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My great grandfather Thomas Bryant Parker lived in the beautiful town of Palmyra for about 22 years. He dontated land to the Methodist Episcopal church for a place of worship. He was one of the duly elected board of Trustees for the this church.

We recently visted Palmyra. It is a clean, beautiful and friendly town. It is no wonder that grandfather called this home for more than 22 years. I want to publically thank the citizens of Palmyra for their help. I especially than Deb!

Deed book. Thomas Bryant Parker was a Trustee to the Espicopal Church and donated land for the church to be built.

This is a picture of the Episcopal Methodist Church (Picture taken August 2004).

The following copies were graciously supplied by Deb Behring. I really appreciate Deb's help. You can click on the image and you will se a higher resolution picture.

Page 1 Abstract of title to: All of lot number seven (7) and a strip of equal width three (3) feet wide off of the entire west side of lot number (8) all in block thirty-nine (39) in the city of Palmyra, in said County of Marion and State of Missorui. Said two tracts fronting on Church Street in said city of Palmyra and being sixty eight (68) feet in width and running back one hundred and twenty-seven (127) feet to the alley in said block.

Page 2 The United States of America By Andrew Jackson, President A. J. Donelson, Secretary Elijah Haywood, Commissioner of the General Land Office to Obadiah Dickerson.

Page 3 Joel Shaw, and John McCune, and Obadiah Dickerson and Samuel K. Caldwell to Town of Palmyra.

Page 4. Obadiah Dickerson, and Sally Dickerson, his wife to Samuel C. Reed.

Page 5 Samuel C. Reed, and Maria D. Reed, his wife to Thompson E. Turner, James Holland, William Lair, Samuel C. Reed, Abraham Huntsberry, William R. Ross and Montilison H. Smith, Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Palmyra.

Page 6 Obadiah Dickerson, and Sally Dickerson, his wife to Clement White, and Theodore Jones.

Page 7. John Lydick, John Randal, John R. Coption, Thomas B. Parker, Thomas L. Wiss and Stephen B. Carnegy, Abraham Huntsberry, as Trustees of the Methodist Episcopla Church of Palmyra to George W. Bird and Abraham Bird.

Page 8 Abram Bird to County of Marion

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Page 9 George W. Bird, and Martha Ann Bird, his wife, and Abraham Bird, and Katherine Bird, his wife to William R. Campell

Page 10 William R. Cambell to Marion County

Page 11 William R. Campbell, by Daniel Willock, Sheriff of Marion County, Missouri to John R. Campbell

This indenture made and entered into this twentieth day of May in the year of our lord 1840 between Daniel Willock, Sheriff of Marion County in the State of Missouri of the first part and John I. Campbell of the County & State aforesaid of the second part Witnesses, that whereas, Obadiah Dickerson plaintiff on the tenth day of January A.D. 1839 at the Circuit Court for Marion County in the State of Missouri hath recovered against William R. Campbell & John H. Milton defendents for debt the sum of four hundred and fifty nine dollars and sixty five cents and the sum of eighteen dollars and thirty cents, which to the said plaintiff was adjudged for his damages by reason of the detent-

Page 12 ion of the said debt and also the sum of sixteen dollars and fifty cents costs for which said debt, damages and costs, a writ of execution was issused on the 10th day of February, by Stanton Buckner, Clerk thereof, and to the Sheriff of Marion County directed, commanding him that of the goods and chattels and real estate of the aforesaid William R. Campbell and John H. Milton he cause to be made the debt, damages and cost aforesaid and that he save the same before the judge of said Court on the first Monday in May A.D. 1840 to satisfy said debt, damages and costs and that he certify to said judge how he executed said writ, and that he have then there said writ, and by authority of said writ of execution the said Daniel Willock, Sheriff of Mart real estate was to be sold, and where situated by at least six hand billsion County, aforesaid levied upon and seized all the right, title, interest and claim of the said William R. Campbell in and to the following described real estate towit: Lots No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, & 8 in block No. 39 in the Town of Palmyra **** (and other lands) **** together with all the buildings and improvements hereunto belonging and did expose the same to sale, subject to all prior liens and judgements publicly by auction for ready money, at the door of the Court house, within and for the said County of Marion on the 14th day of May A.D. 1840 between the hours of nine in the afternoon and five in the afternoon of that day during the term of the Circuit Court of said County of Marion (having previously given twenty days notice of the time, and place of sale, and what real estate was to be sold, and where situated by at least six hand bills signed by said Daniel Willock, Sheriff of said County of Marion, and put up in public places in different parts of said County of Marion) and the aforesaid party of the second part, who was the highest bidder at the sum of eight dollars, became the purchaser thereof, therefore for and in consideration of the sum of eight dollars to the aforesaid Daniel Willock Sheriff in hand paid by the aforesaid John I. Campbell the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged the said party of the first part has bargained and sold and by these presents does sell and convey unto the said John I. Campbell all the right, title and claim and interest which aforesaid defendent William R. Campbell had in and to the above describedd real estate subject to the aforesaid execution so far as he the said Daniel Williock sheriff of Marion County can do. To have and to hold the above granted premises to the said John I. Campbell and all those claiming under him by title acquired since the lien of the aforesaid judgement but against the claim or claims of no other person or persons whatsoever. In testimony whereof I Daniel Willock, Sheriff of Marion County have hereunto set my hand and seal on the day and year first above written. D. Willock (Seal) Sheriff of Marion County.

Page 13 John I. Campell to Marion County, Missouri

Page 14 John I. Campbell , and Martha T. Campbell, his wife to John D. S. Dryden, trustee for Mrs. Laura E. Hyde, wife of Johnatha L. Hyde. Lots No. five, six, seven and eight in Block No. thirty nine in the Town of Palmyra.

