STORMS BUSINESS BLOCK--L HAAS STORE--CHAIN OF TITLE--ALSO SERVES AS STORMS FAMILY GENEALOGY--SOURCE IS ABSTRACT TO BUILDING AT 221 EAST MAIN, CARMI, IL, AS THE INFORMATION WAS USED TO PREPARE NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION FOR THE PROPERTY 11/2/1818 UNITED STATES TO LEONARD WHITE AND LOWRY HAY 8/3/1818 LEONARD WHITE & WIFE TO LOWREY HAY 8/25/1819 LOWREY HAY TO GEORGE & WILLIAM WHITAKER--THE WHITAKERS WERE LISTED AS LOGAN CO KENTUCKY RESIDENTS ON THIS DEED 7/6/1831 GEORGE WHITAKER & WIFE AND WILLIAM WHITAKER & WIFE TO SAMUEL D. READY AND JOHN M. ROBINSON--WHITAKERS WERE LIVING IN LOGAN CO KY AND LAWRENCE CO ALABAMA--PRICE WAS $150 10/16/1834 JOHN M. ROBINSON & MARY B. AND SAMUEL D. READY & LUCINDA TO JOHN STORMS--PRICE $300--TOOK OUT $200 MORTGAGE, PAID OFF 8/26/1839--IN 1837 JOHN STORMS TOOK OUT MORTGAGE OF $718.10 TO H.H. JONES & CO. MERCHANTS--IN 1838 JOHN & LUCY STORMS TOOK OUT ANOTHER MORTGAGE OF $383.00 TO JAMES RATCLIFF--IN 1843 STORMS GAVE MORTGAGE TO BANK OF ILLINOIS AT SHAWNEETOWN FOR DEBT OF $900 OWED FROM 1840--IN 1846 JAMES RATCLIFF SUED FOR FORECLOSURE ON A MORTGAGE OF $561.00, BUT ABSTRACTORS NEVER FOUND FURTHER PROCEEDINGS ON THE CASE.--IN 1854 STORMS MORTGAGED THE LOT FOR $525 TO THOMAS L. SMITH--MORTGAGE PAID OFF 8/26/1864 JOHN STORMS DIED 5/19/1858--LUCY ADMINISTRATOR--IN 1859 REPORT SHOWED ASSETS OF $130.61, CLAIMS ALLOWED $1052.95, PLUS DISPUTED CLAIMS OF $1271.81, WHICH LUCY BELIEVED WERE PAID DURING LIFETIME OF MR. STORMS--FINAL REPORT 5/24/1866 SHOWED ESTATE DEFICIT OF $1502.94, WHICH WAS PAID BY SONS HAIL AND NORTH STORMS--COURT GAVE EACH OF THEM $500 LEIN AGAINST REAL ESTATE OF JOHN STORMS, WHICH WAS SHOWED AS PAID 4/7/1875 BY PARTITION BY DEED--THE STORMS CHILDREN WERE HAIL STORMS AND ROSETTA STORMS (ADULTS) AND NORTH STORMS. LAURA STORMS, AND CUMA STORMS (MINORS)--LUCY GOT LOT 73 AND PART LOT 74, AS LOT 73 CONTAINED THE HOMESTEAD AND THE TWO PROPERTIES INCLUDED 1/3 OF TOTAL ESTATE VLAUE 7/22/1873 ROSETTA STORMS, LAURA STORMS & CUMA STORMS TO HAIL & NORTH STORMS--THIS IS ONLY FOR 24 FEET OF LOT 73, AND SEEMS TO BE FOR THE 24 FEET CLOSEST TO THE PUBLIC SQUARE--THIS IS THEIR 3/5 OF UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN THE LOT 12/26/1881 CUMA STORMS, LAURA STORMS LAND AND ROSETTA STORMS ROGERS AND THEIR HUSBANDS TO HAIL AND NORTH STORMS--PRICE WAS $2,233.33--THIS WAS FOR 22'4" X 101' LYING WEST OF THE 24' LISTED ABOVE--THEY GOT EXTRA $500 FOR GIVING QUITCLAIM TO LOT 74--THE ROGERS WERE LIVING IN KNOX CO ILLINOIS. 