Joseph Ivey Eaton LUNSFORD

 

DEED for Undivided Interest from

 

Jeff & Rebecca (Lunsford) MEDFORD

&

John & Melissa (Lunsford) JENNINGS

 

 

Crockett County, Tennessee

Deed Book N, Page 681-382

15-Dec-1900

 

Jeff Medford, et al

To       } Deed ½ undivided interest in 37Acres 6 District $150.00

J. I. Lunsford

 

            For the consideration of Two hundred dollars, cash in hand to us paid, the receipt of which we hereby acknowledged, we, Jeff Medford & wife Rebecca Medford & John Jennings & wife Melissa Jennings, all of Crockett Co., Tenn. have this day and date bargained, sold and by these presents do hereby transfer & convey unto J. I. Lunsford of same Co. & State, his heirs & assigns forever, the following ½ of undivided interest (or a ¼ undivided int. each) in the following described tract of land, lying & being situated in 6^th Civil Distr. of Crockett Co., Tenn. & bounded as follows; on the North by F. H. Kail, on the South by Phillips heirs, East by B. F. Kail, and West by Cox, containing 37 acres, more or less.

 

To have & to hold the above described tract of land to him, the said J. I. Lunsford, him & his heirs & assigns forever. We, the said Medford & Jennings covenant with said Lunsford that the said ½ undivided interest in said land is unencumbered, and we have a good and perfect right to sell and convey the same. We further covenant and bind ourselves, our heirs and assigns to forever warrant & defend the title to the said ½ undivided interest in and to said land, to him, the said J. I. Lunsford, him & his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims of any and all persons whomsoever. And we the said Rebecca Medford & Melissa Jennings, wives of the said Jeff Medford & John Jennings, do hereby join our husband in the above conveyance, hereby releasing all our rights title & interest in and to said land and to homestead, dower or any other claim we or either of us might have to said land by virtue of the homestead laws, or any other claim given under the exemption law of Tenn.

 

Given this Dec 15 1900.

 

                                                                        J. W. Medford

Rebecca (her X mark) Medford

J. B. Jennings

M. E. (her X mark) Jennings

 

 [ J. M., et al ]

[ 12-15-1900 ]

[ Documentary ]

 

State of Tennessee

Crockett County

 

            Personally appeared before me D. B. Dodson, Clerk of the County Court of said County, the above named J. W. Medford, the bargainer with whom I am personally acquainted, and acknowledged that he executed the within named instrument for the purposes therein contained, and Rebecca Medford, wife of the said J. W. Medford, having personally appeared before me, privately and apart from her husband, the said Rebecca Medford acknowledged the execution of the said instrument to have been done by her freely, voluntarily, understandingly, without compulsion or constraint from her said husband and for the purposes therein expressed.

 

            Witness D. B. Dodson, Clerk of said Court, at office this 15 day of Dec. 1900.

 

                                                                                    D. B. Dodson, Clerk

 

State of Tennessee

Crockett County

 

            Personally appeared before me D. B. Dodson, Clerk of the County Court of said County, the above named J. B. Jennings, the bargainer with whom I am personally acquainted, and acknowledged that he executed the within named instrument for the purposes therein contained, and M. E. Jennings, wife of the said J. B. Jennings, having personally appeared before me, privately and apart from her husband, the said M. E. Jennings acknowledged the execution of the said instrument to have been done by her freely, voluntarily, understandingly, without compulsion or constraint from her said husband, and for the purposes therein expressed.

 

            Witness D. B. Dodson, Clerk of said Court, at office, this 15 day of Dec. 1900.

 

                                                                                    D. B. Dodson, Clerk

 

            I certify that the foregoing deed & certificate with amt of revenue as required by law were rec’d for registration Dec 15, 1900 at 12:10 O’clock P. M. & so noted in minute book No 2 Pages 202 & 203.

                                                                                    J. P. Neal, Reg.

 

           

           

 

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Source:  Crockett County Deeds

Crockett County Courthouse, Alamo, Crockett County, Tennessee

Transcribed by Deborah Lunsford Yates

 

 

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