Text of Ziebach Co., SD History (1982) - pages 478 - 498 This file is the text of the book, "South Dakota's Ziebach County, History of the Prairie", published in 1982 by the Ziebach County Historical Society, Dupree, SD Permission to publish this book in electronic form was given by Jackie Birkeland, member of the Historical Committee. This book is copyright, 1982 by the Ziebach County Historical Society, Dupree, SD. Scanning and OCR by Terri Tosh , final editing by Joy Fisher, . ROBERT HENRY MARPLE FAMILY Robert Marple, Bob as he was known by, was born June 9, 1865 at Mancester, Virginia. His mother died when he was five years old leaving him, two brothers, and two sisters. Several years after losing his wife, his dad remarried and the children were raised by several different families. Robert and his sister Maude were taken care of by a family named Cather who took the children with them to Scottsbluff, Nebraska. They, incidentally, were the parents of the author, Willa Cather, who wrote several books. When they were grown up they both went to eastern Nebraska. Robert married in December 1885. His wife died in October 1901, leaving him with six small children. One of their children, Thomas Walter, died at 6 months of age. Robert kept his family together until in 1903 he married Hattie Irene Hitchcock. She took over the tremendous job of caring for the family along with giving birth to twelve of her own, one of which died in infancy. My story is about this second family. Most of them were raised in Ziebach County. They farmed in eastern Nebraska but with so many to support and on rented land it was impossible to make it. By now two of the older girls were married and were in homes of their own. So in 1910 they decided to file on a homestead and move to South Dakota. There were eight kids and Mr. and Mrs. Marple. In March they started the journey to South Dakota. They had a covered wagon which was pulled by mules, and one pretty good horse, a horse that I've been told was blind, pulled a single buggy. In the covered wagon they had the range cookstove to cook their meals and beds wherever they could find a place for them. Five of the children rode in the wagon. The three boys were to follow with the buggy. When they got to Carthage it began to look like it would be a good idea to stop for awhile. So Bob and the boys looked for work, but didn't get very good jobs as that was a dry year in South Dakota. They found an old house they could rent so they moved in their cookstove and stayed there until after the birth of Walter in August. They were afraid winter would be setting in the west where they didn't have even a road to get to or were very sure where their land was. They wanted to get shelter of some kind made before winter. They took off in September for Ziebach County. The traveling was very slow and when they ferried the Missouri the older ones began to have their doubts about ever making it. The boys who were 10, 12, and 14 years old hadn't been taking the trip very seriously, but when the longhorned cattle herds began to get close enough to rub their horns on the buggy spokes it didn't seem so funny. They were awfully afraid of the rattlesnakes, having never seen one, they could just imagine what they were like. So where they had been sleeping on the ground that was out now. So to bed down became a problem. Water was bad too, as they could only carry so much and the places were getting farther apart. When they arrived at what they thought should be their place, (they had a map of sorts to go by), Bob and the boys had to find the corner of their quarter, they were marked with what they called mounds. Each quarter had 4 holes with usually a rock in the center of the holes. As soon as they found a smooth enough place to anchor down the wagon they went in search of some place to get supplies. Dupree wasn't where it is now but there were a few brave people who had put up a few little shacks out by the Woodward place. Any lumber or other supplies had to be hauled from Isabel, which gave Mr. Marple his first job. Besides trying to get a shelter for his family he went with his wagon everyday staying all night in Isabel and bringing back a load the next day. There wasn't any bridge over the Moreau so it was a problem crossing it. For their first home, they found a steep bank and dug back into it so that the west side of their house was right against the bank and the roof was even with the bank. It was a one room affair made of shiplap lumber with the outside covered with tar paper. In those days everybody had the standard tar paper. It was held on the siding with big bright round pieces of tin with a big nail in each to keep the paper on. It was pretty well sheltered. Bill claims they had a rattlesnake under the floor all winter that stayed close where the stove sat, but maybe what they heard was in their imagination. One thing that wasn't funny was the bedbugs that came out of the lumber. They were horror for women who had babies as they loved to bite on them. The only thing that seemed to kill them was kerosene and it smelled so bad. It was also a fire hazard as most people had only the minimum of water in the house. Along with the other hardships was getting a well dug as it was all man power and it also was hard to get water. That first year, most everything a person needed was hauled from Isabel. The train got there before Dupree. Of course nobody had any money so going without things got to be a habit. In the spring of 1911 they set out to break up some land to plant a garden and even break up a few acres. The potatoes they planted didn't sprout, but petrified from the heat that next summer. Mr. Marple was a good carpenter so made a little money building claim shacks. He also had a job taking care of prisoners the county had. The jail was finally built but several of the ones he cared for just couldn't take it and lost their minds. One was a judge, who I guess just figured it was the easiest way out. Mr. Marple was a real big man and wasn't afraid of the devil himself, so he acted as jailer when he could. He usually walked when he worked in town because saving the horses was very necessary in those days. Since most of the homesteaders had large families one thing that became necessary was a school. So the Fairview school was constructed. The Marple children, except the three older ones who had finished school in Nebraska, attended school. It was one of the largest schools in Ziebach County and was used for Sunday school as a minister came out from town. It was also very popular as a dance hall for many years. The older generation as well as the younger ones came many miles to attend the dances. They started right after dark and continued until daylight. Because they were so enjoyable people hated to leave. Traveling by buggy, saddle horse, etc. in the early days they needed daylight to travel on the roads. Of course by the twenties lots of people had cars but people still made a night of it. After living in their claim shack for several years, Bob built a regular house. It was small, with only two rooms but it had a real house roof and was a big help to have more room. Three of the older children were gone. Louise had married and after trying life here for a few years they left for Duluth where they lived the rest of their lives. Two of the boys, Jim and Fred, went out to work at threshing time as did almost every man from here. After World War I, Fred went back to Nebraska and Jim to Milwaukee, where they married and raised families. In 1927, Irene, the last child of the Robert Marples, was born and they began to have things better. A year or so later Mr. Marple's health began to fail and he spent time consulting