White County Tennessee
Deed Book 26; Pages 76-77

S. E. Hooper            |
	to              |     Deed
J. L. Pirtles heirs	|
	We Samuel S. Hooper and wife Mary Hooper have this day bargained and 
sold and do hereby transfer and convey to the heirs of Jacob L. Pirtle and 
their heirs forever, for the consideration of Five Dollars to us paid, and 
other valuable considerations, a tract of land in the State of Tennessee, 
White County, and District No. 5.  Containing by estimation One Hundred and 
Thirty Eight Acres, be the same more or less, and bounded as follows: 
Beginning on a rock (formerly a black walnut corner) in what was Robt. Cooks 
line, running Eastwardly to the ford of the Creek or branch, thence up said 
Creek with its meanders passing the head of the Spring to a white oak at the 
mouth of a hollow, thence up said hollow a direct line made by John Cantrell 
and Smith Cantrell heirs a representatives of Aaron Cantrell, dec'd, to a 
stake outside of the fence on the East side of said Smith Cantrells part of 
said farm, thence Northwardly a new chopped line to a post oak, thence 
Eastwardly to a black oak standing on the line of (then Richard Crowder), 
thence South with said line to a stake in Cooks line, thence West with Cooks 
line to a small white oak sapling his Northwest corner at the mouth of a 
hollow, thence up said hollow a marked line towards the cypress Swamp to a 
small black oak sapling, Geo. Pirtles corner, thence West with said Pirtles 
line to a post oak in the East boundary line of Robt. Cooks tract of land, 
whereon he then lived, thence North with said Cooks line 70 poles to the 
beginning, to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its 
appurtenances to the said heirs of Jacob L. Pirtle, dec'd, and their heirs 
forever.  I covenant with said heirs that I am lawfully seized of said land, 
have a good right to convey it.  I further covenant and bind myself, my heirs 
or representatives to warrant and defend the title to said land against the 
claims of all persons claiming through or under us and no further or 
otherwise.  Given under our hands and private seals the 30th day of July, 
A.D. 1878.
						Samuel S. Hooper   Seal

State of Tennessee |
DeKalb County      |     Personally appeared before me E. J. Evans, Clerk of 
the County Court of DeKalb County, Tennessee, Samuel S. Hooper, the above 
named bargainor, with whom I am personally acquainted, and he acknowledged 
the above deed to be his act & deed for the purposes therein contained, 
August 3rd, 1878.
									E. J. Evans   Clk

Field and noted in Reception Book, No. 2, page 27, August 5, 1878, at 3 
O'Clock P.M.
						William Holton, 
Register


Transcribed By:
James R. Blanks
114 Somerset Lane
Yullahoma, TN 37388
August 4, 2001