Homestead records, Nebraska
Application # 8154, certificate # 5263
Appication dated September 18, 1882
Application approved August 16, 1889
Location: Section 6, township 25N, range 8W
Took up residence March 15, 1883
House built February 1876
Fanny Haskell, is a single woman, aged 54 in 1887
Tristram was a sea captain until, in his old age, he retired to a farm on Deer Isle on land later owned by his son Captain John. Captain Tristram discontinued his position as master mariner chiefly on account of increasing deafness. The farm on the shore lot furnished him with ample work and a good subsistence with what he had accumulated from his many years of voyaging.