LAND DEED

Grantor: M. R. Henley (guardian)

Grantee: Hobart Ames et al. Source: Fayette County Tn Deed Book 36, pg. 275 Date: 14 November 1910 Notes: 427 acres / $6,000 Minutes Chancery Court, November Term, 14th day of November 1910. Be it

remembered, that at a term of the Chancery Court, begun and held at the Court House

in the town of Somerville, Tennessee, on second Monday, November 1910 it being the

regular time for holding said Court, there was present and presiding Hon. Colin P.

McKinney, Chancellor, etc. M. L. Farris, Sheriff of Fayette County Tenn. And W. M.

Mayo. Clerk and Master of said Court, when the following proceedings were had, to-wit

M. R. HENLEY, GUARDIAN ETC.

VS. Final Decree

HOBART AMES ET AL

Be it remembered that this cause came on this day to be and was heard before the

Hon. Colin P. McKinney, Chancellor, upon the original Bill filed by M. R. Henley,

Guardian, the respective answeres of Hobart Ames, and of the minor defendants Van

Henley, Grace Henley and Lillian Henley who have answered by their Guardian ad

litem, and solicitor, Chas. A. Stainback who was appointed by the Court to represent

their interest in this cause; the report of the Clerk & Master made and filed pursuant to

the order of reference made and entered in this cause at the last term of Court; the

proof taken and filed, and upon the entire record in the cause; from all of which it

appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said M. R. Henley is the regular

guardian of the minor defendants Van Henley, Grace Henley and Lillian Henley and

that as such Guardian of said minor defendants he on the 25th day of March 1910

contracted with the defendant Hobart Ames to sell him the three tracts of land

mentioned in said contract, which is filed as exhibit "A" to the original Bill, and also

described in the Bill, subject to the ratification and approval of the Chancery Court of

Fayette Co. Tenn. For the sum of Six Thousand Dollars: That thereupon the said

Guardian filed the bill in this cause making his said wards and the said Hobart Ames

parties defendant, and asking the Court to ratify and confirm said sale and divest title

accordingly it being alleged that said sale was to manifest interest of said minor

defendants for reasons specifically set forth at length in the bill, and that the funds

arising from such sale could be otherwise invested to the manifest interest and

advantage of said minors. And it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the said

Van Henley, Grace Henley and Lillian Henley are the owners as tenants in common

of the following described lands laying and being in the 15th Civil Dist. of Fayette

County, Tennessee, and more particularly bounded and described as follows: to wit:

Tract No. 1: Commonly known as the Baw tract bounded on the North by the

homestead and dower tract of Mrs. Sallie Harris; on the East by the lands of Hobart

Ames; formerly known as the Bob Jones tract; on the South by the Goode tract

described below as tract No. 2 owned by said minors; and on the West by Green

Walker lands, containing by estimation 52 acres, be the same more or less.

Tract No. 2: Commonly known as the Goode tract, bounded on the North by the Baw

tract above described; on the East by the Bob Jones tract now owned by Hobart

Ames; on the South by the Newsome tract described below as tract No. 3, now owned

by said minors and M. R. Henley, and on the West by the lands of Green Walker,

containing by estimation One Hundred and Fifty Two acres be the same more or less.

Tract No. 3: Commonly known as the Newsome tract bounded on the North by the

Goode tract described above; on the East by the lands of Hobart Ames formerly known

as the Bob Jones tract; on the South by the lands of J. A. McNeill; and on the West by

the lands of Ames and Green Walker, containing by estimation two Hundred and

twenty Three acres be the same more or less.

All three of said tracts of land being set forth in the Bill and in exhibit “A” there to; the

interest of said minors in the Baw and Goode tract above described being the absolute

and sole ownership, of the fee simple title to said tracts as tenants in common, each of

said minors owning an undivided one third interest in said two tracts of land. And the

interest of said minors in the Newsome tract above described being that of equal

owners as tenants in common of an undivided one-half interest and the fee simple title

to said Newsome tract, the other one-half interest from Mrs. Sallie Harris. And it

further appearing to the satisfaction to the Court that it is to the manifest interest and

advantage of said minor defendants that the sale of their interest in all of said three

tracts of land to Hobart Ames at the price of Six Thousand Dollars as contracted to be

made by their Guardian as alleged in the Bill and shown by exhibit “A”, to be ratified and

confirmed, and the said Hobart Ames has heretofore paid the said Guardian the sum of

One Hundred Dollars of said purchase price, which said sum was by the said Guardian

paid into the hands of the Clerk and Master of this Court, and that the said Hobart

Ames has this day by his solicitor W. G. Timberlake paid into the hands of the Clerk &

Master of this Court the sum of Five Thousand Nine Hundred Dollars being the balance

called for in said contract of sale. The Clerk and Master in open Court acknowledging

the receipt by him of the said sum of Six Thousand Dollars paid to him in this cause as

aforesaid by the said Hobart Ames. It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed by

the Court that all the rights, title, interest and estate of the minor defendants Van

Henley, Grace Henley and Lillian Henley in and to the three tracts of land

hereinbefore described be divested out of them and each of them and vested in the

defendant Hobart Ames his heirs and assigns forever.

And it further appearing to the Court from the contract of sale exhibit “A” to the Bill, that

the possession to said realty was not to be acquired by said Hobart Ames until January

1, 1911. It is accordingly ordered by the Court that no writ of possession will issue to put

said Ames of possession of said lands until date; but should it be necessary on the 1st

day of Jany. 1911 that a writ of possession issue to give to said Ames peaceable

possession of said realty the Clerk & Master will upon application therefore by the said

Ames or his solicitor issue such writ of possession. And it further appearing to the

Court that there is an encumbrance on said realty hereinabove vested in said Ames, on

account of taxes for State and County, purposes for the year 1910. And that under the

contract of sale, pleading and proof the said Ames was not to be liable for any cost in

this proceeding, and for the consideration aforesaid of Six Thousand Dollars he was to

be given the free and unencumbered title and interest of said minors in the realty

aforesaid, It is therefore ordered by the Court that the Clerk and Master will out of the

said sum of Six Thousand Dollars paid into the treasury of the said Court by the said

Ames, First pay off and satisfy the taxes now due on and unpaid on said land and

secondly he will pay all the cost of this cause including a fee of Fifty Dollars to Charles

A. Stainback, which the Court is pleased to allow him as compensation for his services

rendered in this cause as Guardian ad litem and solicitor for said minor defendants.

It is further ordered by the Court that the Clerk and Master furnish to Hobart Ames a

certified copy of this decree for registration as muniment or title.

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And thereupon Court adjourned until the next regular term.

Colin P. McKinney.

Chancellor.