Duncan D. Lunsford Estate

Sale of Real Estate

To Henry Bedford

 

 

 

 

STODDARD COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Filed July 23, 1872

 

In the Probate Court of Stoddard County, Mo. 

In the matter of the Estate of Duncan D. Lunsford, Deceased

 

TO THE HONORABLE PROBATE COURT OF THE COUNTY OF STODDARD IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI AT THE APRIL TERM OF SAID COURT 1872.

           

IN OBEDIENCE TO AN ORDER MADE AT THE OCTOBER TERM OF THIS COURT AD 1871 DIRECTING THE UNDERSIGNED REUBEN HARPER ADMINISTRATOR DUBOIS NON OF THE ESTATE OF DUNCAN D. LUNSFORD DECEASED DIRECTING HIM AS SUCH ADMINISTRATOR TO SELL THE REAL ESTATE BELONGING TO SAID DECEASED AND MENTIONED IN SAID ORDER TO WIT; 

 

THE SOUTH HALF OF THE SOUTH EAST QUARTER AND THE SOUTH EAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTH WEST QUARTER OF SECTION NUMBER NINE (9) AND THE NORTH EAST QUARTER OF THE NORTH WEST QUARTER AND THE NORTH WEST QUARTER OF THE NORTH EAST QUARTER OF SECTION NO. SIXTEEN ( 16 ) IN TOWNSHIP NUMBER TWENTY FIVE ( 25 ) NORTH OF RANGE ELEVEN EAST, CONTAINING IN ALL TWO HUNDRED ACRES. 

 

HE DID ON THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF JANUARY AD 1872 BETWEEN THE HOURS OF TEN O'CLOCK A.M. AND FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON OF SAID DAY AT THE COURTHOUSE DOOR IN THE COUNTY OF STODDARD AND STATE OF MISSOURI DURING THE SITTING OF THE PROBATE COURT OF SAID COUNTY EXPOSE TO PUBLIC SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER UPON THE TERMS MENTIONED IN SAID ORDER THE REAL ESTATE ABOVE DESCRIBED FIRST HAVING HAD THE SAME DULY APPRAISED BY HENRY MILLER,  MARTIN CANEDY AND H.H. BEDFORD THE DISINTERESTED HOUSE HOLDERS OF SAID COUNTY, THEY HAVING BEEN FIRST DULY SWORN AS APPRAISERS BY THE AFFIDAVIT OF SAID APPRAISERS AND THEIR CERTIFICATE OF APPRAISEMENT HEREWITH FILED MARKED ( A ) AND MADE A PART HEREOF AND HAVING GIVEN FOUR WEEKS NOTICE OF THE ESTATE TO BE SOLD AND OF THE TIME PLACE AND TIMES OF SALE BY ADVERTISEMENT PUBLISHED IN THE SOUTH EAST REPORTER A NEWSPAPER PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN SAID COUNTY OF STODDARD AS APPEARS BY THE AFFIDAVIT OF THE PUBLISHER THEREOF HEREWITH FILED, MARKED AS EXHIBIT ( B ). 

 

AND IT SAID SALE SO MADE AS AFORESAID HENRY H. BEDFORD WAS THE HIGHEST BIDDER AND BEST BIDDER FOR SAID REAL ESTATE AT THE PURCHASED SUM OF NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE DOLLARS.  THE SAME WAS STRICKEN OFF AND SOLD TO HIM FOR THAT SUM AND THE SAID HENRY H. BEDFORD HAVING FULLY COMPLIED WITH THE TERMS OF SAID SALE, HAVING PAID TO ME THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SIX DOLLARS CASH AND EXECUTED HIS PROMISSORY NOTE DUE TWELVE MONTHS AFTER DATE OF SALE AS REQUIRED BY SAID ORDER.

 

                                                                                   

REUBEN HARPER

                                                                                    ADMINISTRATOR

 

 

REUBEN HARPER BEING DULY SWORN SAYS THAT HE DID NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY PURCHASE SAID REAL ESTATE OR ANY PART THEREOF OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, THAT HE IS NOT INTERESTED IN THE PROPERTY SOLD EXCEPT AS STATED IN THE ABOVE REPORT.

 

                                                                                    REUBEN HARPER

 

 

SWORN AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME THIS JULY 23rd, 1872.

 

                                                                                    R.W. CHRISTY, CLERK

                                                                                    G. J. HARVEY, D.CLERK

 

 

 

                                                                       

 

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Source:  Stoddard County Probate Records

Stoddard County Courthouse, Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Missouri

Transcribed by Shannon Greenhaw Marquis

July 22, 2004

 

 

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