Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Clifford, A. B. 1849 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 11, 2005, 6:13 pm Author: C. H. Ellis A. B. CLIFFORD was born March 16th, 1849, in Van Buren county, Michigan. Engaged in farming and telegraph operating. In 1886 he removed to Faulk county and located in what is now the town of DeVoe. In 1880 he married Miss Kate B. Blackman, of Muscatine, Iowa. To them has been born one son, Perry, who is now seventeen years of age and in his second year in the Aberdeen high school. Mr. Clifford is one of our successful enterprising pioneer farmers. He has one section of valuable land one mile south of the DeVoe postoffice, 380 acres under cultivation and the balance in a well fenced pasture of natural grasses. His house has an actual value of $3500.00 and he has all necessary farm buildings and farm machinery. He has fourteen head of horses, ninety-four head of neat stock. The actual cash value of his posessions, all of which has been accumulated since coming to this county, cannot be valued at less than thirty-five thousand dollars. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF FAULK COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS ILLUSTRATED 19O9 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/faulk/bios/gbs142clifford.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/sdfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb