Text of Ziebach Co., SD History (1982) - pages 639 - 652 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, . THE WOODWARD FAMILY by Veva Woodward Badger Hermon and Ella Woodward came by train from Nebraska to South Dakota in March 1919, with four sons -- Jesse (Babe), Orvel (Dude), Lawrence and Beverly, and five daughters -- Mattie, Veva, Audra, Arle and Dorothea (Dorothy). As we got to Eagle Butte, there was a blizzard, so mother and the eight younger ones stayed at the hotel, and Papa and Babe went on to Lantry. Aunt Lena and Helen Nicholson, mother's brother's wife and girl, were with us, and uncle Ed Nicholson had come with the emigrant car to take care of the livestock on the way. He homesteaded in the Gumbo south of Lantry. That night and for three days, Papa, Babe and uncle Ed stayed at Omer Badger's. He helped them locate a house -- the tin house about four miles southwest of Lantry, and unload the emigrant car. Papa brought four horses and a wagon so we had a way to get around. There were chickens, too and three dogs! The evening the family came on to Lantry by train was moonlight, but cold, so we all sat down in the wagon box in which Papa had put hay and comforters. He had to go cross country around huge drifts to the place where we lived for about three and a half months. Uncle Ed had a good fire going when we arrived. After a week, we were glad to get settled. Papa bought land about seven miles from Lantry and got carpenters to start building on it. There was a good well there and he put up a windmill. First they built a granary and put partitions for two bedrooms at one end, and we lived in that while Mr. Brownlow, Paul Lord and Jens Christensen built our eight-room house. We moved into it about the time school started in the fall. Mattie and Babe were out of school. Dude, Veva, Audra and Arle went to the Barr School about two and one-half miles southwest of our home. Mrs. Ross Leach taught there for several years. I was in the eighth grade that fall. I remember the prairie fire that started in the breaks of the Gumbo and burned up to about a mile or so south of the Marion Smith place. It was one half to one mile wide and people from miles around came to help fight it. They hauled water from our well, and the women fixed coffee and sandwiches for the firefighters. We were all so scared for that was our first experience with a prairie fire. Papa got a herd of sheep the next spring and got busy fencing our place. We had a few milk cows, and he got land broke out and planted. Mother had a big garden and raised turkeys and chickens. We had fun in those days by having surprise parties at homes. Of course, the surprised folks usually got wind of their turn, and were ready with food and clearing out rooms for dancing or party games and for the men to play cards. Dances were also held in schoolhouses and in the summer or fall, in barns. I remember barn dances at Ray Hortons, Sam Talbotts and the Bogue farms. Everyone brought cake, sandwiches or pickles and coffee was made in a wash boiler. The tin cups were owned by the community and were always where they were needed. The dances or parties always lasted until daylight so folks could see their way home. The roads were only trails and there were very few fences, so it would have been easy to get lost in the dark. Mother was always ready to go help where needed, either to help deliver a baby, or sit up with someone real sick. Her flowers, planted on the "firebreak" around the buildings, were used for funerals as there were no florists in the country. She really had a "green thumb". In the fall of 1920, I attended high school at Lantry. I went to stay at the Albert Rosene home and drove to Lantry with one horse and buggy and took their eight year old girl to school. Margaret Aydelotte was the high school teacher my first year, then Margaret Hermanek the next two years. I stayed at Rosene's all this time. During the second year, I started "going with" Lewis Badger and we kept steady company for three and a half years, till we married after I taught the Gage School one year. I went to Aberdeen to summer school so I could teach. After Lewis and I were married, we went to Huron, South Dakota, where he worked on a farm till fall. He rode that winter looking after cattle at Little Bend on the Missouri River, and I taught school for three months, after the teacher there had quit. The summer before I married, my sister, Juanita, was born. Mother went to Nebraska for that event. Mattie and Otto Albers had married the fall before, so kept things going at home. Lewis and I rented the Florence Fielder place and farmed there. We had our first daughter, Arminta, that spring. Lewis also farmed some land for Mr. Gladstone that year. The family grew and we moved to Sully County, then in the spring of 1927 we moved to Belle Fourche where Lewis worked on construction of the sugar beet factory. We had four daughters, Arminta, Mildred, Joyce and Marilyn, and three sons, Delbert (Bud), Charles (Chuck) and Dan. We never got back to Ziebach County except for visits. We