Life on the Putnam Farm

Dundy County Nebraska Genealogy Trails

The Putnam Family Collection

Life on the Putnam Homestead - Farm

Homestead and farm of Will and Bessie Putnam.

Bessie has just fed the chickens and La Vella Mae (about 5 years old) is on the horse, Buster. Genevieve (Putnam) Wesman is walking.

This farm is about eleven miles north of Haigler in Dundy County, Nebraska. Uncle Lell and Aunt Cassie's place was just a little way north.

Dundy County Biographies

The Laughlin Family Files

The Putnam Family Files

William Henry Putnam Page

Eunice Charlotte Putnam Page

LaVella Mae Putnam Page

Llewellyn Putnam Page

Eunice Putnam Page

Life on the Putnam Farm

The Putnam Farm - 1996

On March 13, 1927 there was a snow storm that piled the drifts 7 feet over the tops of the cherry trees north of the Putnam house located eleven miles north of Haigler, Nebraska..

Wheat harvest on the Putnam farm in the sandhills north of Haigler, Nebraska.

This was the method used before the combine arrived in the area.

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Everyone in the family helped with harvest. In this picture, the girls are wearing their big sunday hats.

Ted Putnam's herd of 38 dairy cattle. Taken December 1, 1943 on the Putnam farm north of Haigler, Nebraska in Dundy County.

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Theodore (grandson of William H. Putnam) showing off his 19 inch catfish caught in Rock Creek, Dundy County, Nebraska. 1942

The pictures and inormation on this page was donated by La Vella Tomlison, Great Grand Daughter of Judge William Henry Putnam.

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