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Patent Type:  Homestead
Claimant: Elizabeth  (Geis)  Cross
Buried: 
Moorefield Cemetery, Moorefield, NE
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Land Office: North Platte
Application
18698
10/25/1900
Occupied Date
4/15/1901
Final Certificate
6540
11/20/1905

Legal Description
SW¼ of Sec 20 T9N R26W in Lincoln county, Nebraska  (160 Acres)
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All information below from testimony taken at final filing

Where Born
Alsace Lorraine, France
Age
36
Post Office
Ingham

Marital Status
Married
Children
6

House
sod  18x26

Notes
widow at time of application; married July 1904; declaration of intention 10/25/1900 Lincoln county, Nebraska; naturalization 11/20/1905 at North Platte, Nebraska; appointed deputy postmaster at Ingham, July 1904

Witness
W. T. Jones
Age
59
Post Office
Ingham
J. W. Mosley 46 Ingham
Fred Geis Ingham
E. T. Jones Ingham

Notice of filing published in
Gothenburg Independent

Affiant
J. B. McKnight
Foreman




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

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