doctors. In June of 1930 he was taken to Rochester where he was operated on and it was found he had cancer of the spine. He contracted pneumonia while there and on June 24, 1930 passed away in Rochester. Mrs. Marple was left with eight children still at home as Mary, Celia, and Mable were all married. The dirty thirties were just beginning and no one was raising anything. In 1935 Sam, who was a young man, went up to help his sister Celia whose husband was dying of tuberculosis. When Sam got tuberculosis he went out to Custer to the sanitarium but died in surgery in 1945. George was the next victim and he went to the sanitarium, they thought they had his about all cured but one of those real hot days in the summer of 1941 he died in his sleep at home. Walter had bought back their place and was caring for his mother. When war broke out Robert, Ralph and Frank all served in the Army. Frank and Robert both were in Germany and were in the Battle of the Bulge, however didn't know they had both been there until later. Ralph served most of his time in Okinawa. After the war he worked for awhile in the gold mines then later he worked for a rancher down on the river until he died in 1973 and was buried at the National Cemetery at Ft. Meade. Walter fell victim to tuberculosis and went to Custer where he died in 1949. Hattie went out to live with her daughter Mary at Spearfish. When she required more care she went to live in the Dorsett Home at Spearfish where she passed away in 1962 and is buried in Dupree. Those Marple children still living are Irene Webb of Dupree; Edna Sowers of Dupree and Rocelia Fisher of Mundelein, Illinois. The old place is still in the Marple name, as when Walter died, the kids all signed it to Hattie so she would have money to pay her expenses. She sold it to Bill and we sold it to our sons, Bill, Jr. and Pat in 1965. Bill passed away in 1967. [photo - Robert Marple and Irene Marple Webb, taken in 1928] [photo - Bob Marple's first home in 1910, 6 miles south of Dupree. Jim and Fred on roof, Mable, Edna and Roscelia, Hattie holding Walter, Bill and Mary. WILLIAM MARPLE FAMILY William Oscar Marple was born at Blair, Nebraska on May 3, 1900. When he was a year old his mother died of cancer. His oldest sister was twelve years old so with their father and five brothers and sisters they managed to keep the family together. Four years later his father married a wonderful woman who raised the children as her own along with giving birth to twelve of her own. Bill always thought of her as his mother as she was always so good to all of them. When he was ten years old they made their trip from Nebraska to Ziebach County in a covered wagon. The two oldest girls stayed in Nebraska as they were married and making homes there. The times were very hard as it was with all the homesteaders. They finally got a little land broke up, but with a walking plow, one furrow at a time and very poor horses it was slow. They also had to build some kind of buildings but they all worked at anything they could get to do, so made what they could. When war broke out Fred joined the Navy. Jim was rejected on account of his eyes so he went to Milwaukee where he started working in factories. Bill was in the home guard here and was due to report to Fort Snelling on a Friday, but the war ended on a Tuesday, so they stopped taking them to World War I. After that he spent several winters in Nebraska and farmed a little and ran his threshing machine here in the fall if there was any crops. In the summer of 1925 Bill worked on a lot of bridges here but was going to Milwaukee in the fall. I was a senior that year but became a dropout and we were married on September 16, 1925 in the Catholic rectory in Dupree and we left for Milwaukee. Bill had bought a new car that summer but owed some money on it so the day before we left he traded it off and got the worst looking and acting old Dodge touring car but it was his and all his life he never wanted to owe anybody. Mary, Bill's sister, had married Matt Stephenson in June and they wanted a ride out of here so they went to Milwaukee with us. This became a strong tie that lasted until death parted us. The two years we spent in Milwaukee were great. In 1927 we rented a place from Alvin Johnson, who wanted to go back to Michigan. He sold us everything he had and we moved into his two room house. He had a few good milk cows and a lot of good alfalfa hay in the stack so we had a very easy winter. In the spring of 1928 we bought a new tractor and some other machinery we needed. Many of the businessmen in Dupree furnished the money for gas and oil for some of the crop. We put in several quarters of flax and nature came through and we got a good crop. In 1929 on July 12, we had our first child, Shirley Faye, that made everything just about perfect. During the crash of 1929 we didn't get anything for our crop. Bill, a truck driver, and the elevator man got some wheat together and sent out some to Minneapolis for which they got 29cents. The feed grain we raised we got about 4cents a bushel for. 1930 was a rough year, Bill's dad was getting paralyzed in his legs so Bill took him to Rochester where they told him it was cancer and terminal. The next year we began to get into the dirty thirties. We did get a little crop and had the best threshing crew I ever saw. Some of the young men working for us were Russell Birkeland, Alvin Griffith, Walter Marple and Buck Miller. They worked from daylight until dark and furnished their team for the big stomping price of two bucks a day and board. None of us had houses big enough so they slept in the straw stacks rather than drive clear home at nights. We had our second child, Bill Jr., in 1932. Pat was born in 1934 and Mary in 1936. We bought the Goodnew place two miles south of the Johnson place where we were living. In the spring of 1938 we had another beautiful daughter, Frannie, and I often think if it hadn't been for babies the dry years would have been harder to take. On May 3 of 1938 Bill was bitten, probably by a spider. Lloyd Romereim, the school teacher, and Mr. Swanson, a neighbor, took him to the hospital in Pierre. For almost a week they didn't hold out any hope of his living, but they tried some new kind of serum and after two weeks he regained consciousness. Although his skin was scorched and his hair came out, he was able to come home around Memorial Day. It took about a year before his leg was healed and he began to regain his health, but he always figured he was living on borrowed time after that. He had been declared dead a couple of times during the time of his delirium. He had pleaded to God to be allowed to live until his family was grown and he could get all his debts paid up. In 1940 we had our last child, Carol. Our good old Doctor Creamer came out, and as he had broken a blood vessel in his leg, the men had to carry him in and he got around the house on crutches. In 1941 World War II was upon us. One of Bill's brothers died of tuberculosis. Cub, Frank and Ralph all went to the service. We began to get a little rain and at least got some grass so we could keep some cattle. In 1946 we got some crops and began to pay our debts, remodeled our house, etc. We got a real nice car for $1500, put running water in our house, and we also got 110 volt electricity with a motor. Before that we had a wind charger 6 volts that seemed like the batteries were down when you needed lights. In 1950 the crops started to get better. In 1952 Bill Jr. went into the Korean War, he spent six months in Germany before the war was over. During the week Bill Sr. and Pat batched on the ranch and I stayed in town with the two younger girls. Two years after Bill Jr. returned from Germany, Pat was