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Land Office: North Platte
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Application
16866
12/17/1892
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Occupied Date
5/1/1892
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Final Certificate
5903
11/24/1899
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Legal Description
SW¼NE¼ & NW¼SE¼ & N½SW¼ of Sec 12 T9N R27W in Lincoln county, Nebraska
(160 Acres)
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All information below from testimony taken at final filing
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Where Born
Pennsylvania
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Age
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Post Office
Ingham
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Marital Status
Widower
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Children
10
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House
sod
14x36
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Well Depth
160’
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Notes
Aff. by Joseph W. Thompson, adm. of Franklin Griffith estate, who died 2/1897, 10 surviving children and no widow: Jesse 28, Mary 26, Robert 22, Bertha 18, Frank 17, Herbert 15, Ethel 13, ? 11, Norah 7, Allie 4.
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Witness
William Houghtaling
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Age
49
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Post Office
Ingham
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J. Oscar Wilmeth
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38
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Ingham
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Albert E. Hill
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Ingham
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William LaRue
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Ingham
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Notice of filing published in
Gothenburg Independent
Affiant
Evert Stewart Editor
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