The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-10
NOTICE OF RESALE

In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk.
Robert Stewart, Executor of
Henry Grouse, Deceased
VS..
Ethel Osborne and husband Ernnine
Osborne, Mary Rose Osborne, minor
by her guardian ad Item, Ermine
Osborne, heirs at law of Henry
Grouse, Deceased, Bette Grouse, Wild
ow and Bank of Mountain City and
the Watauga County Bank.
An increased bid having been filed
within the time prescribed by law
and the Clerk of Superior Court
having made an Order of Resale of
the property in the above entitled
cause, I, T. C. Bowie, Commissioner,
will sell at the courthouse door in
Jefferson, North Carolina, on the End
day of February, 1886, at one o'clock
p. NJ, to the highest bidder, the fol-
lowing described real estate, lying
and being in Ashe County, North
Carolina, and bounded as follows:
First Tract: Beginning on a water
birch at the branch near the lower
end of the Wild Cat Den; then run
ming with fence a straight line near
North so East 66 poles to chestnut,
T. F. Lewis corner; thence North 81
West 81 poles with said Lewis line
Ito a stake in - Prices line; thence
with said Prices line ID poles to a
Sourwood; thence with said line West
80 poles to cucumber an agreed
corner at the branch; thence with the
meanders of said branch near South
81 poles to the beginning, containing
Is acres, more or less. Except how
ever, about one acre sold to Everett
or Andy Price by Henry Grouse,
Decd, in his life time.
Second Tract: Lying on Pine
Mountain Branch a tributary of
Brushy Fork, Beginning on mahog-
any birch on top of the Wolf Rock,
running near West with Vanover's
line IS poles to hickory in the State
line; thence with the State line to a
chestnut, Henry Prices corner; thence
near East 100 poles crossing the
branch by a beadwood bush, Henry
Prices corner; thence near South to
the beginning, being 81 acres, more
or less.
Third Tract: Beginning on locust
running West As East SO 1-2 poles
to a chestnut near M. F. Prices line:
thence South West 10 1-2 poles to a
chestnut; thence South 6 West 80 LIZ
poles to the Beginning containing one
acre more or less.
Also the reversionary interest or
remainder in the dover of Bette
Grouse, which dover is as follows:
Beginning on chestnut on a ridge
in Fillmore Prices line N. Is w. 6
poles, North IL East a poles, North
Is East II Ia poles, North so West
II IL poles to chestnut corner of
rs acres tract; then South so West
with the fence IS poles to a sour
birch at lower and Wild Cat Den,
then 80 West z Ia poles to a chest
nut now dead, North 45 West "a
poles to stake at chestnut oak,
South 50 West with the fence IL
poles to a sourwood, South 81 West
8 liz poles to a chestnut, South "a
West 6 poles to a wahoo, South Is
West SO poles to maple, South 80
West LIZ poles to dogWood pointers.
South 6 East 80 $50 poles to red oak
stump, North "a East SO poles to a
chestnut stump, North AZ East go
poles to the beginning, containing SO
acres.
Terms of sale: One-fourth cash;
one-fourth in six months; one-fourth
in twelve months and one-fourth in
eighteen months.
That said land will be started at a
bid of $488.0O.
This the 7th day of January, 1885.
1-31 T. C. BOWIE, Commissioner.