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Patent Type:  Homestead
Claimant: Benjamin F.  Downard
Buried: 
Miller Chapel Cemetery, Mount Zion, IA
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Land Office: North Platte
Application
7394
5/12/1885
Occupied Date
9/20/1885
Final Certificate
3064
10/20/1890

Legal Description
SW¼ of Sec 2 T7N R25W in Frontier county, Nebraska  (160 Acres)
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All information below from testimony taken at final filing

Where Born
Iowa
Age
31
Post Office
Eustis

Marital Status
Married
Children
1

House
sod  16x32  w/10x16 add.

Witness
Edwin L. Hall
Age
38
Post Office
Eustis
Charles F. Jay 28 Eustis
Evan T. Jay Eustis
Marcellus Mackey Eustis

Notice of filing published in
People's Advocate

Affiant
J. O. Parkyn
Publisher




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

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