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<br /> �VILL AND DECREE RECORD No. 10
<br /> 98892�THEIIUGUSTINECO.GRANDISLAND,NEBR.
<br /> and thereto attached i`s the follawing Certificate:
<br /> rrCERTIFICATE OF PROBATE OF WILL
<br /> STATE OF NEBRASKA )
<br /> )SS. At a Session of the County Court held in the Countq Court Roo� in Grand Isla.nd, in said
<br /> HALL COUNTY ) County,:on►the 26th day of Map, A. D. 1951.
<br /> Present Charles Bossert, County Judge
<br /> In the Matter of the Estate of Antonie Voss, Deceased
<br /> I, Charles Bossert, Judge of the County Court in and for said �ounty� do herebp certif� that on the 4th day of
<br /> May, 1951, instruments purporting to be the Last Will and Testament and Codicils thereto of Antonie Voss, deceased,
<br /> were filed for probate in this Court. That on the 26th day of Map, 1951,said instraments to which this certificate is
<br /> attached were �ulp proved, probated and allawed as the last wa�eand testament and Codicils thereto �' the r eal and
<br /> personal estate of said Antonie Voss, deceased, and the sam�/o �red to be recorded in the records of the Court
<br /> aforesaid.
<br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Coianty Court, this 26th day of
<br /> Map, 1951.
<br /> (S E A L) Gfiarles Bossert, Cauntp Jndge "
<br /> and said Herbert F. Mayer, named in said Will and Codicils, was appointed Executor thereof up.on furnishing bond in the
<br /> sum of $37,OOb.00, as ordered by:this Court, which bond was furnished and approved; the Court further finds that said
<br /> Antonie Voss, at the time of fier death, was a wid�+ and �hat she left the follawing heirs-at-law and only heirs-at-law,
<br /> to-wit: Emil J. Voss, Adolph Voss, Hartwig Jloss, Bernhard B. Voss, also knawn as Barney B. Voss, and Elfrieda V. Ford,
<br /> her children, all over the age of twenty-one years, she having had no other children leaving them issue surviving.
<br /> FOURTH '
<br /> The �ourt fnrther : �inds that on the 26th day of May, 1951, an order of this Court Was made allowing creditors
<br /> three months from and after the 20th day of June, 1951, in which to file their claim� against said estate and said
<br /> Executor one year in which to settle said estate, and further ordering that notice to creditors be published in the
<br /> Grand Island Independent, �a legal :newspaper published and circulating in Hall County, Nebraska, for three successive
<br /> weeks prior to the 20th day of June, 1951, and that a hearing on claims filed against said estate would be held at
<br /> the office of the County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska on the 22nd day of September, 1951, at 9 o�clock a.m., and it
<br /> appears by proof on file that notice of said order was published as ordered by this Court.
<br /> F IFTH
<br /> The Court further finds that on the 29th dap of May, 1951� sai� Herbert F. Mayer as Executor filed in .. this
<br /> C ourt his inventory of the property of said estate with a copy�'�`or`°�the County Assessor of Hall County, Nebraska, and
<br /> that according to said inventorp, the deceased died seized and possessed of the follawing described propertq, to-wit:
<br /> REAL ESTATE
<br /> All of Lot Six (6), exceptin� that part thereof conveyed by Warranty Deed recorded in Book 89 at Page 57? of Deed
<br /> Records of Hall Countp, Nebraska, of Voss Sub-division of a part of the East Half of the Southwest Quarter (E2SW4) and
<br /> a part of the West Half of the Southeast Quarter (W2SE4) of Section Eleven (11), in Township Eleven (11), N orth, Range
<br /> Nine (9), West of :the 6th P.M., i.n Hall County, Nebraska, according to the plat thereof recorded in Book S1 at Pa�e ?2
<br /> of the Deed Records of Hall Countp, Nebraska;
<br /> The Westerly One-half �K�};-of the follawing described real estate, to-wit: Fractional Lot Seven (7) in Fractional
<br /> Block Dne HUndred Four (104), of Railroad Addition to the Town of Grand Island, and its complement, Fractional Lot
<br /> Seven (?) in Fractional Block One Hundred Four (104) of Koenig f� Wiebe+s Addition to Grand Island, all in Hall County,
<br /> Nebraska;
<br /> Chattel Propertp of the ,approximate value of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$18,000.00
<br /> �g)
<br /> The Court further finds that according to the terms, conditions and provisions o�' said Last Will ��d Testament
<br /> and Codicils thereto of said deceased, all wearing apparel, bedding, linens, fancy work, jewelry and silverware were
<br /> bequeathed to said Elfrieda V. Ford, excepting ' such thereof as had been given said Testatrix bp her chi�:dren, which
<br /> gifts she bequeathed to such don�rs; the contents of decedents china cabinet were bequeathed to Elfrieda V. Ford, to
<br /> be bq her divided among the fine ��children of said Testatrix; the sum of $1.00 was bwqueathed to Dove Voss and the sum
<br /> of $1.00 to Thora Purcell; the real estate situated in Section 11, in Tor�nship 11 North, Range 9, more particularly .'
