St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents

Robert Elkins
17 March 1903

The United States of America,
Homestead Certificate No. 7142
Application 17.101

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas, there has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Boonville, Missouri
whereby it appears that pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 1862, “To secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain,” and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Robert Elkins
has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the North East quarter of the South West quarter of Section thirty six, in Township thirty seven North, of Range twenty six West of the Fifth Principal Meridian in Missouri, containing forty acres
according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General.
Now know ye, That there is therefore granted by the United States unto the said Robert Elkins
the tract of Land above described: To Have and to Hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Robert Elkins
and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony whereof, I, Theodore Roosevelt
President Of The United States Of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the seventeenth day of March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty seventh.
By The President: T. Roosevelt
By F.M. McKean, Sec’y.
C.H. Brush, Recorder of the General Land Office.