The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-04-15
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF SALE

Wf1EHlE1o, on january 4, 1874
Lynn Davenport and Zelma Daven-
port his wife, executed and delivered
to the United States of America a
mortgage on the land hereinafter de-
scribed to ecure an indebtedness
therein mentioned, which mortgage
is recorded in Book SO, page 453, of
the Deed Records in the office of the
Clerk of the Chancery Court of
Holmes County, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, the said Lynn Daven-
port, and Zelma Davenport, his wife,
are the same persons as Lynn Daven-
port and Zelma Davenport who ac-
quired title to the said hereinafter
described real estate by quitclaim
deed from the United States of Am
erica, dated January l, 1914, and re-
corded in Book 81, page 10 of the
Deed Records in the office of the
Clerk of the Chancery Court of the
aforesaid County and State; and
WHEREAS, default has occurred
in the payment of the Indebtedness
secured by said mortgage:
THEREFORE, notice Is hereby
given that pursuant to the power OF
sale contained in said mortgage, the
said mortgage will be foreclosed and
the property covered thereby will be
sold at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash at the front door OF
the county court house in the town
of Lexington, in the aforesaid coun-
ty, at 1900 o'clock A. M. on the Bird
day of May, 1913, to satisfy the in
debtedness now due under and
secured by said mortgage.
The premises to be sold are de-
scribed as:
A tract of land lying in Sections 20
and 81, Township Is North, Range i
West, Holmes County, Mississippi,
more particularly described as fol-
lows: Starting at the common cor
ner of said Sections 20 and 81 and
Sections 16 and II; thence East along
the North line of said Section Il, a
distance of 1055.0 feet to center line
of a road bearing S. 26 deg.-29' W.;
thence S. 26 deg.-29' W. along the
center line of said road, a distance of
1922 feet to the POINT OF BEGIN
MING; thence East a distance OF
Bill feet; thence S. % deg.-38' W., a
distance of 2585.5 feet
to the center line of a
road bearing N. n deg.-06' W.;
thence following the center line OF
said road, N. n deg.-06' w, a dis
lance of $3.50 feet to the intersec-
ton with the center line OF State
Highway No. IL and the center line
of a road bearing N. 26 deg 2g E.;
thence N. &c deg.-29' E. along the
center line of said road, a distance
of 2426.5 feet, to the POINT OF BE-
ginning; containing, after deduction
of rights-of-way for roads, 4o.94
acres, more or less.
Also a tract of land lying in the
NWA Of Section 20, Township 10
North, Range l West, Holmes Co
unity, Mississippi, more particularly
described as follows: Beginning at
the NV corner of said Section ~;
thence East along the North line OF
said Section, a distance OF 1888 feet
to the center line of State Highway
No. IL; thence S. II deg.-50 W., a
distance of 1923 feet; thence N. II
dee.-49' W., a distance of 1884 feet
to the West line of said Section ~;
thence North along West line, a DIS
lance of 900 feet to the POINT OF
BEGINNING; containing, 40.6O acres,
o or less. Total acreage in both
tracts. 31.54 acres, more or less. SUD
iect to an oil, gas, and mineral lease
executed by Lynn Davenport ana
his wife, Zelma Davenport, to Pas
NJ. Barrett, on June IA, 1945, covering
an undivided u interest in and to the
gas, oil and minerals in M under
said lands; said lease assigned 10
Pat NJ. Barrett to the Cities Service
Company on July l6, 1945, recorded
in M. D.. T. Book 10, Page III; saio
| lease originally recorded in Gas ano
| Oil Book Is, Page 373.
Date April 8, 1948.
By WALTER E. STRIDER' Hoi
mes County Mississippi, Supervisor
for the Farmers Home Administra'
ton, U. S. Department of Agricul
ture.
n,,Iy authorized 10 act in the