Carr v. Carr

Joseph S. Carr died testate February' 26, 1896, possessed of an estate of homestead in lots 4 and 5 in block 3, of Adams’ addition to the city of Jerseyville. He had been twice married, and his second wife, the appellant, Henrietta J. Carr, survived him as his widow. He left as his heirs-at-law his eleven children, nine of whom were born during the first marriage and two during the second. Four of these children are minors, two of them, the appellee Georgia B. Carr, and Festus E. Carr, are children of the first marriage, and Mae E. Carr and Fern Carr of the second. Bettie E. Wallace, one of…