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<br />assets on hand, for the settlement of said estate and for his discharge,herein, and the court having
<br />examined the records and files herein and being fully advised in the premises finds that due and
<br />legal notice has been given to all persons of the time and place fixed by the court for the hearing
<br />on said report, and further finds that said.report is true and correct in all things and that the
<br />same ought to be approved and allowed as and for the final report of said Executor, said estate
<br />settled and closed and said Executor discharged.
<br />The court further finds that the said Catharina Hennings departed this life on the 9th day
<br />of May, 1945, and that at the time of her death she was a resident and inhabitant of Hall County,
<br />Nebraska; that she left surviving her as her heirs -at -law and only heirs -at -law one son and four
<br />daughters, they being, Peter Hennings, Anna Wiese, Carrie Krueger, Rosa Rehder and Tina Ehlers, all
<br />of whom are over the age of twenty -one years; that she left a Last Will-and Testament which was by
<br />the consideration of this court duly proven, allowed and admitted to probate on the 21st day of
<br />June, 1945, and Letters Testamentary were duly issued by this court, to the said Peter Hennings
<br />upon filing of bond herein on the 23d day of June, 1945-
<br />The court further finds that due and legal notice has been given to all persons of the time
<br />and place fixed by the court for filing claims against the estate of the deceased, and that the
<br />time so fixed has fully expired and that all persons having claims against said estate and not
<br />filed within the time limited by the court are forever barred and excluded from setting up or
<br />asserting such claims against said estate.
<br />The court further finds that the Executor has paid the funeral expenses of the deceased, all
<br />debts against sg.id estate, and the costs of these proceedings and is prepared to make due dis-
<br />tribution of the personal property in said estate of the deceased to the legatees under the Will
<br />and Testament of the deceased, and that upon such distribution in accordance with the order of
<br />this court and upon filing of receipts from each of the heirs that he be discharged as Executor
<br />and his surety released from further liability.
<br />The court further finds that the estate is not subject to an Inheritance Tax under the laws
<br />of the State of Nebraska, nor to a Federal Estate Tax under the laws of the United States.
<br />The court further finds that the said Catharina Hennings was possessed of real estate des-
<br />cribed as Lot One (1), Block Six (6), in Windolph's Addition to the City of Grand Island,Hall
<br />County, Nebraska, which passed and descended pursuant to the terms of her Will, and subject to a
<br />specific bequest of $4,000.00 to Peter Hennings, which has been paid in equal shares to the said
<br />Peter Hennings, Anna Wiese, Carrie Krueger, Rosa Rehder and Tina Ehlers, to have and to hold the
<br />same forever.
<br />IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that the final report of the
<br />said Peter Hennings, Executor of the estate of Calharina Hennings, deceased, be and the same hereby
<br />is in all things approved and allowed as and for the final report of said Executor, and said estate
<br />is hereby settled and closed and said Executor discharged upon filing of receipts from all of the
<br />heirs of their net distributive shares in the assets of said estate.
<br />IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that all persons having claims against
<br />said estate, if any such there be, are forever barred, enjoined and excluded from setting up or
<br />asserting any such claims against said estate. -
<br />IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that the distribution of personal
<br />property and transfer of the same by the Executor to the heirs -at -law be made in accordance with
<br />the findings of this court and that as soon as such transfer and distribution has been completed
<br />and receipts filed herein the Executor is released from further liability on his bond.
<br />IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED BY THE COURT that under the terms and provisions
<br />of the Last Will and Testament of Catharina Hennings, the real estate hereinbefore described
<br />passed and descended in equal shares to the heirs -at -lax of Catharina Hennings, deceased, and
<br />that said heirs -at -law are Peter kennings, Anna Wiese, Carrie Krueger, Rosa Rehder and Tina Ehlers.
<br />BY THE COURT
<br />Charles Bossert
<br />County Judge
<br />IN -THE COUNTY C')URT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />CERTIFICATE.
<br />STATE OF NEBRASKA ) Nebraska
<br />HALL COUNTY )ss• I, Charles Bossert, County Judge of Hall County,ndo hereby certify that
<br />I have compared the foregoing copy of Last Will and Testament, Certificate of Probate of Will and
<br />Final Decree - IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CATHARINA HENNINGS, DECEASED, with the original record
<br />thereof, now remaining in said Court, that the same is a correct transcript thereof, and of the
<br />whole of such original record; that said Court is a Court of Record having a seal,which seal is
<br />hereto attached; tiat said Court has no Clerk authorized to sign certificates in his own name, and
<br />that I am the legal custodian of said Seal and of the Records of said Court, and that the foregoing
<br />attestation is in due form of law.
<br />IN TESTIMONY 11HEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, at
<br />Grand Island, this 15th day of November, 1945-
<br />Charles Bossert
<br />(SEAL) County Judge
<br />Filed for record this 15th day of November, 1945, at 4:20 o'clock P.M. I
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<br />WILL AND DECREE
<br />LAST WILL OF HERMANN KRUSE
<br />I, Herman Kruse, make this my Last Will, hereby revoking all former Wills by me made.
<br />I hereby appoint my wife Bertha Kruse, executrix of this Will and provide that she need give
<br />no surety on her bond.
<br />To my dearly beloved wife, I give Lots Sixteen (16) & Seventeen (17) in'Block Twenty -seven
<br />(21), of the Village of P &1mer,Merrick County, Nebraska, also Lots Fourteeen (14), and Sixteen
<br />(1�), in Block Seventeen (17) in Scarff's Addition to West Lawn, an addition in the Cit�,T of Grand
<br />Island, Hall County, Nebraska, unless I make other provisions or transfers of said real estate
<br />during my lifetime, subject to any encumbrance which may be against the premises described in this
<br />paragraph at the time of my death.
<br />I give and devise to my son Hermann Kruse the nest Half of the Northwest Quarter (W2 of
<br />Section 28, Township 13, North,Range 8, west of the 6th.P.M. Merrick County, Nebraska, to him and
<br />to his heirs and assigns forever.
<br />I give devise to my son John Kruse the East Half of the Northwest Quarter (E2N*') of said
<br />Section 28, ToT,mship 13, North, Range 8, West of the 6th P.M., Merrick County, Nebraska, to him and
<br />to his heirs and assigns forever.
<br />I give and devise to my son Reinhardt Kruse the ?^dest Half of the Southeast Quarter (*SE )
<br />of Section 21, Township 13, North,Range 8 West of the 6th P.M., Merrick County, Nebraska, to hims
<br />and to his heirs and assigns forever.
<br />I give and devise to my son Martin Kruse the West Half of the Northeast Quarter (112NE41) of
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