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Petition to Divide Real Estate of Webster Gilbert & W. F. Gilbert

 

Copiah Co., MS Loose Probate Records         (Film: 905,469)

Est W. & W.F. Gilbert for Division of Real Estate

Filed 9th May 1867

 

To the Honorable M.H. Peyton Judge of the Probate Court of Copiah County Mississippi

            The petitionor of the under signed would respectfully represent unto your Honor that he is an heir at law of Webster Gilbert and W.F. Gilbert both late of said county now deceased and that the said decedent Webster Gilbert died ___red and possessed of the following real estate lying and being situated in said County and described as follows, to wit: the South half of the South West quarter and the South West Quarter and the South West Quarter of the South East quarter of Section five and the North East quarter o 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 and the South West quarter of the North East quarter of Section nine, all of Township eight Range six East containing by estimation five hundred and twenty acres more or less, and the said W. F. Gilbert dec’d seized and posssessed of the following real estate to wit the South East quarter of the Noth East quarter of Section nine Township eight Range six East.  That Hannah Gilbert is the widow of said Webster Gilbert deceased and has a dower interest in the lands above mentioned as belonging to the said Webster Gilbert deceased at the time of his death.

            That this petitioner has applied at the term of the Court to have the dower of the said Hannah allotted and assigned to her according to the state___ in such case made and p___ed.  That said decedents left being and ___ing e the following ___ heirs to wit: your petitioner, Jane Davis wife of Woodard Davis, Nancy Ann Watson wife of William A. Watson and W.D. Gilbert who are equally interested in both the above mentioned tracts of land after the ___ment of dower in the tract of land mentioned as belonging to the said Webster Gilbert at the time of his death.  That the said W.F. Gilbert was the brother of your petitioner and the above heirs above named and the said Webster Gilbert was the father of them.

That your petitioner is desirous after the said allotment of dower to have the balance of said land divided by metes and bounds among the said heirs and to the ___ and therefore that the balance of said land may be divided among the said heirs that all of the above named parties be ___ to be and appear before this court at the next term to show cause if any the? Cause why said land should not be divided and that upon the hearing of this petition your honor will grant an order to have said lands divided according to law among said heirs and your petitionor ___ in duty bound will ___ pray.

 

Sworn to & subscribed in         }          R.B. Gilbert

Open Court 9th May 1867        }

                                    M. Cook          Clk

 

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