DEED:  Erastus and Henry BELL to Robert L. GRANT, 1917, Bullitt Co.

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Transcribed by:  Melody Tittle (valenaann68@yahoo.com)
Submitted:       5 May 2003
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This Deed made and entered into, this the 3rd day of January, 1917, 
by and between Erastus BELL and Henry BELL, her husband, parties of 
the first part - whose post office address is Shepherdsville, Ky., 
and Robert L. GRANT, party of the second part, -

WITNESSETH:  That for and in consideration of the sum of Four Hundred 
and Fifty Dollars ($450.00) paid and to be paid as follows:

One note of this date for $112.50 due and payable in one year from this 
date - One note for the sum of $112.50 due and payable in two years from 
this date - One note for the sum of $112.50 due and payable in three years 
from this date and one note for the sum of $112.50 due and payable in four 
years from this date - all notes due and payable to Erastus BELL and each 
note drawing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum from date until 
paid and to secure the payment of said note and all interest a lien is 
hereby retained upon the within described property - it is agreed and 
understood that in case any one note becomes due and remains unpaid for a 
period of thirty days then the whole amount becomes due and the lien retained 
herein may be enforced - the interest on each and every note is due and 
payable annually - the parties of the first part have this day bargained 
and sold and by these presents doth hereby convey unto the said party of 
the second part, the following described real estate, lying and being in 
Bullitt County, Kentucky, and bounded as follows:

All that part of said tract that lies on the North side of the County road 
- said tract is described as follows:

Beginning at a beech stump and elm on the bank of Floyds Fork-thence S13 
E46 poles to a stake in the County road-thence S5 E40 poles to a stake at 
the mouth of a branch on Floyds Fork-thence N71 E44 1/2 poles to four 
beeches-thence N32 E2 poles to two white walnuts and small elm-thence S64 
E46 poles to a stone-thence N2 E96 poles to an elm on the bank of Floyds 
Fork-thence down the Fork to the beginning - containing 50 acres-but the 
part herein conveyed is all that portion of said tract on the North 
side of the County road and supposed to contain 35 acres more or less.

There is also granted and conveyed to the party of the second part a road or 
passway 12 feet wide over the lands of the parties of the first part from 
their upper bottom to the old road and thence out to the Bell's Mill County 
road.

This being the same property conveyed to the said Erastus BELL by the heirs of 
E.C. BELL-by deed dated 3rd August 1908 and recorded in Deed Book No. 40, 
pg. 200-Bullitt County Court Clerks Office.

To have and to hold the above described real estate with all the appurtenances 
thereunto belonging, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and 
assigns forever with convenant of General Warranty.

In testimony whereof, witness the hands of parties of the first part the day and 
year first above written.

					his
				   Henry x BELL
					mark
				   Erastus BELL

Att.E.E.McCormick

State of Kentucky
County of Bullitt

I, Lindsay Ridgway, Clerk of the Bullitt County Court, in the State of Kentucky, 
certify that on the 3rd day of January, 1917, the foregoing deed was produced to 
me in my office and acknowledged before me by Hnery BELL and Erastus BELL, his 
wife, parties of the first part to be their act and deed and was on the same day 
lodged for record-which with this certificate I have truly recorded in my office
-this 4th day of January 1917.

				Lindsay Ridgway, Clerk.
			        By E.E. McCormick, p.c.