called up but a few days before he was to go he was in a car wreck and broke his neck so he didn't go for one year. Much to his disgust, when he did go in 1957 there was no war and the only place he got to was Colorado Springs where he worked on missiles and Fl Paso where he did a little of everything. Fran graduated with a scholarship from Mount Marty College but helped at home until she had a chance to work at the A.S.C. office where she worked for five years. Carol decided to be a nurse so after graduation she spent three years in Aberdeen where she became a registered nurse. This made three nurses in the family. Faye and Mary both graduated from Pierre. The boys were both home so in 1959 they went into partnership with their Dad and we moved to town. We came in one day to buy a house and Bill went upstairs and fell through a place the owner had left unfloored to put in a gun cabinet and as a result Bill broke his back. After 1959 on we didn't really do any work but took a lot of time traveling. In fact we visited every state and some of them several times. Our children are all married and we are lucky to have three of them living here. In December of 1966 Bill entered the hospital at Gettysburg and it was discovered he had cancer in both lungs. He died at home April 20, 1967. The other tragedy of our life was Bill Jr.'s son who was born in 1964 with muscular dystrophy. After a few years he began to get crippled, but he lived until October 8 of 1979. He was such a wonderful person. To have known him and to have had him was a reward in itself. We miss him so much but are thankful God in His mercy saw fit to end his suffering and to take him home. We have all of our children, most of them with large families so have 27 grandchildren which we are very thankful for. We also have 8 great-grandchildren. HANK and MILLIE MARTENS by Ava Martens Vaughan In the fall of 1916, while threshing out of Platte, South Dakota, our father, Henry Frederick Marten, better known as "Hank", along with Albert Fish and Gus Anderson, went with team and buggy to Lone Tree, North Dakota to find land to homestead, but none was available. They continued on to Faith where they met Frank Morgan, the sheriff at that time, and he showed them land that was open there. Our father made a homestead application October 17, 1916 on a quarter section about eighteen miles east and south of Faith. About two months later he heard he had acquired it. He was required to be living on it by April of 1917, so that spring he built a house 12 x 20 ft. on it. He later learned his building was on Chris Johnson's quarter section, so he moved it on to his own land and later added on it. He remembers the good times when beginning at his place with a team and buggy and going either toward another home, or to town, for a dance or a party, he picked up couples along the way. The dancing or party might go on all night until dawn, when they started home. They usually stopped at the first home on their return for breakfast and sometimes the second--the better cook often influenced their decision--this was added with a smile. He recalls going to barn dances where Lawrence Welk, dressed in overalls, provided the music. With transportation like it was, sometimes it would be near noon the next day when he got home and his chores waited until then. Our mother, Amelia "Millie Hay", had two sons, Louis and Earl Carlson, from a former marriage. She had been working in Platte, too, and she and our father thought that Faith would offer them more opportunities for working. They were married in the Faith area, December 16, 1917, on her 29th birthday. At that time our father was a widower with one daughter, Florence. Our father remembers when just after he and mother were married, they had a man drive them with a team to the homestead from Faith. A snow storm came up on their way. They let themselves into Lloyd Dunbar's place as a refuge from the snow. Fortunately they were able to start a fire in the barn to warm themselves and to prepare some food. Mother had quilts in her trunk which provided the necessary warmth that night. The next day the three of them continued on to our place. Our father said that initially the telephone lines in the country were run on fences, but notes that later they had to set tall poles on either side of the gates to run the wires on or else service was cut whenever a gate was left open. Our parents had four children from their marriage: Lee, born June 15, 1919; Lester, born September 15, 1922; Ava, born July 2, 1924, and Henrietta, born February 15, 1932. Our mother never had a doctor for any of our births, but a midwife was in attendance for some of us. Our mother was able to have Minnie Johnson--she and Jess were our nearest neighbors. Our father was a carpenter by trade and he was hired by the school board to build the first schoolhouse in our area.-Our mother helped with the building jobs. There were times when we hauled water to wash clothes, using a stoneboat and large barrels. Oftentimes our father, on his weekly trips to Faith, with cream to sell, would bring home the emptied cans from the previous trip, full of drinking water. As children, out after the cattle, it was the usual thing to drink from a waterhole. One could close his teeth together, hoping this would strain out whatever might be in the water! During the winter that I was in the first grade, a terrible snowstorm came up. Our teacher went home with the family she bearded with as those children's father came to school after them, and that left the rest of us at school. Gertrude Johnson, as I recall, had the presence of mind to write a note on the blackboard that we had all gone to the Chester Johnson home, in case someone came for us. We all held on to hands and started on our way. In the meantime, Chester took a team and sled and went to school, only to find everyone was gone. After reading the message, he was worried as to the safety of all of us children for we had walked the same "draw" he had traveled and he had not seen us. It was a great relief to find all of us safe and sound at his home when he returned. We were having the time of our lives! I never realized children could have so much fun. We had the forerunner of snocones with the freshly fallen snow, and we all played games and had such a good time that the next day after the weather had cleared and our brother, Louis, came for us, we were not anxious to go home. The years spent with our friends of the Mud Butte School brings back so many pleasant memories. I started first grade with Gall Rider and Vernon Overacker. Sometimes we were fortunate to have a teacher with a car and a special understanding of children. Leona Johnson loaded all of us either in, or on top of her car and we went to Mud Butte where we had an Easter egg hunt and ate our lunches. The teachers names 1 remember are Nina Batson, Barbara Schell Johnson and Loretz E. Pederson. Even though their home was not large, friends seemed to gather at the home of Albert Fish where his wife, Ivy, played the piano. Jimmy Keegan played the guitar and Gerhard Orvedahl played the violin. Others danced and everyone had such a good time. The home of the Chester Johnson's has always stood out in my memory--they had a pump in the kitchen, which seemed a blessing, and they also had a piano. Once, while at Johnsons, when I was three or four, I noticed a wire extending from the peak of their house to the peak of their barn and I commented on their high clothesline. I was so embarrassed and humiliated to learn it was the aerial for their new radio. We moved to Faith in the spring of 1935. In August of 1940 we moved to Port Orchard, Washington, where most of the family still reside. Louis