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<br />20081 —The Augustine Co., Grand Island, Nebr.
<br />FINAL DECREE
<br />WILL AND DECREE RECORD
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
<br />OF FINAL DECREE
<br />STEPHEN STUTZMAN, DECEASED X
<br />Now on this 24th day of August, 1946, this matter came on to be heard upon the pleadings and
<br />the evidence and was submitted to the court on consideration, whereof the court finds that due
<br />and legal notice of these proceedings has 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
<br />in said petition are true; that the said Stephen Stutzman died intestate in Hall County, Nebraska,
<br />more than two years prior to the commencement of these proceedings, and was seized and possessed
<br />at the time of his death of the following described real estate, to -wit: Part of the Southwest
<br />Quarter of the Northwest Quarter(6* NW4 of Section Nineteen (19), To riship Ten (10) North,
<br />Range Eleven (11), west of the 6th P. M., more particularly described as beginning at a point
<br />four feet west of the north west corner of Lot Six (6) in Block "B ", of the First Addition to
<br />the Town of Wood River, Nebraska, thence 100 feet to a point on the east line of the county road,
<br />which runs north along the crest line of said Section Nineteen (19), thence south along said east
<br />line of said county road 140 feet, thence east 100 feet to a point four feet west of the south.
<br />west corner of said Lot Six (6), thence north 140 feet to the place of beginning in Hall County,
<br />Nebraska. That no application has been made in the State of Nebraska for the appointment of an
<br />aftinistrator of the estate of said deceased. That the wife of the said Stephen Stutzman predeceased
<br />him and that he did not remarry, and that his only heirs -at -law were, and are, his children,
<br />Ralph Stutzman and Laura B. Schweitzer, and the court hereby finds and determines that said
<br />children are the sole and only heirs -at -law of the said Stephen Stutzman, deceased, and that
<br />said real estate descended to said children, an undivided one -half to each.
<br />IT IS, THEREFORE, CONSIDERED AND ADJUDGED BY THECOURT that the real estate above described
<br />be, and the same hereby is, assigned to the said Ralph Stutzman and Laura Stutzman an undivided
<br />one -half to each. It is further considered and adjudged by the _court that all claims and
<br />demands against the estate of the deceased, whether due or to become due, whether absolute or
<br />contingent, be, and the same hereby are, forever barred.
<br />Charles Bossert
<br />County Judge
<br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />STATE OF NEBRASKA )
<br />HALL COUNTY ) ss. I, Charles ssert County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby
<br />certify tha � I have compared the foregoing copy of FINAL DECREE in
<br />the Matter of the Estate of Stephen Stutzman, Deceased, with the original record thereof, now
<br />remaining in said Court, that the same is a correct transcript thereof, and of the whole of such
<br />original record; that said Court is a Court of Recordhaving a seal, which seal is hereto attached;
<br />that said Court has no Clerk authorized to sign certificates in his own name, and that I am the
<br />legal custodian of said Seal and of the Records of said Court, and that the foregoing attestation
<br />is in due form of law.
<br />I further certify - - - - -
<br />IN TESTIMONY '.,THEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court,
<br />at Grand Island, this 24th day of August, 1946.
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<br />WILL AND DECREE
<br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
<br />Charles Bossert
<br />County Judge.
<br />I, Ernst Baasch, of Hall County of the State of Nebraska, do hereby make, declare, and pub-
<br />lish this; my last will and testament, and hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
<br />I
<br />I order and authorize my executor to pay all the just debts of my last sickness and burial.
<br />II
<br />To my beloved wife, Bertha Baasch, I give and bequeath a life interest in all real estate
<br />that I may die seized of.
<br />III
<br />Subject to the life estate of my wife, Bertha Ba�.sch, I give, devise, and bequeath unto my
<br />son, Daniel Baasch, the East Half of the South Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 13,
<br />Township 11, North, Range 9, West of the 6th P.M..;; that being the portion with the buildings
<br />upon it.
<br />IV
<br />Subject to the life estate of my wife, Bertha Baasch, I give, devise, and bequeath unto my
<br />son, Elmer Baasch, the East portion of the South Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 13,
<br />Township 11, North, Range 9, West of the 6th P.M.; containing 39 acres more or less.
<br />To my beloved sons, Rudol-oh Baasch and George Baasch, I give, devise, and bequeath 23 acres
<br />more or less described herein1fter:
<br />A stria of land off the . rest side of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter and Lot
<br />2 on Island in said section running froth South to North through said premises with parallel sides,
<br />27 rods wide containing about 23 acres; subject, however, to the right of way over a strip of
<br />said land one rod wide at the South t.nd of said premises reserved in these grantors, their heirs,
<br />and assigns for the purpose of passing over said land to the premises lying adjacent thereto and
<br />East thereof.
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