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After Nearly Half A Century

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
December
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

 

AFTER NEARLY

          HALF A CENTURY

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World has been Received from Lewis Gordon

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WANTS HIS BIRTHRIGHT

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Which has been Given to his Wife on the supposition that He was Dead.

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Frank Jones has filed a petition in the probate court which will resurrect some matters that have been almost forgotten by the people of Saline.

Some 40 or 50 years ago Louis Gordon left for parts unknown. He had a wife who moved to Urbana, Ill. Nothing had been heard from him until a month ago, and it was commonly supposed that he was dead.

In 1880 his mother made a will and left her 160 acres of land to Edward Gordon, a son living in Jackson, Mich., and to Kate Gordon, the wife of Louis Gordon.

In 1884 she died, and the will was admitted to probate. The estate went through all the necessary steps in the probate court, but it was never closed up.

About a month ago Louis Gordon, who is now in Kansas City, wrote to Attorney Jones asking him to look up the estate and find its status. This was the first intimation anybody had that the son who had disappeared a half century ago was still in the land of the living. Mr. Jones has now filed a petition asking for a determination of the lawful heirs.