Real Estate
Frequently Traded Land
Beginning at a persimmon standing in an old field and corner to
Wm Headley and running
N 45 E ..... 44 poles ..... to a hickory, burr oak, and sweet gum
..... thence
N 84 E ..... 60 poles ..... to two birch trees and elm ..... thence
S
33 W ..... 160 poles ..... to a honey locust, maple, and black oak standing in William
Headley's line ..... thence
with said line ..... to the beginning
This
land was traded at least four times from 1841 to 1844. Obviously this land
was traded at least one additional time when it was sold to Willie and Kizia
Sugg.
Union County, Kentucky, Deed Book
F, Page 613
Frederick and Ann Farmer sold this tract of
land to Jacob Sigler on April 27, 1840. The deed states that the
tract contained 100 acres and the price was $200. It also states that the
tract was located on the Craborchard Fork of the Tradewater River. The
deed was tested by E. R. Ashby and Joseph Vaughn.
Union
County, Kentucky, Deed Book G, Page 147
Jacob and Elizabeth
Sigler sold this tract of land to Thomas Earley and Irvin Price on March
5, 1841. The deed states that the tract contained 100 acres and the price
was $400. It also states that the tract was located on the Tradewater
River.
Union County, Kentucky, Deed Book
I, Page 48
Willie and Kizia Sugg (Henderson County) sold this
tract of land to Jacob Sigler on June 18, 1844. The deed
states that the tract contained 154 acres and the price was $250. It also
states that the tract was located on the Tradewater River. A tract of 50
acres on Highland Creek was also included in this deed.
Union
County, Kentucky, Deed Book K, Page 183
Nancy and Thomas Early
and Irvin Price sold this tract of land to Jacob Sigler on June 11,
1847. The deed states that the tract contained 100 acres and the price was
$1. It also states that the tract was located on the Craborchard Fork of
the Tradewater River.
A
Legal Action
There are differences
in the descriptions of the tract in the two deeds. The items that are
different in the deed in Webster
County, Kentucky, Deed Book 2, Page 633, are enclosed in parenthesis ( ).
Beginning
at a white oak corner to Elijah Shelton's 50 acre survey ..... thence
E .....
184 poles ..... to a white oak in John Hill's line on the side of a hill .....thence
N .....
47 poles ..... to a white oak corner to said Hill ..... thence with his line
N
47 E ..... 17 poles ..... to a double dogwood corner to Herrin .... thence with
Herrin line
N 45 E ..... 44 poles ..... to an ash and elm in Herrin
line ..... thence
N 46.5 (56.5) W ..... 42 poles ..... to a poplar and
dogwood ..... thence
N 63 (43) W ..... 40 poles ..... to a stone corner to
the meeting house lot ..... thence
S 26 W ..... 24.5 poles
..... to
another stone corner to meeting house lot ..... thence
N 73 (43)
W ..... 243 (24) poles ..... to a white oak and stone ..... thence
S
8 (84) W ..... 107 poles ..... to a white oak in Sigler's original line ..... thence
S .....
90 poles ..... to the beginning
The Union
County, Kentucky, Circuit Court records (civil) for 1860 contain
information showing that Jacob Sigler was suing William Lock.
Webster
County, Kentucky, Deed Book 2, Page 633
"Witnesseth that in
consideration that a decree was pronounced in the suit in
Union
Circuit Court "Jacob Sigler against William W. Lock's Adm or &
c" at the April Term 1864
appointing said
Chapman to sell the 106 3/4 acres of land described in said suit or so much
thereof as would satisfy plaintiff's judgment interest and costs, to collect the
purchase money and convey the land to the purchaser,
who
having advertised did on Monday the 6th day of June 1864 being the first day of
the Union County Court, offer said land for sale at (Jub lie ??) sale, at the
court house door in Morganfield, on a credit of six months,
when
Jacob Sigler, the plaintiff, bid the sum of three hundred forty four dollars
seventy eight cents for the entire tract of 106 3/4 acres of land, that being
the amt of his debt, interest, and costs,
and no person
would agree to pay said debt for a les guaranity of said land
the
same was stricken off to him, he being entitled to the purchase money and having
paid the costs of said no bond was taken.
Therefore,
to perfect the title, for further consideration of on dollar in hand paid to the
parties of the first part release and convey to the part of the second part said
tract of land which is bounded as follows ............ "
The
commissioner was Thomas S. Chapman
Webster
County, Kentucky, Deed Book 2, Page 634
"Examined
and approved and acknowledged in open Court this 5th day of April 1865 and is
duly stamped. Geo Huston Judge"
"At
a circuit Court held for the County of Union State of Kentucky on the 5th day of
April 1865
this deed from Tho S. Chapman, Commissioner, to
Jacob Sigler
was introduced to the court and in open court
acknowledged by said commissioner to be his act and deed,
and
the same being duly stamped according to act of congress, examined and
approved by the court
was ordered to be certified to the
clerk of the county court for record.
Attest
D C James Ledbetter"
"I Mle Doris
Clerk of the County Court of Webster County in the State of Kentucky
do
certify that the foregoing deed was duly lodged in my office for record properly
certified by the Clerk of the Union Circuit Court and duly endorsed by the judge
thereof.
Whereupon the said deed together with this
and the aforesaid certificates hath been duly recorded in my said
office.
Given under my hand thei October 20th
1865.
Mle Doris clk"
Webster
County, Kentucky, Deed Book 2, Page 633
Elizabeth
Ledbetter, William Ledbetter, Mary Lock, Sarah A. Lock, George W. Lock, James
Lock, Nancy M. Lock, John M. Lock, and Isaac Lock (the children and heirs at law
of
William W. Lock) sold this tract of land to Jacob Sigler on April 3, 1865.
Webster County, Kentucky, Deed Book
3, Page 183
Jacob and Malinda Sigler sold this tract of land to
Samuel V. Jenkins on December 23, 1865. The deed states that the tract contained
106 acres and the price was $500. The deed was signed by Jacob Sigler and
Malinda Sigler and was signed in the presents of F. J. Sigler and W. C. Coffman.