<br /> hereinbefore desaribed, was devised to Herbert F. Mayer as Executor to ..be bp him divided into five parts among the
<br /> four children of said Testatrix, to-wit: Emil J. Voss, Adolph Voss, Elfrieda V. Ford and Barney B. Voss, and Nerbert
<br /> F. Map�r as Trustee for :Hartwig Voss, to each such part thereof as said children and said Trustee might agree upon in
<br /> order to make an equitable and of value�,e qual distribution among said children; in the event that such equitable
<br /> division thereof agreeable to �afidN^c'���"ren and ssd Trnstee could not be made, which fact is evidenced by the state-
<br /> ment of inability to agree made in writing b� four of said children and filed With this Court on August 20, 1951, then
<br /> said Executor was directed to sell said land at public aale along with the rest of the real estate belonging to said
<br /> dec�ec�t and the net proceeds, after papment of expenses incident to such sale and furnishing a merchantable title and 1
<br /> abstracts to the purchasers, was bequeathed as follows:
<br /> $2so.oQ�to Emil J. Yoss,
<br /> $250.00 to Herbert F. Ma.per, as Trnstee for Hartwig Voss,
<br /> and the balance, share�land share alike, was bec�ueathed unto Emil J. �oss, Adolph Voss, Elfrieda V. Fvrd, Barney B. Voss,
<br /> whose real and true name is Bernhard B. Voss, .. and Herbert F. Ma.yer as Trustee for Hartwig Voss, i� �rust pursuant to .:.
<br /> the provisions of Paragraph 7 of the Cod cil to the Last Will and Testa�ent of said Testatrix, which Codicil bears date
<br /> of November 14, 1947. .
<br /> �S IXTH.
<br /> The Court further finds that on the 22nd dap of September, 1951, _an order of �this Conrt was made barring :the
<br /> filing �f any and all further claims against said estate and excluding the holders thereof fr�n settingtup or asserting
<br /> any such claims against said estate, and on the 29th dap of Septe�ber, 1951, ;>a hearing was held on claims, and
<br /> objecCions filed by said E�cecutor to the claim of Elfrieda V. Ford, Nh�se claim was allowed by the Court in the sum of
<br /> $233.70, and which claim, as allawed by the Court, has been fully paid by �$id E�cecutor,�
<br /> SEVENTH. (9)
<br /> The Court further finds that said Executor sold all of the real estate belonging to said decedent at public sale
<br /> as directed by said Last Will and Testament and Codicils thereto, and has liquidated all of said estate, has paid all
<br /> of the specific legacies in said Will and Codicils directed, excepting the legacies to Emil J. Voss in the swn of .�$250.00
<br /> and �he legacy to Herbert F. Mayer as Trustee for Ha+rtwig Voss in the sum of $250.00. The Court further finds that
<br /> determination of liability for inheritance tax in this estate has been made by this Court by order entered herein on
<br /> January 18, 1952, and that this estate is subject to the payment of no inheritance tax whatsoever and is wholly :
<br /> exempt fram Federal Estate Tax and State Eatate Tax; the Court further finds that all claims against said estate,
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