12/26/1881 HAIL STORMS, CUMA STORMS, NORTH & ANNA STORMS, AND ROSETTA STORMS ROGERS AND HUSBAND TO LAURA STORMS LAND--PRICE $2,233.33--THIS IS FOR THE NEXT 22'4" X 101' OF LOT 73 IT IS NOT IN THE ABSTRACT BUT CUMA STORMS MUST HAVE BEEN DEEDED THE WEST 22'4" OF THE LOT--ORIGINAL CARMI TOWN LOTS WERE 91' X 101', SO HAIL AND NORTH GOT 24'+22'4", WHILE LAURA AND CUMA EACH GOT 22'4'--ROSETTA DIDN'T GET ANY OF THESE PROPERTIES SINCE SHE HAD MOVED LAURA STORMS LAND DIED 11/8/1883, WITH HUSBAND PREDECEASING HER AND NO CHILDREN--HAIL STORMS PETITIONED TO BE ADMINISTRATOR--SHE ALSO OWNED 61 ACRES IN LOTS 24 AND 25 OF CARMI TOWNSHIP, BUT THE PART OF LOT 73 WAS WORTH $330 FOR TAXES, VS. ABOUT $200 FOR THE REST. 2/15/1884 ROSETTA STORMS ROGERS AND SIDNEY ROGERS TO CUMA STORMS--PRICE 643.75--FOR 1/4 INTEREST IN SUBLOT 2 OF LOT 73--THEIR SHARE INHERITED FROM LAURA STORMS--THE ROGERS LIVED IN GALESBURG 2/9/1886 CUMA STORMS TO HAIL & NORTH STORMS--SOLD HER 1/2 INTEREST IN SUBLOT 2 NORTH STORMS DIED 8/30/1893 IN EVANSVILLE--HAD CHILDREN KATHRINA STORMS, JOHN STORMS, NORTH STORMS, LEE STORMS, FRANK H. SOTRMS--DIED INTESTATE, SO WIFE GOT 1/3 AND CHILDREN 1/5 OF 2/3. 3/20/1896 HAIL STORMS AND ANNA L. STORMS, WIDOW, AND KATRINA, JOHN, NORTH, LEE, AND FRANK STORMS, HEIRS OF NORTH STORMS TO MORRIS BLASKER AND FLORA FUHS--THE STORMS OWNED THE EASTERN 57 1/2 FT OF LOT 73 AND BLASKERS OWED REMAINING 33 1/2 OF THE LOT--STORMS WERE PLANNING TO PUT UP BRICK BUILDING, AND THIS DEED MAKES 9" ON EACH SIDE OF PROPERTY LINE A PARTY WALL--IF BLASKER PUT UP BUILDING AFTER STORMS HE WOULD PAY 1/2 OF STORMS COST FOR BUILDING ORIGINAL WALL--NORTH STORMS FAMILY SIGNATURES WERE NOTARIZED IN VANDERBURGH COUNTY--THE FLORA FUHS WAS WITNESSED IN POSEY COUNTY ON 6/27/1900 ANNA STORMS SUED HER CHILDREN FOR PETITION FOR ASSIGNMENT OF DOWER--SHE SAID HUSBAND WAS 1/2 OWNER OF 24' ON NE SIDE OF LOT 73, & NEXT 33 1/3', WHICH WAS 22 1/3' OFF OF SUBLOT 1 AND 11 1/6 OF SUBLOT 2--ANNA STORMS WAS LIVING IN NORFOLK CO MASSACHUSETTS TO FILE THIS PETITION--IN A FILING THE ADDRESS OF KATHRINA, NORTH AND FRANK WAS 604 UPPER FIRST STREET, AND FRANK WAS TEMPORARILY STAYING AT 923 UPPER FIRST, AND KATRINA AND NORTH WERE TEMPORARILY AT WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS--IT SEEMS THAT ANNA GOT A LIFE ESTATE ON THE PARTS OF LOT 73 HAIL STORMS DIED 8/24/1905--HE HAD WILL DATED 8/15/05--GAVE ALL HIS REAL ESTATE TO KATRINA, JOHN, NORTH, LEE & FRANK STORMS--ALL RE GIVEN TO NIECES AND NEPHEWS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WORTH $19,650--THERE IS ALSO PROVISION FOR EQUALING BEQUEST TO SISTER ROSETTA STORMS ROGERS--DIED IN EVANSVILLE, BUT WAS CARMI RESIDENT--ROSETTA WAS CARMI RESIDENT, BROTHERS KIDS ALL LIVED AT 604 UPPER 1ST--HAIL ROGERS APPOINTED ADMIN (SON OF ROSETTA?)--INVENTORY INCLUDED 24' ON NE SIDE LOT 73--SCHOEMANN STORE, AND 33 1/2' OF LOT 73--HAAS STORE--BY END OF ADMIN IN 1909 ROSETTA ROGERS HAD JOHN M. CREBS AS HER CONSERVATOR FOR SOME REASON ON 3/14/1923 THERE IS AFFIVADIT THAT HAIL STORMS WAS A BACHELOR --FILED 1939--OIL? 5/12/1920 ROSALINE B HEBERER AND ARTHUR C. HEBERER, HUSBAND TO ANNA STORMS, NORTH STORMS AND JESSIE, WIFE, AND KATHRINA, FRANK, JOHN & LEE STORMS--THIS WAS QUIT CLAIM OF THE NE 2/3RDS OF LOT 73--AT THIS TIME ANNA STORMS LIVED IN E'VILLE, NORTH