Rushing Deeds
Decatur County, Tennessee Deeds [Book 8, Page 139]
W. H. Rushing & Wife to I. C. Riggs
Know all men by these presents that we W. H. Rushing & Wife N.
B. Rushing have this day Bargained and Sold and do hereby transfer and
convey unto I. C. Riggs his heirs and assigns forever for the consideration
of one hundred dollars paid a tract or piece of land in Decatur County
State of Tennessee as follows in Civil District No 6. Beginning on a poplar
the N. W. Corner of C. C. Herndons land runs north 25 poles to dogwood
and black oak pointers thence west 89 poles to J. C. Graves south east
corner thence north 44 poles to a white oak and hickory and white oak pointers
thence south 69 poles to a stake in C. C. Herndons north boundary line
thence west 37 poles to the beginning containing forty acres more or less:
Tp have and to hold to the said I. C. Riggs his heirs and assigns forever
and we do covenant and agree to and with the said I. C. Riggs that we are
lawfully seized and possessed of said land have a good right to convey
it and that the same is unincumbered. We do further covenant and agree
and bind our heirs and Representatives to warrant and forever defend the
title to the said land to the said I. C. Riggs his heirs and assigns against
the lawful claims of all persons whatever Witness our hand and seal this
16th day of January 1878.
W. H. x Rushing (Seal)
N. B. x Rushing (Seal)
State of Tennessee }
Decatur County } Personally
appeared before me John McMillan Clerk of the County Court of Said County
the within named W. H. Rushing the Bargainer with whom I am personally
acquainted and who acknowledged that he Executed the foregoing deed for
the purposes therein contained and N. B. Rushing wife of the said W. H.
Rushing having appeared before me privately and apart from her husband
acknowledged the Execution of the foregoing Deed to have been made by her
freely voluntarily and understandingly without compultion or constraint
from her said husband and for the purposes therein contained on the day
it bears date. Witness my hand at office this 16 day of January 1878.
John McMillan Clerk
State of Tennessee}
Decatur County } Registers office January the
16th 1878 at 3 oclock P. M. I Wm. Pratt Register for said county do certify
that the foregoing Deed and Certificate and Registered in said office in
Book No 8 page 139 that they were Recieved January 16th at 3 oclock P.
M. and were entered in Note Book E page 18.
Wm. Pratt Register