STATE OF TENNESSEE LAUDERDALE COUNTY COUNTY REGISTER’S OFFICE DEED BOOK C-4
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WILLIS FITZGERALD<\/strong> TO LURTON A. FITZGERALD<\/strong>. DEED. 91.1 ACRES. KNOW ALL MEN BY The consideration for this conveyance is FORTY-six hundred ($4600.00) Dollars STATE OF TENNESSEE LAUDERDALE COUNTY COUNTY REGISTER’S OFFICE DEED BOOK C-4 PAGE 611 WILLIS FITZGERALD TO LURTON A. FITZGERALD. DEED. 91.1 ACRES. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: I, WILLIS FITZGERALD, for and in consideration of the matters hereinafter set …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-records","tag-fitzgerald"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTHESE PRESENTS: I, WILLIS FITZGERALD, for and in consideration of the matters
\nhereinafter set out have this day bargained and sold and do hereby
\nbargain, sell, transfer and convey unto LURTON A. FITZGERALD, his heirs and assigns
\nforever in fee simple, a certain tract or parcel of land together with all
\nimprovements, appurtenances and hereditaments thereunto belong, lying and being in
\nthe 5th Civil District of Lauderdale County Tennessee To Wit: Being a part of
\n292 acre tract conveyed by JACOB BYLER to JAMES JOHNSTON, BEGINNING at a stake
\nin a private road running from the Mississippi River back south into the bottom;
\nruns thence south 89 3\/4 degrees west 52 1\/2 poles to a stake in HENRY
\nDAUGHERTY’s east boundary line; thence south 4 degrees east with said line 8 1\/2
\npoles to a stake, said DAUGHERTY’s southeast corner; thence south 83 3\/4 degrees
\nwest with said DAUGHERTY’s south boundary line 51 poles to a stake in
\nW.E. LAMBETH’s east boundary line, said LAMBETH’s line 162 1\/5 poles to a
\nstake, the northwest corner of the KYLE A. STONE tract; thence south 89 degrees
\neast with STONE’s north boundary line 71 2\/5 poles to a stake in the road;
\nthence with the meanders of said road as follows; north 9 1\/4 degrees 40
\npoles, north 3 1\/4 degrees east 30 poles, north 6 3\/4 degrees east 58 4\/5
\npoles, north 18 degrees east 28 4\/5 poles, north 68 3\/4 degrees west 5 2\/5 poles;
\nthence north 15 3\/4 degrees east 17 64\/100 poles to the BEGINNING, containing 91
\n1\/10 acres, more or less. Being the same tract conveyed to WILLIS FITZGERALD by
\ndeed of GUS FITZGERALD et ux of record in Deed Book Z-3, Page 637 of the
\nRegister’s office at Ripley, Tennessee to which reference is here made. TO HAVE
\nAND TO HOLD said real estate unto the said LURTON A. FITZGERALD, his heirs and
\nassigns forever in fee simple. I am an unmarried man and have no wife to join in
\nthis instrument and I am at this time and have been for some time a non-resident
\nof the State of Tennessee. I COVENANT that I am lawfully seized and possessed of
\nsaid real estate; that I have a good and lawful right to sell and convey the
\nsame; that the same is unencumbered except by a deed of trust of record in
\nRealty Trust Book 40, Page 585 et seq of the Register’s Office of Lauderdale
\nCounty, Tennessee securing a loan owing to the Land Bank Commissioner, originally
\nfor $2700.00, but the amount due thereon as of June 1,1939 is the sum of
\n$2430.00, which is payable in semi-annual premiums of $135.00 on December 1st and
\nJune 1st of each year, with interest, originally contracted at 5%, but the present
\nrate of interest is 4%; and that I will warrant and defend the title to said
\nreal estate unto the said LURTON A. FITZGERALD, his heirs and assigns, against the
\nlawful claims of all other persons whomsoever.<\/p>\n
\npaid and to be paid as follows: Amount, Commissioner’s Loan as of June 1.1939:
\n$2430.00; Including interest thereon: $8.10 for total of $2438.10; Outstanding
\nrent note: $700.00 for $3138.10 total; Balance Cash: $1461.90 for total of
\n$4600.00. The Vendee hereby assumes and agrees to pay said Land Bank Commissioner
\nindebtedness of $2438.10 and is not to receive possession until January 1,1940
\nand all rents, issues and profits from said land during the year 1939, including
\nsaid rent note shall belong to and remain the property of the Vendor and the
\nVendor hereby acknowledged receipt of said balance of said
\nconsideration, namely, $1461.90 in cash. Out of said cash the Vendor has paid all
\ntaxes including taxes for the year 1939 and has paid the Land Bank Commissioner
\nall amounts due on said load including insurance premium so that the amount
\nowing under said loan is as stated hereinabove $2430.10. It is understood
\nbetween the parties hereto that the Vendee has obtained said cash consideration
\nfrom C.C. PARTEE of Memphis, Tennessee for which he has executed his note due
\nJanuary 10,1940, and an express Vendor’s Lein is hereby retained on said real
\nestate to secure the payment of said note which in fact constitute a part of the
\npurchase price on said land. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my
\nname on this the 27th day of June 1939. WILLIS FITZGERALD. State of Tennessee
\nLauderdale County Personally appeared before me, the undersigned Notary
\nPublic, in and for said county, WILLIS FITZGERALD, the within bargainer, with whom I
\nam personally acquainted, and who acknowledged that he executed the within
\ninstrument for the purposes therein contained and as his free act and deed.
\nWitness my hand and seal of office at office in Ripley, Tennessee this June
\n27th,1939. B.C. DURHAM Jr., Notary Public. PRESENTED FOR REGISTRATION on the 30th
\nday of June 1939 at 9:35 o’clock a.m. J.M. CURRY? CARNY? Register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"