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From: Jack Franklin <>
Subject: Re: [ILLASALL-L] Prairie Farmer
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:35:21 -0600


Streator is the name of a town in LaSalle Cty. Look like his address was Route
6, Streator. I do not know about the rest. Audrey

wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> A few weeks ago, I was given the name and address of a distant relation,
> taken from my Gt grandmothers address book. I did a name search and came up
> with a result in the 'Prairie Farmer's Directory of LaSalle County, Illinois,
> 1917.
>
> The information was presented exactly as follows;
>
> GAFF, Alfred Streater R6 Otter Creek Sec11 T120a Mrs H Gaff (1902)
>
> All the other entries on this page had the first name of the 'farmer'
> immediately after the bold typed surname, followed by his wife (including
> maiden name), and then, names of children. As you can see, there is no such
> detail here! I'm assuming that a semi colon has been missed out and that
> Alfred is the Christian name of the farmer, he was not married, and the name
> of the farm is 'Streater'.
> According to the list of abbreviations the 'T120a' refers to the acreage of
> the farm and that the farmer was a Tenant or Renter, and, although this isn't
> explained in the abbreviations, it would seem from the other entries, that
> the name at the end of the entry is the owner of the land.
>
> Can anyone provide a) confirmation of my theories relating to this entry.
> b) a link between Alfred Gaff and Mrs H Gaff.
> c) any other details relating to these
> people.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Steve ( in the U.K ! )
>
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