The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-17

In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk.
Robert Stewart, Executor of
Henry, Grouse, Deceased
VS..
Ethel Osborne and husband Ermine
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, T., T. C. Bowie, Commissioner,
will sell at the courthouse door in
Jefferson, North Carolina, on the End
day of February, 1885, at one o'clock
P. M, 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 rum
ming with fence a straight line near
North so East IS poles to chestnut,
T. F. Lewis corner; thence North 81
West 81 poles with said Lewis line
to a stake in - Prices line; thence
with said Prices line IA 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
80 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 tributary of
Brushy Fork, Beginning on a mahog-
any birch on top Of the Wolf Rock,
running near West with Vanover's
line 85 poles to hickory in the State
line; thence with the State line to q
chestnut, Henry Prices corners thence
near East 100 poles crossing the
branch by a beadwocd bush, Henry
Prices corner; thence near South to
the beginning, being 81 acres, more
or less.
Third Tract: Beginning on locust
running West 45 East so 1-2 poles
to a chestnut near NJ. F.. Prices line;
thence South s West 10 IL poles to q
chestnut; thence South s West SO 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 a chestnut on ridge
in Fillmore Prices line N. IS w. 6
poles, North IL East A poles, North
Is East IL Ia poles, North so West
II 1-2 poles to chestnut corner of
Is acres tract; then South so West
with the fence 66 poles to a sour
birch at lower and Wild Cat Den,
then SO West IA poles to chest
nut now dead, North As West "a
poles to a stake at chestnut oak,
South SO West with the fence 10
poles to a sourwood, South 81 West
8 1-2 poles to a chestnut, South 81
West s poles to a wahoo, South Is
WSSt 90 pOlGS 10 = maple, OOULu on
West 5 IL poles to .dogwood pointers,
South s East SO 5-8 poles to red oak
stump, North "a East So poles to a
chestnut stump, North 48 East 80
poles to the beginning, containing S8
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 ct &
bid Of e408.0O.
This the 9TH day Of january, 1885.
Isl Z. G. BOWIE, Commissioner.