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1919 Prairie Farmer's Directory

Farmers

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Abbreviations Used in this Directory

a - Acres; Ch - Children; O - Owner; T - Tenant or Renter; R - Rural Route; Sec - Section; Maiden name of wife follows directory name in parenthesis ( ); figures at end of information - year became resident of county. Star (*) indicates children not at home. Name of farm in quotation marks follows names of children. In case of a tenant, the farm owner's name follows the figures giving size of farm.

EXAMPLE
Angle, William H. (Lizzie Johns) Ch Homer, Artie, Nellie, Roy, Edith, Erma; Hamburg Rl Belleview Sec23 Tl60a John Sueling (1875) Farmers Line Hillcrest

MEANS
Angle, William H. - Name.
(Lizzie Johns) - Wife's maiden name.
Ch Homer, Artie, Nellie, Roy, Edith, Erma; - Names of children.
Hamburg Rl- Post-office Hamburg R. F. D. 1.
Belleview Sec 23 - Township Belleview Section 23.
T160a- Tenant on 160 acres.
John Sueling - Owner of 160 acres.
(1875) - Lived in county since 1875.
Farmers Line Hillcrest - Name of telephone.


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