McCallister v. McCallister

Edwin McCallister married Mary Sweeting in the early sixties. She was the owner, by inheritance, of the fee in some real estate, designated in this record as tracts 1 and 2, in Pike county, Illinois, subject to the life estate of her mother, Maria Sweeting Wall, who died in 1911. Mrs. McCallister and her husband from the time of their marriage lived on tract 1, cultivated and improved it and there raised their family of ten children. When Mrs. Wall died the McCallisters took possession of tract 2, lying immediately north of tract 1, and cultivated and improved that 80 acres. All of the lands…