BEDFORD COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Elizabeth Patterson et al to Henry Hammond ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Steve Carson carson@siggraph.org ==================================================================== Deed, Elizabeth Patterson et al to Henry Hammond TSLA, Bedford County, TN Deeds, Book KKK, page 165-166, 4 December 1872 Elizabeth Patterson and others deed to Henry C. Hammond I am or was the owner of a life estate in the following tract or parcel of land situated in the third Civil District and bounded as follows: on which I have resided the last ten of fifteen years and which has been sold by the Sheriff of Bedford County for a debt that I owed to one B. A. Nelson and which was bought by Henry C. Hammond for the sum of sixty two dollars and nine cents - and whereas the remainder in said land belongs to some of my children who join me in this deed - Isaac W. Patterson, now of Texas, owning one third in remainder - and whereas James W. Lokey & his wife owns one third of said land, that is his wife Martha J. Owned one third and he is interested as her husband - and Absolum W. Patterson and Susan Patterson are owner of one third in remainder in said tract of land and whereas said Hammond is interested in paying at the rate of thirty three and one third dollars for each share - making one hundred dollars for the remainder of said lands... signed: Absolum Patterson James William Lokey Martha J. Lokey Elizabeth Patterson Susan Patterson attest: D. G. Blessing William H. Weisener Jr.