and Lora moved to California in 1948 and in a few years were settled in Newcastle, Wyoming, where he is serving his third term as mayor of that city. They have four grown children and will be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in August. Earl is semi- retired and lives with his family in Kimberly, Idaho. He and Betty have three children. Florence had lived with her husband, Dewey Bercheid and their two sons, in Kimball, South Dakota, until 1941 when they moved to Washington state. He passed away in 1963 while they were living in Port Orchard. She later married Gerald Wigington and they have lived the last fourteen years in Mesa, Arizona. Leo served 4 1/2 years in the Air Force in World War II and married a Port Orchard girl. They have four grown daughters and he and Loreta live in Bremerton, about ten miles from Port Orchard. He retired from the Bremerton Naval Shipyard in September of 1981. Lester was in the Army in World War II, married a Port Orchard girl and he and Juanita have three daughters and a son. Lester retired from the Naval Shipyard in March of 1981 and has spent the past year in eastern Washington. Henrietta, after graduating from high school in 1950, went to work near Vancouver, Washington. She met and married John Olesen from Vancouver and that has remained her home. They have three sons and two daughters. Our mother had relief here after suffering for years in South Dakota with hay fever, only to develop asthma in 1946. Her condition was noticeably worse in November 1962 and it was then we learned she had lung cancer. She passed away February 7, 1963. I feel she was always the mainstay of our family. Our father, at 97, does remarkably well. He has lived from the time of horse and buggies to see men land on the moon. I am married to Don Vaughan, a native of Port Orchard, and his childhood is such a contrast to mine that I wonder if he can realize how things were for us when we lived on the farm. I have two sons, Robert and James Houston, by a former marriage and they and their families also live in Port Orchard. For eighteen years I worked as a dental assistant until I had a stroke in 1975. I have pretty well recovered and I feel I am very fortunate. These are some of the memories of that little girl who lived back home on our farm so long ago. [photo - Left to right: Henry, Florence, Millie, Lester, Ava and Leo Martens] ARTHUR and ARLENE MARTIN by Arlene Martin Art came to Dupree in 1947 from Burke, South Dakota where he worked for his uncle, Art Jones. In 1948, he went to work for the highway department, where he worked for 14 years. Arlene came to Dupree the winter of 1949 where she worked as a waitress at the Dew Drop Inn for Agnes McInerney. Arlene was born at Edson, South Dakota. Cooper was her maiden name. Art and Arlene were married in 1952 at Pierre, South Dakota. In 1953 our son, David, was born at Dupree in the little hospital on main street. He now lives in Whitewood, South Dakota and works in Sturgis at the Sturgis Tile Company. In 1957 our daughter, Diane, was born at Faith, South Dakota, which was the closest hospital at that time. She graduated from Dupree High School and spent a year at college. She then came back to Dupree and became the business manager for the school for 5 years, and now is employed at the Farmers State Bank of Faith. In 1962, Art got the mail route from Dupree to La Plant and is still carrying mail. In 1966, Arlene got the mail route from Dupree to Cherry Creek, which is carried 3 days a week and is still over gumbo roads. [photo - The Art Martens: Diana, David, Arlene and Art] MAUPIN FAMILY The Maupin family originated in France as de Maupin. Mau was pronounced "Moe" and meant mouth or head; Pin was pronounced "Peen" and meant pine, de Maupin pronounced in French is de Moepeen. The name was probably a description of a place in France meaning literally that the Maupin ancestors who acquired the name de Maupin were from de (edge) Mau (mouth or head of) and Pin (pine forest). The Maupin coat of arms shows pine apples which is what pine cones were once called in England. It is believed that Gabriel Maupin was the first Maupin to come to America in about 1700. The family had left Navarre, France, and went to England because of the conflict between the Huguenots and Catholics. The Maupin family that lived in the Ziebach County area are descendants of the first Maupins in America. John Maupin and Mary Jane Williams lived in Clay County, Kentucky, near Manchester and Liberty. They had eleven children, eight which grew to adulthood. In 1874, they moved from Kentucky to a place near Chickasha, Oklahoma. The daughters, Pauline, Lucy and Mary Daniel stayed in Oklahoma and raised their families there. The boys, Arthur, Tolbert, Thomas Jr., Jim and William Henry Same north and finally settled in South Dakota. In about 1879, Arthur, Jim and Thomas J. or "Bogie", as he was called trailed a bunch of horses north from Oklahoma headed for Canada. Arthur took his share of the horses and located on the Bad River near Ft. Pierre, South Dakota. He started a livery stable at Ft. Pierre. Arthur was killed oh July 13, 1889, at Springview, Nebraska. He was married to Maggie Traversie and they had a son Charlie Maupin. Charlie married Caroline Garreau on February 6, 1906. They lived in the Timber Lake and Eagle Butte area. After Arthur's death in 1889, "Bogie" and Jim returned from Canada where they had settled on Pincher Creek. Jim, later, moved to Flagstaff, Arizona. Tolbert "Tollie" Maupin came to South Dakota in about 1888 according to the 1905 South Dakota census. Tollie lived around Leslie, Ft. Pierre, Hayes and Dupree. According to the census he was stockman and he once owned the Togo Ranch Road at Hayes, South Dakota. The Stockgrower News and Leslie Pioneer of November 10, 1910, states, "Tolbert Maupin is, now, engaged in the store business at Dupree. He sold the first bunch of prunes shipped in there." Tollie had two sons, Neal Baine and Oscar Arthur. Neal B. joined the Canadian Army in 1910 and was killed overseas. Oscar moved to Arizona and California. Tolbert and his wife, Rose, moved to Longview, Washington, where he died in 1938 and she in 1946. [photo - Tolbert Maupin and his wife and son Neal B. This picture was taken before South Dakota was a state] WILLIAM HENRY MAUPIN William Henry Maupin, "Henry" or "Hank" as he was called was the youngest of the Maupin boys. He came to South Dakota in about 1902. He was a stockman, horseman, played the fiddle and was a very good dancer. In 1910, Henry started the first grocery store in Dupree in a tent. He became known as "Uncle Henry" after the birth of his nephews and was even called such in issues of the Leslie Pioneer. Hank, Bob Yokum and Eddie Carr took a team of buffalo to the Calgary Stampede in 1912. Hank stayed in Canada, became a Canadian citizen and returned to the United States only to visit. Hank punched cows south of Calgary, and worked in the mines at Drumheller. He was injured at the mines and later worked at a hotel in Drumheller. William Henry Maupin died on April 26, 1961, and is buried in the Drumheller Cemtery in Alberta, Canada. [photo - William Henry Maupin] THOMAS JEFFERSON MAUPIN Thomas Jefferson "Bogie" Maupin was born at Liberty, Kentucky, on April 12, 1863. He came to South Dakota from Canada after the death of his brother, Arthur. He returned to the Fort Pierre area, lived one year at Dog Buttes east of Timber Lake and then moved to his home south of Eagle Butte on what was known as Maupin Flats between Plum Creek and Deep Creek. On February 20, 1903, he married Rose Benthin of Ligonier, Indiana. To this union were born five children, William Henry "Bill", John, Thomas Jefferson "Tom", Evelyn and