BRUCE LUNSFORD

&

MAY (COMBS) LUNSFORD

 

DEED FROM

 

W. T. SHIRLEY & L. SHIRLEY

 

 

 

Deed Book 26, Cross County, Arkansas

 

Page No. 383

 

 

 

W. T. SHIRLEY & WIFE     

            TO                                                                              WARRANTY DEED

BRUCE & MARY [MAY] LUNSFORD

 

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT WE, W. T. SHIRLEY AND L. SHIRLEY, HIS WIFE FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS TO US PAID AND TO BE PAID BY BRUCE LUNSFORD AND MAY, HIS WIFE, AS FOLLOWS: 

 

ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE FEBRUARY 15TH 1913;  ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE MARCH 15TH, 1913;  ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE APRIL 15TH, 1913;  ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE MAY 15TH, 1913;  ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE JUNE 15TH, 1913;  ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE JULY 15TH, 1913;  ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE AUGUST 15TH, 1913;  ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH, 1913;  ONE NOTE FOR FIVE DOLLARS DUE AND PAYABLE OCTOBER 15TH, 1913, WITH INTEREST AT THE RATE OF TEN PER CENT PER ANNUM FROM DATE UNTIL PAID, DO HEREBY GRANT, BARGAIN, SELL AND CONVEY UNTO THE SAID BRUCE LUNSFORD AND MAY  LUNSFORD, HIS WIFE,  AND UNTO THEIR HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER, THE FOLLOWING LAND LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF CROSS IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, TO WIT;

 

LOTS SIXTY (60)  SIXTY ONE (61) AND SIXTY TWO (62)  IN BEDFORD’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF WYNNE ARKANSAS.

 

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD THE SAME UNTO THE SAID BRUCE LUNSFORD AND MAY LUNSFORD, HIS WIFE, AND UNTO THEIR HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER, WITH ALL APPURTENANCES THEREUNTO BELONGING. 

 

AND WE HEREBY COVENANT TO AND WITH THE SAID BRUCE LUNSFORD AND MAY LUNSFORD, HIS WIFE, THAT WE WILL FOREVER WARRANT AND DEFEND THE TITLE TO SAID LANDS AGAINST ALL CLAIMS WHATEVER, AND THAT THE SAID LANDS ARE FREE FROM ALL LIENS AND INCUMBRANCES. 

 

IT BEING EXPRESSLY UNDERSTOOD THAT A VENDOR’S LIEN IS HEREBY RETAINED UPON SAID LOTS OF PARCELS OF LAND TO SECURE THE PAYMENT OF RESIDUE OF THE PURCHASE MONEY HEREINBEFORE MENTIONED, AND THAT A FAILURE TO PAY ANY OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED NOTES WHEN THEY BECOME DUE AND PAYABLE THEN ALL OF THE NOTES SHALL BECOME DUE AND PAYABLE, WHETHER DUE OR NOT.

 

AND I, L. SHIRLEY, WIFE OF SAID W. T. SHIRLEY, FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE SAID SUM OF MONEY DO HEREBY RELEASE AND RELINQUISH UNTO THE SAID BRUCE LUNSFORD AND MAY LUNSFORD, HIS WIFE, ALL MY RIGHTS OF DOWER AND HOMESTEAD IN AND TO THE SAID LANDS.

     

 

  WITNESS OUR HANDS AND SEALS ON THIS 13TH DAY OF JANUARY 1913.

 

 

W. T. SHIRLEY       (SEAL)

L. SHIRLEY             (SEAL)

 

 

STATE OF ARKANSAS       /

COUNTY OF CROSS           /         

 

BE IT REMEMBERED, THAT ON THIS DAY CAME BEFORE ME THE UNDERSIGNED A NOTARY PUBLIC, WITHIN AND FOR THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID, DULY COMMISSIONED AND ACTING W. T. SHIRLEY AND L. SHIRLEY, HIS WIFE, BOTH TO ME WELL KNOWN AS THE GRANTORS IN THE FOREGOING DEED AND STATED THAT THEY EACH HAD EXECUTED THE SAME FOR THE CONSIDERATION AND PURPOSES THEREIN.

 

               

 

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Source:  Cross County Deeds

Cross County Courthouse, Wynne, Cross County, Arkansas

Transcribed by Shannon Greenhaw Marquis

 


 

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