Various Records from the Clay County Clerks Office

Clerk’s Office C.O. B. 52; Page 136

State of Indiana, Clay County, ss:  Clay Circuit Court 13th Judicial Circuit; Regular Session, January Term, 1906.

         At the Court House of said County, on Saturday, the 3rd day of February, 1906, being the 30th judicial day of said term, when present the same as heretofore, the following proceedings were had before the Hon. Presley C. Colliver, Judge of said Circuit, viz:….

No. 3537 - -Ex Parte.-- Partition

         Come now said petitioners and file their petition, as follows:  (here insert), and on motion this cause is now docketed and is submitted to the Court for hearing and the Court having inspected the petition and heard the evidence adduced finds for said petitioners, that all the material averments of their petition are true; that Hannah Whitworth died intestate……real estate named in the petition and described as follows, to-wit:  Lot number 33 in the town of Cardonia, in Clay County, Indiana, and lot number nine in Indianapolis Rolling Mill Company’s addition to the city of Brazil, in Clay County, Indiana: that the petitioners Sam Whitworth, John F. Pilant, Virgil Moore, Arthur, Hannah and Ella Pilant are the sole heirs at law of said Hannah Witworth, deceased, and by reason of such heirship are the owners of said real estate as tenants in common:  that petitioners Sam Whitworth, John F. Pilant and Richard Moore are adults, each more than 21 years of age, and that petitioners Virgil Moore, Arthur, Hannah and Ella Pilant are minors, each under the age of 21, and that John F. Pilant is the legally appointed, qualified and acting guardian for said minors…….It is therefore the judgment and decree of the Court that said real estate be sold, and, after payment of costs and expenses of this action, the net proceeds of such sale be divided among the respective owners, pro-rata as their interests respectively appear, and the Court now appoints John M. Rawley a Commissioner to make such sale

In Clerk’s Office

Application for Letters of Administration.

State of Indiana, Clay County, SS:

       Hezekiah Meakin being duly sworn upon his oath says that Hannah F. Gibbens departed this life intestate at Brazil, in Clay County, Indiana, on the 14th day of September, 1943, without leaving any Last Will and Testament to his knowledge and belief; that said descendent was at, or immediately previous to her death a resident of Clay County, Indiana, and that she left a personal estate of the probable value of Two thousand Dollars, and real estate of the estimated value of Seven hundred Dollars, and that said decedent left surviving her as her sole and only heirs at law so far as known to the affiant as follows:

       Thomas Murray, age 72, Nephew--Brazil, Ind.; John H. Meakin, age 60, Nephew--Brazil, Ind.; Nellie M. Meakin, age 58, Niece--Hayward, Cal.; Hezekiah Meakin, age 54, Nephew--Brazil, Ind.; William L. Meakin, age 52, Nephew--San Leandro, Cal.; Dorothy Love, age 48, Niece--Hayward, Cal.; Bessie Adams, age 45, Niece--Brazil, Ind.; Lillian Meakin, age 42, Niece--Hayward, Cal.; Rosemary Armstrong, age 40, Niece--Hayward, Cal.; Mollie Murray, age 78, Niece--Kingman, Ariz.; Lizzie Williams, age 65, Niece--Brazil, Ind.; and Anna Zenor, age 67, Niece--Barnsdale, Okla.

Therefore your affiant asks that Letters of Administration of the Estate of said decedent be granted to Hezekiah Meakin of Brazil, in Clay  County, Indiana.  Hezekiah Meakin

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 18th day of September, 1943.  My com. Expires Jan. 2, 1945.  Samuel W. Lee, Notary Public.

Examined and approved in open Court, 9-20-1943 John W. Baumunk, Judge of Clay Circuit Court.

Filed Sept. 20. 1943  Samuel C. McQueen, Clerk

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