DECATUR COUNTY, TN - DEEDS-A.D. GRAVES & WIFE TO C.C. HERNDON, 30 MAY 1874

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Decatur County, Tennessee Deeds
Book 7, page 237
A.D. Graves & Wife to C.C. Herndon

We A.D. Graves and Caroline Graves have this day Bargained and Sold and do
hereby transfer and Convey unto Charles C. Herndon heirs and assigns for 
the Consideration of one hundred and fifty Dollars in hand paid the Receipt
of which is herewith acknowledged a tract or piece of land in Decatur
County State of Tennessee as follows  Beginning on the north bank of beech
river where C.C. Herndons East boundary line crosses Said River runs north
with Said line 74 poles to his South Boundry line thence East with Said
line 64 poles to a black gum thence South 48 poles to a gum and black oak
pointer on the north bank of beech river thence South up Said river with
its meanders to the Beginning  Containing by estimation twenty five acres
more or less   To have and to hold to the Said C.C. Herndon his heirs and
assigns forever and we covenant and agree to and with the Said C.C. Herndon
that we are lawfully Seized and possessed of Said Land have a good Right to
Convey it and that the Same is unencumbered  We further covenant and agree
and bind our heirs and Representatives to Warrant and forever defend the
title to the Said Land to the Said C.C. Herndon his heirs and assigns
against the lawful claims of all persons whatever  Witness our hands and
Seals this 30th day of May 1874 

				            A.D. Graves   (Seal)
Witness                                     S.C. Graves   (Seal)

State of Tennessee}  Personally appeared before me John McMillan Clerk of
Decatur County    }  the county court of Said county the within named A.D.
Graves and wife the Bargainers with whom I am personally acquainted and 
who acknowledged that they Executed the foregoing deed for the purposes
therein contained and S.C. Graves wife of Said A.D. Graves having appeared
before me privately and apart from her husband acknowledged the execution
of Said deed to have been made by her freely voluntarily and 
understandingly without compultion or Constraint from her Said husband and 
for the purposes therein contained  Witness my hand at office this the 11th 
day of July 1874
                                            John McMillan   Clerk

State of Tennessee} Registers office July the 11th 1874
Decatur County    } I Wm Pratt Register for Said County do certify that the
foregoing Deed and certificate are Registered in Said office in Book No. 7 
page 237 that they were Received July the 11th 1874 at 1 Oclock P.M. and
were entered in note Book E on page 2.