have lived in Spink County since 1942. Lewis passed away March 7, 1981. Babe and Otto Albers farmed the home place and later Otto and Mattie bought it and raised their family of three boys, Cecil, Orville, and August Albers and two girls, Mary Ellen and Anna (Keegan). Otto passed away December 1, 1959. Mattie later married Ben Haugen. Babe married Edith Province. They bought and operated the Lantry store. They had one boy, Wymond Woodward, and two girls, Mary Grace (Sue) and Anna. Babe then bought a farm in Spink County near us and lived there till about a year before he died at Faulkton, South Dakota in 1962. Edith now lives in Aberdeen and the youngest girl on their home farm. Dude went, in the spring, three or four years to herd sheep and help lamb for O. U. Miracle up by Thunder Butte when he was 14, 15 and 16 years old. He married Agnes Flint. They live at Kearney, Nebraska and have three sons, Lee, Joe and Billy Woodward and one daughter, Jane. Audra worked for Georgia Holden when she was County Superintendent of Schools at Dupree for about three years. She married Ernest Badger and they had four children, Rita, LeRoy, Aletha and Duane Badger. She lives in Washington near her oldest daughter. Ernest died January 29, 1976. Arle graduated from Dupree High School and taught the Tiperary School a couple of years, then Little Bend School a couple of years, then married Dale Badger, making three of us sisters married to three Badger brothers. They had one daughter, Anita, and two sons, Bill and Bob Badger. Dale died February 20, 1950 and later she married Bud Christensen. They live at Apache Junction, Arizona. Lawrence is the only one living in Ziebach County and is very well- known by many people there. He married Virginia Anderson and they have one son, Lawrence E. Woodward and two daughters, Virginia Jean (Mrs. Jerry Till), and Beverly Ann (Mrs. R. O. Birkeland). His family all live in the county, too. Dorothea (Dorothy) went to Dupree High School three years, then came to Belie Fourche to stay with us and graduated from Belie Fourche High School in 1933. She married Andy Anderson, and they have lived since then in the Black Hills and raised three girls, Joan, Jean and Janet, and two boys, Jim and Jack Anderson. She worked as assistant registrar at Black Hills State College in Spearfish. She has now retired. Beverly married Geraldine Pooley. He served in the navy during World War II. He and Geraldine raised three daughters, Colleen, Carleen and Patsy, and four sons, Jerry, Billy, Jess and Buck Woodward. He died of a heart attack at the Hot Springs Soldier's Hospital on May 14, 1958. Geraldine is now married to William Anderson and living at Newcastle, Wyoming. Juanita married Vernon Winters at Dupree and lived there and at Lantry for several years. Later they were in Spink County, then he went to work for the government as a civilian at the Air Force Base near Rapid City, where they still live. They raised three girls, Dixie Mae, Donna and Denell. Our parents raised a grandson, Lee, who now lives in Belie Fourche. Our folks passed away some years ago Papa in 1962 after they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, and mother in November, 1964. They are buried at Lantry Cemetery. They had well over 100 descendants while they were still living. [photo - H. D. Woodward family by their home. Babe, Mattie, Veva, Dude, Audra, Arle, Lawrence, Dorothy, Beverly. Front row: Papa, Mom and Juanita] [photo - H. D. Woodward home] [photo - Lawrence, Dorothy, Audra and Arle Woodward, ready for their school ride] LAWRENCE and VIRGINIA WOODWARD Lawrence Woodward was born December 22, 1913 in a sod house in Callaway, Nebraska. He came with his parents to South Dakota in 1919 and has been living in Ziebach County the major part of the time since. He lived in Wyoming a short time during the 30's and in 1937 drove truck at Trojan, South Dakota for the Bald Mountain Gold Mine. Virginia (Anderson) Woodward was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 27, 1921 and moved to Dupree in 1931. Lawrence and Virginia were married in 1937 and moved from Trojan to Dupree the same year. We built our home 21/2 miles east of Dupree in 1951 and plan to retire there. We have 3 children -- Virginia Jean, married to Jerry Till (they have 4 children -- Lila, Jay, Carol and George). Lila is married to Howard Petersen and they have 2 sons, Elmer and Ernie and a daughter Kate. Beverly Ann is married to Russell Birkeland. They have 2 sons, Clinton, married LeAnn LeBeau, and Douglas. Douglas is married to Melody Stapert and they have a daughter, Tiffany. Lawrence E. is married to Marlene Stambach and they have 3 children -- Delbert, Darla and Suria. Darla is married to Troy Vrooman. We have 9 grandchildren and 5 greatgreatchildren. One thing I think is unusual is that Dr. Frank Creamer delivered all our children and the ones they married, in the Creamer Community Hospital in Dupree. Virginia was a 4-H leader for 15 years. She enjoys all kinds of hobbies -- stamp collecting, working on scrapbooks and collecting barbed wire. Lawrence