Pierre Peliscien Biography, Charles Mix County, SD

	This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County (1906)", published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 54

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for 
	non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved.


Pierre Peliscien, a French Canadian, arrived a couple of years before Felicia
Fallas came, and settled near the mouth of Platte creek on what is now the Crosby 
ranch, where he and his Indian wife lived until his death some fifteen years
ago. He farmed three or four acres, had a few cows, a few pigs and a few chickens,
farming with oxen. His grave can still be seen on the slope east of the creek not 
far from the artesian well half way up the hillside. Peliscien was a giant in 
stature and as strong as he was large. His intellectual abilities were limited
and his education still more so. Many stories are still told by the pioneers of
his immense physical strength. He was ordinarily of quiet disposition but a man to 
be feared when angered.