Text of Ziebach Co., SD History (1982) - pages 400 - 420 This file is the text of the book, "South Dakota's Ziebach County, History of the Prairie", published in 1982 by the Ziebach County Historical Society, Dupree, SD The book is still in print and can be ordered from: County Auditor Box 68 Dupree, SD 57623 Cost is $10 (Add $3 for shipping and handling) Permission to publish this book in electronic form was given by Jackie Birkeland, member of the Historical Committee. This book is copyright, 1982 by the Ziebach County Historical Society, Dupree, SD. Scanning and OCR by Terri Tosh , final editing by Joy Fisher, . ALFRED (HAPPY) and LILLIAN HERREN Alfred (Happy) Herren was born December 10, 1924, one of six children, to Oscar L. and Gena A. Knudson Herren, in Dupree. He attended the Sunnybrook School and following his graduation from Dupree High School, served in the U.S. Army until April 13, 1947. Lillian Vrooman was born April 4, 1928 at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vrooman; Muzzle Johnson was the attending mid-wife. Lillian attended the Johnson and the Busy Bee rural schools in Ziebach County. She attended the Eagle Butte High School. Lillian and Happy were married on June 24, 1948 by Reverend Haun and they lived on the home place of Happy's parents, which is still the family farm today. Lillian and Happy were the parents of four children: Mike, born March 9, 1949; he is married to Patricia Brehmer and they have two children, Dustin and Shawna. Mike and Tricia live at Lantry, South Dakota and Mike works for the Tri-County Water Association. Merle, born December ii, 1951, is a graduate of Dupree High School and attended Black Hills State College; he is married to Vivian Carson of Des Moines, Iowa and they have three children, Kimberly, Chris, and Geana. Merle and his family live on and manage the family farm and ranch south of Dupree. Sonja, born September 19, 1953, also graduated from Dupree High School and attended BHSC for two years. She is married to Tom Zebroski and they have two children, Shannon and Derek. Tom is employed in the oil fields and they live in Gillette, Wyoming. Jim, born June 2, 1955, attended Sunnybrook School and graduated from DHS. He is married to the former Peggy Northcutt of Kansas City, Missouri. They have two children, Sabrina and Alfred. Jim works in the Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota and they live near Spearfish, South Dakota. Happy passed away on May 8, 1980 on his ranch south of Dupree and Lillian is currently residing there, when she is not travelling about visiting her grandchildren. [photo - Lillian and Happy Herren's children: Merle, Sonja, Mike and Jim] [photo - 25th Anniversary, Lillian and Happy Herren] GEORGE HERREN FAMILY George Herren was born June 6, 1922 at Dupree, the son of Oscar and Gena Herren. He lived on the family farm all of his life and attended school in Dupree, graduating in 1939. He was married to Violet Anderson on June 18, 1946 at Sturgis, South Dakota. They farmed 10 miles southwest of Dupree until 1959 when they moved their family 15 miles south of Dupree, where he was semi-retired. He died in December 1975. His wife, Violet, now lives in Dupree. Their children are: Robert, living in Rapid City; John, living on the family farm south of Dupree; Vicky, at home with her mother; Mrs. Mark (Twyla) Jochim, living at Lantry; and Rhonda and Patty, living in Dupree with their mother. OSCAR HERREN FAMILY by Dorothy Herren Serr My parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Herren were among the hardy pioneers. The stories they told of the early days were very similar to those told by the other pioneers. Life wasn't easy but it was rewarding. Dad was born at Elk Point, South Dakota and while still a young boy, the family moved to Wheeler, South Dakota. Their first homes were made of sod. In the spring of 1917 he homesteaded twenty-two miles southeast of Dupree. His home was a one room tarpaper covered shack. At the age of 30 he felt it was his patriotic duty to help fight for his country during World War I, so he enlisted in the United States Army on October 3, 1917. He was discharged June 9, 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa. During this time he spent eleven months overseas, the last six months being spent in the Army of Occupation. Mother was born and lived at Geddes, South Dakota. She completed the eighth grade in a rural school. Following her graduation she took teacher's courses in Springfield and Academy, South Dakota, and taught school for a number of years. My parents were married in early 1920. Dad then worked at the Meat Packing plant in Sioux City, Iowa for several months. They then returned to their homestead in South Dakota, in the spring of 1921. Our family was blessed with six children. We lost a brother at the age of five years and a sister at the age of five days while we lived on the homestead. In the early 1930's Dad bought land seven miles northwest of the homestead as school was a problem and he felt the need for more land for farming and ranching. He built our home beside what we call the Cherry Creek road. Here we spent many years enjoying the good and tolerating the bad, such as the dirty 30's. Bud, Happy, Doris and I graduated from DHS. Doris and I also attended college, thanks to our parents. Many sacrifices had to be made to keep kids in school. Sorrow has struck many times during my sixty years. In addition to the loss of a brother and sister in the 20's, my father passed away in 1957 and my mother in 1976; also my brother George (Bud) in 1975, and Alfred (Happy) in 1980. [photo - Oscar and Gena Herren family. Dorothy, Alfred, Doris and George] [photo - Gena and Oscar Herren] THE GARY HERSEY'S by Fay Hersey I (Fay Hersey) am the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira T. Williams of Ekalaka, Montana. I attended country grade school then bearded in Ekalaka for high school. I attended National College of Business, then was working for Manor House Inc. in Rapid City, South Dakota when I decided to visit a girl friend in Isabel. When I got to Isabel it was decided that I should have a blind date that night. That is how Gary and I met. Gary is the son of Charles and Ruth Hersey. He has spent most of his life near Dupree. He went to college in Spearfish and worked construction a few years. Gary and I were married October 9, 1971. When we got back from our honeymoon I learned I was a farmer's wife for sure. Gary had hired a crew to haul bales but very few bales had been hauled, so we went to work. Gary claims most people get married and leave home but when he got married his folks left home. They moved into a trailer home near us. December 11, 1972 our son Charles Ira was born. That was some Christmas present! Then August 7, 1974 (the year of the sod web worms) our daughter Rita Fay was born and made our family complete. 1975 was a wet spring and the snow deep. Gary and I worked 24 hours a day, it seemed like, during calving that year. The winter of 1977-78 was hard. When the snow started melting that spring, the creeks were still choked with snow, so water went where it could. The cows stood around on islands for several days. Winter of 1978-79 was hard again, but we got a lot of hay that summer. In 1979-80, winter forgot to come and the summer was a hot one. We had a fair grain crop in 1980 until we got hailed out. One good thing about a dry year. Nothing to keep us home, so we took the kids to Yellowstone Park on our first vacation since we were married. We are a typical farm family of western South Dakota. We have our heels dug in and are waiting for next year. That good crop, high grain price, a lot of hay and good cattle prices. [photo - Gary Hersey Family] FAMILY HISTORY OF CHARLES G. and RUTH V. HERSEY by Fay Hersey Charles G. Hersey was born in Owatonna, Minnesota in 1903, and moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Hersey, to a homestead in Ziebach County in 1910. Charles was one of the students in the first school started in Ziebach County. He spent his youth breaking horses to ride and also broke teams. Ruth Viola Stevens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stevens, was born in Scranton, Iowa in 1905. She lived in Charles Mix County, South Dakota until her parents and sisters moved to Dupree in 1919. Following graduation