Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-06-29
sHERIFF,s SALE OF LAND


SHERIFF'S SALE OF LAND
In obedience to decree of the Cir
cult Court of Putnam County at Cooke
vile, Tenn. made in the case of H. d.
Whitson ct al VS.. A. Stamps, will on
Saturday, July 18th, 1911, at l o'clock,
in front of the courthouse door in the
town of Cookeville, sell to the highest
and best bidder for cash in hand, the
tract of land in said decree described,
and levied on as the property of A.
| Stamps, which levy and boundary of
land is in the words following:
Came to hand in due time and after
diligent search, / find no personal prop
erty of the defendants in my county,
l therefore levy this execution on all
the right, title and interest the defend
ant, A. Stamps, has in and to the fol-
lowing real estate in the Second Civil
District of Putnam County, Tenn, and
bounded on the north by the lands of
Pinkston, on the east by the lands of
Holman, on the south by the lands of
Clark, on the west by the lands of Mich
olas, containing 1877 acres more or less,
said land levied on as the property of
the defendant herein, subject to his
homestead right, and summons T. B.
Jackson, County Surveyor, A. j. Dud-
ney and w. G.. Maxwell, three disinter-
ested freeholders of said county, who
being sworn according to law, went up
on said premises and duly set apart and
laid off said homestead, which will more
fully appear in their report as such
commissioners and their certificate of
same, which is here referred to, and
m odo q mort Of thic ynt,1ry,
This Feb. 18th, 1911.
Returned to Clerk Feb. oath, 1911.
j. M. LOFTS, Constable.
Report Of Commissioners
H. d. Whitson ct al VS.. A. Stamps.
There being two cases as here indicated.
The undersigned commissioners duly
summoned by j. M. Lofts, Constable
for Putnam County, Tennessee, he hav-
ing heretofore levied two executions is
sued by j. r. Douglass, Esq, upon all
the right, title and interest of the de-
PENDANT in both the above styled causes,
in the premises set out and described
in the return on said executions, we be-
ing summoned for the purpose of allot-
ting and setting apart homestead in
said tract Of land for the defendant.
A. Stamps.
We each being duly sworn by said ].
M. Lofts. Constable, as required by
law, have allotted and assigned to the
said A. Stamps the following portion of
said tract Of land as his homestead:
Beginning on rock in H. M. Nicholas
east boundary line, it being 10 poles
north of his and said Stamps dogwood
corner, thence north IL degrees east 27
poles to stake, north so degrees east
181 poles to black walnut stump,
north 80 degrees east ~ poles to stake
near the barn, east 10 degrees south
2O4 poles to stake in Josiah Browns |
line, thence with said Browns line A
poles to a stake and corner near the
head of Browns spring, south 80 poles
to rock corner with pointers, east 203
poles to buckeye and lockwood, south
Sc poles to rock in the east boundary
line of the original tract, thence west
to the beginning, containing 70 acres
more or less, including the family resi-
dence and appurtenances. We also ex-
clude from the above boundary right
Of way for road, Is feet wide, parallel
with the west boundary line of said
running north from the be-
ginning corner to the road.
Said homestead, together with the
remainder Of said premises, are shown
on the plat herewith exhibited as part
Of this report marked "a.
Respectfully submitted,
w. G. MAXWELL,
A. J. DUDNEY,
Commissioners.
n r JACKSON