St. Clair County
Circuit Court Records
Osceola Sun
10 June 1880
Order of Publication.
State of Missouri, county of St. Clair, ss. In vacation of the circuit court of
said county, September term, 1880. Narcisssa Loveless plaintiff, vs. Thomas F.
Loveless, John M. Loveless and Overton Loveless, defendants. At this day comes
the plaintiff herein by her attorneys before the undersigned clerk of the
circuit court of St. Clair County, in the State of Missouri, and files her
petition and affidavit in vacation, stating among other things that the above
named defendant, Thomas F. Loveless, is a non-resident of the State of Missouri;
whereupon it is ordered by the clerk aforesaid, in vacation aforesaid, that said
defendant be notified by publication that plaintiff has commenced a suit against
him (and the other defendants, who are residents of St. Clair County), in this
court by petition and affidavit, the object and general nature whereof is to
obtain a judgment and decree of partition of, by this court, of the following
described real estate situate in St. Clair County, Missouri, among and between
the above named plaintiff and defendants, as heirs of Chileon Loveless,
deceased, to-wit: Lot three of the north-west quarter, except 13 ½ acres off the
southwest corner, and the part west of the center of the grade of the Kansas
City, Memphis and Mobile Railroad in section 6 (six) and west half of lot 4
(four), northwest quarter of section 6 (six) except the part west of the grade
of the Kansas City, Memphis and Mobile Railroad, and west half of lot 1 (one)
northeast quarter of section (6) six all in township 35, range 25; also lot 2 of
the northeast quarter, and lot 3 of the northeast quarter of section one (1), in
township 39, range 26, containing in all two hundred acres. The petition of
plaintiff alleges that plaintiff is the widow of Chileon Loveless, and as such
has elected to take a child’s part; that the parties to this suit each are
entitled to an undivided fourth part of said real estate; that the defendant
Thomas F. Loveless, has heretofore received his share in said estate by way of
advancement. And that unless the said defendant, Thomas F. Loveless, be and
appear at this court at the next term thereof to be begun and holden at the
court house in the town of Osceola, in said county, on the 6th day of September
next and on or before the 6th day of said term, if the term shall so long
continue, and if not then before the end of the term, answer or plead to the
petition in said cause the same will be taken as confessed and judgment will be
rendered accordingly.
And it is further ordered that a copy hereof be published accordingly to law in
the Osceola Sun, a weekly newspaper printed and published in said county.
James M. Pugh, Clerk.
State of Missouri, County of St. Clair, ss. I, James M. Pugh, clerk of the
circuit court of St. Clair County aforesaid, hereby certify that the above is a
true copy of the original order of publication, as the same appears in my
office. Witness my hand as clerk, and the seal of said court. Done at office in
Osceola, [Seal] this 17th day of May, 1880.
James M. Pugh, Clerk.
Shaffner & Harrison, attys for pltff.
Final Settlement
Notice is hereby given to all concerned, that I will proceed to make final
settlement of the estate of Samuel Robertson, deceased, on the 3rd day of the
next regular term of the St. Clair county probate court, to be begun and held on
th e2d Monday in August, 1880.
Millinder Robertson, Administratrix.