from the first four-year accredited high school in Dupree, she got her teaching certificate. Ruth taught at Star Prairie, Whittler, and Cloverleaf schools and a portion of a term at the Main School. Charlie and Ruth were married on September 2, 1927 and following their marriage, Charlie worked on the dray. He later went to work for the Standard Oil Company. Hersey's bought a house in Dupree and started their family: Charles "Dick"--1929; Lova--1931; Ruth--1934; Charleen-- 1935; and Gary--1940. Dr. Frank H. Creamer delivered all five children. Charlie quit working for Standard Oil and a succession of moves northwest of Dupree followed. The older children attended the Main School. Times were hard in the 1930's and like several others, Charlie went to work on WPA. One favorite family story is when the girls got snow boots for Christmas and they proclaimed, "Now we know there is a Santa Claus because the folks couldn't have afforded these". World War II came along and Charlie had to register for the draft. When he came home he told Ruth he did not have to go because he was 4F-- four kids and a farmer! They settled down on their farm near Dupree in 1944. Milking cows and raising a big garden kept them busy, in addition to their regular farm duties. One time Ruth had to help Charlie bind corn. She was driving the tractor while Charlie rode the grain binder. The clutch on the tractor stuck and Ruth threw Charlie backwards, head over heels off the binder. Though he probably had a lot of bad thoughts in his head, he didn't dare say a word or he'd have lost his driver! Both Charlie and Ruth have remained active in church and community affairs. He was member of the school board, the County FHA Board, ASCS Precinct Committee, Weed Board, Crop Improvement Association and is treasurer of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church. Ruth, has at one time or another, belonged to the St. Phillip's Guild, Rebekah's, the Lone Tree Extension Club, No Na Me Bridge Club and the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. She also served as guardian of funds for welfare recipients for many years. The 1960's brought retirement to the Hersey household. Charlie still likes to work in the blacksmith shop and helps to maintain the Episcopal Church. Ruth does a lot of hand work. Dick, their eldest son, has worked in construction, in the oil fields, and in various mines as a mechanics foreman. He and his wife, Hazel, are living in Grants, New Mexico. Lova Kienzle's five children are Jean, June, Julie, Kevin, and Janette. She lived in the Black Hills area and died in 1972. Ruth married Herb Schutz. She worked as a hairdresser, then returned to college. Her work for the Women in Violence was recognized statewide 10-23-82. Charleen Peterson's five children are Scott, Robin, Alien, Brian and Colleen. Charleen had MS and died in 1976. Gary broke his arm when he was five and it was while resetting it that Dr. Creamer said he wasn't going to take the cast off until the day Gary got married. At age 31 Gary married Fay Williams; their two children are Charles and Rita. Gary and his family are living on and operating his parents farm just out of Dupree. [photo - The Hersey's in 1948. Back row: Ruth, Lova, Richard, Charlene. Front row: Ruth, Gary and Charles] JAMES and WILHELMINA HERSEY by Medora Hersey Baumgart My father, James W. Hersey, was born in Owatonna, Minnesota in 1874, where his parents ran a roadhouse on the river. My mother, Wilhelmina Luhmann, was born in Germany in 1870. She came to Minnesota with her parents at the age of 3. They were married on September 3, 1900. Two children were born in Owatonna-Ann, who lives in Richland, Washington and Charles G., who lives in Spearfish, South Dakota. In 1981 they celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary and moved to Spearfish the same year. In 1904, they moved to Langford, South Dakota. While there four more children were added to the family--Hattie Clark of Pollock, South Dakota; Henry F. of Springdale, Arkansas; Louis J. of Bozeman, Montana; and Medora Baumgart of Owatonna, Minnesota. In 1910 Ziebach County opened for homesteading. Dad applied for and was given the opportunity to acquire land near Isabel. He took his team of mules with him to Isabel and plowed the sod to make his sod house and other buildings. He built the "soddy" into the side of a hill so it was also a "dugout''. A hole was dug and the frame house was built in the hole; sod was laid up at the ends and front of the house. Ground level at the front was just under the window sills and a walk was dug at floor level to the door of the house. The back of the house was just above ground level; the cellar was a little further into the hill. Talk about warm houses! We heated the entire house with the kitchen range. I was only eleven weeks old when we moved into the "soddy" December 23, 1910. In 1911 the famous drought hit and all the homesteaders found life pretty tough going. To support his family, Jim Hersey took whatever jobs came his way. In the beginning he "located" homesteaders. With his team of mules and buggy he would meet the trains at Isabel and take the travelers out to wherever their homesteads were, according to the land descriptions they showed him. He would find their surveyors' corner markings, and helped them in planning where to put their houses. I don't remember what he charged for this service but it helped to keep groceries on the table for his wife and six children. There was hardly anything in the line of jobs "Jim" would not or could not do. He worked for the sheep ranchers; he went with a crew that built grain elevators in town such as Selby, Glenham and other towns along the Milwaukee Railroad; he farmed, painted houses, and hauled coal from the lignite mines and sold it in town. Dad was appointed the first chairman of the School Board in 1911 and helped to construct the first school house. The first teacher at one of the schools in the area was a Miss Eck and the Little School where the Hersey's went was taught by Mr. Calloway, who also had a homestead in the area. Calloway would take some of his meals with our family quite often. While living in the Isabel area, two more babies were born to the family--Alathea Holzman, The Dalles, Oregon and Wilhelmina (or Billie as she was always called)--now living in Reno, Nevada. We moved again in 1916--a bit further west into a log house. There were three springs on that place with the best tasting water I have ever sampled. Our school there was 31/2 miles away by horseback or team and buggy. It was to be named the Beehive School because it was built on the Beebe land. We later moved onto a farm 5 miles west of Dupree. We kids attended Lone Tree School and then on to Dupree High School. Mother and Dad bought a house in the northeast section of Dupree that was known as the Brende house. Dad served the community for many years as Justice of the Peace; he always had a great vegetable garden and took care of the cemetery. My parents had been married for 56 years when Mother passed away in November, 1956. Dad lived another seven years. He had been honored as Pioneer King at the Golden Jubilee in Dupree in 1960 as the oldest resident. Most families had to provide their own entertainment. Dad's favorite way to spend the winter evenings was to read aloud to the family while Mother and the girls sewed, knitted, crocheted, or pieced quilts and the boys played or worked on their own special projects such as fixing bridles, harnesses, and weaving cinches (it is called macrame now). This practice made lovers of good reading of all of us. Charles G. is the only Hersey who remained in the area. [photo - Hersey Soddy] [photo - 1911 Pioneer school, also known as Little School] A. F. HIGGINS The Higgins home became the "Gretna Green" for many early day marriages, as it was located just over the line in Ziebach County, and it was far easier to get a license in Dupree, the distance being less than one-fourth that of the trip to Sturgis. It was not uncommon to have a wedding party, complete with minister, arrive unannounced, and the ceremony usually proceeded with the Higgins family as interested witnesses. A. F. Higgins waited for the railroad, arriving in April 1911 with his wife, Susan, and their six children, to occupy their homestead east of Faith. Later