Byars v. Spencer

It appears that one Thomas Whitson, of Jackson county, in this State, was, in his lifetime, the owner of one hundred and seventy-four acres of land, situated in that county; that the land was improved, and he resided on the. same many years before his death. He was twice married, and was the father of eleven children, nine by the first and two by the latter wife. He survived both, and the children by the first wife, being grown, had left him, and he remained on the farm with complainants, the two children by the latter wife. They were minors, the one eight and the other ten years of age. • He…