Jefferson County, Iowa The Fairfield Ledger

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Fairfield Weekly Ledger
Jefferson County, Iowa
Transcribed by: Joey Stark

Note:  Typographical errors (followed by [sic]) and spelling variations in names in this document are intentional and reflect the actual newspaper articles. Transcriber’s notes are occasionally included and are indicated with [Ed. note:....]. Surnames shown here are in UPPER CASE for easy location; not rendered as such in the newspapers.

 SHERIFF’S SALE.
      By virtue of an Execution to me directed from the Clerk of the District Court of Henry County, Iowa, I will offer for saie [sic] on
  THURSDAY, the 20th day of May, 1869,
at the front door of the Court House in the city of Fairfield, Iowa, between the hours of 9 o’clock A.M. & 4 o’clock P.M., sale to commence at 1 o’clock P.M. of said day, for cash to the highest bidder, the following Real Estate, to wit : Lots Nos one and two (1 and 2) in block No. ten (10) in the town of Parsonville, formerly Lockridge, in the County and State aforesaid. Said property was taken in execution and levied upon as the property of Elizabeth GIBSON and Wilson LARISON to satisfy a judgment in favor of W. P. BRAZLETON, assigned to P. N. BOWMAN, rendered on the 19th day of August, 1858.         J. S. GANTZ,
  3w17pr$6         Sheriff of Jefferson co. Iowa.

Real Estate Transfers.--The following deeds to lands and town lots in Jefferson county, have been placed on record at the Recorder’s office for two weeks, ending May 4, 1869.

R. C. PICKEREL from Andrew KRAMER and wife, 10 acres in Locust Grove township. Deed dated April 23, 1869. 45 00
Christian WEIBY from Jacob SPAINHOWER and wife, 70 acres in Walnut township. Deed dated April 8, 1869. 1,750 00
John WENDLING from Jacob SPAINHOWER and wife, 50 acres in Walnut township. Deed dated April 8, 1869. 1,250 00
Elijah HEFFLIN from W. H. BARNES and wife, 8 acres in Fairfield township. Deed dated March 6, 1869. 1,625 00
Napoleon B. NIECE from Joseph D. PICKETT, 15 acres in Penn township. Deed dated August 24, 1867. 47 50
William HAYMOND from Peter T. FISHER and wife, 10 acres in Cedar township. Deed dated October 14, 1868. 100 00
Jonas GUSTUSSON from Andrew G. ANDERSON and wife, 40 acres in Lockridge township. Deed dated Jan. 2, 1869. 600 00
Calvin HOUGHTON from Charles NEGUS and wife, 40 acres in Fairfield township. Deed dated April 24, 1869. 480 00
Thos. J. CARR from Thomas CARR and wife, 10 acres in Liberty township. Deed dated Sept. 7, 1868. 300 00
William McCARTIE from John MANHARDT and wife, 10 acres in Walnut township. Deed dated Jan. 18, 1869. 150 00
John B. CROSKREY from David ORR and wife, 90 acres in Walnut township. Deed dated April 2, 1868. 950 00
Lorenzo D. SNOOK from Mary SAMPSON, 10 acres in Penn township. Deed dated March 29, 1869. 70 00
Major McMULLEN from Jonathan BEARD and wife, 165.44 acres in Blackhawk township. Deed dated Feb. 12, 1869. 2,062 50
Alexander N. JAY form Joseph KURTZ and wife, 1 acre in Walnut township. Deed dated April 12, 1869. 50 00
Simpson J. CHESTER from Oliver F. CHESTER, 20 acres in Buchanan township. Deed dated March 13, 1869. 400 00
Addison JOHNSON from A. M. EMRY and wife, 60 acres in Penn township. Deed dated Jan. 26, 1869. 1,600 00
Thomas BAIRD from Robert D. CALDWELL and wife, five acres in Locust Grove township. Deed dated April 14, 1869. 75 00
School Directors from John H. STOCKMAN and wife, lot in Blackhawk township. Deed dated November 23, 1865. 25 00
James HILL from Hiram C. FELLOWS and wife, 30 acres in Liberty township. Deed dated March 10, 1869. 700 00
Jacob S. STATER from Jacob WOODWARD and wife, 22 acres in Des Moines township. Deed dated April 9, 1869. 2,500 00

LEGAL NOTICE.
STATE OF IOWA, }
 Jefferson County,  } ss:
      To the citizens of Locust Grove Township :
You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the Circuit Court of said county, a petition of TAYLOR & McCULLOUGH, of Batavia, asking license and authority of said Court to sell intoxicating liquors as provided by law, and that said petition has been set for final hearing on the 4th Monday of May 1869, at which time and place you can appear and show cause if any you have, why said permit should not be issued.
{SEAL}  Witness my hand and the seal of said Court hereto affixed this 4th day of May, A.D. 1869.
        GEO. H. CASE,
no17 1t.       Clerk Circuit Court.

