Kate’s notes: The lack of first names for some of the people listed below is not the result of my inability to decipher the printed matter but that the forenames were simply not given, which was indicated as dashes inserted by the typesetter.

The Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina
Friday, January 15, 1886

NORTH CAROLINA.  }               In the Superior
IREDELL COUNTY.       }              Court.
(Before J. B. Connelly Clerk.)
Robert K. Gilliland and others, heirs-at-law
of David Gilliland, plaintiffs,
vs.
Jane Gilliland, David Gilliland, Mary (Gilliland) Stowe, and her husband, _____ Stowe, Martha (Gilliland) Mostellar, and her husband _____ Mostellar, Amanda Gilliland, Ludemia Gilliland, Ellen C. Gilliland, and Wm. L. Gilliland, widow and children of Wm. A. Gilliland, dec’d, and likewise heirs-at-law of David Gilliland, defendants.
This is a petition for a sale of the Lands of the late David Gilliland, of Iredell county, for partition among plaintiffs and defendants, his heirs-at-law.
    And it appearing to the court that all of the defendants are non-residents of this State and are necessary parties herein, notice is hereby given under an order of the court, to said Jane Gilliland, David Gilliland, Mary (Gilliland) Stowe, and her husband _____ Stowe, Martha (Gilliland) Mostellar and her husband _____ Mostellar, Amanda Gilliland, Ludemia Gilliland, Ellen C. Gilliland and Wm. L. Gilliland, deceased, son of said David Gilliland, dec’d, that they are required to appear on Thursday, February 18, 1886, before the Superior Court of said county, at the court house in Statesville, N. C., and answer or demur to the petition in this case already on file in the clerk’s office, and if they fail to do so, the same will be heard ex-parte as to them; and this notice will be published in THE LANDMARK newspaper for six successive weeks.
J.B. CONNELLY, C.S.C.      
Robbins & Long, attys.
January 8, 1886

                                                                                    -transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013