a daughter, Ethel, and her husband (Charles Williams) resided there. A son, George, and his wife (the former Florence Bakewell) lived on an adjoining ranch; the other daughter, Belle, lives in Faith; one son is in California; and two sons are in Oklahoma. Belle Higgins Isaacs (widow of Bill Isaacs), and their daughter, Carol, both followed the teaching profession. Among Belle's most vivid recollections are: "The school taught by a neighbor, Ethel Huston, in her claim shack; my Dad taking the family to a 4th of July celebration at Timber Lake, in a high-wheeled, hard-rubber tired, Reo auto which he had brought with him from Oklahoma. That Reo was quite a novelty as there were few cars then; the trip to Mott, North Dakota in the fall of 1911 so that the older children could attend high school--they drove through, taking furniture and livestock. The "train" consisted of two wagons, a single buggy, several horses and cows. When night came, they camped and slept on the ground, feeling, as one man put it, "Anywhere I hang my hat is Home Sweet Home to me." Mr. Higgins passed away in July, 1936 at the age of 76 and his wife passed away in October, 1951 at the age of 86. The following family members are still living as of April 1982: Mr. Raymond Higgins, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (age 90); Mr. George Higgins, Sturgis, South Dakota (age 84); Mrs. Belle (Higgins) Isaacs, Faith, South Dakota (age 81). HIGH HAWK High Hawk married Bear Woman/Edith (1847-1917), the daughter of Fire Cloud and Brings Her the Earth. Edith was the mother of John/Joseph Makes It Long (1870-1960). High Hawk was also married to Her Iron House, the mother of Alexander Makes It Long/High Hawk (1878-1942); James E. High Hawk/Shot At (1884-1966); and Jonah Makes It Long(1889-1955). In December of 1890, this family went toward Pine Ridge with the Big Foot Band. High Hawk and his wife, Her Iron House, were killed in the Massacre at Wounded Knee. The four sons survived. Some of the Wounded Knee survivors stayed at Pine Ridge, such as the Holy Rocks and the Stands, relatives of the High Hawks. Other survivors returned to the Cheyenne River and Cherry Creek. The High Hawk and Makes It Long brothers returned to a valley on the Cheyenne River, later known as Bridger, and called Takini meaning 'survivors'. The High Hawk allotment, made later, was one mile east of the school, on the flat. Grandmother Buffalo Pretty Head had almost one section. John Long married Leg Eagle/Mary in 1902. He was a minister. John adopted his nephew, Isaac Long, when he was one year old. Alex High Hawk and Mary or Molly Red Horse High Hawk (daughter of Nellie Blue Haired Horse and George Red Horse) had three children: Esther (Mrs. Charles Dog With Horns); Percy High Hawk who married Delphine Brings White; and Isaac Long. James E. High Hawk married Rosa Red Horse in 1915. One of their children survived: Hannah (1915-1964; Mrs. Lawrence Curley). Hannah attended Santee Normal School, then under Riggs. James High Hawk married Virginia Conroy (1901-1979) of Pine Ridge in 1934. Virginia was the cook for Bridger School for 35 years, doing all of the baking by herself. J. E. High Hawk rode for Ledger LaBrecque, a French-Canadian, who bull whacked with Louis LaPlante and sons. Ledger's ranch was across from Bridger, below the Four Corner Bridge. He is listed as one of the Cowboys of 1902. He served as a Councilman and was the only big operator in horses and cattle in Bridger and people looked to him for money and help. Jonah/Jonas Makes It Long, in 1922, married Nellie Alice Sits Down Talking. Their children are: Bernice, Theresa, Emerson and Wilford Long. [photo - John Makes It Long (SDSHS)] [photo - Makes It Long, circa 1895, as an Indian Scout (SDSHS)] ALEX and JOHANNA HINZMAN by Louise Hinzman Bringman and Paul Hinzman Our parents, Alex and Johanna (Radack) Hinzman came to Ziebach County in 1912 to establish their homestead south of Eagle Butte, on the SW 1/4 Of Section 3 Range 24 Township 11. Fourteen families and bachelors came from Avon, South Dakota on an immigrant train, which carried their livestock, farm supplies and household goods. The families who came were the Emil Hinzman's, Alex Hinzman's, Emanuel Hinzman's, Emanuel Buchholz, Jake Pritzkau's, Emanuel Pritzkau's, and Rudolph Berndt's. The single men were Henry Giedd, Ed Giedd, Emanuel Hebner, Jack Burbick, Emanuel Brokofsky, Ephraim Berndt and Ted Hinzman. All of these people settled on Township 11, Range 24. They began building their homestead shacks on their individual quarters of land. Family claim shacks were as big as 20' by 24', but many bachelor shacks were no more than 10' by 12'. Most families either had a dug out cellar or a cave, a refuge from storms and useful cool storage. Mother and children came in May 1912, because their two year old son, Harold, was recovering from burns. Louise was 6 months old. Water was dipped from natural ponds until one family dug a well for use by all of the homesteaders. Breaking sod and plowing fire guards was done by helping each other. As they were plowing fire guards around their own quarters, they decided to plow for a widow neighbor lady, who wasn't at home at the time. When she discovered it, their charity wasn't appreciated. She demanded that they turn all of the sod back with a hand shovel. There were no line fences then. When the cows would get out, they would go back to the Eagle Butte stockyards where they had been unloaded. They must have been homesick too. Soon a school was built by the men of the community. The one room frame building was on the quarter owned by Henry Giedd and later was our permanent home site. The Giedd school continued to serve the children of that area for over 40 years. Pioneer life was hard for the wives and mothers. With a neighbor on the next quarter the ladies often walked for a visit. Social get togethers were frequent. We wonder how they accommodated the crowds in their small frame homes. A traveling Baptist minister would come for a time and hold services either at the schoolhouse or in homes. He always stayed with the families. Mother told of having to arrange sleeping space for the minister, a visiting family of four and our own family in our small two room house. Louise slept in a dresser drawer and Harold on top of a trunk. Cots were set up and everyone had a comfortable night's sleep. A close bond developed in their small community because of the struggles and sorrows they shared. Mother told of attending to the burial preparations for a baby nephew, Gordon, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hinzman. The mother handed her the baby and she bathed and dressed him while the men got the little wooden casket. Mother and Dad put the baby in his coffin in the cave to keep cool before the funeral. His grave is on the quarter of land now owned by Mary Hinzman. Fourteen months were required as "proving up" time on the homesteads. Because of the drought and hardships, most of the families returned to Avon after fulfilling their obligations. Our parents moved back to Avon in 1913 and lived there until 1924. Then we moved back to make our permanent home on the Henry Giedd place. More than a quarter of land was needed to make a living. Our original homestead house is still standing there. Irvin and Paul were both born while we lived at Avon. Irvin died in January 1926 when he was 10 years old, and our father died three years later, in January 1929. Harold married Mary Deirmeier of Avon in 1936, and they had two children. Louise married Earl Bringman in 1951 and they had one daughter. Paul married Shirley Mader in 1948 and they have eight children. Harold, Paul and Louise all lived on ranches in the same area until they respectively moved to Eagle Butte to live, but keeping their ranches. Louise's daughter and son-in-law, Pauline and Gene Webb own hers now. Mother passed away in 1968 and Harold in 1971. EMANUAL HINZMAN FAMILY by Pansy Hinzman Hebner My Dad, E. W. Hinzman of Avon, South Dakota, went to Eagle Butte to homestead in 1910. His homestead was about eight miles southeast of Eagle Butte, in Ziebach County. The description of the homestead was S. W. 1/2 of Section 11, Township 11 and Range 24. After he built a homestead shack he came after Mother and us three children, Clarence, Sylvia and me, Pansy. Our stay at the