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In addition to my own family history, I maintain online family trees for three very dear friends.
One of the trees hosted at Rootsweb focuses on descendants of Reddick Massengale, from Nash Co., NC, and Edward Francis Roach, from Fairfax Co., VA.
Naturally I was a bit curious to see that there was a Roach Cemetery in Randolph Co., AR, and wondered if my friend's family had donated the land.
A phone call to a local funeral home in Pocahontas got me the name and phone number of the elderly volunteer caretaker for the cemetery, who was only too happy to tell me all about it.
It was a delightful conversation, and afterward, I sent her a letter with a check for a small donation to the upkeep of the cemetery.
She sent me back copies of the legal deeds to the cemetery, including the original 1868 donation of the land by William and Laurinda (Hubbard) Roach.
It's now a typewritten transcription of the original handwritten deed, compiled by the Randolph County Abstract Co., in Pocahontas, Randolph Co., AR.
Transcription follows...
No.
William F. Roach and wife,
Lorinda Roadh [Roach]
to
United Baptist Church
INSTRUMENT.....Deed
DATED April 11, 1868 ; acknowledged
before Nathaniel G Jackson, a Justice of the
Peace, of Randolph County, Ark«
Filed July 1. 1868 M.
Recorded in Book...8 Page...151
RECITES:
That William F, Roach and wife, Lorinda Roach, do by these presents grant, and
convey to "the United Baptist Church of Christ" the following tract of land, to-wit:
2 acres of land in a square beginning 96 poles from the Southeast corner of
Sec. 2, Twp. 20 N.R. 1 West, to a rock on said line, thence 18 poles to 2
rocks, then west 18 poles to a rock, then south 18 poles to a rock on the
section line, then east 18 poles to beginning corner on said land.
To have and to hold the same unto the said United Baptist Church of Christ, with
all appurtenances and privileges thereunto appertaining.
No dower clause.
Duly signed and acknowledged, except dower.
COMPILED BY
RANDOLPH COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS
I love the way these old deeds were written - as if the poles would always be used as a measure of distance, and rocks would be there forever.
There is an updated legal description of the deed on file now.
Someday, I'll have to make that road trip for photographs.
One of the trees hosted at Rootsweb focuses on descendants of Reddick Massengale, from Nash Co., NC, and Edward Francis Roach, from Fairfax Co., VA.
Naturally I was a bit curious to see that there was a Roach Cemetery in Randolph Co., AR, and wondered if my friend's family had donated the land.
A phone call to a local funeral home in Pocahontas got me the name and phone number of the elderly volunteer caretaker for the cemetery, who was only too happy to tell me all about it.
It was a delightful conversation, and afterward, I sent her a letter with a check for a small donation to the upkeep of the cemetery.
She sent me back copies of the legal deeds to the cemetery, including the original 1868 donation of the land by William and Laurinda (Hubbard) Roach.
It's now a typewritten transcription of the original handwritten deed, compiled by the Randolph County Abstract Co., in Pocahontas, Randolph Co., AR.
Transcription follows...
William F. Roach and wife,
Lorinda Roadh [Roach]
to
United Baptist Church
INSTRUMENT.....Deed
DATED April 11, 1868 ; acknowledged
before Nathaniel G Jackson, a Justice of the
Peace, of Randolph County, Ark«
Filed July 1. 1868 M.
Recorded in Book...8 Page...151
RECITES:
That William F, Roach and wife, Lorinda Roach, do by these presents grant, and
convey to "the United Baptist Church of Christ" the following tract of land, to-wit:
2 acres of land in a square beginning 96 poles from the Southeast corner of
Sec. 2, Twp. 20 N.R. 1 West, to a rock on said line, thence 18 poles to 2
rocks, then west 18 poles to a rock, then south 18 poles to a rock on the
section line, then east 18 poles to beginning corner on said land.
To have and to hold the same unto the said United Baptist Church of Christ, with
all appurtenances and privileges thereunto appertaining.
No dower clause.
Duly signed and acknowledged, except dower.
COMPILED BY
RANDOLPH COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
POCAHONTAS, ARKANSAS
I love the way these old deeds were written - as if the poles would always be used as a measure of distance, and rocks would be there forever.
There is an updated legal description of the deed on file now.
Someday, I'll have to make that road trip for photographs.
