley pass and descend to said heirs at law,share and share alike,as
<br />tenants in commom,and that the right of the said Mortimer W.Cooley to rec6tve a patent therefor
<br />did pass and descend to said heirs at law,as tenants in common, share and share alike.
<br />Charles Bossert
<br />COUNTY JUDGE.
<br />In the County Court of Hall County,Nebraska
<br />Certificate
<br />State of Nebraska, )
<br />) ss. I, Charles Bossert County. Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby
<br />Hall County ) certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of Final Decree
<br />entered IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MORTIMER W.000LEY,DECEASED,
<br />with the original record thereof,now remaining in said Court,that the same -is a correct transcript
<br />thereof,and of the whole of such original record; that said Court is a Court of Record having a
<br />seal,which seal is hereto attached;that said Court has -no Clerk authorized to sign certificates
<br />in his own name,and that I am the legal custodian of said Seal and Of the Records of said Court,
<br />and that the foregoing attestation is in due form 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 5th day of April 1945-
<br />(SEAL) Charles Bossert
<br />County Judge
<br />Filed for record this 6 day of April,1945, at 10 o'clock
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<br />DECREE ON FINAL ACCOUNT
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF SEWARD COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ) DECREE ON FINAL ACCOUNT.
<br />MAY E.R.WHITNAH, DECEASED.
<br />NOW, on this 30th day of March, 1945, this cause coming on to be heard on the petition for
<br />final settlement of the estate of May E.R.Whitnah, deceased, on the final administration account
<br />of the administrator of said estate, and the evidence,was submitted to the Court, on consideration
<br />whereof the Court finds:
<br />THAT, on the 10th day of March, 1945, the administrator of said estate of said deceased, filed
<br />in this court his final administration account and a petition praying that said account be settled
<br />and allowed; that said estate be distributed as required by law, and that a discharge be issued,
<br />and that for these purposes a time and place be assigned for hearing said petition, and examining
<br />and settling said account, and that notice be given thereof as the law directs.
<br />THAT, on the 10th day of March, 1945, an order of Court was made assigning the 30th day of
<br />March 1945, at 9 o'clock A.M:. at the County Court of Seward County, Nebraska, as the time and
<br />place for hearing said p6ti.tion, and examining and settling said account, and requiring that
<br />notice of said hearing be given to all persons interested by publishing a notice thereof three
<br />successive weeks in the Seward Independent, a legal newspaper:.- printed and published and of
<br />general circulation in said County.
<br />That notice of the hearing has been duly given as required by law and the order of this Court,
<br />and due proof of the publication thereof made and filed herein."
<br />That the final administration account is in all.respects true and correct, that due notice to
<br />creditors has been given, that all claims allowed against said estate have been fully paid and
<br />satisfied, all claims and debts not filed forever barred, and that said estate is fully solvent.
<br />The Court further finds that the said May E.R.Whitnah, deceased, departed this life intestate
<br />while a resident of Seward County, Nebraska, on the 18th day of October 1944, and that at the
<br />time of her death she was the owner of all the personal property mentioned and set forth in the
<br />inventory filed in this estate which is hereby referred to and made a part of this decree as
<br />fully as if set out at length herein, and of the following described real estate, to -wit:
<br />The Southeast Quarter (SEJ) of Section Thirteen (13), Township Nine (9),North,Range.One (1),
<br />East of the Sixth P.M., Seward County, Nebraska.
<br />The Southwest Quarter (S*) of Section Thirty (30), Township Twelve (12) North,Range.Nineteen
<br />(19),West of the Sixth P.M., Dawson County, Nebraska.
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