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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pennington County, South Dakota. Official Website Pennington County was created on January 11, 1875, and it was fully organized by April 19, 1877. The county's boundaries were adjusted in 1877 and in 1898. In 1874, US Army commander George A. Custer led a group into the Black Hills area. He and some of his officers climbed the cre...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Perkins County, South Dakota. Official Website The county was established in 1908 and organized in 1909. It was named for Sturgis, South Dakota, official Henry E. Perkins. The county seat is the city of Bison. Adjacent Counties Adams County, ND Harding County Butte County Meade County Ziebach County Corson County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hutchinson County, South Dakota.The county was created in 1862 and organized in 1871. It was named for John Hutchinson, first territorial secretary.Hutchinson County is the most heavily Mennonite-populated county of South Dakota. German-speaking Mennonites from Russia settled in the county beginning in 1874 until the early 1880s. Sout...
See the related project: Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery for those known to have been buried there. This project is for profiles associated with the Hiawatha Asylum in Canton, South Dakota in any aspect: residents, staff, local politicians, even the current day activists bringing attention to this “forgotten” piece of American history. The link below provides access to a Google Sheet that is editabl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jerauld County, South Dakota.In 1873, the area occupied by the present Jerauld county was organized into Wetmore County. In 1881, Wetmore and its neighbor county to the south, Cragin County, were combined to form Aurora County. In 1883, the area of the former Wetmore County was reincorporated as present-day Jerauld County and was name...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Deuel County, South Dakota. The county was created in 1862, and was organized in 1878. It is named for Jacob Deuel, a legislator in 1862. Adjacent Counties Brookings County Lincoln County, Minnesota Codington County Grant County Hamlin County Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
Holy Innocents Cemetery resides in Parmelee, Todd County, South Dakota. This small, burying ground holds mostly indigenous interments. The earliest burials are from 1894. Holy Innocents is still active.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Todd County, South Dakota. The county was created in 1909, although it remains unorganized. The county was named for John Blair Smith Todd, a delegate from Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives and a Civil War general. The county lies entirely within the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Adjacent Counties Me...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Turner County, South Dakota. Official Website The county was established in 1871 and was named for Dakota Territory official John W. Turner. Adjacent Counties Minnehaha County Lincoln County Clay County Yankton County McCook County Hutchinson County Cities, Towns, Townships & Communities
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.= Official Website =The county was created in 1862 and organized in 1868. Its name was derived from the Sioux word Mnihaha, meaning "rapid water," or "waterfall" (often incorrectly translated as "laughing water"). Adjacent Counties * Lyon County, Iowa * Lincoln County * Turner County * Rock County, Minn...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yankton County, South Dakota Official Website The county was founded in 1862 and is named after Yankton Sioux. Adjacent Counties Turner County Clay County Cedar County, Neb. Knox County, Neb. Bon Homme County Hutchinson County Cities, Towns Territories & Townships Gayville Irene (part) Jamesville
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Day County, South Dakota. Official Wesbite The county is named for Merritt H. Day, pioneer and 1879 Dakota Territory legislator. Adjacent Counties Brown County Marshall County Spink County Clark County Codington County Grant County Roberts County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Davison County, South Dakota. Official Website The area's first settlement occurred in 1871 in "Firesteel Creek"; the settlers were Herman Cady Greene and John Head. Greene brought lumber from Yankton in 1872 and built a frame house. The small community which grew around this house was called Firesteel. It became part of a county ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tripp County, South Dakota. The county was created in 1873 and was organized in 1909. It is named for lawyer, judge, and diplomat Bartlett Tripp. For a complete list of Cities, Towns, Townships & Communities, please see Wikipedia . Adjacent Counties Lyman County Gregory County Keya Paha County, Neb. Cherry County,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kingsbury County, South Dakota.= Official Website =The county was created in 1873, and was organized in 1880. It was named for brothers George W. and T. A. Kingsbury, descendants of the colonial English Kingsbury family in Boston, Massachusetts. They were prominently involved in the affairs of Dakota Territory and served as elected me...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bon Homme County, South Dakota. History Bon Homme County was created in 1862. "Bon Homme" was first used by Lewis and Clark in 1804 as the name for a 2,000 acre island in the Missouri River. When settlers arrived in the late 1850s they borrowed the name, and when the county was created it was named for the village of Bon Homme. A ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Beadle County, South Dakota . Official Website Beadle County, named for Bvt. Brig. Gen. William Henry Harrison Beadle , was created by the Dakota Territory Legislature in 1879, and was organized in 1880 with the appointment of three county commissioners by Gov. Nehemiah G. Ordway . The first town within Beadle County was Cavour. ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dewey County, South Dakota. The county was created in 1883 and organized in 1910. It was named for William P. Dewey, Territorial surveyor-general from 1873 to 1877. Almost the entire county lies in the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. The balance of the county, along its extreme northern county line, lies in the Standing Rock Indi...
Saint Marys Cemetery resides in Martin, Bennett, South Dakota. Also known as Gamble Cemetery, this small burying ground's earliest interments date from 1906. The last, recorded burial is from 2017. The cemetery, at one time, had a church attached; however, a tornado swept the church away, leaving only its foundation. Most of the year, the cemetery is only accessible by four wheel drive.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota.The county was created as a part of the Dakota Territory in 1875, although it remains unorganized and does not have a county seat. It is entirely within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and contains part of Badlands National Park. It is one of five South Dakota counties entirely on an Indian reserva...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bennett County, South Dakota. Overview Bennett County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The county lies completely within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. To the east is the Rosebud Indian Reservation, occupied by Sicangu Oyate, also known the Upper Brulé Sioux Nation and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (R...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gregory County, South Dakota.The county was created in 1862 and organized in 1898. It was named for the politician J. Shaw Gregory. Adjacent Counties * Charles Mix County * Boyd County, Neb. * Keya Paha County, Neb. * Lyman County * Tripp County Cities & Towns *Bonesteel*Burke (County Seat)*Dallas*Fairfax*Gregory*Herrick Other Townshi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stanley County, South Dakota. Official Website The county was created in 1873 and was organized in 1890. It is named for David S. Stanley, a commander at Fort Sully from 1866 to 1874, which was located nearby. Adjacent Counties Dewey County Sully County Ziebach County Hughes County Lyman County Jones County
Red Cloud Cemetery resides in Pine Ridge, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. Also known as Holy Rosary Cemetery, the burying ground was associated with Jesuit's Holy Rosary Mission. The Red Cloud Indian School was established by the Mission in 1888. Most of the interments in Red Cloud Cemetery are of indigenous peoples. They were congregants of the Holy Rosary Mission, attendees of the Red C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Custer County, South Dakota. Official Website A History Of Custer County -As written in 1939 The early history of Custer County forms the story of the discovery of gold in the Black Hills and the subsequent development of that area. In July 1874, Gen. George A. Custer led his famous expedition of 1,000 men, including a military b...