Celia A. Haynes Gives 640 Acres to Her Oldest Son, Christopher
Christopher Receives Lower Half of 1,280 Acres
In a deed dated November 18, 1875, and recorded in Book H, page 223, Celia gave Christopher
“the lower undivided half of a tract of land sold and conveyed by Daniel Haynes to said Celia A. Haynes on the 6th day of July A.D. 1860, containing twelve hundred and eighty (1,280) acres.”
This was the lower 640 acres of the 1,280 acres that Thomas had given to Daniel and that Celia had bought back from Daniel, and is shown within black boundary lines on this map, at the very bottom of the Haynes place. (This tract was later re-surveyed and changed into the orange area also shown here.) The property description was exactly the same as in the two deeds involving Daniel; that is, the familiar “Beginning at a ditch near where Platt’s Steam Saw Mill used to stand…” But Christopher’s part is only the lower half of that land. To ensure that Christopher and whoever eventually would wind up with the upper half would split the property equitably, Celia included the following condition in the deed:
”And it is distinctly understood between the parties that the said land is to be equally divided so as to give to each half of said tract an equal portion of what is called the river bottom.”
Christopher and his family could have simply been thinking that it was time for them to separate themselves somewhat from the rest of the clan and go their own way. He had spent countless hours attending to Thomas’s estate, and those matters were winding down.
“the lower undivided half of a tract of land sold and conveyed by Daniel Haynes to said Celia A. Haynes on the 6th day of July A.D. 1860, containing twelve hundred and eighty (1,280) acres.”
This was the lower 640 acres of the 1,280 acres that Thomas had given to Daniel and that Celia had bought back from Daniel, and is shown within black boundary lines on this map, at the very bottom of the Haynes place. (This tract was later re-surveyed and changed into the orange area also shown here.) The property description was exactly the same as in the two deeds involving Daniel; that is, the familiar “Beginning at a ditch near where Platt’s Steam Saw Mill used to stand…” But Christopher’s part is only the lower half of that land. To ensure that Christopher and whoever eventually would wind up with the upper half would split the property equitably, Celia included the following condition in the deed:
”And it is distinctly understood between the parties that the said land is to be equally divided so as to give to each half of said tract an equal portion of what is called the river bottom.”
Christopher and his family could have simply been thinking that it was time for them to separate themselves somewhat from the rest of the clan and go their own way. He had spent countless hours attending to Thomas’s estate, and those matters were winding down.
Strictly speaking, this land belonged only to Celia and was not part of Thomas’s estate. Whether she was treating this land in that respect is not known, since there is no evidence among all the deeds to suggest what she was thinking. (Regardless, she had every right to do as she pleased.) However, in the remainder of the pages of this website, I continue to refer to Celia’s land as being part of the Haynes place (not in terms of who owned it, but that it was located within the original Haynes place).