Mary A. Pyles, Deceased

Application to Sell Lands

February 26, 1900

This being the day heretofore appointed to hear and determine the petition heretofore filed by J. F. McNeal, administrator of the Estate of Mary A. Pyles, deceased for an order to sell certain land herein after described for the purpose of division and distribution among the heirs and distributees of said estate, upon the ground that said lands cannot be fairly and equitably divided among said heirs and distributees without a sale thereof, said day being not less than thirty days from the time of making said application, now comes the said administrator and moves the court that said application be granted; And it appearing to the satisfaction of the court from proper evidence [?] that due notice of the filing of said application and that the same would this day be heard and determined [?] has been duly given and that Gus Pyles, Sallie Cates and her husband James Cates, Eliza Pyles, adult heirs and distributees residing in this state have been duly notified of the filing of said application and of the day set for hearing the same by citations issued and duly served upon them not less than ten days before this day and that William Pyles and Dock Pyles, Sulla Pyles, [Martha -see note] Fullmer (sic) and Henry Pyles, Eb. Pyles, Dan Pyles, Mary Pyles, and Alice Pyles and James Fulmer husband of [Martha - see note] Fulmer, have been duly notified of said application and of the day set for hearing said the same by publication for three successive weeks of a notice to them directed in the Hanceville Hustler a newspaper published in said Blount County and thereby brought into court according to law, the court now proceeds to hear said application.

And it appearing to the court from the allegations contained in said application and from the depositions of G. L. Bradford and D. G. Fulmer, disinterested witnesses taken upon interrogations and submitted by petitions as in chancery [?] cases which depositions are ordered to (be) filed and recorded that the lands mentioned and described in said application of which the said deceased xxx seized and possessed viz: The North West quarter, and also the East half of South West quarter of North West quarter of Section Three in Township Fourteen of Range four west containing sixty acres more or less in Blount County, Alabama. And also the East end of South East quarter and thirty acres on the West End of South West quarter of South East quarter of Section Two in Township Fifteen Range Four west, containing on hundred and ten acres more or less in Jefferson County, Alabama cannot be fairly and equitably divided among said heirs and distributees and that a sale therof is therefore necessary for the purpose of making such divisions and distributions among the said heirs and distributees it is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that said application be granted and the said Administrator is hereby ordered to sell said lands in Blount to the highest bidder at Harmony Church precinct no 35 in said Blount County on the 5^th day of April 1900 after first giving notice of the time, place and terms of sale and a description of the property by publication for three successive weeks in the Hanceville Hustler, a newspaper published in said county. And that he sell the lands in Jefferson County Alabama to the highest bidder at public auction after first giving notice of the time, places, and terms of sale together with a description of the property by publication once a week for the three successive weeks in the Dailey Ledger, a newspaper published in Birmingham [?] Jefferson County Alabama. (Said sale to be made at Postridge Cross Roads in Jefferson County) It is further ordered that said sales be made on the following terms to wit: One third of the purchase money in cash, the balance on credit until the first day of November, 1900 with interest from date secured by notes with at least two good and sufficient sureties.

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There is a pronounced blank in the document for the unknown first name of Martha Fulmer.

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