HAYWOOD COUNTY TN - DEEDS - Lilla Bruce and Daisy Bruce 1916 ********************************************************************************* Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Lynda Clarke ********************************************************************************* Lilla Hill Bruce was the daughter of Mary E. Long and John Henry Hill. Emma Richardson and Daisy Bruce were also their daughters. Lilla and Daisy married brothers - Lilla married George Ashley Bruce and Daisy married William H. Bruce. County Court } To} Decree } Lilla Bruce } Filed Dec., 1-1916 } At 3:15 O'clock P.M. } *** Daisy Bruce et al } Ex-Parte } FRIDAY MORNING NOV. 3, 1916 Court met pursuant to adjournment, present and presiding the worshipful JAS. TIPTON Chairman etc., also present N. B. KEATHLEY Clerk of said Court, also present W. T. DAVIS Sheriff of said county, the following proceedings were had to wit: Be it remembered that this cause came on to be heard on this the 3rd day of Nov., 1916 upon the report of the Commissioners appointed herein to divide the land among the parties hereto and which report is in words and figures as follows: We the undersigned commissioners being householders and freeholders and unconnected by Affinity or consanguinity to the parties in interest having been appointed by the County Court of Haywood County, Tenn., at its Sept., term 1916, to partition the estate of MOLLIE E. HILL, wife of JOHN H. HILL and allot same to her several heirs, after being duly sworn and going upon and viewing and examining said estate and partitioning same according to value to the best of our ability we do hereby make the following report of our acts in the premises to wit: After a careful survey of the estate to be partitioned in this cause we find it to contain 402 acres of land. We value said 402 acres as a whole at $6000 making each one of the six shares into which said estate is to be divided amount to $1000 in value. We have allotted and set aside to LILLA BRUCE 82 acres of land out of said estate which we consider to be worth $1000 in value. Said 82 acres of land is described by metes and bounds as follows, to wit: Beginning at the north east corner of the tract of land allotted to EMMA RICHARDSON runs thence S. 89 ½ E 12 poles to a stake, thence south 11 4/10 poles to a stake in the center of Richland Creek, thence down said creek S. 67 E 14 8/10 poles S. 80 ¼ E 7 ½ poles to a stake on the east bank of said Richland Creek, whence the south boundary of the tract of land deeded by R. C. MILLER to TOM RICE leaves said creek, thence east 74 2/10 poles to the south east corner of the tract deeded R. C. MILLER to TOM RICE, thence S ¼ E 84 poles to a stake in MARSHALL WILKES north boundary line, thence west 95 poles to a stake, thence south 95 poles to a stake, thence south 93 7/10 poles to the beginning, containing 82 ACRES more or less. Magnetic variation 3 ½ deg. east. A plat of said partition is hereby furnished with this report by the surveyor. All of which is respectfully submitted to your Honorable County Court of Haywood County, State of Tenn. and said report being unexcepted to is by the court in all things confirmed and said partition ratified and approved. It is therefore adjudged and decreed by the court that all right, title and interest of each and all the parties to this suit in and to each of said shares or lots of land be divested out of them and each of them and be vested in the respective parties to whom the commissioners have allotted them in their foregoing report to be by the said parties respectively held in severalty forever as set forth in said report. And the mast will on demand of any of said parties and the payment of the legal execute, acknowledge for registration and deliver to such party a deed conveying to such party in severalty the particular share of land allotted to him in said report as his muniment of title and will also issue to each of said parties a write of possession to place him or her as the as the case may be in a quiet and peaceable possession of said land. This is to certify that the above and foregoing is a true and perfect of the deed as recorded in the County Court Clerk's office of Haywood County, Tenn., recorded in minute book No. 12 pages 348 and 349. J. B. KEATHLEY, Deputy County Court Clerk Haywood County Court Tenn. (SEAL)