homestead wasn't too long, but I was too young to remember how long it was. Because of the failing health of Mother, we moved back to Avon, South Dakota. Mother passed away soon afterwards and was buried at Danzig Cemetery at Avon, South Dakota. In 1916 Dad married Emilia Aldenger of Turtle Lake, North Dakota and in 1917 we moved back to the homestead at Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Dad bought more land and raised cattle. Didn't do much farming as it wasn't a farming country. Here two of my half sisters were born. They were Ruth and Mabel. Clarence, Sylvia and I attended country school there. It was hard to get teachers and if they got one, sometimes they didn't finish out the term. In 1920 Dad bought land about two miles north of Eagle Butte in Dewey County. After a house and some other buildings were built, we lived there. My other two half sisters were born here; Iona and Viola. It was here we lived and went to Eagle Butte town school, graduated, and later married and left home. I married Albert Hebner of Avon, South Dakota; Sylvia, Clifford Ralston; Clarence, Marie Angel (first marriage), Mabel Heideman (second marriage); Ruth, Lee Garrett; Mable, Clarence Sporer; Iona, Melvin Bringman; all of Eagle Butte area. Viola went to California and was later married there to Robert McDowell. Dad and Mother lived there until 1945 when they retired and moved to Eagle Butte. Dad passed away in 1958 and Mother in 1962. Both are buried in Eagle Butte cemetery. MABLE MAYNARD HEIDEMAN HINZMAN Mable Maynard, daughter of Claude and Gertrude Preston Maynard, was born in Faulk County, May 24, 1917. She moved with her parents and family in 1919 to Ziebach County, 9 1/2 miles northwest of Dupree. She attended Lone Tree School and graduated from Dupree High School. After finishing high school, she worked as a waitress at the Larson Cafe in Dupree before her marriage to Loren Heideman of Dupree on September 12, 1936. Loren and Mable lived in the little house beside the old Legion Hall. On September 22, 1942, Loren was killed in a car accident near Reva, South Dakota. On February 24, 1945, Mable married Clarence J. Hinzman of Eagle Butte and moved to Eagle Butte. Clarence worked for the State Highway Department. They became a family of seven as Clarence had a daughter, Lila. Jerry Hinzman was born to the couple on April 2, 1947 to complete the family of eight. Clarence became ill with emphysema and spent ten years in hospitals or at home on oxygen. He died on December 6, 1965. The family grew up and married and all have children growing up. Richard and Geneva live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Their two sons are -- John, in the Navy, and Richard, in the Marines. Lila and Bud (John) Sever live in Phoenix, Arizona. Their son Dennis lives in Oklahoma and has three children... Chuckie (Clarence John) passed away in 1966 of rabies. Sheri graduates from high school this year and Debra is now a teenager at 13. George was killed in an airplane accident September 3, 1977. His wife, Paulette, and children -- Todd, Jeff, Carmen and Mike -- live in Eagle Butte. Janet and husband, Otis Fullmer, live at Virginia Beach, Virginia. They have two daughters, Sandy, 18 and Susan, 17. Mable Lorene and husband, Duane Mahen, live in North Dakota with their children Julene, 17, and Brian, 14. Jerry Hinzman and his wife, Barbara, live in Mitchell, South Dakota. Jerry works for Old Home Bread and Barb at the hospital. Their son, Richard, is 10 years old. Mable lives in Eagle Butte, where she has been the City Water and Sewer bookkeeper and is presently the City Finance Officer. [photo - Mable and Clarence Hinzman] [photo - Mable Maynard Heideman Hinzman. 1935 D. H. S. graduate] FRANK A. HOFFMAN Frank A. Hoffman came to Dupree in November 1914 and lived at the Dupree Hotel. He was Assistant Cashier at Dupree State Bank. He married Clara Powell in Dupree on August 22, 1917. He has one son, Walter H. Hoffman. JOHN LEVI HOLLOWAY written by Regina "Murphy" Holloway John Levi Holloway was born to Charles and Ida Holloway on August 26, 1910. He was born just east of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, about two miles. He was the first white child born on the reservation. He was also born in a tent. John went to school in Eagle Butte. He left school in his senior year as his Dad was sick so he and his brother Glen, took over the farm work. He worked for Lee Robley on the Moreau River for a few years. He went to work for the Diamond A Cattle Company in 1933 and worked for them until 1939 or 1940. He then started for himself. He and his brother Glen, did a lot of haying and building dams with horses for other people. John and Glen were in partnership for a good many years. They divided when they lost their big lease. He married Regina ''Murphy'' Tibbs on December 1, 1941. They made their home just south of Parade, South Dakota for a good many years. We had one son, John C. born April 8, 1944. John was a rancher, cattle buyer and Rodeo Contractor. He passed away May 31, 1977 at Eagle Butte, South Dakota on the ranch just 1/2 mile from where he was born. We have five grandchildren. HOLLOW HORN and WHITE WOLF According to the records of the family, the first known generation began around 1800 with Hollow Horn. He married Shell Woman and from their marriage came 2 girls: Big Girl and Medicine Comes Out, and 2 boys: Lone Dog and Black Wolf. Black Wolf married Chief Woman whose parents were Liverwood and Sings. From Black Wolf's marriage he had only one son, Sunkmanituska or his English name, James White Wolf. He was born in 1848 and died in 1926. James White Wolf married Susie Causes the Wind around 1869. Susie's parents were Bark Face and Wind Blows on Her Face. James and Susie White Wolf had five sons: John Hollow Horn (1871- 1950); Four or Swanny (1874-1896); Porcupine or David Johnson White Wolf 11879-1965); and Wounded Horse or Thomas White Wolf born in 1886. One of their sons died an infant while they were in Canada after the Custer Battle. JOHN HOLLOW HORN John was the father of Jacob or Jake Hollow Horn; Susie; Lucy; and Charles Hollow Horn. Susie married Joseph Widow (1900-1933). They had three children. After Joseph died, Susie married Phillip Knife and had three more children. Lucy married Charles Inamongst. They were the parents of Marvin and Edward Inamongst and Elizabeth (Mrs. Samson One Skunk). Charles Hollow Horn married Helen Widow. Their children are: Emmett Hollow Horn; Alice (Bowker); Lydia (Mrs. Tony Roach); and Sadie or Annie (Gardner). [photo - Orpha White Wolf and children] DAVID JOHNSON WHITE WOLF Johnson White Wolf married in 1901 to Emma Blue Shield. Seven boys and two girls were born from that marriage: Henry (1901-19); Eddie (1905-7); John (1907); William (1908-20); James (1912-22); Steven (1919- 21); Moses, born in 1922; Mary (1915-19); and Julie who died as an infant. Moses White Wolf married Orpha Red Horse in 1942. They were the parents of seven children: Jaycelle; Sullivan; Sadie; Burtis; Elvira; Jackie; and Lanley who died as an infant. Relatives that were killed during the Wounded Knee Massacre were Black Hawk, Cheyenne Woman and White Calf Woman. CALVIN and RUTH HOLMES by Margaret Holmes Cox Lizzie (Eliza) Elliott, a dressmaker, left her native Michigan in 1885 or 1886 with her two brothers to come "out west" to take claims in the northeast part of Charles Mix County. It was about that same time that an ambitious young man, born and reared in the Badger State at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, had finished his apprenticeship as a blacksmith and he, too, was attracted to the new country by the opportunity to obtain cheap land. Harry Holmes arrived in Aurora County in 1883. Lizzie and Harry Holmes were married May 25, 1887 at White Lake, Dakota Territory. Calvin Hawley Holmes was born May 10, 1892 at Oacoma, South Dakota. He was their fourth child and second son. Oacoma was then Lower Brule Indian Agency and Harry Holmes was employed as a blacksmith for the government and after that he ran a shop for himself in Oacoma for about 25 years, prior to moving to Chamberlain, South Dakota about 1919. Calvin H. (Cad) Holmes-grew up in Oacoma and attended public school there until about seventh grade. Dad apparently worked for ranchers after leaving formal schooling. He had