AND JESSIE IN MONTCLAIR NJ, FRANK AND JOHN IN NYC, AND LEE IN CHICAGO--HEBERERS WERE E'VILLE RESIDENTS 1/5/1924 KATHRINA STORMS, NORTH AND JESSIE, LEE, FRANK AND WIFE HELEN, AND ANNA STORMS TO JAMES M CULLISON--WARRANTY DEED FOR THE NE 24' OF LOT 73--PRICE $5,000--KATHRINA IN VERMONT, FRANK, NORTH, AND LEE IN COOK CO., JOHN AND WIDOW ANNA (IT ALMOST LOOKED LIKE JOHN HAD DIED AND ANNA WAS HIS WIDOW) IN E'VILLE--DEED WITNESSED ALL DURING MONTH OF DECEMBER TO GET PERSONS LIVING AWAY FROM CARMI 5/26/1924 QUIT CLAIM FROM JAMES AND SALLY CULLISON TO ANNA, KATHRINA, NORTH, LEE, FRANK & JOHN STORMS 1' OF NE 24' OF LOT 73--THIS WAS TO CORRECT PRIOR DEED, WHICH WAS ONLY FOR 23'--SUBDIVISION OF LOTS WAS FIXED TO MAKE CULLISON #1, STORMS HEIRS #2, AND BLASKER #3.' IN 1927 LEE STORMS GOT SUED BY FNB OF CARMI FOR $1671.28, BUT IN 1931 IT WAS MADE SUBSEQUENT TO MORTGAGE FOR $10,000 TO PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK IN E'VILLE AND ASSIGNED TO NORTH STORMS--A LEVY WAS PLACED ON LOT 73 IN 1928--LEE STORMS GOT SUED FOR $2220 IN 1930 BY HARRY AND FRANCES BOURLAND FOR SUPPORT OF HIS CHILD--LEE WAS LIVING IN CLAYPOOLE HOTEL, INDIANAPOLIS--LOT 73 WAS ATTACHED IN THIS PROCEEDING--JUDGMENT $2120 10/20/1927 ANNA, JOHN, KATHRINA, NORTH AND JESSIE, AND LEE STORMS TO FRANK H. STORMS--WARRANTY DEED FOR MIDDLE 34'6" OF LOT 73--BOT OTHERS OUT ON SEVERAL LANDS AND THIS ONE--THIS DEED NOT FILED UNTIL 12/19/1930, WHICH IS WHY LEVIES WERE MADE 5/23/1928 FRANK AND HELEN STORMS TO NORTH STORMS--QUIT CLAIM DEED RECORDED 4/5/1939--DEED WAS FOR SEVERAL PROPERTIES--NOTED THAT ALL PARTIES WERE LISTED AS CHICAGO RESIDENTS, BUT FRANK SIGNED IN NYC AND HELEN SIGNED IN PINELLA CO. FLORIDA--DIVORCE DEAL ON JUNE 9, 1933 JESSIE STORMS WAS GRANTED A DIVORCE FROM NORTH STORMS, IN COOK CO. ILLINOIS--COUPLE SEPARATED 4/22/1930--ONE CHILD, ROBERTA, IN SCHOOL AND LIVING WITH WIFE--JESSIE GOT $16000, PLUS PAYMENT OF DR. BILL AND SCHOOL COSTS AND $1250 FOR ATTORNEY FEES--MADE POINT THAT DECREE WOULD NOT BE LIEN ON WHITE COUNTY PROPERTIES 6/10/1933 JESSIE STORMS TO NORTH STORMS--QUITCLAIM DEED ON ACCOUNT OF DIVORCE ON 4/13/1939 NORTH STORMS SIGNED AFFIDAVIT SHOWING THAT HIS DAD NORTH STORMS DIED IN 1893, HIS MOTHER ANNA DIED IN MARCH 1930, AND BROTHER JOHN DIED 11/2/1931--ALL PROPERTY WENT TO SURVIVING FOUR CHILDREN--FRANK STORMS WAS DIVORCED FROM HELEN IN MAY 1928, AND LEE STORMS WAS MARRIED FROM 3/18/1915 TO 1918 TO ROZALINE BOURLAND AND DIVORCED--KATHRINA NEVER MARRIED 8/1/1939 NORTH STORMS TO KATHRINA STORMS--QUITCLAIM--ONLY NOTICED THE 34'6" LOT MENTIONED--SHE IS LIVING IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT KATHRINA STORMS DIED 3/22/1951 IN BURLINGTON VERMONT--NO WILL--HEIR NORTH STORMS DIED 7/25/1951 IN CHICAGO--LEE STORMS WAS IN INDIANAPOLIS AND FRANK STORMS IN WASHINGTON DC--COUSIN MARGUERITE STANSFIELD OF MT. CARMEL FILED FOR HAVE ESTATE ADMINISTERED IN ILLINOIS