Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter VIII DeVoe 1909
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CHAPTER VIII CONTINUED.

DEVOE.



    On the 23rd of May, A. D. 1882, H. S. Utley, C. J. Cooper and A. F. Clark

were the first settlers at this, to be a permanent center in the new county. Mr.

Utley's family did not arrive from Wisconsin until April, 1883. On August 20th,

1882, Butler Lambert and Robert Young arrived from Wisconsin and settled in the

immediate neighhood. Rev. P. E. Knox, J. H. DeVoe, John Dubois, E. M. Jessup and

George Butterfield were added to the settlement before the close of the year.



    A store was opened by Messrs. Crossly & Baird, a post-office called

Cresbard, established, and a Sunday school organized at the store, which proved

entirely too small for the number who desired to attend. A house of worship was

promptly erected, and in 1884 they had a Sunday school with an average

attendance of fifty-three, and preaching once in two weeks by Rev. Clinton

Douglas, of Faulkton. In 1884 the DeVoe correspondent of the LaFoon Record gave

the names of the following pioneers, viz: Peter Phillips, T. B. Norton, Rush

Francis, John Hoskin, D. Roy Jones, R. M. Griffith, C. C. Gettings, Thomas

Morris, J. J. Price, J. H. Thomas, J. W. Tucker, J. H. Tucker, C. E. Kittinger,

Harry Ressigue, M. C. Baker, Chas. O'Connell, E. Evans, G. W. Cropsey, and Fred

Benson, who had located in that vicinity up to that date. In May, 1882, the tide

of immigration had set toward eastern Faulk county, almost every day brought its

party of pioneer settlers.



New centers of population were established. Cresbard, Millard, Zell, Miranda,

Orient and Harrington became familiar names to the pioneers of the new county.



    It was not until late in the autumn of 1883 that the government survey was

completed in western Faulk county, and the land was opened for settlement early

in the spring of 1884.



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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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