Donald. Their home was the crossroads for many, a stopping place for neighbors and cowboys. Bogie was a freighter from Fort Pierre to Cherry Creek. He made his first trip with the mail in July 1906. He had a runaway accident and died as a result of those injuries on December 19, 1925. He is buried at Robbs Flat Cemetery. Rose stayed on the ranch until 1934 when she moved to Eagle Butte. She was active in the membership and women's work of the Congregational Church, and later a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and was a Gold Star Mother. Son, Donald, was killed in World War II. Rose died at the age of 95 on January 4, 1974, at Belle Fourche, South Dakota. She was laid to rest at the Eagle Butte Cemetery. She was known as a pioneer wife and mother, a great friend and neighbor. [photo - Bogie (T.J.) and Rose Benthin Maupin wedding picture taken February 20, 1903] [photo - Bogie Maupin at the old Bob Gray Rood Ranch about 1905] MAUPIN FAMILY by Peggy Maupin Symonds Bill Maupin married Wally Whipple. They were in Arizona for a time then they moved back to Eagle Butte where they ranched and operated a cafe in town for many years. They had two sons, Billy, who is a ranch manager for the SL Ranch at Suscarora, Nevada and Tommy, who lives at Fort Pierre and works for the South Dakota State Brand Board. John married Elsie "Toots" Hiett and they ranched south of Eagle Butte. They had one daughter, Mary Sue. Toots still lives in Eagle Butte. Evelyn "Sid" married Oscar Gray and they ranched at La Plant, South Dakota. Pat and Sid raised seven sons and Sid still lives on their ranch at La Plant. Tom worked for the Diamond A and CBC for most of his early life. Tom spent several years in Arizona and Wyoming at Rock River. He returned to Eagle Butte in 1940. Gramma Maupin had moved to Eagle Butte in 1934 after Donald left home and when Tom came back he bought some cows from Jim Brown and he and his mother moved back to the ranch south of Eagle Butte. In June of 1941, Tom had a runaway with a team of broncs and smashed his leg. He fought and doctored this leg until 1946 when he had to have it amputated. He never let the leg handicap him. He rode broncs, stacked hay and everything else that needed doing. In October of 1941 he married Christene Hansen McKinney at Pierre. Tene had a son Thurman McKinney and she and Tom raised 4 children of their own. Thurman and his family live at Piedmont, South Dakota. Peggy Symonds lives at Sturgis, South Dakota. Bogie and Jim live at Alzada, Montana and Baine lives at Camp Crook, South Dakota. Ours was always a stopping place for people going to and coming from Eagle Butte. We had a rollaway bed in the kitchen and I remember waking up to find Albert Lopez, Bud Annis, Elmer Rivers and many more whose names have gotten away from me, sleeping on the rollaway. They all lived below us and it was a fair day's ride to Eagle Butte. One visitor we kids were fascinated by was James "Deafy" Eagle Chasing. He and Dad talked sign language. We couldn't understand a word of it but enjoyed it greatly. When Baine was a baby in 1951, Mom, Dad, Kelly Berndt, Palmer Horseshoe and Bill Schnerle built three rooms on the top of the basement which really provided all kinds of space. Also got a 32 volt lightplant and were terribly modern then. I'm sure it was appreciated. My mother got her first washing machine and I think one of the first things Dad got was a sickle grinder. The barn was log, built into the bank. They bought the Isberg house and moved it in onto a cellar made of railroad ties. It was a two story house and the upstairs was a bunkhouse and the downstairs was for storage. There was one room upstairs and one down. Thurmon went to the Hoxing School over by Anderson's, Bogie and I went to the Albee School until 52-53, then we stayed in Eagle Butte and went to school. The term of 51-52 the teacher stayed at our house and had school for just Bogie and me. Dad was on the Ziebach County school board for several years but I don't know the dates. When I think back on this time I'm sure people saw their neighbors more and enjoyed each others' friendship more than we probably do now. Everybody needed everybody else, they worked together and weren't so hurried as we are now. Friendship wasn't taken for granted. On Saturday everyone went to Eagle Butte, weather permitting. The grownups did their shopping and visiting and we kids went to school and played on the big swings until show time, then went to the show. Jerome Payne had the theater and that was the highlight of our week. The battery radio was important in many ways, news, weather, the serials, but also communication. When Jim and Baine were born, Dad took Mom to Pierre several days early and every day we listened to the radio to see if anything had happened when "ole lady Pierre" gave the hospital report. Found out the same way when someone was dismissed. I remember a rooster Mom had that could whip a kid in nothing flat and did many times but Mom wouldn't kill him because of rattlesnakes. The yard wasn't fenced so he came right in on our own territory and ran us kids off. The changes that have taken place in the past 40 years are hard to comprehend. Forty years isn't that long but in some respects it seems a lifetime. I can remember when Dad got his first haying machinery in 1950. He got 2-8N Ford tractors, mower, rake, farmhand and a post hole digger. Sam Mortensen, Albert Lopez and probably Tom Lynch spent the summer haying with Dad. They really covered the ground. It seems some older person was with us a lot of the time. The first one I remember was Billy Lucus. He had slowed down to a shuffle and used a cane. He and Dad could really tell the stories and he always enjoyed it so much when someone he knew came along to talk old times with. He was also Mom's babysitter for Jim. Jim could crawl faster than Billy could shuffle and I remember more times than one he'd catch Jim going under the gate to the barn. He'd hook his cane in Jim's diaper and drag him back under the fence and turn him around. Harry Sturgis spent several years with the folks before he went to the nursing home. He loved beans and bacon. We had to eat a lot of beans anyway, but that was Harry's favorite food. After several years of searching and corresponding the folks found Henry Maupin up in Canada and he spent several summers with us. He and Gramma Maupin would argue about early day happenings in Ziebach County. They were both in their 80s at that time but Gramma would say "Couldn't tell him anything when he was a young man and he hasn't changed a bit!" He was a very interesting man with a fantastic sense of humor. Maupins left Ziebach County in 1952, moving to Alzada, Montana where two of their sons, Bogie and Jim, are still on the ranch. The new ranch must have seemed like heaven to my mother. She just begged trees to grow in her yard near Eagle Butte and their place at Alzada is very similar to the Black Hills. Later on they bought land on the Little Missouri River and had hay and water except on the very driest of years. Mother passed away of a heart attack at the funeral of a very dear family friend, Albert Lopez, January 20, 1978. Albert was not only a leaning post and true friend to the folks he was about the nearest thing to a grandfather us kids had. That's how we thought of him too. Dad had been in ill health for several years and he passed away November 11, 1978 at the Belle Fourche hospital. They are both buried at Pineslope Cemetery in Belle Fourche. Mom was a 4-H leader in Crook County, Wyoming for many years and they both loved youth rodeos or anything to do with kids and horses. The family started a 4-H Memorial Rodeo at Hulett, Wyoming in Mom's memory and when Dad