DeWitt County Texas - Wills: Otto Neitch ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Chris Klasing jckassoc@bellsouth.net USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Source: Dewitt County Court Minute Book Written: April 13 1923 Recorded: April 13 1923 J. E. Manning & W. B. Layton THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF DEWITT Affidavit of Heirship & Adverse Possession The Public BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, on this day personally appeared J. E. Manning and W. B. Layton, me well known, and known to be disinterested parties, who being by me first duly sworn, on their oaths depose and say: We have known B. F. Gill since about the year 1893. At that time he had been in the State of Texas only a short time. He was at that time a widower, and he never remarried after that. His death occurred near Yoakum, in DeWitt County , in the year 1899. We have been informed and believe that he had two wives,=20 marrying the second one on or about July 27, 1876, and that said second wife died in 1887. His children by said second wife were as follows: Dora Gill, wife of Wm. Connor, now about 45 years of age, Willie Gill, wife Otto Neitch, now about 43 years of age, John Gill, now about 40 years of age , George Gill, now about 38 years of age. These were all of the children by th e said second wife. The said Willie Neitch, and husband Otto Neitch, have been in open adverse possession of the fifty three acres of land in DeWitt County, Texas, conveye by A. Layton and wife to B. F. Gill by deed recorded in vol. 39, page 635, DeWitt County Deed Records, since the death of the said B. F. Gill in 1899, having the same inclosed under fence, claiming the same and paying taxes=20 thereon, and there has been no claim thereto adverse to them during said period that we have ever heard of. J. E. Manning W. B. Layton Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of April, A. D. 1923 Durell Miller, Notary Public DeWitt County, Texas The State of Texas County of DeWitt BEFORE ME, the Undersigned Authority, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, on this day personally appeared J. E. Manning and W. B. Layton, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that they each executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE this 13th day of April, A. D. 1923 Durell Miller, Notary Public DeWitt County, Texas I hereby certify that the foregoing instrument was filed for record the 20th day of Apr. 1923 at 4 oclock P. M. and was recorded the 21st day of Apr. 1923 at 8:45 oclock A. M. [signed] J. T. Newman, County Clerk, DeWitt County, Texas By J. P Bridges, Deputy Affidavit of Heirship and Adverse Possession The Public BEFORE ME, the Undersigned Authority, a Notary Public in and for said County and State on this day personally appeared Otto Neitch and wife Mrs. Willie Neitch, who being by me duly sworn, their oaths depose and say: The said Willie Neitch is one of the four children of B. F. Gill by his seco- nd wife, the other three being Dora Gill, wife of Wm. Connor; John Gill and George Gill. The said B. F. Gill was married twice. We understand that there were four children by the first marriage, but we do not know them or their whereabouts. The said B. F. Gill married said second wife on July 27, 1876 and the above mentioned four children are the only children born by said second marriage. The said second wife, mother of the said Willie Neitch, died in 1887, and the said B. F. Gill died near Yoakum, in DeWitt County on December 18, 1899. We have been in open adverse possession of fifty-three acres of land, in DeWitt County, Texas, sold by A. Layton and wife to B. F. Gill by deed recorded in Volume 39, page 635, DeWitt County Deed Records, paying taxes thereon, and claiming the same ever since the death of the said B. F. Gill o n December 18, 1899, having the same inclosed under fence, and there has been no claim made thereto adverse to us that we have ever heard of. Our claim, however, was not adverse as to the sister and two brothers of said Willie Neitsch from whom we obtained deeds for their interest in said land. Otto Neitch Willie Neitch Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of April, A. D. 1923. Durell Miller, Notary Public DeWitt County, Texas The State of Texas County of DeWitt BEFORE ME, the Undersigned Authority, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, on this day personally appeared Otto Neitch and Willie Neitch, his wife, both known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that they each executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed; and the said Willie Neitch, wife of the sai d Otto Neitch, having been examined by me privily and apart from her husband,= and having the same fully explained to her, she the said Willie Neitch acknowledged such instrument to be her act and deed, and declared that she h ad willingly signed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed, and that she did not wish to retract it. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE this 13th day of April, A. D. 1923 Durell Miller, Notary Public DeWitt County, Texas