On the 12th of June 1919 William S Wilkinson filed a homestead on the "[E]ast half of the east half of Section fourteen in Township eighteen north of Range thirty west of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Nebraska, containing one hundred sixty acres." Patent Number 686006. North Platte 06174. Signed by W. P, LeRoy, Secretary. His homestead was next to the homestead of his father-in-law Lemuel Franklin Cooper.