Shoup v. Cummins

William H. Shoup and Lucy D. Shoup filed their bill in chancery in the circuit court of Sangamon county on June 28, 1927, for the partition of a farm of 248 acres, known as the Cotton Hill farm, of which their father, Samuel N. Shoup, died seized on March 10, 1886, and of another farm of 160 acres, known as the Pawnee farm, of which their mother, Alice J. Shoup, died seized of an undivided seven-twentieths on May 16, 1926. Both the father and mother died intestate, the father leaving Alice J. Shoup, his widow, surviving him, and his children, William H., Ettie May, Harry S. and Lucy D., his…