Know ye that we, Jones H . Flournoy and Clara Flournoy, wife of the said

Jones, of the county of Jackson, and State of Missouri, for the consideration of one hundred and thirty dollars, received to our full satisfaction, of Edward Partridge of the county and State aforesaid, do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Edward Partridge, the following described piece or parcel of land; being a part of the southeast Quarter of Section three in township number forty-nine of range number thirty-five in the aforesaid county, bounded and described as follows, to wit; Commencing on the south line of said quarter section forty poles from the southeast corner of said quarter section, at the corner of a certain piece of land sold by said Flournoy and wife to one Lewis Jones, and from thence running west one hundred and twenty poles to the southwest corner of said quarter section. Thence north sixteen poles and ten links, thence north forty degrees east, ten poles, thence north twenty-one degrees east, fourteen poles, thence north fifteen degrees east, twenty poles, thence north forty-two degrees east, thirty-four poles, thence north fifty-five degrees east, thirty poles, thence north sixty-four degrees east, forty poles, thence north seventy degrees east, seventeen poles and fifteen links to the corner of a certain tract of land sold by the said Flournoy and wife to one G. M. Hensley, south one hundred and twenty-two poles and seventeen links to the place of beginning containing sixty-three acres and forty-three one hundred and sixtieths of an acre, be the same more or less. To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises, with all and singular the rights and privileges thereunto in any wise belonging and appertaining unto him the said Edward Partridge, his heirs and assigns for ever, to his and their own proper use and behoof. And also we the said Jones H Flournoy and Clara Flournoy, wife of the said Jones, as aforesaid, for ourselves, our heirs, and assigns, that at and until the ensealing of these presents we are well seized of the premises as a good indefeasible, and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as it is above written and that the same is free from all incumbrances [encumbrances] whatsoever. And further more we the said Jones H. Flournoy and Clara Flournoy, wife of the said Jones, as aforesaid, do by these presents bind ourselves, our heirs and assigns forever, to warrant and defend the above granted and bargained premises to him, the said Edward Partridge his heirs, and assigns, against all lawful claims and demands whatsoever.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals the nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty-two [thirty-one].

Jones H. Flournoy. Seal.

Clara Flournoy. Seal.

State of Missouri, }

County of Jackson.} ss.

Be it remembered that on this nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one before the undersigned deputy for Samuel C. Owens, Clerk of the Circuit Court for the aforesaid county, personally came Jones H Flournoy and Clara Flournoy both personally known to the said undersigned, to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing as having executed the same and acknowledged said instrument of writing to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, she, the said Clara Flournoy, being by me first made acquainted with the contents thereof -

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

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,

son of Oliver Cowdery, now seven years old; and Jane Cowdery three years, and Joseph Smith Cowdery one year old, all the lands entered in my name in the county of Jackson, in the district of Lexington, in the State of Missouri said Edward Partridge the first party and signer of this deed does also sell, alien, and confirm to the aforesaid John Cowdery all real estate and lands he has both entered as aforesaid, and all he owns in his own name by private purchase and holds by deed of gift, being intended for the use of the Church of Latter Day Saints or otherwise. This sale is to embrace all lots of all sizes, situated in Independence, and to embrace the lot known as the Temple Lot, and all other lands of whatever description said Partridge the first party is entitled to in said Jackson county, in the State of Missouri said Partridge also agrees to amend this deed to said Oliver Cowdery at any time for the purposes aforesaid

Given under my hand and seal on the date above written

E. G. Gates, Witness. Edward Partridge. [Seal]

State of Missouri,}

Caldwell County. } ss.

Be it remembered, that on the 25th day of March, 1839, before me, the undersigned, one of the Justices of the County court in and for said County, came Edward Partridge, who is personally known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing as party thereto, and did acknowledge the same to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal on the day and year above written.

Elias Higbee, J. C. C. C.

The foregoing deed with the acknowledgment thereon from Edward Partridge to Jane Cowdery, et al, was filed and duly recorded in my office on the 7th day of February, A. D 1870.

A Cumingo, Recorder,

By H. G. Goodman, Deputy.

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 Deed-acknowledgment-and note of record thereon endorsed from Edward Partridge to Jane Cowdery et al., as the same now remains on record in my office In Independence, Book No 73, page 432, and following

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said office in the city of Independence, in said County, this 11th day of June, A. D. 1887.

R. T. Hinde, Recorder,

[Seal] By W. R. Hall, Deputy.

DIED-In this place, on the 27th day of May, Bishop Edward Partridge, aged 46 years. In recording the death of this our brother, we record the death of one of our earliest, most faithful, and confidential members. His life was one continual exhibition of the sincerity of his religious belief, and a perpetual evidence of his confidence in a future state of rewards and punishments: in view of which he always acted. His strict regard through life to all the commandments of heaven and his undeviating obedience to them, are consoling evidences to his friends that if there are any such things as rewards in the future world for well-doing in this, he is certain of enjoying them

No man had the confidence of the church more than he. His station was highly responsible; large quantities of property ever intrusted [entrusted] to his care. Deeds and conveyances of lands, to a large amount, were put into his hands, for the benefit of the poor, and for church purposes; for all of which the directest account was rendered, to the fullest satisfaction of all concerned And after he had distributed a handsome property, of his own, for the benefit of the poor; and being driven from his home, found himself reduced to very limited circumstances, still, not one cent of public property would he use to indemnify himself or family; but distributed it all, for the benefit of the widow, the fatherless, and the afflicted; has deceased, leaving his family in very ordinary circumstances.

Had there been one covetous desire in his heart, no man had the opportunity better to gratify it; but he has left a testimony, to be had in everlasting remembrance, that he lived above its influence, and over him it had no control; but in all things, he had respect to the reward of the just.

A life of greater devotedness to the cause of truth, we presume, was never spent on this earth. His religion was his all, for this he spent his life, and for this he laid it down. He lost his life in consequence of the Missouri persecutions, and he is one of that number whose blood will be required at their hands. As a church we deplore our loss, but we rejoice in his gain. He rests where persecutors can assail him no more.