To have and to hold the said lots of ground together with all and singular the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereto belongin unto the said John D. S. Dryden, and to his heirs and assigns forever, In Trust, neverless for the following uses, that is to say, he the said Dryden shall suffer and permit her the said Laura E. Hyde, to hold possess and enjoy the said lots of ground and premises and the rents and profits thereof free from the debts, contracts, poser and control of her said husband, And the said

Page 15 Law suit Plaintiff John I. Campbell against William Lair, Thomason E. Turner, the unknown heirs of James Holland, dec'd Montillion H. Smith, Abracham Huntsberry, the unknown heirs of Samuel C. Reed, dec'd and William R. Ross. In the Marion Circuit Court at the March Term, 1852 on the 13th inst. before the Hon. Carty Wells, Judge, the following among other proceedings were had towit:

John I. Campbell, --- Plaintiff

against William Lair, Thomason E. Turner, the unknown heirs of James Holland, dec'd, Reed, decd and William R. Ross ---- Defendants

Now at this day comes the plaintiff by John D. S. Dryden, his attorney, and the said defendants, William R. Ross and the unknown heirs of the said James Holland deceased, and the unknown heirs of said Samuel C. Reed deceased, not having appeared as yet or shown any cause why the judgement herein against them takin the plaintiffs petition, and the matters therein for confessed, should be set aside, and thereupon the tract of this cause was submitted to the court withou a jury by the consents of the parties on the petition, answers, exhibits, judgments, pro confesso and proofs, whereupon the court doth find that on the 20th day of April, 1831 the said William Lair, Thomason E. Turner, James Holland, Montillion H. Smith, Abraham Huntsberry, Samuel C. Reed and William R. Ross were the Trustees duly elected of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the town of Palmyra, in Marion County, Missouri, that on that day the said Samuel C. Reed being the proprietor by his

Back of page 14. lots of ground or any of them, he the said Dryden at the written request of the said Laura E. shall sell and convey to the said person or persons and on such terms as she the said Laura E. shall prescribe, and the proceeds of such sale shall pay and deliver to her the said Laura E. or to her order, and in case of the death of the said Laura E. before the saile of said lots he the said Dryden shall convey the same to such a person or persons as she the said Laura E. shall by her last will and testament appoint, but in case she shall fail to make an appointment, then the same shall descend to and vest in her heirs. It is however expressly understood and agree between the parties to this deed that the words grant, bargain , and sell shall never be construed to contain any convenant whatsoever on the the part of the said John I. Campbellin reference to said Lots No. 5 and 5 in said Block No. 39.

Back of page 15. or the consideration of thirty dollars paid to him, bargained, sold and conveyed to the said named trustees and their successors in office in trust for the uses of said church lots number seven and eight in block number thirty nine in the said town of Palmyra, in manner as stated in plaintiffs petition, that said church afterwards erected on said lots a house of worship, but which remained unfinished and in the erection of which the said became involved in a debt which made necessary or convenient to sell said lots and house that afterwards and before the 10th day of February 1837 the said church in accordance with the constitution and laws of said church elected as successors to the said first named trustees, a new board of trustees consiting of John Lydick, John Randall, John R. Coptin, Thomas B. Parker, Thomas J. Wise, Stephen W. B. Carneggy and Abram B. Huntsberry, as charged in the plaintiffs petition, that the said last named trustees in order to raise funds to meet the said debt,in which said church became so involved and enable said church to erect another house of worhip on another site, better suited to the wants and tastes of said church, by bargained and sold the said lots and premisess to the said Abraham Bird and George W. Bird as charged in the petition that said George W. Bird, Abraham Bird and their wives, afterwards for their deed for twenty two hundred dollars, paid to them, granted, bargained and sold the said lots premises to the said William R. Campbell, that afterwards the Sheriff of Marion County, Missouri, under by authority of a regular judgement and execution in favor of Obadiah Dickerson against said William R. Campbell and one John H. Milton regularly sold and conveyed all the estate of said William R. in said lots and premises to the plaintiff the court both also find the the plaintiff and those under who he claims have had the uninterrupted continuous possession of said lots and premises ever since the said conveyance to tsaid Bird and Bird, but that doubts have never the less existed as to the title of the plaintiffs, because

Page 16. that the said first board of trustees instead of the second did not convey said lots and premises, and thus a clod has been cast upon plaintiffs title, the court doth also find that the title to said lots was vested in said first board of trustees, in trust and for uses of the said church and in equity subject to the control of said church and that siad church did in fact desire and did order and direct the sale and conveyance of said lots free and discharged of the trust. It is therefore orderd, adjudged and decreed by the Court that the defendents in this suit and the unknown heirs of the said Holland and Reed, because they are hereby divested of all title, legal and equitable in the siad lots and premises and it is ordered that the plaintiff pay the costs of this suit. Sate of Missorui, County of Marion. I Thomas E. Thompson, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for said County certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an order and decree of said Court records Volume 8 at pages 143, 144 &145.

In testimony of which I have hereto set my hands and affised my official seal at office at Palmyra in the County aforesaid this 29th day of March, 1852. Filed fo record on the 30th day of March 1852.

Thos. E. Thompson, Clerk.

By W. S. Means, D. Clerk.

Thos. E. Thompson, Recorder

Cover letter from Deb. Sorry this has taken me longer than I said but I've had my grand daughter all week & helping with vacation Bible School. I've copied a few more pages that we agree on. We got to reading through this & noticed that you might want to read a bith further. Your great grandfather is mentioned later on in some kind of court thing. Our Chamber of Commerce has a web site? I don't know what's on it, but you might check it out.

Palmyra@usa.com

Hope this gets to you alright Deb

Thanks Deb for send me this information...Greg Parker