accumulated livestock and had homesteaded 15 to 18 miles south- southeast of Dupree in 1917, just prior to being drafted into the Army, April 26, 1918. He was shipped overseas June 4, 1918 with the 355 Inf. Supply Co., 89 Division and served as a teamster, driving supply wagons to the front lines in Germany. He was discharged from the army May 31, 1919. Ruth Ellen Clark was the oldest child of seven born to Rose Mary (Bustorf) Stone and Herbert Clark. Rose had been left an orphan and adopted, but later was close to her blood-relatives. Rose and Herbert Clark were both born in Iowa near Anthon and Lucky Valley. They were married at Correctionville, Iowa in March of 1900. They lived there until about 1909 when they moved to near Reliance, South Dakota where Ruth grew up and attended Cooper School. (We were able to take her to see it in 1980.) When Ruth Clark turned 18, she left home to seek her fortune. She went back to visit at Correctionville, Iowa and worked in that area for a time, then at Watertown, South Dakota. Still later she worked at a hotel-cafe in Oacoma, where she met Cad Holmes. They were married the fall of 1921, at the Harry Holmes residence, Chamberlain. The end of April, 1922, Cad, Ruth and Margaret Holmes and Mabel Clark traveled from Oacoma to Dupree, South Dakota to the claim. Aunt Mabel recently wrote, "You were probably 2 1/2 months old; we all sat in the only seat the Ford truck had. I don't believe it even had a top. We lived in a one-room shack for a few weeks. By winter your Dad had put another larger house onto the one we had lived in and made improvements and gotten a phonograph." (The different accounts of the Chase Post Office building were of interest to me because Dad and Mother always told us that the main part of the house we grew up in was that same building.) I stayed with Laura and Lorraine Eddy at Zimmerman's, then later with "Grandma Davis" to attend school in Dupree in 1927-1928. It was in 1928 when decisions were made about a school for our area. Tipperary school was moved south to about one mile west of Wall's to accommodate Walls, Herrens, Baileys, Serres, Bennetts, and Zimmermans. Wayne and I attended Sunnybrook School, as it was called after it was moved. There were lean times during the drought and depression but dad and mother worked hard and we never went without necessities. We were proud of our new outfits that mother sewed of flour sacks! She did a lot of preserving, canning meat, and made many a large brick of cheese. I can remember when there were as many as four hired hands in summer. There were winters when hired hands were willing to stay for their room and board and smoking tobacco. I remember well the summer of 1929 and the "terrific prairie fire". My memory is that that fire came to within a mile of our buildings, burning into "Geesey Draw" when the wind switched and quickly took it to the Glen French ranch. Dad had pulled water to near the house on the stoneboat to be used on the fire if necessary! I remember the grasshoppers and how they followed the shade around buildings and fence posts, etc. I remember a potato field of Ted Lee's on the Davis place, how nice it was when we went through on our way to a school meeting at the Rosene School. When we returned, the plants were completely stripped as a swarm of grasshoppers had moved in that afternoon. I entered Asbury Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis and graduated in 1943. Bill (R. W.) Cox and I were married in June of 1944. We have six children and 13 grandchildren. We have lived in rural Reeker, Minnesota since November, 1947. We have been most fortunate to pursue our hobby of travelling; our most recent trip was to the Holy Land in 1979. Wayne lives on the ranch where he is still maintaining a herd of sheep and cattle. He married Audrey, the daughter of Otis 'Beanie' and Alice Olson Shannon. They have four children: Jon, Donna, David, and Carla. Jon is married to Toni Farlee and lives on the old Eddy place; Donna is married to Jim Dunbar and they own the Phillip's 66 Service Station in Dupree; David graduated from high school in 1981 and helps his dad run the ranch; Carla attends Dupree High School. Dad died in November, 1956 after a brief retirement of only four years. Mother is currently residing at the Rivercrest Manor in Pierre, South Dakota. BASEBALL and BANKING 1919-1936 by Kathleen Hommedal Smith THE PITCHER AND THE SCHOOL MARM April, 1917 Slope County Abstract Company c/o Amidon State Bank Amidon, North Dakota "---therefore, Mr. Hommedal, we confirm your employment at $25 per month and the baseball team will pay you $150 monthly June through September. We anticipate your arrival shortly after graduation from the Red Wing, Minnesota high school. Enclosed please find our $9.00 draft to cover your trainfare.'' May, 1917 Rocky Mountain Employment Service Denver, Colorado Dear Miss Corbett: "--and we regret to inform you there are no current openings for teachers on our Montana school list, but there is a position available in September at the Amidon, North Dakota high school. You are well qualified for it. The remuneration is $20.00 per month September through May and a room at the hotel is part of the contract. We estimate train travel to Amidon from your Winamac, Indiana home to be two days and two nights. We await your early reply." In this manner the lives and careers of Herman R. Hommedal(l9 years old) and Gladys Corbett (21 years old) intertwined in Amidon, North Dakota, where baseball took priority over the fledgling abstract-banking career of my father, but not priority over his glances at the new Indiana school marm! In fact, he and other single players lived at the hotel, too, but allegedly on a somewhat restricted separate floor from that of my mother and several girl friends. Two years later, after a short stint in the army, Dad's pitching reputation reached Dupree where baseball likewise dominated the summers. In early June of 1919 he arrived to join the Dupree team. As a now "experienced banker" he was employed by Mr. Karley at the Dupree State Bank. That December wedding bells rang in Minneapolis (the Minnesota relatives wouldn't dare travel to Dupree in winter for those kid's wedding) and the first of seventeen eventful years in the prairie town was begun. They moved into the second floor of the Wenger house. Mother taught sixth grade and later worked at the Register of Deeds office. In the mid 20's she campaigned and was elected Register of Deeds and served the then allowed two terms. This period was interspersed by the advent of myself and my brother, Herman, Jr. She also was very active as guardian-leader of the Campfire Girls, which included exciting camping in the Black Hills. From this she was nicknamed "Guardie". For some years Dad had soloed at early Mass in the Catholic Church, then came over to our Lutheran Church for another anthem or solo. Later we joined the Congregational Church located conveniently across the street from our house, the former Keller Pool Hall removed from it's original location downtown. I was distinguished by having grown up in a pool hall! In 1936 Father sold his controlling shares of the Farmers State Bank to R. W. Douglass and bought the Union National Bank in Rochester, Minnesota, so ending those eventful Dupree years (14 for me) which I well recall, and about which mother and dad remembered with fondness and some tall tales. After selling the Union National Bank in 1949, my parents, brother and sister, Maralyn (also born in Dupree) moved to Rush City, Minnesota. There my father presided over the banks in Rush City and nearby Pine City. He received Minnesota recognition for 50 years in banking before retiring to Florida in 1967. He died in 1975 and mother in 1980. RAY and EDITH HORTON written by Inez Eliason In the early part of 1917 my parents, Ray and Edith Horton, were informed that they had lost their lease on the farm they were operating in Custer County, Nebraska. They got information that there was land released for filing on homesteads in South Dakota so Dad made a trip to South Dakota and filed on a section of land. On February 13, 1918 they had an auction sale. Then in March of 1918 my father loaded an emigrant car with furniture, 3 horses and a cow and a few laying hens. Newton Brummett also used part of the emigrant car on the same