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Patent Type:  Homestead
Claimant: George Conover  Kerr
Buried: 
Kerr Hill Cemetery, Gresham, PA
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Land Office: North Platte
Application
6870
3/31/1885
Occupied Date
7/1/1885
Final Certificate
1276
6/2/1887

Legal Description
NEĽ of Sec 28 T8N R25W in Frontier county, Nebraska  (160 Acres)
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All information below from testimony taken at final filing

Lived Previous
Pennsylvania
Age
47
Post Office
Farnam

Marital Status
Married
Children
1

House
sod  20x24
Well Depth
98’

Notes
oil producer; Pvt Co A 83rd Reg PA Vol; original sod house 20x36 with 16x20 wing erroneously built 100' from line on adjoining 1/4 section

Witness
James A. Forrest
Age
48
Post Office
Farnam
George Laucomer 38 Farnam
A. B. Barnhart Farnam
F. R. Henderson Farnam

Notice of filing published in
Frontier County Faber

Affiant
A. E. Powers
Editor




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

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