passed away it was changed to Maupin Memorial Rodeo in memory of the two of them. In 1981 this rodeo was moved to Sundance, Wyoming and changed to a youth rodeo so all children could participate. I'm sure the folks would be proud of the participation we've had to this rodeo. [photo - Bill Maupin] [photo - Tom and Tene's 36th wedding anniversary, 1977] CLAIR F. MAYNARD FAMILY by Clair F. Maynard Clair F. Maynard, born December 24, 1906, was the third of ten children in the family of Claude and Gertrude Maynard, early pioneers who had emigrated with their parents to settle in Dakota Territory. Clair was born in Faulk County, South Dakota and attended a rural elementary school near Orient, South Dakota. The family moved to a homestead in Ziebach County in May 1919. My parents had shipped two livestock cars and one emigrant car filled with household goods, seed wheat and oats for the first year's planting. Our first summer was spent at diversified tasks of building, putting up some hay and planting crops and garden. Our nearest neighbors to the southeast were the Lou Taylors. We arranged with them to haul drinking water from their well until we could get a well dug. We dug several wells, but they all turned out to be dry holes. We gave up the search for surface water and my father bought a well-drilling rig. We finally struck water but it provided only enough for household use. During the drought of the thirties, we had to drive our livestock four miles north to the Moreau River to water them. Many residents had to dispose of their livestock for a lack of water. Some of our neighbors were: Lou Taylor; Tom Sawyer; James Pidcock; Jim Thomas; Lars Petersen; Frank Bloom; Russell Smith; Mrs. Nettle Edwards, sons Clarke and Ed, and mother, Margaret Kagey; Al Tibke; Lee Eaten; Charlie Cain; Albert and Herman Picker and mother. Later Elmer Brammer, Bill Thomas and Ralph Carter moved into the area. Clair attended the eighth grade at Lone Tree school, and graduated from the Dupree High School in 1925. Clair began his teaching career at age 18 at the Main school, after attending summer school at Aberdeen. While Clair attended Dupree High School he worked for his room and board for Mrs. Mary Miracle, wife of the famed O. U. Miracle, and Harve Hensley Sheep Company north of the Moreau River. From 1928-1931 he taught the Grondahl school north of the Moreau. From 1931-1934 he taught Fairview school, south of Dupree. In June 1933, Mr. Maynard and Helen Griffith were married. They were both employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to teach at the Indian day schools at Bear Creek and at Bridger. After these four years, the couple and their daughter, Estella, moved to Spearfish where Mr. Maynard worked and attended college to complete his B.S. in education degree. In 1941 he was principal of the elementary school at Custer, and taught the 6th-8th grades and coached basketball and track. He taught at Central High, Rapid City from 1942 until 1951. During the summer months, 1943-44, he was employed by the United States Area Engineers. He also was soil chemist and took tests of concrete samples for the construction of the three runways for Ellsworth Air Force Base. In 1951 Mr. Maynard decided he could no longer teach for $185 per month at Central High, so he was offered a position with Mr. Chris Hogan of the Rapid Chevrolet Company for $400 per month. In 1952-53 Mr. Maynard assisted as principal at the Faith High School and taught there. In 1954-56 he was superintendent and instructor at Keystone High School. The Bureau of Indian Affairs decided to start a high school for Indian students at Sioux San, Rapid City. He was hired by the Bureau for the high school position. He served in the Civil Service from 1957 until 1977, when he retired at age seventy. He completed the last four years at Little Wound High School in Kyle, South Dakota. Clair Maynard is a substitute teacher in his 56th year of teaching in the public and the indian Day schools of western South Dakota. Clair and Helen's two sons and two daughters have all completed their college and hold responsible positions in their respective communities. They are at home with their seven grandchildren who have had an annual homecoming vacation and visit during the first two weeks of August. Clair, Jr. and his wife, Susan, live in Rapid City with their daughter, Mindy. William Alan and his wife, Nancy live in Greeley, Colorado. Dorothy Jean (Maynard) Hanson is employed in Chicago, where she lives with her husband and their three children: Michael, Michelle and Mark. Estella Lucilla married George Tidwell and assists him with his Flight Service in Lonoke, Arkansas. Their children are Kathy, Conway, Jeff and Jim. [photo - Mr. and Mrs. Clair Maynard and family] [photo - Clair and Helen Maynard] [photo - Clair and Helen Maynard in front of home in Rapid City] CLAUDE and GERTRUDE MAYNARD by Ruth Maynard Edwards Early in the year of 1918, Claude Maynard filed on two quarters of land nine and one-half miles northwest of Dupree. In April, 1919, Claude came by train from Orient in Faulk County to Dupree to build a new house on the homestead. He borrowed a team and wagon, and with the help of an old friend, Pat O'Donnell, hauled lumber to the site on which he had chosen to build. Next morning there was three feet of snow over the place where he was to build the house. First he built a small house about 12 x 16 to live in until he built the main house. As soon as he had the floor, sides and roof sheeting up, he returned to Orient for his family, household goods and livestock. The family consisted of mother Gertrude, Fred, Marie, Clair, Lester, Ruth, Edwin, Wilbur, Mable and Gladys. Our belongings, household goods, chickens, cattle and horses were all loaded into immigrant cars, and we rode in the passenger compartment of the train. We came by Roscoe, Mobridge, Trail City, Promise, La Plant, Ridgeview, Eagle Butte and Dupree. We spent the night in Roscoe and were into Dupree after dark the next day. We stayed in the old Lafferty Building -- then a hotel. We must have been a sight, walking from the depot to the hotel. The next morning we loaded household goods and chickens in wagons, and by noon started the trip to our new home. The road was a rough, deep-rutted trail angling northwest from the corner north of what used to be the Hank Lafferty home, now the Pesicka farm, straight across where Bednar Dam now covers the creeks. Before we reached the place of our neighbors, the Louis Taylor family, my father stopped the head wagon. When all wagons were abreast he pointed out Thunder Butte, Taylor's place, and two and one-half miles from Taylor's home we could see our new home. May 1, 1919 -- this was a day for our family to remember. Neighbors came in and helped shingle the house and build fences to hold the cows and horses. Stock had to be herded during the day and corralled at night. We had only been in our new home a week when all the neighbors surprised us with a house warming. We had an organ, and others brought a fiddle, and everyone danced until the sun came up. This kind of entertainment was repeated often. All the neighbors came the 4th of July for a picnic in a grove known from then on as "Fourth of July Grove." Games, races and pie eating contests were held, and everyone stayed for an evening lunch and then came back to our house and danced. All the neighbors brought their children and everyone had a good time. After school started in the fall, programs and dances were held there, too. Winter came early and the days were short. We drove a horse and buggy two and one-half miles to school and it would be dark when we got home. Our mother would have supper ready. It was a long trip to town