JOE LUNSFORD

 

Deed from

 

J. M. & Lucy Ann WATSON

 

 

 

Crockett County, Tennessee

Deed Book O, Page 610-611

03-Oct-1901

 

J. M. Watson & wife Lucy Ann

To       } Deed 1/5 Undivided Int. 6 Civil Dist. $10.00

Joe Lunsford

 

            Know all men by these presents that for and in consideration of the sum of Ten dollars cash in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledge, we J. M. Watson and wife Lucy Ann Watson do hereby bargain, sell, transfer & quit claim unto Joe Lunsford of the County of Crockett & State of Tenn. our 1/5 undivided interest in & to the following tact of land situate, lying and being in the 6th Civil Dist. of Crockett County & bounded as follows; on the North by Francis Kail, on the East by Ben Kail, on the South by Philipps heirs & Alice Kail & on the West by Lewis Cox, containing 37 acres more or less.

 

To have and to hold the said 1/5 undivided interest forever.  We covenant that we are lawful seized & possessed of said 1/5 undivided interest in said land & that the same is unencumbered & that we have a good right to same & I, Mrs. Lucy Ann Watson, wife of said J. M. Watson, do hereby expressly waive any & all rights to homestead & dower to said land & we warrant & agree to defend the title to the same against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever.

 

 Given under our hands & seals Oct 3rd 1901

 

                                                                        J. M. Watson

                                                                        Lucy A. Watson

 

State of Tennessee

Crockett Co.

 

            Personally appeared before me D. B. Dodson Clerk of the County Court of said County, J. M. Watson the bargainor with whom I am personally acquainted & who acknowledged that he executed the within named instrument for the purposes therein expressed & Lucy A. Watson, wife of the said J. M. Watson, having personally appeared before me privately & apart from her husband the said Lucy A. Watson acknowledged the execution of the said instrument to have been done by her freely, voluntarily, understandingly & for the purposes therein expressed.

 

Witness D. B. Dodson Clerk of said Court at Office this 3rd day of Oct 1901.

           

                                                                                    D. B. Dodson, Clerk

 

            I certify that the foregoing instrument & certificate were received for registration Sep 30th 1902 at 11 O’clock A. M. & so noted in Minute Book No 2 Page 276 & 7.

                                                                                   

T. C. Pearson, Reg.

By D. F. Neil, Dep.    

 

           

 

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Source:  Crockett County Deeds

Crockett County Courthouse, Alamo, Crockett County, Tennessee

Transcribed by Deborah Lunsford Yates

 


 

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