Transcribed, submitted and copyright by Dianna Williams
This is a transcribed copy of a land deed that Mary A. Trotter donated to the Olive Branch Baptist Church in 1879.
My Grand-dad was a minister at the Olive Branch Baptist Church and a handwritten copy of this deed was in his possession, of which he gave to my mother in the 1960's. Parts of it was very hard to read, as sometimes Grand-dad's pen ran out of ink before he 'dipped it'. A copy of it is also published in the Olive Branch Church book, by Hazel Neff.
Mary A (HURN) married John TROTTER, 1866 in MO. The story told by members of the church and relatives is as follows:
John and Mary came back to Wayne County, IL, and lived on the land the church and cemetery are now on. John left Mary with several children for another woman. After the last time he left, Mary gave most of her land to the church.
None of the spelling has been corrected (note Baptist is spelled Babtist).
| MARY A. TROTTER
TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE
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WARRANTY DEED
DATED: March 29, 1879 REFILED: Deed Record 70, at page 438 RECORDS IN RECORDED'S OFFICE IN WAYNE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. CONSIDERATION: $5.00 |
THE GRANTOR, Mary A. Trotter of Fourmile
Thownship, in the County of Wayne and State of Ill., for and in consider.
The Trustees of the United Babtist Church at Olive Branch their successors
in office, of Fourmile Township, County of Wayne and State of Illnois,
the following described Real Estate, to-wit:
| A part of the South East 1/4 of the North West Quarter of Section (9) Town Three, Range (6) East commencing at the South West corner of said tract run_ing East 22 rods; thence North Eleven rods, thence West 22 rods, thence South eleven rods, to the place of begin_ing, containing One and One-half acre, more or less, as long as used for Church purposes and when not used for church porposes, revert back to Grantor, |
Dated this 29th day of March, A.D. 1879
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