Land Record of Feilding Straughn - Conecuh Co., AL

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Contributed by "Timothy T. Straughn" <tstraughn@sprintmail.com>
May 1999

Homestead Certificate No. 13832
Application 22072

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

Whereas there has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a certificate 
of the Register of the Land Office at Montgomery, Alabama, whereby it appears that, pursuant to 
the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 1862, "To secure Homesteads for actual settlers on the 
public domain" and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Fielding D. Straughn has been 
established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the 

West half of the North West quarter, and the West half of the South West quarter of Section 
Eighteen in Township Five, North, of Range Nine, East of St. Stephens Meridian in Alabama, 
containing one hundred fifty nine acres and seventy hundredths of an acre

according to the official plat of the survey of the said Land returned to the General Land 
Office by the Surveyor General.

Now know ye, that there is therefore granted by the United States of America, unto the said 
Fielding D. Straughn the said tract above described:  To have and to hold the said tract of 
land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Fielding D. Straughn and his heirs and 
assigns forever.

In testimony whereof, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, have 
caused these letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto 
affixed.

Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the Third day of June, in the year of our Lord, 
one thousand eight hundred and ninety five, and of the Independence of the United States the 
One hundred and nineteenth

By the President: Grover Cleveland
By, M. McKean, Sec'y.
L.Q.C. Lamar, Recorder of the General Land Office