LAUDERDALE COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - G.L. Fitzgerald et ux to Willis Fitzgerald 1926 ==================================================================== 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 <> ===================================================================== STATE OF TENNESSEE LAUDERDALE COUNTY COUNTY REGISTER'S OFFICE DEED BOOK 2-3 PAGE 637 G.L.FITZGERALD et ux TO WILLIS FITZGERALD. DEED.91.1 ACRES. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: For and in consideration of the love which we have for WILLIS FITZGERALD,son of G.L.FITZGERALD, WE, G.L.FITZGERALD and wife,MRS.MATTIE FITZGERALD,have this day bargained and sold and do by these presents hereby bargain,sell,transfer and convey unto the said WILLIS FITZGERALD,his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple,a certain tract of land,with all improvements thereon,lying and being in the Fifth Civil District of Lauderdale County,Tennessee,described as follows: BEING a part of 292 acre tract conveyed by JACOB BYLER to JAMES JOHNSTON, BEGINNING at a stake in a private road running from the Mississippi River back south into the bottom; runs thence south 89 3/4 degrees west 52 1/2 poles to a stake in HENRY DAUGHERTY's east boundary line; thence south 4 degrees east with said line 8 1/2 poles to a stake,said DAUGHERTY's south east corner; thence south 83 3/4 degrees west with said DAUGHERTY's south boundary line 51 poles to a stake in W.E.LAMBETH's east boundary line,said LAMBETH's line 162 1/5 poles to a stake,the northwest corner of the KYLE A.STONE tract; thence south 89 degrees east with STONE's north boundary line 71 2/5 poles to a stake in the road; thence with the meanders of said road as follows; north 9 1/4 degrees 40 poles,north 3 1/4 degrees east 30 poles,north 6 3/4 degrees east 58 4/5 poles,north 18 degrees east 28 4/5 poles,north 68 3/4 degrees west 5 2/5 poles; thence north 15 3/4 degrees east 17 64/100 poles to the BEGINNING,containing 91 1/10 acres,more or less. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said tract of land,with all the improvements thereon,unto the said WILLIS FITZGERALD,his heirs and assigns forever in fee simple. WE COVENANT that we are lawfully seized and possessed of said real estate; that we have a good and lawful right to sell and convey the same; that the same is unencumbered,except for 1936 taxes and a Federal Land Bank of Louisville,Ky.,Deed of Trust of record in the Register's office of Lauderdale County,Tennessee,in Realty Trust Book No.__,Pages ___ot seq to which reference in here made,and that we will warrant and forever defend the title to said real estate unto said WILLIS FITZGERALD,his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all other persons whomsoever. AND,MRS.MATTIE FITZGERALD,hereby expressly waives all of her rights of homestead and dower in and to said real estate. IMMEDIATE POSSESSION given the grantee. THE ABOVE DESCRIBED tract of land is the same tract of land heretofore conveyed to G.L.FITZGERALD and WILLIS FITZGERALD by deed of MRS.BESSIE PEACOCK of record in said Register's office at Ripley Tenn in Deed Book V-3 Page 625 to which reference is here made,and by this deed in fee simple title to said real estate is vested in said WILLIS FITZGERALD,subject alone to the 1936 taxes and said Federal Land Bank deed of trust; and henceforth he shall have the absolute right to mortgage,deed,sell,convey,and/or do with said real estate as he desires. WITNESS OUR HANDS,this May 12th 1936. G.L.FITZGERALD. MATTIE FITZGERALD. State of Tennessee Lauderdale County Personally appeared before me,the undersigned Notary Public in and for said county,G.L.FITZGERALD and his wife,MRS.MATTIE FITZGERALD,the within named bargainors,with whom I am personally acquainted,and acknowledged that they executed the within deed for the purposes therein contained and as their free act and deed.Witness my hand and seal of office at office in Ripley,Tenn.,this May 12th,1936. W.DAN MAJORS Notary Public. PRESENTED FOR REGISTRATION on the 16th day of May 1926 at 1 o'clock p.m. J.M.CARNEY,Register.