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Testimony of Claimant, page 1

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[note] 7.50 4-369 Form approved by the Secretary of the Interior November 14, 1914. [stamp] RECEIVED U. S. LAND OFFICE ROSWELL, N. MEX Date SEP 20 1918 Hour 2pm DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. HOMESTEAD ENTRY U.S. LAND OFFICE, ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO No. 027398 [note] 1.50 FINAL PROOF. Receipt No. 2222314 TESTIMONY OF CLAIMANT. QUESTION 1. What is your full name, age, and post-office address? ANSWER. Erastus J. Herron; age 2 59 years; Blackdom, N.M. QUESTION 2. Are you a native-born citizen of the United States, and if so, in what State or Territory were you born? (If foreign born, or if native born and later naturalized in a foreign country, see Note 1.) ANSWER. Yes; born in South Carolina. QUESTION 3. Are you the same person who made Homestead Entry No. 027938, at the Roswell, New Mexico, Land Office on the 17th day of January, 1914 for the NE 1/4, Section 25, Township 13 S, Range 24 E, N M P Meridian? If not, give relationship to entryman. ANSWER. Yes. QUESTION 4. Are you married or single? ANSWER. Married QUESTION 5. If married, of whom does your family consist? ANSWER. wife and nine children. QUESTION 6. If a married woman, state whether your husband now has an unperfected homestead entry, and during what time he has resided on this land with you. Also state his citizenship qualifications. (See Note 1 at the bottom of third page.) ANSWER. [blank] QUESTION 7. When did you first establish actual residence upon this land? ANSWER. June, 1914. QUESTION 8. When was your house built on this land? ANSWER. Within six months after settling. QUESTION 9. Have either you or your family ever been absent from the homestead since establishing residence? ANSWER. no QUESTION 10. If there has been such absence, give the dates covered by each absence; and as to each absence, state whether you, your family, or both, were thus absent and the reason for each such absence. ANSWER. none [stamp] NOV 15 1918 c 6—1524

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Homestead National Historical Park, Code: HOME

Chaves County, New Mexico
Latitude: 40.2879981994629, Longitude: -96.8339004516602

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