Show capp LAND REVIEW rights under the homestead laws unmarried women widows maidens and deBert cd wives alio oro over die ago qt twenty one years jire entitled and benefits tinder the homestead laws hut can be enjoyed by men the mother of a living child or children whether widow deserted wife or unfortunate single person may acquire title to land as the head of a family though under the ago of twenty one widows of deceased entry men succeed to the rights of their husbands and may make final proof and take itle in their own names it is not absolutely necessary that they should reside upon the land after the death of tho husband as residence or culli bation for the prescribed time is all that is demanded of widows and minor heirs the widow of a person who served for ninety days or more during the war of the rebellion in the united states army navy or marine corps and died without making an entry may make an entry the same as her husband if living might do and in making final proof receive credit in lieu of residence on the land for the period of tho husbands service not co exceed four years the deserted wife of a homestead may make final proof as his agent and have issue in the name of her husband or she may contest his entry on the ground of abandonment of the claim and cancellation jancel lation enter the land in her own name the latter is the wiser course for many reasons an unmarried woman widow or otherwise having initiated an entry may marry without affecting her ight to tho land provided she complies with the legal requirements should she marry prior to the time when she might make her proof and perfect her claim and leave the land to reside with her husband elsewhere the entry would be liable to cancellation for abandonment but not on account of the marriage where a man and a woman each make a homestead entry and marry before making final fone of the entries must be relinquished or commuted at their choice if they live together on one homestead the entry covering the other homestead will be liable to contest for abandonment aven though the land be cultivated and improved the homestead law requires three things to give final first honest residence second good cultivation to crops or otherwise and third fair improvements in the matter of buildings fences and the like compliance with only one or two of these requirements will apt satisfy the law full compliance with all three requirements must be satisfactorily shown for the entire period at the date when the final proof is made the daughter of a deceased soldier sailor or marine i otherwise fied may enter land her own notwithstanding an entry may have been her diac and perfected for her benefit daring her minority she can thereby secure two homesteads A widow as the legal representative of her deceased husband may continue to cultivate his homestead and at the same auoe make an entry in her own name acoman A woman has this advantage over a man she can thus secure two homesteads while he is allowed only one the widow of a deceased may purchase under the june the land embraced in a homestead entry ia cases where that act is applicable COPP |