Caldwell County MO Archives History .....BUYING A ROAD OUT OF A FARM 
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BUYING A ROAD OUT OF A FARM
	Narrator:  Garry [Garney] Puckett, Kingston

     In earlier days, it was not uncommon for a farmer to have to buy a road 
through someone's premises from his farm to the main road.  This might result 
from farmers having purchased their farms before section lines were run, or it 
might happen in the division of a large farm, part of which when sold would be 
off a road.  Such purchased "roads out" were secured by a deed which went with 
the place.  Some such private roads or lanes out through the farm of another 
person are still to be seen in the country.
     One example is in a tract sold in the recent tax sales held in Nov 1934.  
The property sold in such sales of course, was property on which back taxes 
were unpaid for a number of years in Caldwell county.
     At this sale, Mr. Garry [Garney] Puckett, editor of a paper at Kingston 
Mo. purchased a "farm" 8 miles east of Kingston.  This land had not been 
cultivated for 60 years, or more.  It consisted of a strip of land lying along 
the west side of the J.M. Puckett farm north of the Gould Farm road and is 
about 32 feed wide and a quarter long, containing one acre.
     This strip of ground was given Amos Edwards, one of the early farmers of 
that community, by Geo. McFee, if he (Edwards) would build half of the fence, 
which he did, and accordingly received a deed for it.  For more than 30 years, 
Mr. Edwards used the strip for a road to reach his prairie farm north west of 
his home place.  The road was seldom used by any one else, except by James 
Puckett who owned the farm on the east side of the road.
     Years passed by and after Amos Edwards' death, the strip of ground was 
left out of the settled estate.  For more than fifty years, it has been known 
as Amos' road.
     At the tax sale, Mr. Garry [Garney] Puckett bought it in because it 
joined the farm of his father J.M. Puckett.  It may again be placed under 
cultivation just as it was some 60 years ago before it became "Amos' road."
     Interview  1934.


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