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then there was Uncle Jack!
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T. B. Davy & wife Filed Dec 27 1895 Know all men that we T. B. Davy and
his wife Caroline Davy of Hardin County, State of Tennessee, for and in
consideration of the sum of nineteen dollars and ninety five cents $19.95 to us
paid by the hands of J. T. Harrison, the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, do hereby grant, bargain, sell, and convey to J. T. Harrison, W.
R. Watson, W. A. Joyce, J. J. Berry and J. P. Story, Trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, Decaturville and Saltillo charge, Lexington District,
Memphis annual conference the following tract or lot of parcel of land lying in
the twelth 12th Civil District, Hardin County, Tennessee described as
follows:
Beginning at the North East Corner of an acre or lot of land known as the
Oak Grove School House land, thence North sixteen 16
poles to a stake, thence west ten 10 poles to a stake, thence South
sixteen 16 poles to the North boundary line of the school house tract or lot and
thence east with said line to the beginning containing an estimated one acre
more or less. We, T.
B. Davy and Caroline Davy, his wife do further covenant with said Trustees and
their successors in office that the title to said land herein conveyed is clear,
free, and unencumbered; and that we will warrant and forever
defend the same against all claims whatsoever. This
real estate or parcel of land we do thus convey to said trustees and their
successors in office in trust that said premises shall be used, kept,
maintained, and disposed of as a place of Divine worship for the use of the
ministry and membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, subject to the
discipline, usage, and ministerial appointments of said church as from time to
time authorized and declared by the General Conference of said Church and the
Annual Conference within whose bounds the said premises are situated. In
testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands this ____-day of August in the year
of our Lord, eighteen hundred and ninety four. Note: The interlocution of two names of Trustees on the first page was made before the deed was signed. T. B. Davy }seal
Caroline (X) Davy }seal State
of Tennessee Personally
appeared before me G. T. Shannon, Notary Public for Hardin County, the within
named T. B. Davy, the bargainer with whom I am personally acquainted and
acknowledged that he executed the attached instrument for the purpose therein
expressed, and Caroline Davy, wife of said T. B. Davy, having personally
appeared before me privately and apart from her husband the said T. B. Davy, the
said Caroline Davy acknowledged the execution of the said instrument to have
been done by her freely, voluntarily, and understandingly without compulsion or
constraint from her said husband and for the purpose therein expressed. Witness
my hand & seal at office the 11th day of Aug 1894. G. T. Shannon, Notary Public
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