Ellis County Texas Archives Deed.....Ruffin, C.J. And Imogene - Bankers Life, Insurance Co 1936 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 February 3, 2016, 10:16 am Written: 1936 331/107 Deed Book Ellis Co. 70 acres. 13 Aug 1936 C.J. Ruffin. Banker's Life Insurance Co. To honor previous lease to PK Holt [Pleas Kennan Holt] Rt 1 Ennis Grantee [Claude] to receive rents for 1936 & pay taxes. $3,000 pd by C.J. Ruffin $2,000 cash $1,000 note due Jan 1, 1942 Survey: Patentee R.C. Neblett. 27 Sep 1862. Patent #582 Patent vol: 15. Certificate 37. Original Grantee: Thomas M. Rowe Robertson Colony. "headwaters of Cummins, Walkers & Village Creeks about 15 1/2 miles S 75 E. From Waxahachie. Stake in Rowe Survey 227.3 varas S 30E from East corner of William D. Hicks 100ac. Thence S 60 W 742.5 varas to E. corner of 87.9 acres survey for Alexander Brothers Thence N 30 along NE line of said 87.9 acres 533 vara Thence N60 E 742.5 varas to beginning. Total 70 acres Same land conveyed to Wm Higginbotham by Herbert Higginbotham Dec 8, 1913 Vol 227 p 27. Filed Sept 1, 1919. Previous History of Land: 329/563 March 10, 1936. Emil & Anna Halbert to Bankers Life Insurance. G.W. Fowler Trustee. Note $4,000 Jan 1925 due Jan 1, 1935. {Deed of Trust 110 p 218-220. April 18, 1918. Note $3,500 due Jan 1, 1925. 240/108 70 acres. Thomas W. Rowe Survey. Emil Halbert to Wm and Julia Higgenbotham .$13,250. Cash $1500 cash. Field Notes as above. Post History of Land: 412/42 Sept 9, 1950 70 acres of W.M. Rowe Survey. Ruffin, C.J. and Imogene to Frank Zabojnik $7,500. $4,000 cash. 6% interest. $3,500 due paid annually beginning Sept 15, 1951 $350. 458/58. Sept 21, 1957. Release of Lien by Mrs. C.J. Ruffin Additional Comments: Note: This is a small portion of the property given to Lydia (Mrs. F.M.) by her father, Raleigh Hightower on Dec 31, 1899 -- "To wit: fifty acres more or less out of the Ed Rameriz survey the same being deeded to R. Hightower by T.R. Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards on the 31st day of March A.D. 1880. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/deeds/bankersl137gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb