Deeds of Lauderdale County, Tennessee
Register's office Ripley, Tennesse
Lauderdale Co., Tn. Deed book UU; Page 457-458
E.F. Wilson & wife} State of Tennessee
to deed to 33 1/4 acres Lauderdale County
Julia Midgett }
For and in consideration of seven hundred and fifty ($750.00) dollars, six
hundred dollars of which is cash in hand, paid receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, and for the other one hundred and fifty dollars, Marion Midyett
has this day executed to me his interest bearing note, payable twelve months
after date, have this day bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and convey
unto Julia Midgett, wife of said Marion Midgett, the following described tract
of land, situated, lying and being in the 6th civil district of Lauderdale
County, Tennessee and being the same tract of land which was conveyed to me by
J.G. Haynes and wife by deed, which is recorded in the registers office at
Ripley, Tenn. In book "U-U", pages 440-1, to which reference is expressly made
for a full and complete description of said tract of land which is thus bounded:
beginning at a stake in the south boundary line of a 128 acre tract sold by the
chancery court of Lauderdale County in the cause of R.W. Sutton and wife against
Francis Parker, et als, and 124 poles from the southeast corner of the said 128
acre tract; thence west 80 poles to a stake; thence north 80 poles to a stake;
thence east 50 poles to a stake; thence south 36 poles to a stake; thence east
30 poles to a stake; thence south 44 poles to the beginning, containing 33 1/4
acres, be the same more or less. And I covenant with the said Julia Midgett
that said land is unencumbered and that I will forever warrant and defend the
title to the same to her, her heirs and assigns. An express lien is retained on
said tract of land to secure the payment of said $150.00 purchase money note,
said note also providing for reasonable attorneys fees in case said note is
collected by suit. And I, Christina Wilson, wife of said E.F. Wilson, hereby
join in this conveyance for the express purpose of conveying all of my homestead
dower or other right or interest in and to said tract of land.
Witness our hands this the 31st day of December 1904.
E.F. Wilson
Christina Wilson
State of Tennessee
lauderdale county }
Personally appeared before me, J.E. Pierson, notary public, in and for said
state and county. E.F. Wilson & wife, Christina Wilson, bargainors to the
foregoing and hereunto attached instrument with whom I am personally acquainted
and who acknowledged that they executed the same for the purpose therein
contained and Christina Wilson, wife of the said E.F. Wilson, having appeared
before me privately and apart from her husband, the said instrument to have been
done by her freely, voluntarily and understandingly without compulsion or
constraint by her husband and for the purpose therein expressed. Witness my hand
and seal of office at office in Ripley, Tenn, this 31st day of December 1904.
J.E. Pierson
notary public
presented for registration on the 31st day of Dec. 1904.
J. Monroe Garrett, Register
by John J. Shields, D.R.