PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF P
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PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF PEARL RIVER COUNTY
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
CAUSE NO. 26-cv-201-M
LEO G. EAVES, JR. PLAINTIFF VERSUS
UNKNOWN HEIRS OF REGINA CULPEPPER (DECEASED), SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY FRANK HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, MATTHEW CULPEPPER, AND ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN THE LAND DESCRIBED HEREIN DEFENDANTS
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW OF REGINA CULPEPPER (DECEASED), SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, MATTHEW CULPEPPER, AND ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN THE LAND DESCRIBED HEREIN, if they be living and not to be found therein after diligent search and inquiry and whose places of residence, post office and street and house addresses are unknown after diligent street search and inquiry to ascertain the same; and if dead, their unknown devisees, executors, administrators or legal representatives are not to be found after diligent search and inquiry and whose places of residence, post office and street and house addresses are unknown after diligent street search and inquiry to ascertain the same
You have been made Defendants in the lawsuit filed in the Court by Plaintiff, LEO G. EAVES, JR., in his Complaint for Partition of Real Property seeking to have the Court establish the heirs-at-law of REGINA CULPEPPER (DECEASED), SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY FRANK HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, MATTHEW CULPEPPER, AND ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN THE LAND DESCRIBED HEREIN and seeking to adjudicate THAT the sole and only heirs-at-law of REGINA CULPEPPER are LEO G. EAVES, JR., SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY FRANK HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, and MATTHEW CULPEPPER.
IF TO BE FOUND IN THIS COUNTY, to be and appear before the Honorable Chase Ford Morgan of the Chancery Court of Pearl River County, Mississippi, to be held at the Courthouse thereof on the 25th day of August, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. in Poplarville, Mississippi, next, then and there to show cause, if any they can, why LEO G. EAVES, JR., SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY FRANK HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, and MATTHEW CULPEPPER should not be declared to be the sole heirs-at-law of REGINA CULPEPPER (DECEASED), according to law.
YOU ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR and defend against the Petition filed against you in this action on the date and time as set forth herein above before the Honorable Chase Ford Morgan in the Chancery Court of Pearl River County, in Poplarville, Mississippi; and in case of your failure to appear and defend, a judgment will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.
You are not required to file an answer or other pleading but you may do so if you desire.
ISSUED under my hand and seal of said Court, this 29th day of June, 2026.
MELINDA SMITH BOWMAN, CHANCERY CLERK
BY: Angelle Hume, D.C.
Picayune Item:
July 8, 15 and 22, 2026
26-CV-201-M
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF PEARL RIVER COUNTY
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
CAUSE NO. 26-cv-201-M
LEO G. EAVES, JR. PLAINTIFF VERSUS
UNKNOWN HEIRS OF REGINA CULPEPPER (DECEASED), SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY FRANK HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, MATTHEW CULPEPPER, AND ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN THE LAND DESCRIBED HEREIN DEFENDANTS
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT-LAW OF REGINA CULPEPPER (DECEASED), SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, MATTHEW CULPEPPER, AND ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN THE LAND DESCRIBED HEREIN, if they be living and not to be found therein after diligent search and inquiry and whose places of residence, post office and street and house addresses are unknown after diligent street search and inquiry to ascertain the same; and if dead, their unknown devisees, executors, administrators or legal representatives are not to be found after diligent search and inquiry and whose places of residence, post office and street and house addresses are unknown after diligent street search and inquiry to ascertain the same
You have been made Defendants in the lawsuit filed in the Court by Plaintiff, LEO G. EAVES, JR., in his Complaint for Partition of Real Property seeking to have the Court establish the heirs-at-law of REGINA CULPEPPER (DECEASED), SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY FRANK HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, MATTHEW CULPEPPER, AND ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN THE LAND DESCRIBED HEREIN and seeking to adjudicate THAT the sole and only heirs-at-law of REGINA CULPEPPER are LEO G. EAVES, JR., SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY FRANK HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, and MATTHEW CULPEPPER.
IF TO BE FOUND IN THIS COUNTY, to be and appear before the Honorable Chase Ford Morgan of the Chancery Court of Pearl River County, Mississippi, to be held at the Courthouse thereof on the 25th day of August, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. in Poplarville, Mississippi, next, then and there to show cause, if any they can, why LEO G. EAVES, JR., SHIRLEY F. HARTFIELD, LARRY FRANK HYATT, JUSTIN CARR, HEATHER CULPEPPER, and MATTHEW CULPEPPER should not be declared to be the sole heirs-at-law of REGINA CULPEPPER (DECEASED), according to law.
YOU ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR and defend against the Petition filed against you in this action on the date and time as set forth herein above before the Honorable Chase Ford Morgan in the Chancery Court of Pearl River County, in Poplarville, Mississippi; and in case of your failure to appear and defend, a judgment will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.
You are not required to file an answer or other pleading but you may do so if you desire.
ISSUED under my hand and seal of said Court, this 29th day of June, 2026.
MELINDA SMITH BOWMAN, CHANCERY CLERK
BY: Angelle Hume, D.C.
Picayune Item:
July 8, 15 and 22, 2026
26-CV-201-M