Default having been made in the payment of indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Jacqueline C. Walker, a single woman, on January 26, 1996, to Security Federal Bank, predecessor of SmartBank, which said mortgage was filed and recorded on February 1, 1996, in Book 83, Page 123, in the Probate Office of Pickens County, Alabama, and modified by a Modification of Mortgage, dated September 6, 2013, and recorded on September 13, 2013, in Book 290, Page 514, in the Probate Office of Pickens County, Alabama, and by reason of such default, having declared all of the indebtedness secured by said mortgage due and payable, and such default continuing, notice is hereby given that, acting under the power of sale contained in said mortgage, SmartBank, will sell at public outcry, for cash, to the highest bidder, in front of the Courthouse door, in Carrollton, Pickens County, Alabama, during the legal hours of sale on the 7th day of September, 2022, the following described real estate situated in Pickens County, Alabama, to-wit: Parcel I: Lying in the W 1/2 of W 1/2 of Section 23, Township 24 North, Range 3 West, Pickens County, Alabama, described as: From the intersection of the centerline of Alabama Highway 32 with the East line of the NW 1/4 of NW 1/4 of said Section 23, said point being at or near the Northeast comer of the NW 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 23, run S. 11 degrees 50 minutes W. for 290.5 feet to a point on the East right-of-way of Alabama Highway 17; thence run along the East right-of-way of Alabama Highway 17 in a Southerly direction on a curve to the left, the chord of which is S. 41 degrees, 34 minutes W. for 612 feet to a concrete post on said highway right-of-way; thence continue along said highway right-of-way, S. 38 degrees 55 minutes W. for 1526 feet; thence run S. 50 degrees 00 minutes E. for 163.2 feet; thence S. 39 degrees 50 minutes E. for 310 feet; thence S. 33 degrees 00 minutes E. for 100 feet to the point of beginning of herein described parcel of land; thence from said point of beginning run N. 59 degrees 19 minutes E. for 200 feet; thence S. 23 degrees 15 minutes E. for 310 feet; thence S. 46 degrees 30 minutes W. for 25 feet; thence S. 15 degrees 45 minutes W. for 27.5 feet; thence S. 74 degrees 30 minutes W. for 45 feet; thence S. 83 degrees 00 minutes W. for 436.5 feet; thence N. 3 degrees 18 minutes E. for 174.6 feet; thence N. 59 degrees 19 minutes E. for 230 feet to the point of beginning. Parcel 2: Lying partly in the W 1/2 of W 1/2 of Section 23 partly in the E 1/2 of E 1/2 of Section 22, all in Township 24 North, Range 3 West, Pickens County, Alabama, described as: From the intersection of the centerline of Alabama Highway 32 with the East line of the NW 1/4 of NW 1/4 of said Section 23, said point being at or near the Northeast comer of the NW 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 23, run S. 11 degrees 50 minutes W. for 290.5 feet to a point on the East right-of-way of Alabama Highway 17; thence run along the East rightof-way of Alabama Highway 17 in a Southerly direction on a curve to the left, the chord of which is S. 41 degrees, 34 minutes W. for 612 feet to a concrete post on said highway right-of-way; thence continue along said highway right-of-way, S. 38 degrees 55 minutes W. for 1526 feet; thence run S. 50 degrees 00 minutes E. for 163.2 feet; thence S. 39 degrees 50 minutes E. for 310 feet; thence S. 33 degrees 00 minutes E. for 100 feet to the point of beginning of herein described parcel of land; thence from said point of beginning run S. 50 degrees 00 minutes E. for 163.2 feet; thence S. 39 degrees 50 minutes E. for 310 feet; thence S. 59 degrees 19 minutes W. for 30 feet; thence N. 39 degrees 50 minutes W. for 300 feet; thence N. 50 degrees 00 minutes W. for 162.5 feet to a point on the East right-of-way of Alabama Highway 17; thence Northeasterly along said highway right-ofway for 30 feet to the point of beginning. Said property will be sold on an "AS IS, WHERE IS" basis subject to the right of way easements and restrictions of record in the Probate Office of Pickens County, Alabama, and will be subject to existing special assessments, if any, which might adversely affect the title to subject property. Said sale will be made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness secured by the above described mortgage, and the proceeds thereof will be applied as provided by the terms of said mortgage.
W. Marcus Brakefield
HUBBARD, McILWAIN & BRAKEFIELD, P.C. Attorneys for Mortgagee
Post Office Box 2427
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35403
Telephone: (205) 345-6789
Our File No. 37135.0219