Esther's Homestead

Source: BLM GLO Records. Homestead for Maria Esther Suastegui.

In my initial post on Maria Esther Suastegui in July 2017, I included a public notice of her Homestead claim filed with the District Court at Yuma, Arizona on 14 October 1890. Above is a copy of the certificate for that homestead claim, for 160 acres not far from the Gila-Salt River. Her first husband's father, Asa H. Post, and his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Post, had nearby homesteads, as did her second husband, Peter Munson, and third husband, James H. Graham.