URIAH W. OBLINGER

Once my Homestead papers are filed on a piece of land you can hold it as well as me if I am called away and if I am called [dead] before you, you can homestead 160 acres and hold it for the law says soldiers’ widows and orphans can have the same right as the soldier himself, even the guardian; for a soldiers’ orphan can take a piece for the orphan as well as the soldier himself; some are doing so at this time so you see Uncle Sam has been mindful of those who stood by the country in her hour of Peril by providing in a great measure for those who were ever nearest & dearest to us.

The longer I stay here the better I like it, there are but very few old families here they are mostly young families just starting in life the same as we are and I find them very generous indeed. we will all be poor here together and grow up together and I hope be happy together

I come here with almost nothing and I am holding my own well, so you may not get angry for trading my team off. I have determined to get my land on some terms, I am not going back to Indiana to rent until I bust entirely and have to walk back.

I come here with almost nothing and I am holding my own well, so you may not get angry for trading my team off. I have determined to get my land on some terms, I am not going back to Indiana to rent until I bust entirely and have to walk back.

The longer I stay here the better I like it, there are but very few old families here they are mostly young families just starting in life the same as we are and I find them very generous indeed. we will all be poor here together and grow up together and I hope be happy together

Once my Homestead papers are filed on a piece of land you can hold it as well as me if I am called away and if I am called [dead] before you, you can homestead 160 acres and hold it for the law says soldiers’ widows and orphans can have the same right as the soldier himself, even the guardian; for a soldiers’ orphan can take a piece for the orphan as well as the soldier himself; some are doing so at this time so you see Uncle Sam has been mindful of those who stood by the country in her hour of Peril by providing in a great measure for those who were ever nearest & dearest to us.