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Elizabeth and John Brumbaugh along with an unidentified man (possibly Ira Brumbaugh) and child in front of John’s unusual two-story frame-and-sod house/post office in 1889. The boy may be Clarence Brumbaugh, who died the next year just shy of his 5th birthday.

Westerville in 1887

Custer County in 1888. Coburgh is in the upper right, northeast of Broken Bow.