I
would like to post this law suit pertaining to establishing a deed
record
from Chancery Ct. Papers,
Box
67
,
March 1898. I am
also seeking a volunteer who might go back to the document and
get the rest of it. Elihu
C. Graham was my grgrgrandfather
who appears on the 1870 census of Greene Co.
Thanks
Jackie Presley, Dallas, TX
jp55@wt.net
This was a cause of action brought to the Chancery Court in
1898: by
Eli and Damas Lada
against Bent Willoughby et al.
(
Benton
Willoughby
was Elihu
C. Graham’s brother-in-law)
"This cause coming on to be heard, the plaintiff appeared
by their attorneys Block and Sullivan, the defendants Bent
Willoughby, though served with personal summons, made default
and as to the defendants Mary Webb, Mary E. Crytes,
John B. Graham, James Graham, Jackyann
Graham and Dora Miller, a warning order was published as
required by law and proof of the publication filed showing the
publication thereof as law directs and J.A. Taylor the attorney
appointed by the clerk of this court in vacation filed his
report:
The court finds from the evidence of Bent Willoughby, Eli Lada
and W.S. Pruett that the defendant Bent Willoughby entered in
United States Land office in the year 1859, the following lands
in Greene County, Arkansas to wit:
North West
quarter of the
North West
quarter of
Section Eleven Township Sixteen North
Range Five East and received an entry certificate therefor
and
that in the year 1861, the said
Willoughby
sold said land
to Elihu C. Graham and placed him in
possession thereof. That in the year 1865,
the said Elihu C. Graham sold
and conveyed said land to one John Hill and that the deed therefor
is lost and if ever recorded the records have been
burned; that the said John Hill died intestate in the year 1869
in possession of said lands claiming title thereto and left
surviving him as his sole and only heirs Mary Crytes
his sister and Dora Miller his niece, that on August 26,
1872, the said Mary E. Crytes and
John L. Buck as Guardian for Dora Miller sold and conveyed said
lands to Charles D. Pruet and that
he went into possession of said lands at the date of his
purchase and died there in the year 1884 and that the widow and
heirs of Chas D. Pruett after his death conveyed said lands to
W.S. Pruett and that he and his wife "................ (document
is cut off here)
The above document was dated March 1898.