Roger Mills CO. OK TERR, Letters of Guardianship for Eli Clinesmith, 1903

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                  Filed May 26 1903

                               Case No. 10A
In the Matter Of Application of W.F. Rutherford                  IN THE PROBATE
 COURT
For Letters of Guardianship for Eli Clinesmith                      Of ROGER 
MILLS

                 COUNTY  O.T.
                                                 PETITION

Now Comes W.F. Rutherford, applicant herein and respectfully, States to the 
Court that he is a resident of said County of Roger Mills and Territory of
Oklahoma. That C.A. Clinesmith, wife of Eli Clinesmith and Lulu Rutherford, 
grand daughter of said Eli Clinesmith, only surviving heirs of the estate of 
said Eli Clinesmith, have each given their consent in writing that applicant 
be appointed guardian of the person and property of the said Eli Clinesmith, 
and each of said heirs have given their written waiver of notice of this 
application.
That said Eli Clinesmith has a homestead  undeeded ,and also two pony horses in
 said county and Territory; that said ponys are worth the sum of thirty $30.00
and the rent of said homestead claim is worth thirty $30.00 dollars annualy. 
That the said Eli Clinesmith has become insane to such an extent as to
render him mentaly incompetent to manage his business affairs; to conduct
his own business, or to properly care for himself personaly; that in order
to protect his property from being uselessly squandered by himself, and in
order to prevent him from making useless and unnecessary expenditures; and in 
order to protect and preserve said property to the best advantage to the said 
Eli Clinesmith and his said heirs; and also to properly protect the person of 
the said Eli Clinesmith, it has become necessary that a guardian be appointed 
over both his person and property.
    WHEREFORE premises considered applicant prays that a guardian be appointed
over both the person and the property of the said Eli Clinesmith, and that that
 applicant herein, W.F. Rutherford, be appointed and constituted such guardian
and for other orders and decrees of court, as may seem right and proper to the
court.

           W.F. Rutherford
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of May 1903

           R.K. Houston

          Probate Judge