Butts County GaArchives Deed.....Deacons Mt Vernon Church - Martha, Eliza, Cynthia   Bankston  July 13 1885
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Written:  July 13 1885


State of Georgia, Butts County


This indenture made this the thirteenth day of July 1885, between Martha 
Bankston, Eliza Bankston and Scyntha Johnson of the one part, and A. D. Tingle 
and S. W. Tingle of the other part and all of the county aforesaid except A. D. 
Tingle of Monroe.  Witnesseth that the said Eliza Bankston, Martha Bankston and 
Scyntha Johnson for and in consideration of the sum of twenty five dollars.  
The receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and do hereby sell and convey unto 
the said A. D. Tingle and S. W.Tingle, deacons of Mount Vernon Church and their 
successors in office, a certain track of land situated in the county aforesaid, 
the same being in the fourth district, originally Monroe, now Butts County, 
being a fraction in the North East corner of lot No. 52, fifty two, containing 
three acres with all the rights and privileges there unto belonging for public 
worship and burial ground and for any purpose except a literary school and when 
the property fails to be a place of public worship, the property to revert back 
to the Bankston Estate, otherwise sic fee simple.  And the said Eliza Bankston, 
Martha Bankston and Scyntha Johnson, their heirs, executors and administrators 
the title to the premises aforesaid will for ever warrant and defend to the 
said A. D. Tingle and S. W. Tingle deacon and their successors in office 
against the lawful claims of all other persons.  In witness whereof the said 
Eliza Bankston, Martha Bankston and Scyntha Johnson has hereunto set this hand 
and seal,.  The day and year aforesaid signed, sealed and delivered in presence 
of:
C. T. Etheradge						Eliza Bankston    L. S.
E. H. Grant							Martha Bankston 
L. S.
H. L. Brown, J.P.						Scyntha 
Johnson   L. S.


Recorded July 14,1885
L. D. Maison, C.S.C.


Additional Comments:
These three sisters, Martha, Eliza and Cynthis were daughters of Isaac Bankston
(Isaac was a brother to Abner Bankston, all of Butts County.  Martha and Eliza 
never married.  Cynthia married John Washington Johnson and buried in Mt Vernon 
cemetery, graves marked. The spelling of Cynthia/Scyntha varies.

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