Bishop v. Davenport

This was a bill in chancery, brought for partition, assignment of dower and distribution of personal estate.

The bill states, that in the month of October, 1867, Joel Gunter died, seized of the land described in the bill, intestate, and left as his widow, Ann M. Gunter, being the second wife of deceased, and as his children and heirs at law, by his first marriage, the complainants, (except two, who are descendants of a deceased child,) and two of the defendants, being six children in number by the first marriage, and that he left also, by said widow, Ann M. Gunter, seven children, sjx of them…