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Mason Probate Records

Probate Records pertaining to the Estate of Burl W. Mason
Bastrop  County, Texas

The Probate Index includes the following:
No. 1664, B. W. Mason, Deceased
Volume P
     Page 107, Application for Temporary Administration
     Page 107, Order Appointing Temporary Administrator
     Page 112, Bond and Oath
     Page 124, Order Continuing Temporary Administration
     Page 199, Notice on Temporary Administration
     Page 200, Account of Temporary Administrator
     Page 202, Order Approving Account

No. 1685, Lucy Mason, Minor
Volume P
    Page 254, Application for Guardianship
    Page 255, Order Appointing Temporary Guardian
    Page 256, Waiver
    Page 256, Bond and Oath
    Page 256, Application to Make Mineral Lease
    Page 257, Order Setting Hearing
    Page 265, Guardian's Notice
    Page 267, Order to Make Mineral Lease
    Page 269, Report of Mineral Lease
    Page 270, Order Approving Lease

Due to the repetitive nature of many of the pleadings, I have chosen to include only the Application for Temporary Administration and the Account of Temporary Administrator here.  If you would like a complete copy of all pleadings, I will be happy to email a Word document with a complete transcript.

Volume P
     Page 107, Application for Temporary Administration 

In the Matter of The Estate of     §   No. 1664, In the County Court of                                                                                                          §   Bastrop County, Texas.
B. W. Mason, Deceased               §   In Vacation. August 27, 1925.

             TO THE HON. E. H. PERKINS, JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURT OF BASTROP COUNTY, STATE OF TEXAS:

            This, the application of Nettie Mason, a resident of Bastrop County, Texas, respectfully shows that B. W. Mason is dead; that he died on or about the 20^th day of August A.D. 1925, in the County of Bastrop and State of Texas, and that he died intestate; that said deceased was, at the time of his death a resident of the County of Bastrop and State of Texas; That at the time of his death, the said B. W. Mason was seized and possessed of real and personal property.

            That the personal property was of the probable value of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS and the real property of the probable value of FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS, and that the interest of said Estate requires the immediate appointment of an Administratrix, for the following reasons:

           FIRST:  The crops of the deceased must be gathered and marketed;

            SECOND:  The live stock must be fed and cared for;

            THIRD:  The debts due by said Estate must be paid and such moneys as may be due said estate, if any, must be collected;

            FOURTH:  The rents due on the real estate belonging to the deceased must be collected; and the real estate rented;

            That your applicant is not disqualified by law to act as Administratrix of said Estate, and that she is the widow of the said B. W. Mason, deceased; that it is not intended, under this temporary administration to dispose of any real estate belonging to the deceased.

            WHEREFORE your applicant prays the Court that she be appointed Temporary Administratrix of said Estate and that such citation issue, as required by law, and that such appointment, unless contested, at the next regular term of this Court, shall be made permanent.

 Nettie Mason, Applicant

Filed August 27^th, 1925.  
Tignal Jones, County Clerk

In the Matter of The Estate of     §   No. 1664, In the County Court of                                                                                                          §   Bastrop County, Texas.
B. W. Mason, Deceased               §   December Term, 1925.

           To the Honorable E. H. Perkins, Judge of said Court:

            Now comes Nettie Mason, Temporary Administratrix of the Estate of B. W. Mason, deceased, and respectfully herewith presents her account with said Estate, as Temporary Administratrix, as follows, to-wit:

            1.  Since she qualified as said Temporary Administratrix the following property belonging to said estate has come into her hands:

REAL ESTATE:

            First tract:  100 acres of the Joshua Gray Survey in Bastrop County, Texas.

            Second tract: 67 ˝  acres of the Joseph Adair Survey in Bastrop County, Texas.

PERSONAL ESTATE:

(a) One grey horse mule, about 15 hands high, about 9 years old, named “Aleck” valued at $100.00
(b) One grey mare mule, 14 hands high, 8 years old, named Laura, Valued at $100.00
(c) One Black horse mule, 7 years old, 15 hands high, left eye out, named “???”, valued at $75.00
(d) One grey mare, 10 years old, 16 hands high, named “Beauty” valued at $75.00
(e) One cultivator, valued at $25.00
(f) One Planter valued at $10.00
(g) One Sulkey plow, valued at $20.00
(h) Two turning plows, valued at $10.00
(i) One old wagon, valued at $5.00
(j) One brown cow, 10 years old;
(k) One dun colored Jersey Cow, 10 years old;
(l) One red and white spotted cow, 8 years old;
(m) One red cow, 6 years old;
(n) One black and white cow, 6 years old;
(o) One red Muley cow, 9 years old;
(p) Six calves, out of the above cows, and now with the mothers;
(q) One red heifer, 2 years old;
(r) One brown heifer, 2 years old;
(s) One red heifer yearling, 1 year old;
(t) Two pale red heifers, 2 years old;
(u) One Jersey heifer, 2 years old;
(v) One dark red bull, 2 years old;
(w) One spotted bull, 2 years old;
(x) One 5-passenger Ford Car, 1925 model, valued at $200.00;

Cash on hand First State Bank, Red Rock            $94.30
Cash on hand Lockhart National Bank               $158.00
Cash on hand Citizens State Bank of. Bastrop       $64.97
Total Cash on hand                                $317.27

 RENTS COLLECTED:

James Byron (Citizens State Bank of Bastrop)        $15.01
Proceeds cotton                                      61.73
Roxana Petroleum Company oil and gas rental
   (Lockhart National Bank)                          40.00
Total collections                                  $116.74

 2.

            She has paid the following debts against said Estate:

Total                                              $750.25

 3.

       All debts and expenses so far as known to the administrator have been paid;

 4.

       The following property belonging to said estate still remains on hand;

       One Ford car, hereinabove described;
       3 mules, hereinabove described;
       1 grey mare, hereinabove described;
       20 head of cattle, hereinabove described;
       1 cultivator, 1 planter, 1 Sulkey plow, 2 turning plows, and 1 wagon,
        hereinabove mentioned and described;
        Plow gear and harness for wagon and plows;

 RECAPITULATION.

Cash on hand, when administration was taken out         $317.27
Rents Collected                                         $116.74
Salary B. W. Mason collected from F. H. Birmingham      $333.35
Amount collected from pecans sold on farm               $  9.90

                                                        $777.26

Total debts paid                                        $750.25

Balance Cash on hand                                    $ 27.01

            The Temporary Administratrix herewith presents proper vouchers in support of each item of this account and asks that the account and vouchers be filed with the Clerk of this Court.

            The Temporary Administratrix further suggests to the Court that all of the debts against this Estate have been fully paid; that the deceased, B. W. Mason was twice married; that by his first wife, Pink Farris, he had three children, Mary Jane, who is now married to Alf Branum; Susie who is now married to A. H. McAfee and Henry Thomas Mason; that she had purchased from said three children all of their interest in the lands and property belonging to said estate, and that all of the same, including the cash balance, personal property and lands hereinabove described belongs to herself and her children; that there is therefore no necessity for a permanent administration, and she therefore prays that her above account be, in all things, approved and ordered to record, and that said Temporary administration be finally closed and the Temporary administratrix discharged.

                                      Nettie Mason, Temp. Admix. Estate  B. W. Mason, Deceased

            Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7^th day of December A.D. 1925.

(seal)                                                  Ida May Rubin, Notary Public,
                                                            Bastrop County, Texas

Filed December 8^th, 1925
Tignal Jones, County Clerk