train as he had the George Davis homestead rented. A. A. Karley owned it at that time. Newton and Dad hauled their belongings to that place. On the 4th day of May, Mother, my uncle Lewis Horton, my two sisters Bertha, Marcella, and I started for our new home in South Dakota. We had a Model T Ford and a Ford truck made over from a Roadster. The truck was loaded with a few last minute supplies. After looking into the business of the homestead the folks were informed that the land would not be designated for six months or a year. So they looked around and found a quarter one half mile from school then cleaned the homestead shack and moved in. This place was one half mile from George Davis homestead. Then work began on our house that was the home the folks lived in for fifty years. When the house was finished they built a chicken house and a barn. The barn didn't weather time as the roof was badly damaged in the March blizzard of 1920. In 1918 Bertha and I started to Soliday School. Martha Miller was teacher. I graduated from the 8th grade in 1923. The Soliday School was moved that summer to its present location. After that, Bertha and Marcella rode horseback to school until they graduated. I attended high school in Eagle Butte, graduating in 1927. I went to summer school and got a teachers certificate and taught three terms of school at Pretty Creek, Star Prairie and Tidball schools. I married Gothard Eliason in June of 1930. His parents had homesteaded in Ziebach County about 12 miles west of Isabel. We made our home on the George Davis homestead. By that time it was owned by Rural Credit. We have five sons who grew up here. They all graduated from Eagle Butte High School. Gothard passed away in December of 1952 and in February of 1956 I moved to Eagle Butte where I still live. I have seen many changes in farming from horses to big tractors. My sisters were the late Mrs. Maynard (Bertha) Schmidt and Marcella Shuck, the widow of the late Earl Shuck. My sons are Myron Eliason, living on the home place, Eldon living in Salix, Iowa. The twins, Floyd lives in Mitchell, South Dakota and Lloyd lives in Eagle Butte. The youngest, Harvey, lives in Salix, Iowa. [photo - Ray and Edith Horton. Married on June 17, 1908] [photo - The Gilman Homestead Shack. Built in 1910. A. R. Horton bought it in 1918. They lived in it until they finished their new house] [photo - The new house A. R. Hortons built on the Gilman homestead in 1918] HENRY HUDSON written by Miles Hudson Henry Buckley Hudson was born to William and Lucina Hudson on June 1, 1871 at Sand Hill, in the northeastern corner of Missouri. He was the youngest of the family. The summer of 1883, when he was 12 years old, he came, with his father, a brother and a sister from Missouri to the Black Hills by ox team. His mother, who was not feeling very well, came sometime later. The two boys drove the cattle and other stock on horseback. Henry rode a horse with only a blanket for a saddle. When they crossed the Platte River in Nebraska many of the cattle became sick with a disease called the Texas Fever, and many died from it. They settled on French Creek near Fairburn, South Dakota. During the first winter, the sleeping quarters of Henry and his brother, Charles, was an upturned wagon box. For several years he worked in logging camps in the Hills, and as he did not have overshoes, wrapped his feet in paper and gunny sacks for the warmth. His mother passed away in 1887 when Henry was 16 years old. When Henry was 19 years old, in 1890, he, with Johnny Underwood, the man for whom the town of New Underwood was named, were working as scouts and carrying mail to the Army which was stationed near the Pine Ridge Reservation. At the time of the Wounded Knee Massacre, Henry, although not involved in the fighting, was near enough to hear the shooting and he helped bury the Indian dead. In 1892 he worked for Fred Holcomb on the Belle Fourche River where the Mooney ranch now is, and in the winter of 1892 and '93 he and another man were camped where Opal now is, living in a dugout. They were so Isolated from civilization during this time that the only other human being which they saw all winter long was an Indian man. Later in 1893, they moved the stock they were caring for to Plum Creek, about eighty miles northwest of Fort Pierre, and started a ranch which later Hudson filed on. He worked for several different cattle out fits including George Mathieson, Scotty Phillip and George and Louis LaPlante. In the summer of 1896, George LaPlante sent him with an outfit to Grin Junction in Wyoming for 3000 head of southern steers. It was September when they got back to where Dupree now is and turned them loose. The winter of 1896 and '97 was a very hard one and my father showed me a place on Bear Creek north of Lantry where they dragged away from camp 500 head of cattle that had died, and in the spring roundup they gathered 365 head, all that was left of the 3000 which had originally been brought here. On February 14, 1901, in Ft. Pierre, South Dakota, he was married to Mae Litteer, a young lady who had come from Conway, Iowa to visit two aunts and an uncle who lived about eighty miles north and west of Ft. Pierre. To this union five children, Gaylord, Miles, Philip, Marine and Pauline were born. In 1901 he worked for Scotty Philip who had the '73 outfit. In 1902 he was appointed as overall foreman of what is since known as the "1902 Round-Up" with 15 round-up wagons under him. He was to work south of Ft. Pierre to the Nebraska line. Anton Fisher, of the Fisher Brothers Store of Ft. Pierre, said that next to the largest order the Fisher Brothers sold during those years was to Henry Hudson, to feed the men on the Round-up. Some days there were from 50 to 100 men to feed. After the 1902 Round-up, he worked for the Sword and Dagger Outfit. When he quit, the outfit was turned over to Ernst Eidson. Hudson now stayed at his own ranch. He sold out in the spring of 1930, and came back to Meade County, where he worked for Cole Burton on the same place on the Belle Fourche River where he had worked for Fred Holcomb as a young man. He and his wife and daughter Pauline moved to Viewfield, South Dakota in 1932. In March of 1941, Henry bought the Zip Young place near Viewfield where he passed away on February 16, 1945 and was buried in the New Underwood Cemetery. His wife, Mae, passed away on March 12, 1973 in New Underwood and was buried beside her husband in the New Underwood Cemetery. MILES HUDSON FAMILY written by Miles Hudson I was born in Fort Pierre on December 18, 1904, the second son of Henry and Mae Hudson. My father's parents came from New York State to Missouri. When he was 12 years old they left Missouri and came to the Black Hills in 1883 by covered wagon. My mother's ancestors have lived in America for many generations. One of them was Wm. Williams who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. I grew up in old Stanley County. The part of Stanley County where our home was is now Haakon. I went to school in an old log schoolhouse which was six miles from our home. As this was too far to go to school, my mother lived with us children in Midland, Philip and Fort Pierre, while we attended school. Dad remained at the ranch on Plum Creek. I remember the year 1911 when we took our cattle to Grand River to summer them and that fall we took them to DeGrey about 40 miles east of Pierre to winter just off the Crow Creek Reservation. I began my first year of school that year at DeGrey. After I was out of school I worked for different ranchers. I worked for Ed Spurling, who had the first store at Cherry Creek in the year 1904. The summer of 1926 was quite a dry year and I went to work for the Diamond A Cattle Company on the Cheyenne River Reservation where I worked until 1928. That year my folks sold the old place and on March 1, 1930 we moved to the Cole Burton ranch in Meade County. While working for Cole Burton, I met the girl who later became my wife. She was Ruth Reichert, a Meade County school teacher, who had lived in Meade County since she was two years old. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Gee. Reichert who homesteaded near old Clough in 1909. The summer of 1931 was very dry and the depression was hitting, so again 1 went back to work for the Diamond A Cattle Company. In Meade County the wages were $25.00 to $30.00 per month. But the Diamond A was paying $45.00 a month to men who had worked there before. I worked for the Diamond A until they closed out in 1934, which was really a dry year. The Diamond A ran a round-up wagon every summer and I stayed in different camps and rode after the stock and pulled a lot of them out of mud holes. The fall of 1934 I came back to Meade County after the work finished on the Diamond A. The next spring Ruth and I were married on June 1, 1935. That was really a pretty good year, but the next year, 1936, was awful dry. I worked on WPA in 1936 on a project building the Hereford Dam, the year our first son was born. He lives in Powell, Wyoming and is married to Barbara Komes. They have one daughter and two sons. Marilyn is married to Gene Secrest and they live in Sturgis and have two girls and two boys. Our third child, Drusilla, is married to Larry Kellogg and they have three boys. They live near Spearfish. Our son, Hugh (Tucker) is married to Beverly Burditt and they live near Plainview in eastern Meade County on a ranch. Our youngest daughter, Romona, lives in Rapid City and is married to Carl Williams. They have one girl and one boy. We lived on the Hereford flat from 1935 to the spring of 1977 when we had a sale and sold out and moved to Sturgis. Ruth passed away on February 6, 1981 from a bad heart attack. I live alone on our place and work at Sturgis Sale Barn four nights a week. [photo - Bill Skuly and the wagon. Kirk Myers and Miles Hudson on the bedrolls] PHILIP HENRY (PODDY) HUDSON written by Henry Hudson I was born September 6, 1906 at the Bill Hopkins home at Hayes, South Dakota. This was one-half mile south of the present location of Hayes. Mrs. Hopkins was the nurse. My folks were Henry B. Hudson and Mae Litteer Hudson. I had two brothers, Gaylord and Miles. Gaylord died in 1969. My two sisters are Pauline Shoun and Marine Spinsby. I was raised on the old Hudson ranch between the two forks of Plum Creek in Haakon County. My father built up this ranch in 1896 or 1897. The first time I worked out was for Cap Ferguson in the winter of 1925-26. On September 20, 1926 I started work for the Diamond A Cattle Company at the old Diamond A ranch on the Missouri River. Next spring I went to work at the wagon. Roy McLane was boss with Miles Hudson, Albert Lopez, Bob Stapert, Frank Esterbrook and myself as the crew. I was with the wagon until the fall of 1933. Hans Mortenson was wagon boss. In 1934 I stayed on the Cheyenne River at Bob Rose's and Brings Arrow Camp. We rode bog and kept cattle north of the river and worked for the company until they closed in 1934. About April 1, 1935, I went to work for Ernst Eidson, CBC or Chappel Bros. of Rockford, Illinois, along with Tom Maupin, John Johnson, Raymond Mills, Baptiste LeBeau, Ray Jones and Ralph Hensley. We castrated 1100 studs that summer. They closed out and I quit working in October. I stayed at Gaylord Hudson's that winter and trapped coyotes. On April 11, 1936 I married Marian Thereson. We lived at New Underwood three years, Mission Ridge three years, Standing Butte Horse Ranch 3-4 years, then moved to Fort Pierre. Worked for State Highway Department, had a saddle repair shop and helped Miles Johnson, veterinarian at same time, then worked for Livermore & Jennings. Have lived at Mission Ridge since 1973. We have four children, Lorraine Martin, Edith Hoffman, Gale Hudson and Judy Hannum. We have 13 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Two of our grandchildren are married. [photo - Branding for the Diamond A. Russell Keckler and Miles Hudson holding calf. Poddy Hudson and Hickory working on calf] HUMP Born in Montana in 1848 or 1850, Hump became a leader of the Cherry Creek band of Minneconjou Sioux. In 1876 he fought in the Battle of the Rose bud against General George Crook and in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He later joined Sitting Bull's band and other exiles in Canada. Being considered American Indians, the exiles received no rations from the Canadian government. By 1881 the buffalo and other game were disappearing and the exiles returned to Fort Buford where they surrendered. They were taken to Fort Yates by steamboat. Later the Minneconjou under Hump and Fool Heart and the Sans Arc, led by Spotted Eagle and Circle Bear, were taken down the Missouri River to the Cheyenne River Agency, near their traditional camping grounds along the Cherry Creek and Cheyenne River. They arrived at the Cheyenne River by May of 1882 and many of the Minneconjou settled near Cherry Creek, 50 miles west of the agency. Hump and Big Foot became the most influential men on the Cheyenne River. The Cherry Creek/Hump Band greatly opposed the land agreements of 1888 and 1889. In 1890, the Ghost Dance found its greatest following in the Cherry Creek camps. After Sitting Bull was killed on the Grand River, many of his followers fled south and camped a few miles above the junction of the Cherry Creek and Cheyenne River. When the army at Fort Bennett moved to suppress the Ghost Dancing, Hump used his influence against the Ghost Dance. In the dead of winter he rode with two men from the garrison and two other scouts, 40 miles to persuade the Sitting Bull camp to surrender and move to Fort Bennett. Those who did not surrender joined Spotted Elk, also known as Big Foot. When his band later fled toward Pine Ridge, they were met by the Army at Wounded Knee. Hump was given 500 heifers for his service to the United States Government. These he turned loose, to share with his people. The heifers wandered near Leslie and many died of pinkeye. Hump continued to work for his tribe until his death in 1908. He is buried in Cherry Creek. [photo - Scar Leg and Hump, 1906 (SDSHS)] [photo - Hump, 1906] HUMP told by John Hump Hump (Thomas) was born in 1850 to Mashes His Nails/Iron Bull and Ziti/Mrs. Iron Bull (1827-1917) in Montana. Hump's brother, Little Crow, had been born in 1844. (See Little Crow story.) Hump's sister, White Cow, married Fish (d. 1919) and had a son, James Fish (b. 1889) and a daughter. They lived on Rosebud. Hump grew up in Montana. He had three or four wives, some of whom lived in Montana and were Crow. While the Indians still roved in bands, he started to gather them together, to settle down and become 'civilized'. Hump came down the Missouri River when the Army brought them to the Cheyenne River on boats. Their stock were driven over land. Bertha Lyman Hump's mother's family came from Montana with Hump's band. Hump even joined the Army to work toward settling down. He was a scout from December of 1890 until June of 1891. He was discharged at Fort Bennett. There were three Hump Flats. One east of Bridger, one by Iron Lightning and one across from Cherry Creek. All are so named because he lived on them. On the way to Montana for a visit, Hump camped with Iron Lightning on the Moreau River. At that time they chose their allotments. Iron Lightning community was later named for Iron Lightning after he moved there. Hump had several wives. His son, by Good Voice/Good Woman, was Samuel Helper/ Stand By of Oglala, born in 1876. Hump's wife, White Calf/Bessie (d. 1915) was the mother of Pretty Voice/Nellie (b. 1882: Mrs. Alfred Ward); Important Woman/Sarah (b. 1884: Mrs. Silas Yellow Owl); Spotted Bear who died in infancy; Dora (b. 1891: Mrs. William Ward); Didn't Drop/Nelson Hump, born in 1898 (no issue); William Miles Hump, born in 1900 and died in 1917 at Dupree, (no issue); and John Hump, born in 1904. [photo - Bertha and John Hump, Darrell and Duane] JOHN HUMP John Hump was born at Cherry Creek, four years before his father's death in 1908. Hump is buried at the Episcopal Cemetery in Cherry Creek. John went to Carson Day School, Pierre Indian School and Rapid City Indian School. In 1935 or 1936, he married Bertha Lyman, daughter of Ed Lyman. John transferred his heirship lands from the Moreau River to Red Scaffold. John and Bertha lived on the flat south of the (Cherry) creek, on her folks' allotments. In 1954/1957 they moved north to their present home. John went into the cattle business on the Rehab program. John and Bertha's sons, Duane and Darrell, now run the ranch. Darrell is married to Alvina Runs After and Duane is married to Doris Halfred. EFFIE LOPEZ and GENO HUNT STORY My dad named me Effie Rebecca for