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Seeking Claim for Homestead Entry near Morse, Saskatchewan, filed by my Grandfather ca 1906-1908

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Seeking Claim for Homestead Entry near Morse, Saskatchewan, filed by my Grandfather ca 1906-1908

Posted: 17 May 2015 11:00PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 19 May 2015 10:34PM GMT
Surnames: Korsedal; Taylor
John A Korsedal built a log cabin on land located 3 -7 miles north of Morse, Saskatchewan, around 1908. We have two photos showing the nearly complete cabin. He and my grandmother were set to move from their home in Superior, Wisconsin, to the completed cabin in September, 1909, when he took ill and died. My grandmother moved to Michigan taking her young son with her. They never saw the cabin and apparently no one from our family ever tried to find it. I'd like to at least locate the site where it once stood, but we have no record of the legal description of the property, just that it was within 3 - 7 miles of Morse. I have searched under my grandfather's name in the various Saskatchewan homestead and land & property search engines with no success - nothing even close. He did mention in a newspaper article that a neighbor named "Billy Taylor" had a cabin "within a short distance" of Morse. That's all I have. I am sure that if he claimed the land under the homestead act, he would at least have had to file a Claim for a Homestead Entry form. If he never occupied the cabin, there probably would be no other forms filed. Whoever came along later and occupied the cabin would likely have to file something like an abandonment form, I would think, before they could claim on it. Any help on locating any record of John A Korsedal would be greatly appreciated.
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