Succession of Warren M. Benton, East Carroll Pr, LA 17 May 1875
Submitted by Ellen Crawford 5/99



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Succession of Warren M Benton
Succession records of E Carroll Par LA
LDS Film # 311918 page 454

 SUCCESSION OF  W M BENTON

 State of Louisiana, Parish of Carroll.  Be it remembered that by virtue of
a writ of sale issued from the Parish Court, in and for said Parish and
State, to me directed commanding me to sell the property belonging to the
Succession of Warren M Benton, known as the Gilliard Place, lying and being
in the Parish of Carroll and being fully described by numbers as follows:
Lots one and two in Section Fifty-one (51) and Lots Thirty-five (35) and
Thirty-six (36) in Section Fifty-two (52), Township Twenty-one. Range
Twelve.  I advertised said property in the True Republican, the official
journal of the Parish to be sold on the premises on Thursday the 13th day
of May AD 1875.  And on said day and said place at the hour One O'clock PM,
I offered for sale all the rights, title and interest of said Succession in
said property to wit:  One undivided half interest in and to the same, and
after crying same for sale in a loud and audible voice, in lots of less
than Fifty acres as follows to wit:  Lot seven (7) containing Forty acres.
Lots  One and Two each containing Thirteen acres, more or less.  Lot Eight
containing Thirty-nine.  Lot Ten
containing Forty acres.  Lot Nine Thirty-nine 15/100 acres.  Lot (?)
containing Forty acres.  Lot Fourteen containing Thirty-nine and 15/100
acres, Lot Fifteen containing Thirty-nine and 15/100, all in Section
Fifty-two (52).  And Lot Three containing Forty-eight acres, Four
containing Twenty-eight acres, Five containing Forty acres, Lot six
containing Forty acres, Lot
Eleven containing Forty acres and Lot Twelve Forty acres, all in Section
Fifty-one.  And after crying said lots separately, the same was bid off by
John T Hughes through his attorney Field F
Montgomery, he being the last and highest bidder and having bid the full
amount of the appraisement, to wit:  Five dollars per acre amounting in the
aggregate to the sum Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Dollars for the said
undivided interest of said Succession in and to said property which amount
was paid in cash, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.  Now, therefore,
by virtue of the authority in me vested as Administrator of the said
Succession of
Warren M Benton and the said writ of sale and the payment of the bid by
said John T Hughes, I do hereby transfer, sell and sign over and deliver
unto him all the rights, title and interest of
said Succession in and to said property.  This done this the 17th day of
May AD 1875 in presence of William M Blount and Robert K Jayne, lawful
witnesses who sign hereto.  Frank Garner ___,
Administrator.  Attest W A Blount, R K Jayne


LDS Film #311918 p 454

             G. R. May,