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Patent Type:  Homestead
Claimant: Mary J.  (McKean)  Davis
Buried: 
Moorefield Cemetery, Moorefield, NE
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Land Office: North Platte
Application
16166
7/11/1891
Occupied Date
7/11/1891
Final Certificate
5621
7/9/1898

Legal Description
E½SW¼ & W½SE¼ of Sec 31 T9N R27W in Lincoln county, Nebraska  (160 Acres)
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All information below from testimony taken at final filing

Where Born
Pennsylvania
Age
50
Post Office
Moorefield

Marital Status
Widow
Children
1
Notes
son

House
sod  14x26  w/14x20 add.
Well Depth
189’

Notes
occupied sometime in 1889; on her homestead affidavit she stated her husband was insane (Lewis Davis, died at Hastings, Nebraska in 1895).

Witness
Edward Jackson
Age
46
Post Office
Moorefield
James M. Grandstaff 46 Moorefield
Thomas Ireland Moorefield
Robert McNite Moorefield

Notice of filing published in
The Independent Era

Affiant
G. F. Copper
Editor




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

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