History and stories of Nebraska . Robert Haevey, an Early Surveyor, AND Outfit. {From photograph collection of A. E. Sheldon.) THE SURVEYORS 109 QUESTIONS 1. What are the numbers of the land where you hve and how do you know? 2. Find all the government corners in the section where you live and tell how they are marked? Are the marks you find the ones put there bythe United States surveyors? 3. How do surveyors to-day retrace the work of the first United States sur- veyors and settle disputes over land? 112 STORIES OF NEBRASKA its free lands. One of the songs sung everywhere after thepassage of
History and stories of Nebraska . Robert Haevey, an Early Surveyor, AND Outfit. {From photograph collection of A. E. Sheldon.) THE SURVEYORS 109 QUESTIONS 1. What are the numbers of the land where you hve and how do you know? 2. Find all the government corners in the section where you live and tell how they are marked? Are the marks you find the ones put there bythe United States surveyors? 3. How do surveyors to-day retrace the work of the first United States sur- veyors and settle disputes over land? 112 STORIES OF NEBRASKA its free lands. One of the songs sung everywhere after thepassage of the homestead act had for its refrain these words: Come along, come along, make no delay,Come from every nation, come from every way,Our lands they are broad enough, have no alarmFor Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm. Daniel Freeman served his country in the Union armyuntil the close of the Civil War, in 1865. Then he brought. The First Homestead. {From photograph collection of A. E. Sheldon.) his bride and settled on his Nebraska homestead. This hasremained ever since the family home. Here their sevenchildren grew to manhood and womanhood and here lives with children and grandchildren. Mr. Freeman died December 30, 1908. This first home-stead is a beautiful farm in the valley where the prairie andtimber land join. The old log cabin with sod roof, which wasthe first home of the Freeman family, has long since disap-peared. There is a brick house and orchard, and an oldfreighting road, from Missouri River to the mountains runsfor nearly a mile through the place, with rows of giant cotton-woods planted by Mr. Freeman on either side. On the hillat one corner of the farm, overlooking the valley and the THE FIRST HOMESTEAD 113 freighting road, is the grave of Daniel Freeman. It is pro-posed that the United States shall purchase this first home-stead from the Freeman family and make it a public park to
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