LAUDERDALE COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - L.L. Daugherty & Wife to Gus Fitzgerald 1917 ==================================================================== 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. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb transcribed by Sarah Hutcherson <> ===================================================================== LAUDERDALE COUNTY REGISTER'S OFFICE RIPLEY,TENNESSEE L.L.DAUGHERTY & WIFE to GUS FITZGERALD. DEED. Know all men by these presents that we L.L.DAUGHERTY and wife ELLA DAUGHERTY,of Gold Dust Lauderdale County,Tennessee,for the consideration of $2500.00 cash in hand paid,the receipt of which is hereby acknowlegded,and further consideration of one note of this date for $1500.00 executed by GUS FITZGERALD and due and payable Dec 1st 1917, and one other note of this date for $500.00 drawing interest from this date,executed by said GUS FITZGERALD and due and payable December 31,1918 have this day bargained and sold and do by these presents bargain,sell,transfer and convey unto the said GUS FITZGERALD the following desceibed two tracts of land lying adjacent to each other,both situated in the 5th Civil District of Lauderdale County,Tennessee and bounded as follows: FIRST TRACT: being a part of the lands conveyed by J.W.RAINEY to J.A.PORTER and J.R.LEWIS: "BEGINNING at a stake in the west boundary line of the said tract sold by RAINEY to PORTER and LEWIS; runs thence south 4 1/2 degrees east 57 4/5 poles to a stake; thence north 85 1/2 degrees east 40 poles and 19 links to a stake in a lane; thence north 9 1/2 degrees west 61 1/25 poles to a stake; thence south 9 degrees west 35 and 3/5 poles to the beginning,containing 14-49/160 acres more or less,but these calls are not intended to convey the tract of land down to the waters edge of the Mississippi River,the said tract herein conveyed being the same land conveyrd to me,L.L.DAUGHERTY by JAMES A.PORTER and J.R.LEWIS on June 4th,1906 by deed recorded in the Register's Office of Lauderdale County,Tennessee in Deed Book XX,Page 44; with the exception of two acres of land or there about,conveyed by me,L.L.DAUGHERTY and wife to ____MOORE and ____MOORE on the ___day of ___1917,by deed which has not yet been recorded,but said two acres lies in the northeast corner of the tract herein described and is about ____poles north and south and ___ poles east and west,and is bounded on the east by a road or lane and on the north by Mississippi River,which two acres of land or there about is to be excluded from this conveyance. SECOND TRACT: "BEGINNING at a stake on the Ashport and Gold Dust road,from which stake north 11 1/2 degrees east 49 links stands a privett pointer,JOHN W.RAINEY'S southwest corner; runs thence along said road with its meanders as follows: north 83 1/4 degrees west,23 1/10 poles; north 41 degrees west 16 7/10 poles; north 26 1/4 degrees west 26 4/5 poles north 45 3/4 degrees west 44 4/10 poles; north 50 3/4/degrees west 35 3/5 poles; north 52 3/4 degrees west 48 4/5 poles to a stake; thence north 4 1/2 degrees west 14 poles to a stake at the waters edge of the Mississippi River at low water mark;thence up said river with its meanders on a straight line north 82 3/4 degrees east 86 poles to a stake,said RAINEY's northwest corner: thence south 4 1/2 degrees east with RAINEY's line 50 1/2 poles to his corner,a stake in the field; thence north 85 1/2 degrees east with RAINEY's line 48 poles to his corner again,a stake in the field; thence south 40 1/2 degrees east with RAINEY's line 95 1/2 poles to the beginning,containing 51 1/2 acres moreless.But there is included within the above boundaries of the last described tract,two small tracts of land heretofore conveyed by us to different parties,which are to be excluded from this conveyance,and which are in the north west corner of said tract and bounded as follows: One tract conveyed by us to M.SHOEMAKE June 18th,1906,by deed recorded in the Register's Office of Lauderdale County Tennessee in deed book XX Page 60: BEGINNING at a stake;thence south 52 3/4 degrees 10 poles to a stake; thence north 80 1/2 degrees east 25 poles to a stake; thence north 4 1/2 degrees west 18 poles to a stake in the Waters edge of the Mississippi