enjoys farming and planting certified grain, raising Hereford cattle and irrigating. He has about 100 acres he can flood irrigate when Bear Creek has water in it. We are fortunate to have our family all close, so we see them often. [photo - The Lawrence Woodward family, on our 40th anniversary. Virginia Till, Lawrence E. and Beverly Birkeland, Virginia and Lawrence] LAWRENCE E. WOODWARD FAMILY by Marlene Woodward Woody and I were both born in Dupree and lived in this area all our lives. Woody is the son of Lawrence and Virginia Woodward and I am the daughter of Harry and Marian Stambach. We both attended school and graduated from Dupree High School in 1960. Woody worked for his dad for a year after graduation and I worked in town. We were married in June, 1961 and lived in a trailer house by his folks for 2 years. In 1963, we bought a place of our own, the Art Jones place, just out of town and are still living there. We built a new home in 1975 and are presently still farming and ranching there. We have three children, one boy, the oldest, Delbert, who graduated from high school in 1980, works at home with his dad, but in July he went to a Vo-Tech school in Rapid for auto mechanics. We also have two girls, Darla, who graduated this spring (1981) and was married in July to Troy Vrooman from Eagle Butte. Troy is attending college in Billings, Montana, so she will be leaving our area and moving away. Our youngest girl, Suria, is 12 years old and will be a 7th grader this year, so we will have one home with us for a while yet. WUENNECKE FAMILY by Martha Miller My grandparents, John Kirschenman and Barbara Gimble, came to the United States from Russia. Grandpa came in 1872 and Grandma in 1873. They were both 19 years old. They came from different parts of Russia and had lived in Germany prior to moving to Russia. They were married in 1876. They lived in Yankton County, Dakota Territory. Later on they moved to Menno and then to Geddes. Nine children were born to this union, although some died very young. My mother, Johanna or Jennie, was born in 1884 at Menno, Dakota Territory. My mother met and married my father at Geddes in about 1905. His name was Martin Berry. He was born in Michigan in 1878. He was a soldier in 1898 or 1900. His father, Jacob Berry, was a Captain in the Spanish American War. My sister, Barbara, was born at Tripp, South Dakota in November of 1907. My father was killed in July of 1908. I was born in December of 1908, so I never knew my father. My mother moved back to Geddes after my father was killed, and worked in my grandfather's hardware store. Grandma Kirschenman took care of Barbara and me while Mother worked. Around 1909, articles started coming out in the newspapers about land to be homesteaded west of the Missouri River. Each person could file on a quarter section of land. You had to file a claim and live on it for 14 months, dig a well, fence it and pay from $2 to $6 an acre and it would be yours. Rumor had it that this was good land and that you could raise anything on it. My mother, Uncle August, Uncle Albert and Aunt Carrie came to Ziebach County in October, 191i and filed on four claims. Their claims were about 16 miles southwest of Dupree. It had been so dry that summer that gardens were just coming up in October when they got there. There were shacks all over the prairie. The neighbors who lived nearby were: the Dubes family, the Ted Bear family and the Longbrakes. A young bachelor by the name of Bill Wuennecke had a claim right north of us. My mother later married him in 1912. Five children were born to them. They were Clara, Esther, William, Fred and Alice. William died when he was a year old. Paw Wuennecke had two brothers, Alfred and Charlie, who also filed claims in Ziebach County. They didn't stay very long before they went back to Nebraska. Chris Sabo had a claim north of Paw's quarter. When Paw and Maw were married, they moved both of their shacks on Maw's place. We lived there for about five years. Uncle Albert only stayed on his claim five or six years, then he moved to Alpena and worked in a store there for many years. Uncle August didn't like the prairie either, and moved to Mobridge and worked there. Grandpa Kirschenman sold his hardware store in Geddes and moved out to Dupree on August's claim. He bought some cattle and moved Albert's and Carrie's shacks to August's place and made a comfortable four-room house with a porch on it. They lived there until 1924, when they moved to Alpena. I have many wonderful memories of my grandparents. They thought everyone should go to church. They were German Lutherans. On Sunday afternoons we would gather with the neighbors for church. We would gather in each others homes. Grandpa was not a preacher, but he would read from the German Bible for about an hour. We would sing from German hymn books which Grandma had brought with her. There were no notes in the hymn books. Barbara liked to plant things. One day she buried a duck with just its head sticking out because she said she wanted to raise ducks. One year Paw had a good