so the trip was only made for supplies during winter, and usually only by my father and elder brother. Sometimes they had to walk beside the wagon to keep warm. Summers were enjoyed by all of us. We would ride back north and west for miles to discover buttes, caves and pick wild fruit chokecherries, plums and buffalo berries for fresh fruit to make jams and jellies. On September 3, 1921 a new baby joined our family. Claude Lawrence arrived one afternoon while the younger ones were visiting a neighbor. Years went by, times were getting rough because of the drought. Claude and Gertrude were hard working, loyal, and honest people. Their spirits were brave, and they faced hardship with a smile. This was not the first experience of pioneer life for this couple. Gertrude Preston Maynard was born in Pennsylvania May 22, 1881 and came to the Dakota Territory with her parents, Carlton and Sarah Preston, in 1883. They drove from Watertown by oxen team to north Hand County close to where Orient now stands. She grew up during the time of Indian attack scares, homes being heated by burning twisted hay in hay burners, and the blizzard of 1888. She was burned badly in a prairie fire. She had to help care for a family at age 12 and learned to sew and cook at an early age. She didn't need a cookbook but could bake bread, cakes and cook anything fit for a king. She sewed for herself and family and made wedding dresses for friends and relatives. Claude Maynard was born January 6, 1875, and he and his mother also came from Pennsylvania to South Dakota in 1889. They homesteaded east of Orient near Athol. Later they moved into the town of Orient where they owned their home. Claude worked for his uncle in livery stables. Later he learned to be a carpenter. He worked on the railroad between Orient and Roscoe. Later he ran steam engines on threshing machines. On January 15, 1902, Claude and Gertrude were married and began a full life of their own. Claude was a lover of good horses and he was in the height of his glory to be driving a glossy team with shining harness and buggy. After many years of pioneering and raising their family, farming and ranching, they retired and moved into Dupree. Claude worked for the State Highway Department for several years before his death April 16, 1949. Gertrude spent her retirement years gardening, raising chickens and rabbits. She died suddenly March 24, 1961. They were both buried in the Dupree Cemetery. Fred Maynard lives in Deadwood; Marie Maynard Edwards lives in Dupree; Clair Maynard lives in Rapid City. Wilbur Maynard, Lester Maynard, Gladys Maynard Coen, Claude Maynard and Edwin Maynard are deceased. Ruth Maynard Edwards lives in Dupree and Mable Maynard Hinzman lives in Eagle Butte. Each of the children grew up and married and took their place in the pioneer world, each with pioneer spirit inherited from forefathers of sturdy stock. The following poem was read during the funeral sermon for Gertrude May Maynard (1881-1961) by the Reverend Lawrence Burger, First Congregational Church, Dupree, South Dakota. All business places in Dupree were closed during her funeral, March 27, 1961 as a tribute. BEAUTIFUL HANDS Such beautiful, beautiful hands! They are neither white nor small, And you, I know, would scarcely think That they were fair at all; I've looked on hands whose form and hue A sculptor's dream might be, Yet are these aged, wrinkled hands More beautiful to me. Such beautiful, beautiful hands! Though heart were weary and sad, Those patient hands kept toiling on, That children might be glad; I almost weep, as I look back To childhood's distant day, I think how those hands rested not When mine were at their play. Such beautiful, beautiful hands! They're growing feeble now, For time and pain have left their mark On hand, and heart, and brow; Alas, Alas, the weary time, And the sad, sad day to me, When 'neath the daisies out of sight, Those hands will folded be. But Oh! Beyond this shadowy damp, Where all is bright and fair, I know full well those dear old hands Will palms of victory bear; Where crystal streams thro' endless years Flow over golden sands, And when the old grow young again I'll clasp my Mother's hands. --Author Unknown Gertrude Mae Maynard was a recipient of the 1861-1961 Dakota Territory Centennial Award as a Pioneer Citizen of South Dakota, presented by Archie Gubbrud, Governor, State of South Dakota. [photo - Claude Maynard home - built in 1919 - picture taken 1977] [photo - Claude and Gertrude Maynard, 1919] [photo - Claude Maynard digging a well on the homestead] [photo - Claude Maynard family, 1933] [photo - Claude Maynard family, 1961. Fred, Clair, Lester, Edwin, Wilbur, Claude Lawrence. Marie Edwards, Ruth Edwards, Mable Hinzman, Gladys Coen] [photocopy - Award given Ruth Maynard Edwards by Joseph Heimer (historian for area in 1960-61 for Dakota Territory Centennial) at Dupree Community Club meeting June 1962, after the death of Gertrude Maynard March 24, 1961] EDWIN and EULALAH MAYNARD FAMILY by Eulalah Maynard Edwin Maynard was born in Faulk County, South Dakota, near Orient, on December 6, 1912, the son of Claude and Gertrude Maynard. He moved with his family in 1919 to homestead 9 1/2 miles northwest of Dupree. He was educated at the Lone Tree School in Ziebach County. Edwin learned the ranching and rodeo business at an early age by helping with the business of keeping the farm and ranch going for his parents. He broke horses to ride and to drive as work teams on a daily basis. At an early age he worked for different sheepmen during spring lambing. Watt Tidball was one of the men he worked for. At about age 12, he and his sister, Ruth, had to pump water for the horses during the day. They would catch a young horse while he was drinking and put a rope halter on him. Edwin would snub the horse to his saddle and Ruth would ride it. He was afraid she would not snub the horse close enough. After an afternoon of riding the horse, it was usually ready to be ridden alone. The parents didn't know what was going on for a long time. Edwin married Eulalah Carter, oldest daughter of Ralph and Myrtle Carter. They made their home on several ranches around the Dupree area. They lived on the Paine place west of Dupree and had a large herd of cattle, sheep and horses. He had rodeo stock for the Dupree Rodeo Association, of which he was a charter member. In 1945 they sold their ranch and moved into Dupree to send their children to school. Edwin bought the dray line and truck to haul things from the depot to town, mail and all supplies for stores, coal from the coal mines of Isabel and Firesteel, and from railroad cars to the lumber yard. The family consisted of three boys and one girl -- Eugene, who lives in Thoreau, New Mexico; Lyle of Eagle Butte, South Dakota; Bernice Sampson of Grove, Oklahoma; and Ralph, of Thoreau, New Mexico. Lyle graduated from Deadwood High School, Bernice and Ralph graduated from Dupree High School. They are all married and have families of their own. All are rodeo champions in their field. Edwin and family sold the trucking and draying business and moved to a ranch ten miles north of Dupree. After a few years, because of Edwin's ill health, we moved to Deadwood. There he did some logging, before moving back to Dupree. He became Dupree town cop, night watchman, and maintenance man for the water department. In 1962, we moved to Missouri and Edwin worked in a feedlot as overseer of health of stock. Because of his health, he was forced to retire early and we moved back to Eagle Butte and made our home here until his death on January 10, 1981. He is buried in the Dupree Cemetery. Eulalah lives in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. [photo - Edwin and Eulalah