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Said T. D. Smith died seized and possessed of about twenty-four acres of land . . . |
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Your administrator would further show unto your Honor that said T. D. Smith at the time of |
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his death owned and was occupying as a homestead land situate lying and being in Tate County, |
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State of Mississippi, designated and described as follows, to wit: |
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south half of the north east quarter of section twelve, Township four, Range Seven west |
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(S 1/2 of NE 1/4 S12 T4 R7W), less fifteen acres off the north side of said tract, cut off by a |
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line running east and west across said tract, and also forty acres being the north west quarter of |
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the south east quarter of the same section, township, and range; a graveyard [Note 4] containing |
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about one acre is to be excluded from said computation, as said decedent never having had title |
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to the same; all of said land belonging to said decedent being about one hundred and four acres. |
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Your administrator would further show unto your Honor that of this one hundred and four acres |
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of land, twenty-four acres are subject to the debts of the said intestate, the remainder thereof |
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being exempt as a homestead. Your administrator further alleges that a sale of the whole of said |
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twenty four acres of land will be necessary, said twenty four acres described as follows: |
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twenty four acres off of the east [east east, sic] side of said sixty five acre tract, cut off by a line |
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running north and south across said tract . . . |
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Shands & Johnson, Solicitors for Adm'r |
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State of Mississippi / County of Tate |
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Personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the Peace of the county and state |
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aforesaid, E. G. McAninch . . . |
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of June AD 1877 |
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E. Parlee [sp?], Mayor + Ex-Officio a J.P. [Justice of the Peace] |
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Note and Sources: |
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[1] |
Erastus George (E. G.) McAninch (1843-1915) |
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Erastus George McAninch (born 20 Oct. 1843, Elm Grove, DeSoto Co., Miss.,- |
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died 4 July 1915, Senatobia, Tate Co., Miss.), son of William McAninch |
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(1805-1854), of DeSoto Co., Miss., and grand-son of William McAninch, who |
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died 1813 in Casey County, Kentucky; MFHN v,VII n.4 Oct.1999 pg.1999-26 |
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[b] |
"McAninch for the Confederacy: Eight Who Fought for Southern Independence", |
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Erastus, MFHN v.X n.1 Jan. 2002 pg.2002-04; 'Confederate Soldiers' 3-part series |
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[1] v.IX n.4 Oct. p.2001-27, [2] v.X n.1 Jan. p.2002-03, [3] v.X n.2 Apr. p.2002-12 |
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[2] |
1876 estate [1 of 2]: Complainant: McAninch E.G. / Defendant: Est. [Estate of] T.D. Smith |
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Docket No.204 [204, not 704], Nov. 6, 1876; Family History Lib. SLC film 895591 item 1 |
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1876 estate [2 of 2]: Tate County Chancery Court Records, Docket No. 236: [2 June 1877], |
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E. G. McAninch, Adm'r. v. H. C. Smith et al / Bill for Insolvency and Sale of Land |
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No. 236, June 2, 1877, pg. 577 and subsequent, FHL SLC LDS film 895591 items 1 and 4 |
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[4] |
Cemetery on T. D. Smith’s Tate County land (S12 T4 R7W) is not the McAninch Family |
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Cemetery, which is in S9 T4 R7W in DeSoto County; MFHN v.IX n.4 Oct. 2001 p.2001-26 |
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[5] |
Checked Minutes of Chancery Court, Vol. I, 1873-1879 [895591 item 2], no McA/I/Ninch |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n. / 2012 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2012-12 |