Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Nestor, Thomas 1826 - 1907
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    THOMAS NESTOR was born in Limerick, Ireland, in the year 1826. At the age of

eighteen he came to the United States and located in Kentucky, where he remained

for five years. He then came to Caledonia, Minnesota, where he married Miss

Elizabeth McNevin, and resided in that town until June 16, 1894, when he removed

to Faulk county, South Dakota. Uncle Tom, as he was familiarly known among his

friends, would change sorrow to gladness with his jolly and kind disposition.

With his family he was one of the first settlers located in Enterprise township.

He drove overland from Athol in Spink county, forty miles from the railroad

station and eighteen miles from the post-office. At night the ceyotes could be

heard in all directions and by day the antelopes were seen wandering over the

prairies. All went well until June 10th, 1898, when his companion, the mother of

his children, the youngest only two years old, passed on before to the great

beyond, leaving husband and children lonely and desolate.



    His happy genial disposition served him in these hours of sadness. Uncle Tom

cheered up the best he could and kept his four boys in his bachelor home until

1903, when James and Thomas married and moved into their own homes.



    James married Miss A. M. Brenneck, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Thomas Jr.

married Miss Tena Titgen and left uncle Tom still batching, with the two younger

sons, John and George, until July 10, 1907, when death came and took the one

that had always been depended upon to cheer in the hour of sadness. He was laid

to rest in Hoven cemetery, leaving four sons to mourn their great loss, James at

Carlyle, Thomas on his farm and John and George on the old homestead.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

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CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



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