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Timmons Cemetery, 89-1 Summary Report, page 55
Conversely, the 1834 sale of land by John Timmons and his wife Catharine Quay (Finch) Timmons to John Burdine (son of Richard Burdine, deceased, who was an original owner of government land in the southeastern portion of today's arsenal) is recorded in Deed Book O on pages 703 and 704. This land was bounded in part by the Tennessee River, being a fractional portion of Section 23 in Township 5, Range 1W. The nearby U.S. Highway 231 bridge is built over the Tennessee River at a place known in the 1800s as “Burdine Shoals, which was just upstream from Leeman's Ferry. Leeman's Ferry was located in fractional Section 27, near the location of “Leeman's Bluff. 'fAFKp, Co. Rl_ ‘D'fctA O ^e-s 703-^ ??"ub --------- -??" .,. Ibth day of February one thousand ei^nt hundred ana 'thirty 4 between John rimmons & tatnarme Q TuunonB his -wife of the County of VgL* -- ' xT.o f n ei LI a no vmo at + > o n ra .<->*-•+■ , .C> .... _ v _ • . .■ J Iffiard Burdine ceased of r t. uitness ■ John Time ns "? wife B ?o Deed . ■ John 3 J Burdine Efcjs Indenture made, this ■BUUJ * "'''TV-*<. ■ 7 o' / i ‘ 5 a" ---- '*--------- ??" y* V4XV wunuv ux Ifedison in the ata^e oi Alabama oi tne ore part ana aonn juraine heir of IJici'ard Suriine deceased of the other art. ..itness th: That the said John Bfinnons J- Catharine Q his wife for and in consideration of the sum of Six ■ hundred dollars to them in hand paid the receipt whereof is heieby acknowled-f "?c, hath this ay bar ained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed and conveyed and by |these presents doth bargain sell, alien, enfeoff ana convey to the said John (Burcine heir f.c all that certain tract cr parcel of land iyiiy, and oeiit. in r the County of 'fadison and State of Alabama it being a part of fractional Section nrnber twenty three in township number five of Range numbei one west bounded as follows, to wit, beginning at the Jouth Rast corner of saio jract-I ional Section, t- ence running loath north along its Eastern oounu&ry line fifty seven chains to the .iortheast corner thereof thence west along its J Northern boundary sixteen chains ninety five links to a otake, thence Jouth sixty one chains to a corner Jtake on the ...argin of lennessee river thence up Kne same as it meanders to the beginning and conta.ning one hunured acres. . io navr and to hole the above described^Tract or parcels of lana wit: the ten-gjwnts and a purtenances ti ereunto belonging or in any wise appertainirit- unto . tt‘e said John Burdine heirs &c heirs and assigns forever, and Ire saic John :iiraions & Catharine Q his wife for themselves their heirs executors ana aa-k"?nistrators doth warrant a .d will forever defend the title to the above de-grioed and hereby granted Dremises unto the sai- John Juruine heirs ic heirs ■“assigns from ana against the ..laim of themselves ana all ana e very person ■ persons claiming or holding under them the sai. John fimnuus & 55 - (3004)