Deed Index, Grantor
SOWDER
Deed Index, Grantee
Either W-339 or N-339 Claiborne Co TN
| Rebekah Sowder of Whitley Co KY to Isaac Sharp of Claiborne County for $100.00 "my individual eighth part in the following tracts of land adjoining each other in the Third Civil District of Claiborne County, on the waters of Town Creek, the two tracts containing 200 acres more or less and is the lands that Adam Sowder my father died seized and possessed of at the time of his death and (joins) the land of Isaac Thomas on the south and the land of said Isaac Yoakim on the west and the lands of said Isaac Sharp on the north and northeast which individual eight part in said tract of land -- as one of the heirs at law of said Adam Sowder, deceased, to Isaac Sharp. | ||
| Attest
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Rebeckah X Sowder
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SOWDER, W.H. and Adeline For and in consideration of the sum of one dollar and the matters herein after stated, we W.H. Sowder and wife Adaline Sowder, of Claiborne County, Tennessee hereby sell, transfer and convey to James Sowder as trustee, a certain tract or parcel of land situated and lying in the 6th civil district of Claiborne County, Tennessee, the same being the tract or plot of land on the farm which we now own about one mile north of the town of Arthur and known as the family grave yard or burying ground and bounded as follows: Beginning on a set stone; thence west 75 feet to a stone; thence south 75 feet to a stone; thence east 75 feet to a stone; thence north 75 feet to the beginning.
To have and to
hold the said premises to the said James Sowder and his heirs forever in
the trust for the following purposes and no other. That is to say that
I am desirous of dedicating said lot for the purpose of a burying ground
for myself and for all the members of my family and their descendants for
ever, and for the purpose of lodging the legal title some where I have
hereby created the said James Sowder trustee and conveyed the same to him
in trust to be forever held by him and his heirs as such trustee forever
for the sold purpose above set out. Also a convenient way of ingress and
egress is hereby
excepted and reserved over my said farm to and from said burying ground
herein dedicated, which way of ingress and egress is reserved for myself
and all the member of my family and their descendants forever.
In testimony
whereof we hereunto subscribe our names on this 4th day of March, 1915.
his mark X W.H. Sowder
Her mark X Adaline Sowder
Attest
J.R. Ketron
Gilbert Sowder
State of Tennessee
Claiborne County
Personally appeared
before me, J.R. Ketron, a notary public in and for said county, the within
named bargainors, W.H. Sowder and his wife, Adaline Sowder, with whom I
am personally acquainted and who acknowledge that they executed the within
instrument for the purpose therein contained. And Adaline Sowder, wife
of the said W.H. Sowder, having appeared before me privately and apart
from her said husband, the said Adaline Sowder acknowledged the execution
of said deed to have been done by her freely, Voluntarily and understandingly,
without compulsion or constraint from her said husband and for the purposes
therein expressed.
Witness my hand
and official seal at office this March 4th, 1915.
J.R. Ketron Notary Public
Received for record May 15, 1925 at 10 o'clock a.m. recorded May 16,
1925.
Minnie L. Schultz Regr
Registered at the Claiborne Co. TN, Court House, Book Number 50, Page
126
Submitted by Margret Evans