Description
Sheriff's Sale. - - By virtue of 8 executions issued from the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clay County, and State of Missouri, viz: One in favor of Churchill J. White and Robert S. Adkins; one in favor of Dexter T. Wales, Joseph C. Cabot, Henry Wales, and Henry Senter; one in favor of William T. Reynolds; one in favor of James Love; one in favor of Robert H. Kern; one in favor of John A. Denny; two in favor of the Farmer’s Bank of Missouri, and all against James H. Ford,
I will on Friday, the 23rd day of October, A.D., 1863, and between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon, and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of said day, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the court house door, in the city of Liberty, all the right, title, interest, and claim of James H. Ford, in and to the following described personal property, to wit:
One Negro woman named JUDA, aged about 36 years;
One Negro boy named JIM, aged about 12 years;
One Negro girl named CAROLINE, aged about 9 years;
One Negro girl named ELIZA, aged about 4 years; and
One Negro boy named DICK, aged about 1 years,
Levied upon as the property of the said James H. Ford, to satisfy said executions. F. R. Long, Sheriff
(Researcher's note: Per the St. Louis National Historical Company's 1885 "History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri", p. 325: "...Capt. James H. Ford, a retired and highly respected citizen of this place (Liberty, Clay County, Missouri). Capt. Ford was deputy sheriff when he entered the Southern army in 1862. Since the war he has held the offices of deputy sheriff and deputy collector. He came to this county from Kentucky in 1837, where he was afterwards married to Miss Mary Duncan, also formerly of Kentucky.")Date(s) of Creation
10/16/1863
