Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Batteen, Louise 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    MRS. LOUISE BATTEEN was born in Germany. When only one year old her parents

moved to Berlin, Wisconsin. In 1886, she married John Batteen and came to Faulk

county, South Dakota. They located in what is the present township of Pioneer

where she has since resided. On the 5th day of October, 1904, Mr. Batteen died,

leaving his wife with eight minor children, two having died in infancy. Since

that time Mrs. Batteen has administered on the estate, consisting of six quarter

sections of land, to which she .has since added three more, built a fine new

house, and managed all her own business affairs. When they came to Dakota they

were without any property. Now her 1440 acres of beautiful prairie land is all

enclosed with good fences, and all but 400 acres under cultivation, With the

experience of the average pioneer contending with drought and storms; climatic

changes have brought abundant prosperity. Her personal property consists in part

of twenty head of horses, forty head of neat stock and fifty hogs, three good

buggies, with all farm machinery neccessary to carry on her extensive farm

interests. Mrs. Batteen in addition to caring for her household affairs, has

hauled grain to market, and is ever ready to assist her sons, the oldest not yet

twenty-one, to carry on the farm, and now without any hired help.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9

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