Amos C. Haynes Sells 213⅓ Acres (Area C) to George Menefee (and Outside the Haynes Family)
With Grandmother Celia having cleared up the surveying problem for his land just a week earlier (as recorded in Book Q, page 361), Christopher’s youngest son, Amos C. Haynes, now age 21, was ready to sell it. So in a deed recorded in Book Q, page 364, and dated July 14, 1892, Amos C. and his mother, Annie C., sold their one-third interest in the 640 acre tract (C) owned jointly by Annie and her three children to George Menefee for $666.66. Amos C. also gave up his interest in the other two-thirds of the land, but Annie did not.
The selling price of $666.66 seems strange, but Menefee essentially was paying $2,000 per section of land (640 acres), and he was getting only one-third of a section, so he paid one-third of $2,000, or $666.66, or $3.125 per acre.
Notice that this is the first land within the Haynes place to be sold to someone outside the family. Whether this would have been a sad occasion to anyone other than Celia is unknown. On the map, it is one-third of the (C) area. This sale was not conducted in isolation. Amos's sister Mollie C. had also agreed to sell her one-third interest to Menefee, but Robert S. was not selling his share. So Menefee knew he would wind up with the lower two-thirds of the 640 acres. The survey that Celia had commissioned clearly showed the lower two-thirds that would be going to Menefee and the upper one-third that would be retained by Robert S.
With Grandmother Celia having cleared up the surveying problem for his land just a week earlier (as recorded in Book Q, page 361), Christopher’s youngest son, Amos C. Haynes, now age 21, was ready to sell it. So in a deed recorded in Book Q, page 364, and dated July 14, 1892, Amos C. and his mother, Annie C., sold their one-third interest in the 640 acre tract (C) owned jointly by Annie and her three children to George Menefee for $666.66. Amos C. also gave up his interest in the other two-thirds of the land, but Annie did not.
The selling price of $666.66 seems strange, but Menefee essentially was paying $2,000 per section of land (640 acres), and he was getting only one-third of a section, so he paid one-third of $2,000, or $666.66, or $3.125 per acre.
Notice that this is the first land within the Haynes place to be sold to someone outside the family. Whether this would have been a sad occasion to anyone other than Celia is unknown. On the map, it is one-third of the (C) area. This sale was not conducted in isolation. Amos's sister Mollie C. had also agreed to sell her one-third interest to Menefee, but Robert S. was not selling his share. So Menefee knew he would wind up with the lower two-thirds of the 640 acres. The survey that Celia had commissioned clearly showed the lower two-thirds that would be going to Menefee and the upper one-third that would be retained by Robert S.