JEFFERSON COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Alexander and Bell Ballenger to T. A. Elmore,
			       12 Jan 1889
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WD – Vol 22, pg 573 – Jan 12, 1889/ Oct 26, 1893 – 300 acres, Dist 7.

Deed.  Alexander Ballenger & wife to T. A. Elmore Registered October 27, 1893.

This indenture made and entered into this 12th day of January 1889 between
Alexander Ballenger and his wife Bell Ballenger of the one part and T. A.
Elmore of the other part both parties of the County of Jefferson State of
Tenn.  Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of One hundred
dollars to the said Alexander Ballenger & his wife in hand paid by the said T.
A. Elmore the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged.  The said Alexander
Ballinger and his wife Bell Ballenger has this day bargained & sold and doth
hereby transfer and convey unto the said T. A. Elmore his heirs and assigns a
Certain piece or parcel of land and it being all the undivided interest Mahala
Fielden One of the heirs of James Fielden dec’d had in and to the following
described tract of land and for a more particular description of said land &
premises reference is here made to a deed Mahala Fielden made to Jackson
Ballenger which said deed is registered in the Registers office Jefferson
County Tenn. Dec 16th 1850 in Book No. 2 page 509 said tract of land situate &
lying in 7th civil District Jefferson Co. Tenn. Supposed to contain three
hundred acres more or less and it being the tract of land upon which the late
James Fielden dec’d lived upon & owned in his lifetime and bounded as follows.
On the North by Alfred Northern lands On the South by T. A. Elmore & others on
the west by James Northerns heirs and on the East by Northerns & Elmores with
all and singular the woods waters & appurtenances thereunto belonging to the
said undivided interest of the said Mahala Fielden in said tract of land to
have and to hold said undivided interest of Mahala Fielden in said tract of
land to the said T. A. Elmore his heirs and assigns forever.  And the said
Alexander Ballenger & his wife Bell Ballenger doth further covenant with the
said T. A. Elmore that they are lawfully seized & possessed of said land and
that they have a good right to convey the same and that the same is
unencumbered.  And the said Alexander Ballenger and his wife doth further bind
themselves their heirs and assigns that they will forever warrant & defend the
title to the said undivided interest in said tract of land to the said Thomas
A. Elmore his heirs & assigns against the lawful claim or claims of all
persons whomsoever.  
Witness Our Signatures day & date first written.

Witness               			Alexander (his X mark) Ballenger
Wm. Provence                     	Bell Ballenger

State of Tennessee } ss
County of Jefferson}     Personally appeared before me Wm. Provence Notary 
Public in and for said County the within named bargainors Alexander Ballinger 
& wife Bell Ballenger with whom I am personally acquainted and who 
acknowledged that they executed the within instrument for the purposes therein 
contained.  And Bell Ballenger wife of the Alexander Ballenger having appeared 
before me privately and apart from her husband the said Bell Ballenger 
acknowledged the execution of the said Deed to have been done by her freely 
voluntarily and understandingly without compulsion or constraint from her said 
husband and for the purposes therein expressed.  Witness my hand and official 
seal at office in New Market on this the 14th day of January A. D. Eighteen 
Hundred and Eighty nine.

		(Official Seal)			Wm. Provence
                                             	Notary Public

Rec’d for Record October 26, 1893 at 10 Oclock A. M.
                                            	J. M. Webster
                                              	Register