Land Record of Feilding Straughn - Conecuh Co., AL ******************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. File Manager - Lygia D. Cutts 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