Alamo Tennessee Monday February 1st 1892
MRS. R. A. BOON
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SID AVERY admst et als
Be it remembered that on this the 1st day of February 1892 it being the regular County Court of Crockett County Tenn. MRS. R. A. BOON presented her petition in open court praying for homestead and dower out of the lands that R. K. BOON died seized and possessed. And it appearing that SID AVERY the administrator and all the Heirs of R. K. BOON decd has had legal and proper notice of this application and it further appearing that R. K. BOON died in this county in the year 1891* leaving the petitioner as his widow and that he died seized and possessed of the following land. One tract in District 9 bounded by… D. V. AVERY, LYONS and other, FARROW and others, S. AVERY and MRS. BOON containing 100 acres also one tract lying in the 13th civil district consisting of about 60 or 64 acres…
*[Providence Cemetery records show that R. K. BOON was born 3 Dec 1852 and died 5 Jan 1892]
(MRS. R. A. BOON aka Rose Ann Avery Boswell Boon had two children with Rufus K. Boon and was his 2nd wife, She later married Frank Welborn and moved to Kentucky)
Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.