BY STEWART PEARCE--LOT 73 WAS VALUED AT $20,000 IN 1953-54 INVENTORY--LATER WE HAVE COPY OF KATHRINA'S WILL--GAVE NORTH STORMS ALL OF HER ILLINOIS PROPERTY--DID MAKE OTHER GIFTS TO OTHER BROTHERS--NAMED A MARIAN PATTERSON OF UNDERHILL VERMONT AS CO-EXECUTOR WITH NORTH STORMS--LATER MADE CODICIL TO SPLIT PROPERTIES TO LEE AND FRANK IF HAIL WAS DECEASED AT TIME OF HER DEATH NORTH STORMS ESTATE PAID $59,973 IN STATE INHERITANCE TAXES IN 1954--HIS ESTATE WAS ABOUT $500,000, BUT COSTS AND CLAIMS WERE $171,000--DID HAVE DAUGHTER ROBERTA STORMS HALL--MINITA WESTCOTT TRAINOR AND HARRIS TRUST BANK WERE EXECUTORS OF HIS ESTATE--ROBERTA IS LIVING IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA--THIS MINITA GOT ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY, WITH HER SON WESTCOTT TRAINOR NEXT IN LINE, AND ROBERTA THIRD--GAVE ROBERTA $25000, FRANK $5000, AND LEE $100, ON BASIS THAT HE GOT MONEY DURING LIFETIME (MINITA WAS NOTARY WHO WITNESSED 1939 AFFIDAVITS)--SHE AND/OR HER HUSBAND GEORGE WERE NORTH'S BUSINESS PARTNERS, LOCATED AT TRIBUNE TOWER IN CHICAGO--GAVE HER A 1352 ACRE FARM IN WHITE COUNTY--HOOPPOLE BEND--IN AN INVENTORY LOT 73 WAS ILLINOIS REAL ESTATE PROPERTY #50 6/15/1954 HARRIS BANK AND MINITA WESTCOTT TRAINOR TO HELEN CONGER HAAS, A WIDOW--SOLD MIDDLE 34'6" FOR $25,000 5/27/1966 HELEN CONGER HAAS TO C. WILLIAM FECHTIG, EXECUTOR--THIS IS COPY OF HER WILL--LOTS OF CHINA, FURNITURE & SUCH MENTIONED, BUT SMALL $ BEQUESTS--SHE DIED 4/29/1966--LOT 73 LISTED IN INVENTORY OF ESTATE AT $18,000--HER HOUSE ON 3RDSTREET WAS LISTED AT $15,000 11/1/1967 C. WILLIAM FECHTIG TO FELIX AND ROGER MYERS, DOING BUSINESS WAS MYERS HOME SERVICE--PRICE $20,000--PAID BY MORTGAGE TO FNB--ON 12/31/1974 ROGER MYERS FILED NOTICE THAT HE ALONE WAS TRANSACTING BUSINESS AS L. HAAS STORE AND MYERS HOME SERVICE--MORTGAGE RELEASED 11/10/1981 FELIX MYERS DIED 5/23/1974--NO WILL--DUE TO P/S BUY-SELL AGREEMENT NAUDA GOT HAAS BUILDING AND ROGER GOT RENT HOUSE, AND ROGER TO GET REST AND SETTLE UP WHEN ESTATE DISTRIBUTED--P/S ASSETS $156,023, LIABILITIES $66,892--ESTATE LATER LISTS HAAS STORE AT $30000 FMV, WITH MORTGAGE OF $10,597 12/31/74 MYERS HOME SERVICE PARTNERSHIP TO NAUDA MYERS--QUIT CLAIM DEED ABSTRACTORS NOTE THAT LIENS AGAINST ROGER MYERS AFTER 1/21/1975 WERE NOT LISTED--TNB SUED HIM IN CASE #81-DH-22, RECEIVED JUDGMENT 3/12/82, AND JUDGEMENT STATED ROGER AND SUE MYERS WERE DISCHARGED IN BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 3/19/1980, CASE #CK-80-40299 TITLE OPINION TO WHITE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FROM ENDICOTT AND FINCH WAS DATED 5/4/1992--NO PROBLEMS NOTED--BUILDING SOLD SHORTLY AFTER THAT DATE Cindy Birk Conley cbconly@midwest.net From Southeastern Illinois to your modem!! http://www.midwest.net/scribers/cbconly ------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. 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