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Lynch Cemetery, 80-3 Summary Report, page 10

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Madison County, Alabama, Land Sales, LYNCH to others. Note that John M. Lynch recorded the purchase of his land around the family cemetery in 1847 (just after the birth of his daughter Fannie). He got the land from Hughey Smith, a prominent landowner to the east, who land transitioned to Henry W. Grantland by the time of the 1875 map. Furthermore, John M. Lynch and his wife Nancy recorded a purchase of land in Sections 2 and 3 of Township 5, Range 2 West, in 1853 when their daughter Fannie would have been about 7 years old. In 1847 the Lynch family recorded the sale of land to James Landman. In 1869, Fannie's younger sister Maria M. Lynch married John W. Landman, so it is possible that the families lived adjacent to one another. After Fannie's death in 1868, the Lynch family sold land in Section 21, Township 5, Range 1 West, to William Joiner, so they may have moved from the area around the cemetery at that time. Of course, the cemetery is actually located in Section 20, just to the west of Section 21. There may have been a recording error, at least in the deed index, regarding the section number sold to William Joiner, since 10 - (2794)    

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