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The Fairfield Weekly Ledger

April 30, 1868

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Fairfield Weekly Ledger
Jefferson County, Iowa
Transcribed by:  Joey Stark

Note:  Typographical errors (followed by [sic]) and spelling variations in names in this document are intentional and reflect the actual newspaper articles.   Transcriber’s notes are occasionally included and are indicated with [Ed. note:….].  Surnames shown here are in UPPER CASE for easy location; not rendered as such in the newspapers.

April 30, 1868
 

Real Estate Transfers --- The following deeds to lands and town lots in Jefferson county, have been placed on record at the Recorder’s office for the week ending April 27, 1868.

F. J. DEMARSH from R. A. YOUNG and wife, 5 acres in Penn township.--- Deed dated April 20, 1868.  $60 00
Oliver T. HOOPES from Eli HOOPES and wife, 5 acres in Buchanan township.  Deed dated April 2, 1866.  75 00
Catherine WOODWARD from Jacob RINEKER and wife, 33 acres in Liberty t’p.  Deed dated April 10, 1868.  500 00
John HALL from Josiah STANLEY and wife, 40 acres in Liberty township.  Deed dated February 27, 1851.  80 00
Henry GIMPLE from John HALL and wife, 40 acres in Liberty t’p.  Deed dated November 27, 1867.  500 00
D. R. DUNLAP from Joshua B. DUNLAP and wife, 80 acres in Lockridge t’p.  Deed dated April 6, 1868.  900 00
Sarah J. MILLER from Miles M. MILLER, 90 acres in Polk township.  Deed dated March 23, 1868.  800 00
S. T. HORTON from Lewis JAMES and wife, 21¼ acres in Lockridge township.  Deed dated February 21, ’68.  352 00
D. R. and J. B. DUNLAP from Sarah BERRY and others, their interest in 180 acres in Lockridge t’p.  Deed dated March 23, 1868.  1,850 00
D. R. and J. B. DUNLAP from Isaac BERRY and others, their interest in 130 acres in Lockridge township.--- Deed dated June 6, 1867.  747 00
Isaac W. ELLIS from Richard SHOOKLEY and wife, 5 acres in Penn township.  Deed dated August 7, 1864.  75 00
J. G. W. SMITH from Thomas J. HARRISON and wife, 40 acres in Des Moines t’p.  Deed dated Sept. 3, 1867.  1,140 00
Samuel H. BROWN from T. J. HARRISON and wife, 39 acres in Des Moines township.  Deed dated September 3, 1867.  1,111 50
Isaac W. ELLIS from Isaac H. CRUMLEY, guardian, 20 acres in Penn t’p.--- Deed dated April 15, 1868.  340 00
J. W. SINCLAIR from W. G. SINCLAIR and wife, 80 acres in Fairfield township, and 20 acres in Locust Grove township.  Deed dated April 17, 1868.  250 00
Andrew SMITH from George W. TROY and wife, 7 acres in Locust Grove township.  Deed dated March 11, 1868.  36 00
Charles CARLSON from S. T. HORTON, Guardian, 39 acres in Lockridge t’p.  Deed dated April 17, 1868.  500 00
William MOORE from J. W. MOORE, and others, lots 1, 2 and 3 in block 1, Davis’ 2d addition to Libertyville.  Deed dated June 24, 1858.  1,000 00
 

“Can storied urn, or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath.”
  No they cannot do it, but Dr. J. W. POLAND’s White Pine Compound can.  Read the advertisement.

Marriages

---April 26, 1868, by Rev. D. DONALDSON, at the residence of the bride’s father, in Brighton, Mr. George E. PURCELL, of Fairfield, and Miss Euphemia MINOR of Brighton.

  Our young friends have embarked on the Sea of Matrimony in the hope that their barque may always be freighted with love and happiness.  May their bright anticipations ever be realized.  We wish them joys and pleasures innumerable.

---April 23, 1868, by Rev. J. A. WILSON, Mr. Loman BLACK and Miss Sarah J. HENRY.

---April 8, 1868, by Thomas MORGAN, County Judge, at his office, Mr. Mahlon HESTON and Miss Harriet STILES, both of this county.

---January 30, 1868, by Rev. C. G. MILNES, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. Alexander C. LAUGHLIN and Miss Sarah E. PIERSON.

---March 5, 1868, by Thomas TALBERT, Justice of the Peace, Mr. John BONES and Miss Sarah EMERY, all of this county.
 



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