Tennessee Pryors

J. W. Pryor et al . . . . . . . . . . . )

 . . . . . .To . . . . Deed . . . . . . .

Frank McCullough . . . . . . . . . )

For and in consideration of the sum of Eight Dollars, paid in cash, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, we, J. W. Pryor and wife, N. E. Pryor; Monroe Pryor and wife, Mary Pryor; Thos Gregory and Bettie Gregory;  A.J. Wright and Lucy Wright; Wm Pryor and wife, Cannis Pryor; Licurgus Pryor and wife, Nellie Pryor; John Pryor and Genie Pryor; Josh Simmons, Ann E. Simmons, Bud Belt and Alice Belt; Jas Linsey and Sis Linsey; Jas McCullough and wife, Mary McCullough, have bargained and sold, and do hereby transfer and convey unto Frank McCullough, the following described land, in Sumner County, State of Tennessee:  Civil District No. 9, bounded as follows:  North by Frank McCullough; East by Frank McCullough; South by Jas McCullough, and west by Gillespie, and containing 25 acres, more or less, and being the lands of Samuel Pryor, dec’d, and we being the heirs of Samuel Pryor, dec’d.

To have and to hold the said lands with the improvements and appurtenances thereunto belonging, to the said Frank McCullough, and his heirs and assigns forever.  And we covenant with the said Frank McCullough, his heirs and assigns,  that we are lawfully seized of said land, have a good right to convey it, and that it is unincumbered.  And we do further covenant and bind ourselves and our heirs and representatives to warrant and forever defend the title to said property to the said Frank McCullough and his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all persons.

And we, the above named wives of the said heirs, do hereby transfer and convey and release and relinquish to the said grantee, his heirs and assigns, all right, title and interest of every kind whatever we have or may have in and to said property, and particularly such as we have or may have under and by virtue of the laws of Tennessee relating to homestead and dower.

Witness our hands, this the 28^th day of October, 1907.

(signed by and “X”)
J. W. PRYOR;  N. E. PRYOR ;  MONROE PRYOR;
MARY E. PRYOR;  T. M. GREGORY; BETTIE GREGORY;
JAMES  M. LINDSEY; MARTHA LINDSEY; J. E. PRYOR;
GENIE PRYOR; J. W. McCULLOUGH; MARY McCULLOUGH

State of Tennessee, Sumner County:
Personally appeared before me, Harris Brown, Clerk of the County Court of said County, the within named J. W. Pryor and wife, N. E. Pryor, and Monroe Pryor and wife, M. E. Pryor, the bargainors, with whom I am personally acquainted, and who acknowledged that they executed the within instrument for the purposes therein contained.  And N. E. Pryor and M. E. Pryor, wives of the said J. W. Pryor and Monroe Pryor, having appeared before me, privately and apart from her husbands, the said N. E. Pryor and M. E. Pryor acknowledged the execution of the said instrument to have been done by them freely, voluntarily, and understandingly, without compulsion or constraint from their said husbands and for the purposes therein expressed.

Witness my hand at office, this 28, day of Oct, 1907.
Harris Brown,   Clerk . . . . . . .State of Tennessee, Sumner County:

Personally appeared before me, J. W. Albright, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, the within named James. M. Lindsey & wife, Martha Lindsey; J. E. Pryor and wife Gene Pryor; James McCullough and wife Mary McCullough; T. W. Gregory and wife, Bettie Gregory, the bargainors, with hom I am personally acquainted, and who acknowledged that they executed the within instrument for the purposes therein contained.  And Martha Lindsey; Gene Pryor, Mary McCullough & Bettie Gregory, wives of the said James M. Lindsey; J. E. Pryor; J. W. McCullough & T. W. Gregory having appeared before me privately and apart from their husbands, the said Martha Lindsey, Genie Pryor, Mary McCullough & Bettie Gregory acknowledged the execution of the said instrument to have been done by them freely, voluntarily, and understandingly, without compulsion or constraint from their said husbands, and for the purposes therein expressed.

Witness my hand and official seal, at __________ Tennessee, this 1^st day of Dec, 1908. (SEAL)       J. W. Albright, , , Notary Public  . . . .
Received for registration Feby 12, 1921, at 12:05 P.M.
Registered and examined Feby 12, 1921.
. . B. E. Rippy , , ,Register . . . . .|

The above from: Sumner County, TN Archives; Document: Vol 88, page 63; Source:  Microfilm

NIECES AND NEPHEWS OF SAMUEL PRYOR PER DEED J. W. PRYOR TO FRANK MCCULLOUGH

SUMNER COUNTY, TN  DATED 28 OCTOBER 1907; REGISTERED 12 FEBRUARY 1921,

Deed Book Volume 88, Page 63 on Microfilm at Sumner County, TN Archives.

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Transcription provided by Shirley Anderson.

November 19, 2002