PROOF OF WILL.
STATE OF IOWA, }
 Jefferson County,  } SS:
To all whom it may concern :
  Know ye: That on the 20th day of April, 1869, a paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Joseph C. MONROE, late of said County, deceased, was produced in open Court, and publicly read, and the last day of the next term of the Circuit Court in and for said County, set for the proof and final hearing of the same, notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned, that the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court for said county, to be held in the Court House, in Fairfield, on the 4th Monday (i. e. 24th day,) of May, 1869.
[SEAL]  Witness Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the seal of said Court this 30th day of April, 1869.
      GEO. H. CASE,
2t18       Clerk of the Circuit Court.

Proof of Will.
STATE OF IOWA, }
Jefferson County,  } SS:
To all whom it may concern :
  Know ye: That on the 28th day of April, 1869, a paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Alonzo B. HUTCHINSON, late of said county, deceased, was produced in open court and publicly read, and the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court, in and for said county, set for the proof and the final hearing of the same, notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned that the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court for said county, to be held in the Court House, in Fairfield, on the 4th Monday of May, 1869.
[SEAL]  Witness, Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the seal of said Court, this 28th day of April, 1869.
      GEO. H. CASE,
  2t17     Clerk of the Circuit Court.

Proof of Will.
STATE OF IOWA, }
 Jefferson County,  } SS:
To all whom it may concern :
  Know ye: That on the 15th day of April, 1869, a paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Jacob MYERS, late of said county, was produced in open court and publicly read, and the first day of the next term of the Circuit Court in and for said county, set for the proof and final hearing of the same, notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned that the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court of said county, to be held in the Court House, in Fairfield, on the 4th Monday of May, 1869.
[SEAL]  Witness, George H. CASE, Clerk, and the seal of said Court this 27th day of April, 1869.
      GEO. H. CASE,
n17.2w     Clerk of the Circuit Court.

Proof of Will.
STATE OF IOWA, }
 Jefferson County,  } SS:
To whom it may concern :

  Know ye: That on the 9th day of February 1869, it being the 2d day of the February term, 1869. of the Circuit Court of said county, a paper purporting to be the LastWill [sic] and Testament of Samuel ASHMEAD, late of said county, deceased, was produced in open Court and publicly read, and the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court of said county, set for the proof and final hearing of the same, notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned that the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of Circuit Court, for said county, to be held in the Court-House, in Fairfield, on the 4th Monday of May, 1869.
[SEAL]  Witness, Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the seal of said Court, this 27th day of April, 1869.
      GEO. H. CASE,
n17.2w.     Clerk of the Circuit Court.

 Proof of Will.
STATE OF IOWA, }
 Jefferson County,  } SS:
To whom it may concern :
  Know ye: That on the 26th day of April, 1869, a paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Daniel J. TRAVIS, late of said county, deceased, was produced in open court and publicly read, and the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court, in and for said county, set for the proof and the final hearing of the same, notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned that the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court for said couety [sic], to be held in the Court House, in Fairfield, on the 4th Monday of May, 1869.
[SEAL]  Witness, Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the seal of said Court, this 27th day of April, 1869.
      GEO. H. CASE,
  2t17     Clerk of the Circuit Court.

Proof of Will.
STATE OF IOWA, }
 Jefferson County,  } SS:
To whom it may concern :
  Know ye: That on the 22d day of March 1869, a sealed envelope, said to contain the Last Will and Testament of John S. JOHNSON deceased, late of said county, was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and afterwards, to-wit: on the 21st day of April 1869, said sealed envelope was opened, and its contents, a paper purporting to be said Last Will and Testament of said deceased, publicly read in open Court, and the first day of the next term of the Circuit Court of said County set for the proof and final hearing of the same. Notice is threfore hereby given to all concerned that the proof of said Will will be heard on the first day of the next term of the Circuit Court for said County, to be held in the Court-House in Fairfield on the 4th Monday of May 1869.
[SEAL]  Witness, Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the seal of said Court, this 27th day of April, 1869.
      GEO. H. CASE,
2t17     Clerk of the Circuit Court.

Dissolution of Co-Partnership.
The co-partnership heretofore existing between F. B HUNTZINGER and A. W. LINABERRY, in the steam flouring mill business at Fairfield, Iowa, under the firm name of HUNTZINGER & LINABERRY was dissolved by mutual consent on the 12th day of April, 1869. Mr. LINABERRY retires from the firm. Either member will receipt for money. A settlement of all accounts is desired.
 F. B. HUNTZINGER,
 A. W. LINABERRY
  The undersigned will continue the milling business. He is thankful for past favors and hoping by strict attention to business, to merit a continuance of the same.
 F. B. HUNTZINGER.
  Fairfield, Iowa, April 20, 1869.--3t,16.

MARRIAGES.
  --April 22, 1869, at the residence of the bride’s father, 1½ miles north of Brighton, Mr. Chas. GIFT, of this county, and Miss Maggie PARKER, of Van Buren county.

  April 27, 1869, at the house of the bride’s father, in Liberty township, by Rev. John HAYDEN, Mr. James McCORMACK and Miss Racheal D. KIRKPATRICK.

  April 14, 1869, at the house of the officiating Justice in Liberty township, by James D. TOWNSEND, J. P., Mr. Willis L. STARKEY and Miss Joanna HICKENBOTTOM.

  April 29, 1869, at the Court House in Fairfield, by Thomas D. EVANS, Mr. Swan JOHNSON and Miss Augusta LINSTROM.