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1. 1.2.62-63 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes dated 2/5/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association meeting in Baldwin County, Alabama. C.L. Coleman elected Secretary pro-tem. Bills submitted by J. P. Hunnel were accepted for payment. C. L. Coleman bid $76 at a sheriff's sale of the Jerome Stapleton claim of land between Stacks and Marshal's Gully. George Pollay reported good progress in acquiring Lewis claim to the Bowen Land.

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2. 36_7_001_006 - Documents

   Partial Abstract of Title to land in Fairhope, Alabama. The land is sometimes referred to as the Schalkenback Tract. This land's ownership was in dispute between Sarah Tatum and Jerome Stapleton. Chancery Court in Mobile settled the dispute in favor of Mrs. Tatum in 1896. (See BSS.906 in these online Archives for the resolution of that dispute.) Mrs. Tatum sold the property to Charles Schalkenback on February 26, 1894. (She would se...

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3. BSS.906 - Legal Documents

   Resolution of what seems to be an appeal to an original law suit of Jerome B. Stapleton vs Sarah I. Tatum in Chancery Court, Mobile, Alabama. Stapleton had sued Tatum for title to certain lands, and the court found in favor of Mrs. Tatum. Stapleton and his brothers Edgar Stapleton and Edwin Stapleton were ordered to pay court costs and were enjoined from further attempts of claim on the land. Note: part of the land in question was the 132...

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4. FMH_0015-0016 - Photograph, Digital

   Photographs (not dated) of Jerome B. Stapleton and wife Lucy Stapleton (Lucy Marion Brown Stapleton 1838-1925). Jerome Stapleton and his brothers Edgar Stapleton and Edwin Stapleton raised cattle on the land which the Fairhope Industrial Association purchased from Mrs. Sarah Tatum in January 1895 (the initial purchase of property for the new Fairhope Colony). This property, sometimes referred to as "Stapleton's Pasture" was the subject of a la...

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