Etowah County AlArchives Court.....Meaders/Meadows, Farlar W. October 1897
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Source: Etowah County Probate Office
Written: October 1897

Farlar Meaders¡¦ Probate Records Transcripts

Page 11: Page
ƒÞ	Orders contain
Order to Sell


Page 12: Court Form
ƒÞ	The State of Alabama
Etowah County
Probate Court of Gadsden, Ala.

Deposition of Ignatius Chandler, and George Ross, witnesses, sworn and
examined under and by virtue of a Commission issued out of the
Probate Court of Etowah County, of the State of Alabama, in a certain cause
therein pending in the matter of James Meaders¡¦ petition to sell lands
for division.

The said Ignatius Chandler and George Ross, being duly sworn to speak
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, do depose and say
as follows:

1st. To first interrogatory they say that the names, ages, and residences
of the joint owners are correctly stated in the petition to the best of their
knowledge and judgment.

2nd. To the second interrogatory they say they do.

3rd. To the third interrogatory they say¡X
	 They say the said lands could not be equitably divided without a
	 sale of the lands.

[signed]	Ignatius M. Chandler
		G.H. Ross


Page 13: Court Form
ƒÞ	James Meaders v. Thos. Meaders at Ala.
Deposition of Ignatius Chandler and George Ross,
for Probate
Recorded in Record Book, Page 470

I, G.M.E. Mann, the Commissioner named in the annexed Commission,
hereby certify that the evidence of the witnesses Ignatius M. Chandler 
and George H. Ross, were written down by me under oath, and
subscribed by them in my presence, and held at Boaz, Ala, on the
ninth day of December, 1899, and that I have personal knowledge
of said witnesses, and that I am not of Counsel or of kin to any of
the parties to the cause, or in any matter interested in the result
thereof.

Given under my hand and seal, this ninth day of Dec 1899.
[signed]	G.M.E. Mann


Page 14: Probate Fee Bill
ƒÞ	Fee Book Page 173
In the Matter of James Meaders, Petition to Sell Land for Division
Attorney Donrath & Martin

Sale of Real Estate¡XAffidavit in Petition, 24c		 .25
Recording Petition, per 100 words, 15c			 .90
Order Appoint. Day of Hearing and Notice, $1.00		1.00
Order to Publish Notice of Same, 50c			  .50
Issuing Citations, Entering Sheriff¡¦s Return, 50c	3.50
Appointing and Notifying Guard, 50c			 .50
Issuing Commission to take Deposition, 50c		.50
Filing Interrogatories, 10c				 .10
Continuance, 1.00					1.00
Exam¡¦g Testimony and Grant, Order to Sell, 2.00		2.00
Recording Depositions, per 100 Words, 15c		1.85
Making Order on Report of Sale of Land, 75c		  .75
Recording Orders					3.65
Decrees in Final Settlement, 50c			12.00
							28.50

Record [illegible]					 2.50
Recording Order						1.87
Commission for Probate Court			        16.00
Total Probate Judge¡¦s Fee			        $48.87


Page 15: Court Form
ƒÞ	The State of Alabama
Etowah County
Probate Court

To the Hon. J.H. Lovejoy, Judge of said Court:

To the undersigned Commissioner, heretofore appointed by your Honor,
to sell certain Real Estate, which is particularly set forth and described
in the Commission which was issued and addressed to the undersigned
by your Honor, and which Commission is hereto annexed and ferred to
as a part of the Report:

Respectfully reports and represents unto your Honor, that in pursuance of,
and in strict accordance with, the directions of said Commission and the
statutes in such case made and provided, he did, on the 20th day of
October, 1900, at 12 o/clock, sell at public auction, in this County, the
property described in said Commission, to G.H. Ross, who was the highest
and best bidder for the same, for the sum of six hundred and forty-one
dollars, that being the highest amount bid at said sale; that said sale was in 
all respects fairly conducted; and that said G.H. Ross has complied with
the terms of said sale by the payment to the undersigned of the whole
of said purchase money, in cash, which money being the proceeds of
said sale, as directed by said Commission, for the purpose of being 
distributed among the parties interested who are named in said Commission,
according to law, and the orders of this Court, and he pays said money.

And said Commissioner, having fully complied with the directions of said
Commission, begs leave to submit the foregoing to the judgment and
further order of your Honor, as the report of his action in the premises.

Subscribed and sworn to by said Commissioner before me this 8th day
of Nov. 1900.

[signed]	A.A. Allison, Commissioner
		J.H. Lovejoy, Judge of Probate


Page 16: Letter
ƒÞ	In the matter of petition of James Meaders to sell land for division.

In Probate Court.
Joint Negotiations, to be [illegible]
The answers to which when . . . will be used in evidence at the hearing
and said after which date for December 11, ¡¦99.

1.	State whether or not the names, ages and residence, of the joint
owners of the lands described in the petition are as set forth in
said petition?

2.	Do you know the lands described in said petition filed Aug. 15, ¡¦99?

3.	Can said lands be equitably divided amongst the joint owners thereof 
without a sale of the lands?

[signed] Donrath & Martin, Attys for Petitioner

[remainder illegible]


Page 17: Note
ƒÞ	Petition of James Meaders to Sell Lands for Division
Inst. to [illegible]
[signed] Ross

Record is admin final. Record Book II, Page 469

Page 18: Court Form
ƒÞ	The State of Alabama
Etowah County

Before me, J.H. Lovejoy, Judge of Probate in and for said County,
came personally H.B. Moore and F.M. Uptain [?], who, being by me first
duly and legally sworn, says on oath that, Mary Francis Moore is a
daughter of Texann Moore who was a daughter of one F. Meaders
and the person named in a certain deed in the Probate Court of
Etowah County, Ala, as Francis L. Moore, and that Veda Burdy Moore
is also a daughter of said Texann Moore, and is the person mentioned
in a certain deed of said Case as Veda Moore, both being daughters
of said Texann Moore and Monroe Moore.

[signed]	X his mark
		H.B. Moore
		F.M. Uftain [?]


Page 19: Court Form
ƒÞ	The State of Alabama
Etowah County
Probate Court

To the Sheriff of Said County¡XGreeting:
Whereas, James Meaders has filed an application to sell certain
lands described in said application for division among the joint
owners thereof, and the 8th day of Dec. 1899, has been appointed
for the hearing of said application.

You are therefore hereby commanded to cite Thomas Meaders,
Alfred Meaders, Rufus L. Meaders, Eddie D. Meaders, Mary P. Meaders
and Wm. L. Meaders to appear before the said Court on said 8th day
of Dec. 1899 to contest said application if they think proper.

Witness, this 9th day of Nov. 1899
J.H. Lovejoy
Judge of Probate


Page 20: Court Form
ƒÞ	The State of Alabama
Etowah County
Probate Court
In the Matter of the Division of Lands on Petition of
James Meaders
11/9/99

Citation to Heirs or Devisees on Application to Sell Lands

The same appears the same on the Within Citation.

[signed]	James Meaders
		Thomas Meaders
		Alfred Meaders
		Mary P. Meaders
		A.L. Meaders
		E.D. Meaders
		R.L. Meaders

Recorded in Record Book III, Page 471



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