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Timmons Cemetery, 89-1 Summary Report, page 60
IW Co" AL
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describee land, Given under our lianas ana seals
Before me Reden F donee +i.. n__ . .
State of Alabama this d_z r_____??"v.,,h
he had signed sealed and delivered the within . Led'to t“he within'named I.eemon on the day of its date. Also befc??" - n J- ” ■ "4W1U‘ uamea Peace in and for the County aforesaid thi„ Tii"?ion8 wife of suid John Tiumons, who bei from her said husband ac..noi suid deed to the aforesaid ."illYam Lemon tarily without anv fc r threat ' '
Clerk C C
^evf0^60i^ delivered into the Office of the Clerk of the County Court
of ^aaison County in the otate of Alabama ••• -'<• * >•" ♦ n-„
lebrurj eighteen hundred ana thirty eight aay of rebruary eijiteen hundred and thirt
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for registration on the sixth day of ano as duly registered on the twelfth ■y eight.
Rich B Burd an
this 18th uay of July 1832
Jas F .7 Smith J P
Jas AJcCutchen J r
uu>oticc of the Peace in and for ..auison bounty n, l-‘.' personally appeared linnon: ana acknow led cd t/n i ^nc within heed to the within mmed JilLm Also before me Bedin E Jones a Justice of the -x,."??"^esaid thiaday personally appeareo Catharine ' who Le mh by me examined Bpparate and apart vhat she iiad signed scaled and delivered the -----------------------------------------------..on the duy oi its date freely volun-nLhtMrtY%igl?n'B',{d^^rst'Sj^of rebrmn^ighteen hindred"der
Redin B Jones J P (seal)
It is interesting that execution of the above deed (and others) was officiated by James F. W. Smith, an acting Justice of the Peace. James F. W. Smith was a son of Hughy Smith, a landowner who lived adjacent to John Timmons. Both the Smith and the Finch families, and probably the Timmons family as well, had roots in York County of South Carolina. (See the Smith Cemetery, 72-2, Summary Report.)
The inserts below show pages from Margaret Matthews Cowart's book, OLD LAND RECORDS OF MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA. Mrs. Cowart produced this very authoritative and comprehensive book by using the old Government Tract Book and augmenting entries with records from the office of the Alabama Secretary of State and other sources. It shows that John Timmons was the original owner (he “patented” government land) of tracts in T5-R1W involving Sections 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, and 34. Altogether, the land that John Timmons purchased from the government in T5-R1W included about 1450 acres of what is now the southern part of the arsenal.
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