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Pleasant Township was originally part of Cass Township, and was established from it in 1870 when the county was reorganized to make civil townships align with congressional. The deed below is for what became Pleasant Twp. Schoolhouse #9. The CCGS does not have an alternate/common name for this particular schoolhouse. Does anyone know of one? If so, please contact the Cass County Coordinator.

The contributor wrote: "My ancestors, John and Mary J. Clark, sold one acre of land to a school district in 1869. The location was in the extreme southwestern corner of Pleasant Township: section 31, township 74, range 37. ... My ancestors moved to Marshall County, KS, in the 1880s after a brief time in southeastern Nebraska. I only recently discovered this additional deed involving the family."

John Clark & wife
Deed to
District township of Cass

Filed for Record September 25 A.D. 1869 at 11 o'clock A.M.
Recorded September 27 A.D. 1869

Know all men by there present: That we John Clark and Mary L. Clark, his wife, of the County of Cass and State of Iowa, in consideration of the sum of one dollar in hand do hereby sell and convey unto District Township of Cass, in the County of Cass and State of Iowa the following described premises s????ed via the County of Cass and State of Iowa to - wit:

Commencing fourteen rods west of the North East corner of the West half of the North East quarter of Section Thirty-One (31) in township Seventy-four (74) north of Range Thiry-Seven (37) west. Thence South thirteen and one half (13 1/2) rods, west twelve rods north thirteen and one half (13 1/2 rods, thence east twelve (12) rods to the place of beginning. And we do covenant as warrant and defend said premises to said Township District against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever, so long as the same shall be used for school house purposes and when not so used to revert to the said Grantor as his assigns - and to be used for no other purpose by the grantees for school house purposes.

Signed by us this 7th day of May 1869
John Clark
Mary J. Clark

50c rev. stamp
State of Iowa
Cass County

On this 7th day of May A.D. 1869 before me, Henry Temple, a Notary Public in and for said County personally came John Clark and Mary J. Clark, his wife, personally to me known to be the identical persons whose names are affixed to the above deed as grantors, and acknowledged the execution of the same to be their voluntary act and deed.

Witness my hand and Notarial seal the date above written.

Henry Temple
Notary Public
H. Temple
Recorder