my two grandmothers. I was born in Eagle Butte at Muzzle Johnson's house on April 17, 1934. My parents lived on the Cheyenne River in Ziebach County near the Kenneth West Ranch. The Oahe covers it up now. Due to the dry years, my parents moved to Goose Creek near Ridgeview. In May 1944, we moved back to Ziebach County and lived on the Rudy Creek Ranch until June 1947. We attended the Albee School on Highway 63. My teachers were Mary Schrier, Mary (Libolt) Smith, Mary (Sparky) Blasingame and Tootie Vanderpol. The families I recall attending school there were: Ray Seymour children, Sally and Evelyn Elsey, Marine Neilson, Harry Vanderpols, John Vanderpols, Garret Vanderpols, Annabelle, Effie and Lee Lopez. The school closed at the end of my 6th grade and Lee's first grade. I completed high school in Eagle Butte in 1952. I recall the years we lived on the Rudy Creek Ranch as the best of my childhood years. I was 9 when we moved there. Our home had burned when I was 8 and we had no furniture, saddles, few belongings of any kind. My folks always had good neighbors. While we lived on Rudy Creek our closest neighbors were Toni Nelsons, Ray Seymours, Mike Schatzs, Vanderpols, Jack Wilson, Virgil (Tarzan) and Gladys Anderson, Tom and Teen Maupin, and Mike Kellers. Tom and Teen were like part of the family. They helped us and we helped them all of our lives. I took care of the children each time a new baby came. Tom and my dad always did a lot of work together and took several trips together in their later years. Tom and Teen came to my Dad's funeral on January 20, 1978, in Timber Lake. It was 25" below zero. Teen had a fatal heart attack at the grave site. It was a double loss that day for both families. In 1923 my Dad spent his first winter in South Dakota in the Brings Arrow Camp with Tom Maupin. They really were lifelong friends. In 1953 I was married to the neighbor boy, Gene (Gene) Hunt. We both graduated from Eagle Butte High School. He was in the Army for two years and we both completed four years of college and taught school for a few years in Wyoming and Montana. In the spring of 1962 when Jeff was 4 and Jim was 21 months old we moved home to Ziebach County and lived on Cottonwood Creek. It was known as the old Hensley and Starr Ranch. We bought the deeded land and have made it our home for twenty years. I taught school in Eagle Butte from 1965 until 1976 because the boys had to go to school and we are 30 miles from town. Jeff and Jim both attended Sunshine Bible Academy at Miller, South Dakota for their high school. Jeff is married and ranches fifteen miles west of us with his wife, Vicki and two sons, Jodi and J.J. Jim is a senior at South Dakota State University at Brookings. In 1981 he won his 8 state college region in Saddle Bronc Riding, the NRCA Championship and SDRA. In 1966, we had a movie filmed here on the ranch. Casey Tibbs came home to South Dakota to film two pictures, Born to Buck and The Young Rounders. Our children and their Grandpa Lopez were glad to help Casey out. We had Joel McCrea and his wife, Francis Dee, and Slim Pickens with us for about two weeks. They all took part in the film. Gene's pride and joy is "Sparky One", a stallion he bought from Joe Schemer in 1979. He was especially happy when our filly "Sparky Girl" won Center of the Nation Quarter Horse Show for 1981. He has tried to fulfill a boy's dream of building a ranch, raising good horses and cattle. Someday our grandchildren can write the rest of the story. [photo - Effie, Jim and Geno Hunt. Jim was 1980 saddle bronc champ] [photo - Geno Hunt family. Gene, Effie, Jodi 3, Vicki, JJ 3 months, Jeff and Jim] [photo - From movie "Born to Buck" Casey Tibbs and Jim Hunt, 6 years old, in 1966] [photo - Effie, Joel McCrea, Albert Lopez, Frances McCrea, Jim and Jeff. Taken in 1966. Joel was main actor in "The Young Rounders" and Jim was child star] THE HAROLD (HAPPY) HUNT STORY Happy Hunt was born July 2, 1896, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Leland and Lillie Hunt. He homesteaded in Wyoming near the Little Powder River. He married Edna Tressia Solze June 15, 1936 at Jetmore, Kansas. They moved to Ziebach County in 1943 and herded sheep a couple years living in a sheep wagon. In 1945 they bought the Schlax place near Lantry, South Dakota. They lived here until 1958, when they had a sale and sold the place to Shorty Holloway. They moved to Nisland where they bought a store and filling station, which they operated until 1970. They sold the store and bought a home and retired in Nisland. Happy died January 10, 1982 at the Belle Fourche Health Care Center. Services were held January 13, at Frost and Sons Funeral Chapel in Belle Fourche. Burial was in Pine Slope Cemetery, Belle Fourche. Surviving are his wife of Nisland; one brother, Jack Hunt of Eagle Butte; three sisters, Hazel Schultz of Oillette, Wyoming, Gladys Danielson of Cedar Rapids and Myrtis Daly of Rapid City; and numerous nieces and nephews. [photo - Happy and Edna Hunt taken in 1981] FRED HUNTER by Fred J. Hunter I was encouraged by the Vrooman brothers, Charles, Roy and Mile to inspect land that was open for homestead in South Dakota. When I arrived in Ziebach County I found a 1/2 section that looked most promising. It had lush grass and a running creek. I really felt it was a perfect place to start a home and farm. On September 16, 1916 I filed on 1/2 of Section 7-11-23. I then left immediately and returned in November of 1916 with an immigrant car (supplied in those days by the railroad, at a cost of $35.00 from Orchard, Nebraska to Eagle Butte). In this car I brought a wagon, 2 horses, 5 cows and a bull, a plow, chickens and enough hay for the trip. My good neighbor and friend, Floyd Parker, helped me get the supplies to the homestead. I bearded with Floyd and his sister Gertie until January of 1917. That month I married my lovely school teacher sweetheart, Ruth Bengston in Iowa. We returned to a one room house I had rented from J. Hyatt. That was a bitter winter and no trains ran for two months. Ruth had brought only her suitcase and it was over two months until her trunk arrived. Fortunately I had ordered some cases of canned goods from Sears Roebuck, so we didn't go hungry. In 1917 we bought a one room house and moved it onto our own land. As the family grew we added rooms and porches to accommodate our growing family. Our first was our daughter, Jean Adair (now Varcoe); second was Shirley Mary (now Kingston); third was a little boy whom we lost at birth; next was our son, Jack, who was killed in the Second World War; our last was Dick (Richard J.). There were happy times and hard times on the farm but we managed to weather them. During the lean years we were so fortunate to have such good neighbors. There was Moody and Edna Drummond, Floyd and Maude Parker, Howard and Della McDaniel, Arleigh and Selma McLellan, Harlan and Dora Lindley, Fred and Winnie Rosenstock, and many more. Ruth and I both served on the local school board for many years. Our children had to cross the prairie four miles to school each year. They carried their lunches and usually rode their horses. The schoolhouse served as a community center in those days. The Christmas program was one of the highlights. We often held dances there and had community dinners. during the thirties when times were hardest, we all managed. None were hungry and, unlike today, none were on relief. Great meals of potato salad, pies, cakes and homemade ice cream was plentiful. Oh yes, and lots of good fried chicken--not Colonel Sanders-- home grown and fried. During my almost 50 years on the farm I was on the board of county commissioners and served two terms in the South Dakota State Senate. We helped raised the money for the present Congregational Church at Eagle Butte. Our drive was so successful, we were able to build the church, pay off the mortgage, and modernize the parsonage. Ruth was active in church work, was a member of Eastern Star and belonged to the Prairie Pride Extension Club. All this along with raising four fine children, of whom we were most proud. We celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary in January, 1967. Ruth passed away in September of 1967. I am pleased to report that our farm, which we were able to hold during the years, is still in the family and is ably managed by our son Dick.