My Champion Tree is Dying..It's Dead...New One!

[OH logger]

thats very cool magicman. how cool to pass that down to the next generation

[Sixacresand]

I had the opportunity to see the champion tree and meet some mighty fine people at the Davis Farm and Chicken Crispin.

[killamplanes]

Curiosity plus conversation on another thread made me look at the deed today where my Great-Grandfather bought this particular 168.67 acre parcel of land in 1904.  Including 10% interest and 10% attorney fee, he paid $363.00 financed for three years.  There were three payments of $121.00 each due on the 13th of December, 1905, 1906, and 1907.

I am sure that the due date was by design because by then all of the crops would be in.  I inherited a portion and bought the remainder of the property in 2004, exactly 100 years later.  The original deed, which I have, is hand drawn on linen cloth.

Its amazing how things use to be bought and sold. know in days ever T has to be crossed and I has to be dotted. I'm glad to see land retained for that many years within the family. Money gets spent, and replaced, they don't make land anymore. I have bought several hundred acres in last couple years. I clear cut a creek, all soft wood overmature (cottonwood, sycamore). Grossed 24k in a 7ac plot on both sides of a creek. To bad the rest of the 160ac wasn't timber like that just tillable. Linen cloth