Jerauld County, SD Obituaries.....Allyn, Albert January 19, 1884
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Wessington Springs Herald, January 25, 1884
DIED.-At Crow Lake, January 19th, 1884, of comsumption, Mr. Albert Allyn, in the
47th year of his age.

    Mr. Allyn was born in Wellington, Wayne county, Ohio, studied law and was
admitted to practice at Cleveland.

    During the war, Mr. Allyn served for a short time in the 11th Regiment of
Kansas Infantry, and came to Dakota in March 1881.

    In May, 1882, Mr. Allyn filed a homestead in section 27 township 106 range
66 of this county being the first settler in the township as well as the first
to die there. When the post office was established at Crow Lake Mr. Allyn was
appointed postmaster which position he held at the time of his death.

    Mr. Allyn left a wife and eight children, to whom he had been a kind husband
and indulgent father, and a large circle of friends who will ever cherish his
memory in faithful trust.

    His remains were taken to Oberlin Ohio, for interrment.

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