Thanks, Rick! The 'verdict' is: Administrator de bonis non - An administrator de bonis non may be appointed, if debts remain unsatisfied; used in cases where the goods of a deceased person have not all been administered. > Subj: Re: [MOJEFFER] Administrator de bono cor - Administrator de bonds gor > ? > Date: 2/28/2005 1:07:05 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: [email protected] > > I just looked, and it is hard to read. I would think it is "de bonis non" > for these reasons. > 1. "De bonis non" is a common phrase regarding administrations, and I don't know any other phrase it could be. 2. If the word were bonds, there is not enough space for it to be a "d" between the "n" and "s", but there is enough room for an "i", and it looks like the "i" in the word "said" in the same notice. 3. Each of the notices ends in a period. (See the ones above it).  The period in that notice is too far over if the last letter were an "r", [see the two notices above it] but is in the right location in the last letter is an "n" that the right side is of that "n" worn away or not visible on the scan.   Rick Saunders ------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 1911 --------------- EDINGER, C.C., dec'd, O.M. MUNROE   ex...Final EDINGER, Philip, dec'd, C.H. EDINGER   adm..Final ------------ "Notice of Final Settlement All creditors and others interested in the estate of Philip EDINGER, Deceased, are hereby notified that I, the undersigned, intend to make the final settlement of said estate at the next term of the Probate court of Jefferson County, Mo., to be held at Hillsboro on the fourth Monday in May, 1911.   Chas. H. EDINGER,   Administrator de bonis non ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --