After Benjamin Oxley purchased 16+ acres from Wilhite Carpenter and another 4+ adjoining acres from Lorenzo Hoglan in 1857, he had the combined ground laid out in lots that was destined to become known as Oxley's Addition to Shepherdsville. As Oxley was living in Missouri at the time of these sales, the transaction was handled by his brother-in-law, James H. Oliver.
The location of the lots may be seen on the plat shown on another page.
Among these lots were two numbered 44 and 45 located on the south side of Depot Street near its eastern terminal. Oxley sold these two lots to Emmanuel Lewis on 3 Jun 1858.
Emmanuel and Paulina Lewis sold the lots to Charles A. Brooks for $50 on 28 Mar 1872. Charles and Candace Brooks sold the lots to J. W. Thompson & John H. West on 18 Jan 1873.
Thompson and West sold them to Riley Ducker for $40 and a bay horse on 31 Dec 1873. It appears that Ducker failed to satisfy the lien held against the lots, and Thompson sued in Circuit Court which ordered the lots sold to pay the debt. Thompson was the purchaser of the lots on 2 Oct 1876.
J. W. Thompson then sold the two lots to G. T. Dawson on 10 Jul 1885, as shown below.
This deed of 10 Jul 1885 between J. W. Thompson and G. T. Dawson, in which Dawson paid $50 to Thompson in exchange for lots 44 and 45 in Oxley's Addition to Shepherdsville, also describes the chain of ownership of these lots from Oxley forward, as follows: B. F. Oxley to Emmanuel Lewis to C. A. Brooks to Thompson & West to Riley Ducker and by Ducker via a commissioner to J. W. Thompson.
Bullitt County Deed Book Z, Page 379
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