Celia A. Haynes Sells 660 Acres to Michael Whalen (Area D)
Celia A. Haynes Gives Michael C. Whalen All of Her Remaining Land
Only four days after the completion of the preceding sale from Amos C. Haynes to George Menefee, Celia Ann Haynes sold her one, remaining piece of property (or so she may have thought), the 660 acre tract (D) out in the prairie, to Michael C. Whalen, husband of her granddaughter, Mary Julia Haynes Whalen, for $2,059.20. The selling price was $3.12 per acre, the same price that George Menefee paid Amos C. for his land. The deed was recorded in Book Q, page 376, and dated July 18, 1892. The deed was brief and described the land only in general terms.
She also stated that it was her intent to dispose of all of her remaining land, so if there were any “orphans” lying around anywhere, the Whalens now owned them, too. More than likely, this is the mechanism that allowed the Whalens to claim ownership of the previously-unsold (and unmentioned) 750 or so acres out in the southwestern pasture (P), as well as the “bonus” tract (O) on the river. Her exact statement in the deed was: “It being the intention to convey by this deed all the land I now own in the said Ramon Musquiz 5-1/2 league grant.”
(Celia may have given all of her remaining land to the Whalens to circumvent or prevent further claims for land by other relatives, such as the lawsuit that Robert’s ex-wife had filed the previous year.)
The deed mentions that Michael Whalen was from Victoria County, instead of Jackson County as we would expect, so the Whalens may have never lived on the Haynes place with Celia; or, exactly the opposite may have been true – Celia may have been living in Victoria with the Whalens. This deed giving all of her remaining property to the Whalens certainly indicates that she preferred that they take over her land, rather than her having to parcel it out to her remaining grandchildren. Of course, we don’t know exactly where anyone of the Haynes family was living at this time, with the 1890 United States census having been lost in a fire in Washington, D.C., causing a tragic loss of information about our past.
Celia A. Haynes Gives Michael C. Whalen All of Her Remaining Land
Only four days after the completion of the preceding sale from Amos C. Haynes to George Menefee, Celia Ann Haynes sold her one, remaining piece of property (or so she may have thought), the 660 acre tract (D) out in the prairie, to Michael C. Whalen, husband of her granddaughter, Mary Julia Haynes Whalen, for $2,059.20. The selling price was $3.12 per acre, the same price that George Menefee paid Amos C. for his land. The deed was recorded in Book Q, page 376, and dated July 18, 1892. The deed was brief and described the land only in general terms.
She also stated that it was her intent to dispose of all of her remaining land, so if there were any “orphans” lying around anywhere, the Whalens now owned them, too. More than likely, this is the mechanism that allowed the Whalens to claim ownership of the previously-unsold (and unmentioned) 750 or so acres out in the southwestern pasture (P), as well as the “bonus” tract (O) on the river. Her exact statement in the deed was: “It being the intention to convey by this deed all the land I now own in the said Ramon Musquiz 5-1/2 league grant.”
(Celia may have given all of her remaining land to the Whalens to circumvent or prevent further claims for land by other relatives, such as the lawsuit that Robert’s ex-wife had filed the previous year.)
The deed mentions that Michael Whalen was from Victoria County, instead of Jackson County as we would expect, so the Whalens may have never lived on the Haynes place with Celia; or, exactly the opposite may have been true – Celia may have been living in Victoria with the Whalens. This deed giving all of her remaining property to the Whalens certainly indicates that she preferred that they take over her land, rather than her having to parcel it out to her remaining grandchildren. Of course, we don’t know exactly where anyone of the Haynes family was living at this time, with the 1890 United States census having been lost in a fire in Washington, D.C., causing a tragic loss of information about our past.