Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — THE MAKEEVER LAND ALLOTMENT. [ARTICLE]

THE MAKEEVER LAND ALLOTMENT.

The final act in the division of the, Madison Makeever land took place Wednesday evening, in the Commissioners’ room, at the court house. AU the children now in Rensselaer were present, the absent ones being John L., Sanford and Madison Melvin, all of New York, and one daughter, Mrs. Mahany. The ten allotments of land, as made by the commissioners were numbered and numbers corresponding to these numbers were placed in a box, and each of the heirs drew out a ticket and received the allotment of land bearing that number. The tracts of land varied somewhat in size but each was valued at $4,800, as near as the commissioners could estimate them. The amount each received in acres, not counting fractions, was as follows? Mrs. Bessie Parker, 80 acres. Mrs. Maggie B. Sigler, 108 acres. Sanford E. Makeever, 80 acres. Mrs. Martha E. Mahany, 80 acres. Madison Melvin Makeever, 90 acres.

John L. Makeever, 90 acres. Mrs. Jessie G. Grant, 90 acres. Milton A. Makeever, 90' acres. Mrs. Mary A. Gibbon, 95 acres. Mrs. Ida A, Robison, 106 acres. Each seemed satisfied with the portion they had drawn, and one of them reported that no one was willing to trade with any of the others. Some amusement was created by the results of the drawing. Thus Mrs. Ida Robinson, who lives in the Kansas gas belt and needs no firewood drew 40 acres of solid timber and 60 more with a good deal of timber, while Milton M. who lives on the treeless and gasless prairies of Nebraska, and therefore needs wood badly got all prairie land. Very few X>f the tracts of each heir lies in A solid body it not be ing found practicable by the commissioners to divide it in that way. The children who were not present at the drawing were acted for by attorneys.