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Photographer: Courtesy of Nebraska State Historical Society
Taken: 1888
Caption: Marker detail: Speese Family
Additional Description: The Moses Speese family in Westerville, Custer County, Nebraska, photographed in 1888 by Solomon Butcher. Four of Moses Speese's sons - Charles, Joseph, John, and Radford - would later move to Wyoming to establish the community of Empire with their families. They were later joined by three branches of the Taylor family, headed by Reverend Russell Taylor and his brothers Otis and Baseman Taylor.
Submitted: July 9, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p434291
File Size: 2.389 Megabytes

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