| 662 him or other adults, and supposing that children would be spared, made a transfer of the property to the minor heirs of Oliver Cowdery, being careful to state the purpose for which the property was held. 2 This title was finally transferred
and examined separately and apart from her husband, whether she executed such deed and relinquished her dower in the lands and tenements in said deed mentioned, freely, voluntarily, and without compulsion or undue influence of her said husband, acknowledged and declared that she executed said deed and relinquishes her dower in the lands and tenements in said deed mentioned, freely, voluntarily, and without compulsion or undue influence of her said husband
Taken and certified under my hand and the private seal of Samuel C. Owens, Clerk of the said Circuit Court, there being no official seal at said office the day and the year above written
Russell Hicks,
[Seal] Deputy for Samuel O Owens, Clerk C. C. J. C.
State of Missouri, }
County of Jackson.} Sct.
I, Samuel C. Owens, Clerk of the Circuit Court, and ex officio recorder within and for the aforesaid county, do hereby certify that the foregoing deed of bargain and sale from Flournoy to Partridge, was filed in my office for record on the l9th day of December, 1831, and duly recorded in my office on the 24th day of May, 1832, in Book B, page 1.
Samuel C. Owens. Clerk.
State of Missouri, }
County of Jackson.} ss.
I, R. T. Hinde, Recorder of Deeds, within and for said county of Jackson and State of Missouri, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and complete transcript of the record of the W. D-Acknowledgement [Acknowledgment] -and note of record thereon indorsed [endorsed] from Jones E. Flournoy and wife to Edward Partridge, as the same now remains on record in my office in Independence, Missouri, Book No. B, at page 1, and following.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said office, at my office in the city of Independence, in said county, this 11th day of June, A. D. 1887.
R. T. Hinde, Recorder
By W. R. Hall, Deputy
2 Edward Partridge
To
Jane Cowdery, et al.
Know all Men, that whereas there was money put in my hands, to wit,-in the hands of Edward Partridge, by Oliver Cowdery, an elder in the Church of Latter Day Saints, formerly of Kirtland, State of Ohio, for the purpose of entering lands in the State of Missouri, in the name of, and for the benefit of said church; and, Whereas, I, Edward Partridge was Bishop of, and in said church he took said money and funds thus put in his hands and entered the land in his own name, in the county of Jackson, State of Missouri, in the name of Edward Partridge, the signer of this deed,
Now know ye that for the furthering the ends of justice, and as I have to leave the State of Missouri, by order of Governor Boggs, and with me also our church, I do for the sum of one thousand dollars, to me in hand paid by said Oliver Cowdery, do give, grant, bargain, and sell to John Cowdery,
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