I looked this deed up just out of curiosity last time I was at the couthouse. I'm sure a lot of you have come across intersting things in deeds. What kinds of things have you seen?
I got a request from someone who contacted the TAPS Office about wanting information about Graceland. Lori contacted some of us in the area, and I pulled the information off of the Register's website, and emailed it to him. He was happier than a kid at Christmas.
In 1951 my grandfather bought our "home farm" in Rome,ms. after 4 years of cleaning it up, trying to level it, and a lot of bull dozer work it was an extremely nice farm for the time/area. In 1956ish he was sitting in the office one day and the phone rang, it was a land broker and wanted to talk to him face to face about a some land. He thought this guy wanted to sell him some more land. A week later the land broker shows up and they beat around the bush for 15 or 20 minutes, drinking coffee and small talk. After they set down, my graddady ask this land broker, "well what do yo have for me?" He responds, "sir my client would like to buy your farm, the big house, and all the small houses." My grandad responds, "well I've spent four years making this farm nice, IT IS NOT FOR SALE (big mistake)." The broker says, "sir money is not a concern for my client, he is the biggest rock and roll singer in the history of the world"..... And the conversation went on for a few hours by he didn't sell it but it was pretty evident that Elvis had been eyeing te place. A short time later elvis bought graceland. Forgive me if my dates are a little off, i must have heard this story 1000 times. It was my granddady's favorite story to tell...
Have a good weekend.
I worked on the first tax mapping project for Jackson, MS many years ago. We were given copies of just about every deed in the courthouse.
My favorite set of deeds were from the early 1840's. The first one began at a tree "where John killed the bear". Evidently the bear got his licks in too, the next deed referenced a stone where "John was buried". :-O
This deed is actually a property is Mississippi, but it's notarized in Tennessee.
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C Billingsley, Olive Branch MS eh? Now that is an interesting name for a town. I'm sure there is a reason and a little history behind that name. Would you share that with us, or me?
Thanks,
Don
I've got a deed in my office from Unicoi County, Tennessee that reads in part:
Beginning at a planted stone by the highway between two buckeye trees where Brown and Lewis Cates killed each other in 1865...
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There's really no explaing place names in Mississippi. I am sure this one was to denote a peaceful place.
The shortest place names in Mississippi are "By" in Alcorn County and "It" in Copiah County. Then there's "Nod" in Yazoo County, "Ora" in Covington County, "Una" in Clay County and "Way" in Madison County.
There's "Hot Coffee" in Covington County and, my favorite, "Bacon" in Chicasaw County.
Some cities down here have great city slogans. "Welcome to Crystal Springs, as refreshing as it sounds". "Welcome to Puckett, 300 friendly folks............and a few old soreheads."
All in all, an interesting place to grow up in.
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found it...
Wikipedia
A small community initially known as Cowpens sprang up in the early 1840s. The name was changed to Watson's Crossroads in 1842. In 1846, when a post office was established, the name was changed again to Olive Branch. Mrs. Frances Wilson Blocker, a descendant of one the community's founders, suggested the name as a way to symbolize the biblical story of a dove bringing a branch to Noah.
Saw a deed here recently where the grantor's signature was notarized by his company commander during WWI while stationed in Mexico.
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I didn't know the history of the name, but I'm not surprised that little google research revealed something. I do know that the name "Blocker" is pretty well known around the town.
