COFFEE COUNTY, TN - LAND RECORDS - Heirs of Thos Brixey
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Covenant  (Contract)
Coffee County Tennessee, Deed Book B., pp. 338-9

No 327 Covenant between the heirs of Thos Brixey.   
We the Undersigned do hereby Covenant and agree that John O. Brixey and
Samuel F. Brixey administrators of Thos Brixey deceased employ some
person or persons to inclose the Graves of Thos Brixey Susanna Brixey
his wife and Parthenia Brixey with a wall of Rock three feet high and
plate rafters and shingles above the wall also the gables ends
weatherboarded up and we do also Covenant and agree that the expense be
charged to us jointly  and that each and every one pay an equal part all
the above work to be done in good work-man style. Witness our hand and
seal this 2nd day of October 1841.
Executed in presence of us :
Abner Duncan
G. W. Carpenter

[Signatories]
Walton Brixey    (seal)
Uriah Sherrill....(seal)
Stiars A Nash....(seal)
John O. Brixey....(seal)
W. L. Brixey....(seal)
S. F. Brixey....(seal)
P. Wilkins....(seal) 

[Notes.
Thos Brixey Grave House:
This cemetery is situated in Coffee County near Asbury, east of
Manchester. The roof is missing. Only the foundation stones remain. This
a very early documented record of a Tennessee grave house.
Betty Moore Majors provided photocopies of the original record.]


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