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About Clement Clay Eiland:
1900 Census Name: C C Eiland Age: 60 Birth Date: Dec 1839 Birthplace: Alabama Home
in 1900: Memphis Ward 7, Shelby, Tennessee Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of
House: Father in Law (Father) [Father-in-law (Father)] Marital Status: Widowed Father's Birthplace:
Georgia Mother's Birthplace: Georgia R L Leonard 35 Etta Leonard 35 Nannie L Leonard
6 R L Leonard 2 C C Eiland 60
1880 United States Federal Census Name: C. C. Eiland Age:
40 Birth Year: abt 1840 Birthplace: Alabama Home in 1880: Noxubee, Mississippi Race:
White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Self (Head) Marital Status: Widower Father's
Birthplace: Georgia Mother's Birthplace: Georgia Occupation: Farmer C. C. Eiland 40
1870
Census Macon, Noxubee Co, Ca Clement C Eiland-33, Farmer, Al Leroy Massengale-63, Tn Ellen
Massengale-56, Keeps House, Tn Eiland, Henrietta-6, Ms
1860 United States Federal Census Name:
Clem C Eiland Home in 1860: District 3, Noxubee, Mississippi O C Eiland 60 H Eiland 60 L
E Eiland 25 Clem C Eiland 24 A B Robertson 19
1900 United States Federal Census Home
in 1900: Memphis Ward 7, Shelby, Tennessee R L Leonard 35 Etta Leonard 35 Nannie L Leonard
6 R L Leonard 2 C C Eiland 60
1930 United States Federal Census Name: C C Eiland Birth
Year: abt 1838 Gender: Male Race: White Birthplace: Alabama Relation to Head of House:
Inmate Home in 1930: Beat 1, Harrison, Mississippi Institution: Jefferson Davis Soldiers Home
Beaurick Attended School: No Able to Read and Write: No Father's Birthplace: Georgia Mother's
Birthplace: Georgia Able to Speak English: Yes Industry: Inst C C Eiland 92
1930
Census Name: Clem C Eiland Birth Year: abt 1838 Gender: Male Race: White Birthplace:
Alabama Marital Status: Widowed Relation to Head of House: Lodger Home in 1930: Macon,
Noxubee, Mississippi Street address: Jefferson Street Ward of City: 2 House Number in Cities
or Towns: 792 Dwelling Number: 186 Able to Read and Write: Yes Father's Birthplace: Georgia Mother's
Birthplace: Georgia Able to Speak English: Yes Veteran: Yes War: Civ Neighbors: View
others on page Miles E May 25, manager of Hotel Clem C Eiland 92, Al, Ga, Ga
Transcript
of law suit Clement Clay Eiland vs William Eiland & Jeff & Betsy Cotton Humbly complaining your Orator,
C. C. Eiland a citizen of the County of Noxubee and State of Mississippi would respectfully represent
unto your Honor that heretofore to wit about the day of ________ AD 187__ William F Eiland a citizen
of the County of Noxubee and State of Mississippi was seized and possessed in fee simple of a certain
track or parcel of Land and ???? lying and being situate in the Lower of Macon in said County of Noxubee
& State of Mississippi to wit: The House and Lot known on the Map of said Town as the South third (1/3)
of Lot Six (6) in Block Eighteen (18). Your Orator Shows that the said William F Eiland being so seized
and possessed in fee simple of said land and ___ments did on or about that time Sell said House & lot
to Jeff Cotton and Betsy Cotton his wife for the sum of _______ dollars All of Which has been paid ___
and except the sum of One Hundred and four & 30/100 dollars to secure which said sum Jeff Cotton and
his wife Betsy Cotton executed and delivered to the said William F. Eiland a promissory note in writing
dated January 1st 1874 and due and payable one day after date. Said note is hereto attached and marked
Exhibit ?A? and prayed to be taken as a part of the Bill of Complaint. And in pursuance of said Sale
The said William F. Eiland then & there on the day and date thereof, did execute and deliver to the
said Jeff Cotton and his wife Betsy Cotton, under his hand and seal a bond for title Conditioned that
upon the payment of the purchase money of said House & lot in fee simple with usual covenance of warranty
and there upon deliver to the said Jeff Cotton and his wife Betsy Cotton the possession of said House
& lot and that they have been and are now in the quiet possession and enjoyment of the same. Your Orator
further states and shows that said William F. Eiland, to whom said note was made after the making and
delivering said note for a valuable consideration paid him by Your Orator, transferred and delivered
said note to your Orator, who is now the legal owner and holder of note and alone entitled to the payment
of the same, and to have the same enforced as a valid and subsisting lien on said House & Lot against
the said Jeff Cotton and his wife Betsy Cotton. The promises considered your Orator prays that the
said Jeff Cotton, his wife Betsy Cotton and William F. Eiland all citizens of Noxabee County & Sate
of Mississippi may be made parties defendants to this Bill of Complaint and that they be summoned according
to law to be ___ appear before the Houorable Chancery Court in & for Noxubee County to be held at the
Court House in the Town of Macon on the Second Monday of December AD 1875 then and there upon their
respective corporal oaths true and perfect answers make to each and every allegation in said Bill contained
as specifically as if specially interrogated thereunto. Your Orator further prays that upon the final
hearing of this cause that an account may be ordered to be taken & stated by the Clerk of this Honorable
Court as certaining the true amount of said purchase money for said House and Lot is now due and unpaid,
and that the amount so found due and unpaid may be declared a valid and subsisting lien on said House
and Lot and that a decree of this Hon. Court may be made directing a specific performance of said contract
on the part of William F. Eiland on the payment of said purchase money so found due and unpaid to your
Orator. And that the said Jeff Cotton and his wife Betsy Cotton be decreed to pay said purchase.
About Christina (M A C) Massengale:
died from comsumption
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