LAKE HERMAN STATE PARK CEMETERY, LAKE CO., SD This record may be freely copied for genealogical and other non-profit purposes. It may not be sold for commercial purposes. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm Questions and problems may be addressed to Judy Huber at huberj@nvc.net At the entrance of Lake Herman State Park is a log cabin and a tiny family cemetery. It is located one mile south, two miles west and one half mile southwest of Madison, South Dakota, in Herman township, Section 11. Herman Luce, one of the first Euro-American pioneers in Lake County settled on this property and built the log cabin. LAST NAME FRIST NAME SEX BORN DIED NOTES Abbott Mr. M 1878 father of Mary Luce Abbott Mrs. F 1877 mother of Mary Luce Abbott John M Died in blizzard, Son of Mary Abbott Luce Herman M assumed buried here Luce Mrs. Herman F 8 Sep 1881 First Wife of Herman Luce Mary F Maid: Abbott, 2nd Wife of Herman, burned to death