DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE DEEDS, Volume 10, p. 457

W.W. Summersett to J.M. Graves I, W. W. Sommersett have this day bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and convey to James M. Graves and his heirs forever for the consideration of Four hundred and ninety five Dollars to me paid a tract or parcel of land in the State of Tennessee in Decatur County in Civil District No. 8 containing by estimation Three Hundred and Twenty acres be the same more or less and bounded as follows In Range (?) and Section 11. Beginning at the south East corner of 200 acres in the name of Effa Harris runs West 200 poles to a Dogwood and pointers, thence South 172 poles to a Gum and pointers, thence East 280 poles to a Stake and beach pointers, Thence North 212 poles to a Chestnut and pointers, thence West 80 poles to a Gum and pointers, thence South 40 poles to the beginning. To have and to hold the same to the said J. M. Graves his heirs and assigns forever. I do covenant with the said J. M. Graves that I am lawfully seized of said land and have a good right to convey it. And that the same is unencumbered. I do further Covenant and bind myself my heirs and representatives to warrant and forever defend the title to the said land and every part thereof to the said J. M. Graves his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all persons whatever. This the 6th day of May 1884.

W.W. Sommerset

Test W. G. Riggs

James W. Hill

State of Tennessee Decatur County } Personally appeared before me J. E. Dees Clerk of the County Court of said County W. G. Riggs and James W. Hill, subscribing witnesses to the within Deed, who being first sworn deposed and said that they are acquainted with W. W. Sommersett the within named bargainer, and that he acknowledged the same in their presence Witness my hand at office This March the 1st 1886

J. E. Dees Clerk

State of Tennessee} Registers Office January 3rd 1888 I, G. B. D. Rushing, Register of said County do Certify that the foregoing Deed and Certificate are registered in said Office in Book K No. 10 Page 457, that they were recorded Jany 2nd 1888 at 10 Oclock A.M. and were entered in Note Book E Page 66.
G. B. D. Rushing, Register

Submitted by Phyllis Hill