The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, January 23, 1930
pg. 2
FIFTY-FOUR YEAR OLD DEED FILED AT
SHERMAN
Sherman
- Practice of the pioneers in using
natural growths of different kinds
as markings for land boundaries is
brought to mind through a
54-year-old deed filed in the office of
the county clerk here for
record. The document transfers
ownership of a "tract of land in
the Fielding Askew survey" from H. C.
Dillingham and wife to B.C. Ball,
and is dated Jan. 7, 1875. The
consideration named is $550.
Although written in ink, the deed is
easily decipherable and there is no
evidence that the fluid will fade out.
The
area of the tract is not given, but the
dimensions in Spanish varas are
carefully enumerated and where nothing
else could be used to indicate
boundaries, different kinds of trees,
stumps, elevations and
declivities are shown in the description
given of the property.
