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Note: Dekalb Co. AL Probate Records Probate Record for Andrew Sitz (Seitz) Dekalb Co. AL Probate Record Book C, pp. 292-3 Dekalb Probate Court; Setting for Orphan's business. Special Term, January 20, 1851. This day Humphrey P. McBrayer and John Sitz, administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of Andrew Sitz, late of Dekalb County, deceased, filed their petition in this Court setting forth that their intestate died seized and possessed of the following described tract or parcel of land lying and being in said County towit: A part of the Northeast quarter of section four in Township Eleven of Range six east in the Coosa land District, containing seventy-seven acres. That is is necessary to divide the said tract of land between the heirs of the said Andrew Sitz, and that the said land cannot be equally, fairly and beneficially divided among the said heirs without a sale thereof: that said Andrew Sitz left four sons and four daughters alive and five grand-children, heirs of a deceased daughter, who are the heirs of said estate, that is to say, John Sitz, Andrew Sitz, Johnathan Sitz, and William Sitz, who are of full age, and Mary, a married woman, the wife of Jacob Rink, Milly, a married woman, the wife of Laban Ellis, Sarah, a married woman, the wife of Vachel Lankford, Elizabeth, a married woman, the wife of Humphrey P. McBrayer, and Nancy, Minerva, Sarah Jane, Elmina, and Mary Ann, heirs of Mary Ann Ellis, deceased, formerly Mary Ann Sitz, late wife of John W. Ellis, who are infants under the age of twenty-one years, all whom reside in the said County of Dekalb, except the said William Sitz, who is a resident of Grundy County in the State of Tennessee. Ordered by the Court that John W. Ellis be and he is hereby appointed guardian ad litem of the infant heirs of said decedant to wit: Nancy, Minerva, Sarah Jane, Elmina, and Mary Ann Ellis. It is further ordered by the Court that citations issue of John W. Ellis, guardian ad litem of Nancy, Minerva, SArah Jane, Elmina and Mary Ann Ellis, infant heirs of Andrew Sitz, and to Sitz, widow of said deceased, Johnathan Sitz, Andrew Sitz, and William Sitz, requiring them and each of them to appear at a regular term of this Court to be held on the second Monday in March, next, then and there to answer and defend against said petition. R.Estes Judge of Probate
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