Probate Minute Book L, p. 482
Copiah Co., Ms
59 In the matter
of the application of R.B. Gilbert heir
at law of Webster Gilbert deceased to have an order for the allotment of
dower to the widow of said decedent Hannah
Gilbert.
On reading
and filing the petition of said R.B.
Gilbert for admeasurement and allotment of dower out of lands tenements and
hereditaments of which the said Webster
Gilbert died seized and possessed.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that all parties in any
manner interested in said real estate have waived notice in writing of the
pendency of said petition and consented that the Court may make the order for
admeasuring and allotting the said widows dower. And it being represented to the Court in said petition that said
Webster Gilbert died seized and possessed of the following described tract or
parcel of land situate lying and being in said County to wit, the South half of
the southwest quarter and the South west quarter of the South East quarter of
Section five and the North East quarter of Section eight, the North half of the
North East quarter and the North half of the North west quarter and the South
East quarter of the North West quarter, & the South west quarter of the
North East quarter of Section nine all of Township eight Range Six East. It is thereupon ordered adjudged and decreed
and his honor does order adjudge and decree that a writ of dower forthwith
issue directed to the Sheriff of this County commanding him to summon three
discreet free holders as commissioners not connected with the parties
consanguinity or affinity and entirely disinterested which said commissioners
after being sworn by said Sheriff shall allot and set off by metes and bounds
to the said Hannah one third part of
the lands tenements and hereditaments above described according to quality and
quantity comprehending the dwelling house in which the said Webster in his
lifetime and next before his death was most accustomed to reside together with
the buildings offices and houses and other improvements thereunto belonging or
appertaining and the said Sheriff shall put the said Hannah in possession
thereof said land so allotted to vest in her during the term of her natural
life, and that the said Sheriff return said writ together with the report of
said commissioners duly certified to a subsequent term of this Court. Ordered adjudged and decreed this 3rd
day of June AD 1867.
M.H.
Peyton Judge of Probate & c
p.283
60 In the matter
of the petition of R.B. Gilbert for
Division of the real estate of Webster Gilbert deceased.
On reading
and filing the said petition it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that
the said R.B. Gilbert is one of the
heirs at law of said Webster Gilbert
& W.F. Gilbert deceased and that he is now of lawful age to claim a
division of said real estate and it also appearing to the satisfaction of the
Court that D.W. Gilbert, N.A. Watson and
her husband William A. Watson, Lauanza Jane Davis and her husband W.W. Davis
and Hannah Gilbert heirs and distributes of said decedents have waived
notice in writing of the pendency of said petition and consented that the Court
might act in the premises. It is
thereupon ordered by the Court that Joeseph E. Chiles, Robert Hamilton, Seth
Applewhite, Eldridge Applewhite and Davis Applewhite disinterested freeholders
of this County be appointed commissioners and as such they are hereby ordered
and directed to divide the said real estate mentioned in said petition
excepting the dower of the said Hannah
Gilbert therein agreeably to the laws of descents and to allot and set
apart each heirs share thereof and that they make and return under oath a full
report of their proceedings under this order at a subsequent term of this
Court.
Ordered
adjudged and decreed this the 3rd day of June AD 1867. M.H. Peyton Judge of Probate & c.
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