I recently copied this page from the Court House in Mayfield and thought I'd share it. As you'll see I'm related to this bunch through my 2nd-great grandfather Jep Howell. Anyone else related? Don Howell Deed Book No. 24 Graves County, KY page 64 & 65 For the consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars paid and to be paid as follows, viz: One hundred dollars in hand paid the receit of which is hereby acknowledged and the remaining $100- to be due & payable in 6 months & same has this day been executed in one note by N.A. Riley in favor of A.C. Thompson. We A.C. Thompson, W.M. Thompson, M.L. Thompson, G.W. Thompson and wife Emma Thompson, J.W. Thompson & wife Hannah Thompson, Jane Jones (late Jane Thompson) Mary Kaler (late Mary Thompson) and husband Perry Kaler and W.L. Thompson and Sarah Howell (late Sarah Thompson) and husband J.P. Howell have sold and hereby convey, with covenant of general warranty to N.A. Riley the following described real estate lying in Graves County, Kentucky, viz; Being 10 acres of land off of the N.E. Qr of Sec 13 T3 R2 East and said 10 acres is to come off of the south west corner of the above Qr & is to run North half way of the said Qr& to run East so as to contain 10 acres said 10 acres is bounded on the west by the land of N.A. Riley & on the South by John Derringtons land. To have and to hold said real estate and the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto said N.A. Riley his heirs and assigns forever a lien being hereby retained on the property herein conveyed, to secure payment of the unpaid purchase price. In Witness whereof, we said Grantors hereunto set our hands relinquishing our respective rights to courtesy or dower and homestead exemption in and to said real estate. This 5th day of March 1892 Att M.B. Emerson to A.C., W.M. & M.L. Thompson 3/5/1892 Att H.A. Coulter to Perry & Mary Kaler signature Att J.T. George to G.W. Thompson Emma Thompson Perry Kaler Mary Kaler A.C. Thompson W.M. Thompson M.L. Thompson W.L. Thompson A.B. Jones Jane Jones G.W. Thompson State of Kentucky Graves County SCT: I H.A. Coulter Clerk of the Graves County Court do hereby Certify that the foregoing deed from Emma Thompson and others to N.A. Riley was lodged in my office for records on June 16, 1900 with the following endorsements on the back of same viz; Acknowledged by A.C. Thompson, W.M. Thompson & M.L. Thompson March 3, 1892 Att J.T. George C.G.C.C. by M.B. Emerson DC Ackd by Emma Thompson, Perry Kaler & Mary Kaler July 20, 1893 Att J.T. George C.G.C.C. by H.A. Coulter DC. Ackd by W.L. Thompson Aug. 7, 1893 Att J.T. George C.G.C.C. ackd by A.B. & Jane Jones Aug. 31 1893 Att J.T. George C.G.C.C. ackd by G.W. Thompson Sept. 2, 1893 Att J.T. George clk from which endorsements it appears that said deed was duly acknowledged by A.C. Thompson, W.M. Thompson & M.L. Thompson March 3, 1892 by Emma Thompson, Perry Kaler, Mary Kaler July 21, 1893 by W.L. Thompson Aug. 7, 1893 by A.B. & Jane Jones Aug.31 1893 & by G.W. Thompson Sept 2, 1893 to be their act and deed - and i have recorded same and this my certificate in my office this June 20 1900. H.A. Coulter C.G.C.C.