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Subject: Re: [DMU] Deed Corners
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:38:05 EDT

In a message dated 5/20/2007 12:09:44 PM Central Daylight Time,
writes:


I have a deed for one acre of land in Brown County, Ohio (SW corner of
OH). The deed identifies the corner locations as a "Stone".
My question is: was the stone marking corners in the mid 1800s usually a
large unmovable stone & was the stone usually chiseled out with an X or
something. I wanted to visit the site in question and try and locate the
original corners if possible.

Steve,
I am not familiar with a "stone" being used to mark corners, but it was
common praxes in the South to use "stone mounds." I would think that if they
had a stone available nearby that was large enough and enough men to move it,
say two chainsmen and one surveyor, that it could have been rolled into place.
It could also be possible that a large stone happened to be located near enough
to the corner to use it as a marker. If the deed does not state that the
stone was marked---it was not. However, this does not mean that a future surveyor
might not have taken the time to mark it. You might want to compare deeds in
this area to others to see if this is an anomaly. I would also review the land
description for this piece of property in future sales for additional border
descriptions.

Rondina Muncy
Grapevine, Texas



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