Stephen and Ann Shepard to J. F. Stroud
S. F. Shepard and wife to J. F. Stroud
Source: Robertson County Deed Book page 12, March 9,1914
Contributed by Gayle Shepard Black
© 2010
We S. F. Shepard and wife An Shepard have the day bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and convey unto J. F. Stroud and his heirs and assigns forever a tract or parcel of land for the consideration of Twenty Five hundred dollars the payment of which amount is Secured by his four promissory notes, the first is for $378 and due September the 1st 1914 the 2 note for $810.90 is due June the 1st 1915 the 3rd note for $810.90 is due June the 1st 1916 the 4th note for $500.00 due June 1st 1917 Each note bearing interest from date the said tract of land lying and being in the 7th dis of Robertson County Tenn. joins the land of J. F. Stroud and others, also lies on the North side of the Turnersville and clarksville road and is bounded as follows to wit
BEGINNING at a Hickory Tobe Dardens S. W. Corner, runs 65 deg East and with his vernon Heads line 211 poles to Brush Creek thence up Brush Creek in a South West direction to a point due E of a stone, corner then west to the stone, the beginning corner of the original tract of 121 acres thence North to road then with the road, to J. F. Strouds S. E. corner of a four acre tract which he bought of William Shepard then with the line of the 4 acre tract to a Walnut then North 75 deg West 56 1/2 poles to Stake Strouds corner then North 8 East 43 pol 17 links to Stone J. F. Strouds corner then N 79 1/2 deg with Said Strouds line 101 1/2 pol to Stone in B. F. JAcksons old line now the said Strouds line then North 3 1/2 deg East 16 pol 8 links to Stake then S 79 1/2 deg East 26 1/2 pol to Stake in M. C. Wilsons line of a twenty acre tract then N 3 1/2 deg East with the line of the twenty acre tract 84 pol to Stake in the North boundary line of the said S. F. Shepard tract, then East with said Boundary line 57 pol to Stone in Tobe Dardens line Then South 53 1/2 poles to the beginning containing by estimation 130 acres more or less.
To have and to hold the above described tract of land and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto the said J. F. Stroud his heirs and assigns forever We covenant with the said Stroud that we are lawfully possessed of the said tract of land and have a good right to transfer it and the same is unincumbered we do further covenant and bind ourselves our heirs and legal representatives to warrant and forever defend the title to the said tract of land unto the said J. F. Stroud his heirs against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever, we are to retain an lien on said lands until the purchased is all paid, But in the execution of the foregoing deed of conveyance we hereby and herein reserve as a family grave yard one half acre more or less including the burying ground North west of where the dwelling house was burned and known as the Shepard grave yard, also a right of way to the same from the public road, this 9th day of March 1914.
S. F. Shepard
Ann A. (her mark) Shepard
Teste: R. M. Luter
State of Tennessee
Robertson County
Personally appeared before me R. M. Luter, a Notary Public in and for the said County and State, the within named S. F. Shepard the bargainer with whom I am personally acquainted, and who acknowledged he executed the within deed instrument for the purposes therein contained.
And Mrs Ann A. Sherrod, wife of said S. F. Shepard, having personally appeared before me, privately and apart from her husband, the said Ann A. Shepard acknowledged the execution of said deed to have been done by her freely, voluntarily, and understandingly, without compulsion or constraint from her husband, and for the purposes therein expressed.
Witness my hand and official seal, at Stroudsville Tennessee this 9th day of March 1914.
R. M. Luter Notary Public
Recd. April 10 1914 at 9:22 am.
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