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Patent Type:  Homestead
Claimant: Elmer L.  Peckham
Buried: 
Mitchell Valley Cemetery, Mitchell, NE
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Land Office: North Platte
Application
14238
5/1/1888
Occupied Date
5/15/1888
Final Certificate
4411
6/8/1893

Legal Description
NEĽ of Sec 34 T10N R26W in Lincoln county, Nebraska  (160 Acres)
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All information below from testimony taken at final filing

Where Born
Wisconsin
Age
26
Post Office
Peckham

Marital Status
Married

House
frame  14x16

Notes
lived in a tent initially; married after fall of 1888

Witness
Judson P. Burrows
Age
29
Post Office
Farnam
Charles Willets 29 Farnam
Frank Wilcox Farnam
William Roberts Farnam

Notice of filing published in
Gothenburg Independent

Affiant
W. L. Granger
Publisher




County Plat Publication Dates: Lincoln—1907; Dawson—1904; Frontier—1905

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