WHITE COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - Oby Blankenship and wife to J. E. Cotton 1906 ----¤¤¤---- LAND RECORDS, Book 48, page 396 White County Courthouse, Sparta, Tennessee Oby Blankenship and wife / State of Tennessee To Deed / White County J. E. Cotton For the sum and consideration of two hundred and fifty dollars: we Oby (David Overton "Oby") Blankenship and wife Dosey (Daisy Lucinda Harty) Blankenship have this day bargained and sold to Joseph E. Cotten, my undivided one half interest in the two following described tracts or parcels of land left me by my mother, Martha A. Blankenship's will: situated lying and being in the state and county above named and the fourth Civil District of said county. The first described parcel being a part of the home tract of Overton Chisum (Chisam), the said Martha A. Blankenship's father and lived by her, and containing by estimation 39 ½ acres, bounded as follows: Beginning on a center and pointers at the foot of the mountain, in the north boundary of the homes 115 acre tract; running north 36 degrees north west a line of the one 100 acre tracts. Thence 26 poles to a hickory, Thence north 5 degrees west 27 ½ poles to a Spanish Oak and pointers, Thence west 23 ½ poles to a fallen Spanish oak and pointers, Thence south 5 degrees east 58 poles to a rock and pointers Thence south 23 ½ degrees west 6 ½ poles to a rock and Dogwood pointers, Thence east 2 ½ degrees 110 poles to a rock in a field thence north with said line 32 ½ poles to a large limestone rock and pointers north west corner of said tract, Thence 36 poles to the beginning. The second and following described tract or parcel of land is know as the Bosson land, and was bought of J. R. Bosson by my mother, Martha A. Blankenship, joining the above described tract beginning on a rock and pointers Fishers Corner, running west with their line 96 poles to a double chestnut oak and pointers on the top of he mountain their corner, Thence south with this line 27 poles to a rock in a white oak stump and pointers a dividing corner with J. R. Thompson, Thence south 70 degrees east with a dividing line 45 poles to a rock and two dogwood pointers a dividing corner with said Thompson also said Martha. Blankenship's south west corner, Thence with her lines north 23 ½ degrees east 6 ½ poles to a stake and pointers; Thence south 5 degrees west 59 poles to a hickory stump and Spanish Oak pointers, Thence south 62 degrees east 38 poles to a Spanish oak & White Oak pointers, Thence east 24 poles to a rock and pointers at a Gully said Martha A. Blankenship's south east corner in Fishers line, Thence south with said line to the beginning to have and to hold all that pertains to the above described tracts of land, and to Joseph E. Cotten and his heirs forever, we covenant with said Joseph Cotten that we are lawfully seized of said land and have a good right to convey it: all further covenant with said Joseph E. Cotten that said land is unencumbered and defend the title said land against the lawful of all persons to the said Joseph E. Cotten ad his heirs forever now it is expressly agreed that we Oby Blankenship and wife Dosey Blankenship hold a bill on he above described land for the balance purchase money one hundred dollars due us. Given under our hand this Feb. 20, 1906 Signed: Oby Blankenship Daisey Blankenship State of Arkansas Benton County Personally appeared before me W. H. Courine a Notary Public in and for said County and State, the within named Oby Blankenship the bargainer with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged that he executed the authentic instrument for the purposes therein contained and Daisey Blankenship wife of the said Oby Blankenship having personally appeared before me privately and apart from her husband, the said Oby Blankenship acknowledged the execution of said Deed to have been done by her freely voluntarily and understandingly without compulsion or constraint from her said husband and for the purposes herein expressed. Witness my hand and official seal at Bentonville, Arkansas this 24th day of February 1906. Signed: W. H. Courine, Notary Public Filed and noted in note book No 2 page 263 on the 19th day of January 1907 at 12 O'clock and 15 minutes. H. L. Fraser, Register (White County, TN) ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Pattie Cochran ___________________________________________________________________