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Patent Type:  Homestead
Claimant: Woodard R.  Potter
Buried: 
Gothenburg Cemetery, Gothenburg, NE
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Land Office: North Platte
Application
10539
6/3/1886
Occupied Date
7/16/1886
Final Certificate
4345
4/24/1893

Legal Description
SEĽ of Sec 2 T10N R25W in Dawson county, Nebraska  (160 Acres)
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All information below from testimony taken at final filing

Where Born
Pennsylvania
Age
42
Post Office
White Rabbit

Marital Status
Married
Children
4

House
frame  16x24  w/16x16 add.
Well Depth
32’

Notes
house built by former claimant

Witness
Joseph L. Buterbaugh
Age
52
Post Office
White Rabbit
Charles D. Scott 34 White Rabbit
Horace Hunter White Rabbit
Gilbert Lewis White Rabbit

Notice of filing published in
Gothenburg Star

Affiant
F. M. Springsteen
Publisher




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

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