River; thence down said river with its meanders in a straight line south 82 1/2 degrees east 32 poles to a stake; thence south 4 1/2 degrees east 11 poles to the beginning,containing 3 and 64/160 acres. ANOTHER TRACT conveyed by us March 1st,1906 to MRS.FANNIE HALLIBURTON by deed recorded in said Register's Office in Deed Book XX Page 61: BEGINNING at the SHOEMAKE southwest corner; thence runs north 80 1/2 degrees east 18 poles to a stake; thence north 4 1/2 degrees west 18 poles to a stake; thence south 80 1/2 degrees west 18 poles to a stake at the waters edge,at low water mark of the Mississippi River,thence down said river with its meanderings on a straight line 18 poles to the beginning,containing two acres more or less. TO HAVE and to hold said tracts and parcels of land to said GUS FITZGERALD,together with all of the apperunances and heraditaments thereon to belonging,his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple. AND I, MRS.ELLA DAUGHERTY,wife of the said L.L.DAUGHERTY,hereby join in this conveyance and sell,relinquish and convey unto the said GUS FITZGERALD his heirs and assigns all my rights of homestead and dower in and to said tracts of land.An express lien is hereby retained on said tracts of land to secure the payment of the two said notes of $1500.00 and $500.00 described herein above. Possession of said land is not to be delivered to said GUS FITZGERALD until February 1st,1918 and not then unless and untill the said $1500.00 note has been paid.We warrant that we are lawfully seized and possessed of said tracts or parcels of land,and that we have a good and lawful rifgt to sell and convey the same; that the same are unencumbered,except by the said vendors lien to secure the payment of two purchasr money notes and we will warrant and forever defend the title to said tracts of land to the said GUS FITZGERALD,his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all person whomsoever,except as against the claims of the holder of vendors lien notes. And I,L.L.DAUGHERTY,for consideration of $10.00 to me cash in hand paid the receipt of which is hereby Acknowledged have this day and do hereby sell and transfer to the said GUS FITZGERALD the policies of Insurance,both fire and tornado,on the dwelling house and barn on said place which I hold in the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company and the Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford,Conn., And I,G.M.PARTEE,of Ripley,Tennessee,the holder of certain notes against the said L.L.DAUGHERTY,secured by Deed of Trust executed by L.L.DAUGHERTY and wife to W.W.CRAIG Trustee on January 5th,1915,recorded in Trust on Realtu Book No.12 Page 99 and 100 in the Register's Office of Lauderdale County,Tenn.,hereby agree to the sale of the two said tracts of land embraced in my said deed of trust,and do further release and relinquish all my liens and claims against the same to the said GUS FITZGERALD. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names on this October 29th 1917. L.L.DAUGHERTY. ELLA DAUGHERTY. G.M.PARTEE. State of Tennessee Lauderdale County; Personally appeared me,HUGH DAVIS,a Notary Public in and for said county MRS.ELLA DAUGHERTY wife of L.L.DAUGHERTY the within named bargainors,with whom I am personally acquainted,and who acknowledged that she executed the within instrument for the purpose as therein contained.And ELLA DAUGHERTY,wife of L.L.DAUGHERTY having appeared before me privately and apart from her husband,the said ELLA DAUGHERTY acknowledged the execution of said instrument to have been done by her freely,voluntarily and understaningly,without compulsion or constraint from her husband,and for the purposes therein expressed.Witness my hand and seal of office at office in Plum Point,Tenn.,this 20th day of November 1917. State of Tennessee,Lauderdale County: W.DAN MAJORS,A Notary Public in and for said County; Personally appeared before me,G.M.PARTEE and L.L.DAUGHTERY the within named bargainers,with whom I am personally acquainted,and who acknowledged that they executed the within instrument for the purpose therein contained.Thid 29 day of October 1917.W.DAN MAJORS,Notaey Public. PRESENTED FOR REGISTRATION: on the 11th dat of December 1918 at 10:20 o'clock a.m. W.L.DURHAM,Register.