celebrate 45 years of marriage, November 4, 1978] FRED and MARY MAYNARD by Fred Maynard All pioneers endured experiences of joy and sorrow in the years from 1910 to the 1930's, and our family was no exception. But the good times outnumber the bad times. I was married to Mary Pidcock in Dupree on November 5, 1920, and we stayed with my folks for several years. I worked with sheep outfits on the Moreau River northwest of town for several summers. I received $5.00 a day, and that was good wages for those times. I learned a lot about sheep those summers. In May 1925 I went to work in a garage in Dupree. It was owned by Broberg and Yusko. I drove back and forth from the farm until fall. That garage was located in the old Lafferty Building. The Dupree Garage was built in 1926 by Aaron Main and we moved into it in 1927. Everything worked out fine for two years. Working with me were Bill Nelson and Clarke Edwards. Dupree Garage had the agency for Overland cars, later we got the Buick and Chevrolet Agency. In 1931, "the dirty thirties" got the best of the Dupree Garage and Broberg. I moved into the Monk Jefferies Blacksmith Shop by the livery stable. Then in 1932 my brother, Lester, and I leased the Dupree Garage and called it the Maynard Bro. Garage. We had good business there, as we had two trucks on the W.P.A. projects and Lester hauled coal from Firesteel and Pogany Coal Mine while 1 worked in the garage. We kept busy fixing trucks. Sometimes we worked until midnight on some trucks so they were ready to go in the morning again. We sold the garage to Chris Williams and Ed Ross in 1937. I went to work for the State Highway, and Lester went to work as a mechanic in Eagle Butte. In 1938 I bought into the Tibke Filling Station with young Bill Tibke. I spent the next two years there, and in the spring of 1940 I sold my share to Bill Tibke and moved to Deadwood to work in the Liberty Auto owned by Bill Koti. I moved my family to Deadwood in July 1940. Mary and I had three sons, Phillip, James and Russell. My brothers, Wilbur and Lester, were working at the Liberty Auto also. They had moved to Deadwood in 1939. During the war years in 1943, I went to work in the Chevrolet Garage in Deadwood. Brother Lester left with his family to Portland, Oregon to work in the shipyards and Wilbur went to work in the filling station in Lead. In 1944 Wilbur came to work in the Chevrolet Garage for several years. I retired in 1967 on account of my health. My wife died in April, 1948. In the fall of 1949, I married Mary Baker. We live in our home on Highway 385 at the foot of Strawberry Hill above Pluma. After spending one year in the nursing home, I am now home and enjoying good health. My sons married and raised their families near here. We are fortunate to have most of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren near us. My son, James, is deceased. Phillip lives next door, and Russell lives in Deadwood. My brother, Clair, is in Rapid City. My sisters, Ruth and Marie, live in Dupree. My sister, Mable, lives in Eagle Butte. Lawrence, Lester, Wilbur, Edwin and Gladys are deceased. [photo - Dupree Garage. (Later the Maynard Bro. Garage)] [photo - Sylvia and Martin Broberg] [photo - Relaxing in the Tibke Garage: Fred Maynard, Pete Maynard, Jim Maynard and Paul Mraz] [photo - Martin Broberg, Fred Maynard, Bill Nelson and Wilbur Scott] LAWRENCE MAYNARD FAMILY by Ruth Edwards Claude Lawrence Maynard, son of Claude and Gertrude Maynard, was born September 3, 1921 on the Maynard ranch 9 1/2 miles northwest of Dupree, South Dakota. He was the youngest of ten children. He grew up on the ranch, helping with the cattle, horses and sheep. Lawrence attended Lone Tree School all 8 years. When his parents retired, he moved to Dupree with them. Lawrence married Valera Keegan and their children are -- Larry, Ronnie, Buster, Richard (deceased), and John. They adopted Denise for their daughter. Lawrence spent two years in the army during World War II. His time was spent in Europe. After he returned, he worked trucking; ran the dray line in Dupree; later he and Valera ran the locker plant, cafe and store on the outskirts of Dupree. He was working on construction work just before his death -- January 6, 1966. He is buried in the Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, South Dakota. Valera and family moved to Faith, then to Sturgis, where she was employed at Fort Meade Veterans Hospital until illness forced her to retire. Richard was killed in Vietnam and is buried in the Black Hills National Cemetery. Valera died of cancer, after a long illness, on October 26, 1976. She is buried in the Black Hills National Cemetery. Ronnie and family live in Sturgis, South Dakota. Larry, Denise and John live with them. Buster and family live near Rapid City, South Dakota. [photo - Four Generations - Maynard family. Louisa Maynard, Claude Maynard, Gertrude Maynard, Lawrence Maynard and Shirley Edwards] [photo - Lawrence Maynard, July, 1945] LESTER and ALTA MAYNARD by Ruth Edwards Lester C. Maynard was born in rural Faulk County, 4 1/2 miles northwest of Orient, December 24, 1908, to Claude and Gertrude Maynard. He attended Jessen School the first few years. He moved to Ziebach County to the Maynard ranch 9 1/2 miles northwest of Dupree with his parents on May 1, 1919. He attended Lone Tree School and one year at Dupree High School. Lester learned early in life to ride horses and herd cattle and sheep. He worked for Harve Hensley and Watt Tidball during lambing time while he was still a teenager. Later years he worked for Jim Thomas and Monk Jeffries in the blacksmith shop learning the trade. Early in the 1930's, Lester and his brother, Fred, went into a partnership as Maynard Bro. Garage in Dupree. In June, 1932, Lester married Alta Sciford, and one son was born on September 9, 1933. He was named Lester LeRoy. Later they moved to Eagle Butte and ran a garage and filling station, and in the late 1930's they moved to Deadwood and worked in a garage at Pluma, South Dakota. During World War II the family moved to Portland, Oregon and he worked in the shipyards as a welder. Lester became an instructor as a riveter in the shipyard. In the late 1950's, Lester returned to South Dakota and worked for Silverman Garage in Dupree, Fisher's Garage in Faith, and later began working for Dick Bigler as a farmhand and mechanic and welder. It was in September, 1977, while working for Curly Johnson seeding winter wheat that he had a tractor accident and was killed. He is buried in the Dupree Cemetery. Lester was a hard working, self-taught. mechanic and welder. He was a generous person and had the sturdy spirit of a pioneer. [photo - Lester, Clair Maynard and Ed Edwards played for community dances] [photo - Gertrude Maynard and son, Lester. 1960 Jubilee] WILBUR MAYNARD FAMILY by Ruth Edwards Wilbur R. Maynard, son of Claude and Gertrude Preston Maynard, was born August 25, 1915, in Faulk County near Orient, South Dakota. He moved with his parents and family to Ziebach County 9 1/2 miles northwest of Dupree on May 1, 1919. Wilbur attended Lone Tree School all 8 years. He worked for neighbors, and cattle and sheep companies, while growing up. Wilbur married Dorothy Brewer of Eagle Butte, South Dakota and they moved to Deadwood, South Dakota, where he worked at filling stations and garages as a mechanic. He passed away of a heart attack September 22, 1972, and is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery near Deadwood, South Dakota. Dorothy now lives in Moorcroft, Wyoming. Children of Wilbur and Dorothy Maynard are -- Robert, Sundance, Wyoming; Darlene (Mrs. Jim Shoun), Rapid City, South Dakota; Wilbur Duane, Moorcroft, Wyoming; and Cleo Kay Roster, Lakefield, Minnesota.