oats crop and he hired Oscar Bridwell to cut the oats while he herded sheep. A hailstorm came up that day and killed many of our chickens. Oscar unhitched the horses to come home and they got away from him. The sheep Paw was herding scattered. Paw and Oscar had big welts on their heads from the hailstones hitting them. We kids gathered up some hailstones and made ice cream. Barbara and I went to the Gimble School when I was seven and she was eight. We lived 2 1/4 miles from school. Hattie Leake was our teacher. There were seven children attending that year. They were the Longbrake children, Thelma Pennington and Barbara and I. The next year Mrs. Longbrake moved to town and sent their children to school there. Mama took Barbara and I to Nebraska to go to school. We stayed with relatives. Our teacher's name was Lucy Burns. She taught 38 children in first through eighth grade. One of the children in the eighth grade was Paul Eggert. He came to Dupree some years later as principal of the Dupree High School. I never met him again. Paw's uncle brought us home in the spring. We had the surprise of our lives when we got home as we had a new baby sister. Alice was born May 1st. The following year Paw rented the Owl King place which was about five miles south of where we lived. It was owned by Ed and Albert Owl King. By now Paw had a large herd of sheep. Hilmer Nelson worked for us for several years, herding sheep. Now Barbara and I went to the Bauman School. It was in the Bauman house, because they had moved to town. Gus was a barber in Dupree for many years. Harold Nash taught. (Gimble and Bauman also known as Longbrake School.) Paw Wuennecke bought more land near where we had moved in 1912. He built a house and we moved up there in about 1918. The Longbrakes and Dubes were our close neighbors again. They moved a schoolhouse two miles south of our place and called it the Longbrake School. Children attending through the years were the Zaceks, Bridwells, Ike Lees and the Longbrakes. Some of the teachers that I remember were Mable Wood, Darwin Clifton, Mr. Scaarhog, Mrs. Ballou and Edna Reich. Barbara and I finished school there. The other children of our family went all eight years there. In the fall, our parents always put in an order to M. W. Savage Company for a small sack of peanuts for Christmas, a small barrel of salt herring, sugar and other groceries. They also ordered winter clothes, which included long underwear. How we kids hated them. Sugar cane was ordered too, and Mama would make syrup out of it or we would eat it like candy. One year several people were stricken with typhoid fever. The first one to be stricken was Mr. Dubes and he died from the dreaded disease. Shortly after that Paw got it, and also Barbara, and Mable Lee. To prevent any further outbreak, Dr. Creamer came to the Longbrake School and vaccinated everyone. As was the custom when someone got sick and couldn't do their work, the neighbors all came and helped out. The Dubes family moved east of the river somewhere after Mr. Dubes died. The Ted Bear family left before that. Mrs. Bear and Mr. Dubes were brother and sister. My mother, Mrs. Longbrake, Amelia and Frank and John Vesper, decided that we needed a Sunday School, so they started one at the Longbrake School. Frank and Amelia Vesper were both blind. They were brother and sister. Frank was Sunday School superintendent for many years. Dorothy Longbrake was my first Sunday School teacher. We had Sunday School there for many years and always had a large crowd. People came from miles around. Several times a year a minister came out from town and preached. The Dick Swan family moved into Dube's house and their children attended the Longbrake School, too. I can remember Ben Swan as being very artistic. He drew many beautiful pictures of horses and other animals. Paw and Maw Wuennecke moved to Idaho in 1939. They lived at Priest River until their deaths. Paw died in 1944 and Maw in 1976. Mom's home was very pretty in the summer because she raised many beautiful flowers. Eventually each one of us got married. Barbara married Lou Ritter in 1935. Lou passed away in 1969. Barbara lives in Custer. She has two children and seven grandchildren. Clara married Harold Miller. They live south of Priest River. They have three children and eight grandchildren. Esther married John Klinchuch and they live at Kuna, Idaho. They have five children. Fred married Dagny Bjorgum and they have three children and seven grandchildren. Dagny taught at the Longbrake School for one year and bearded at the Wuennecke home. She also taught at the White Swan School for one year and bearded at the Floyd Frame home. Fred passed away in 1974 and Dagny lives at Priest River, Idaho. Alice married Bill Buchholz of Vale. They had seven children. Alice passed away in 1965. Bill still lives at Vale. I married Everett Miller in 1926. We have five children, twelve grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Our children are Grace Marie, who was born at Dupree on October 12, 1927. William was born at Dupree on August 21, 1930. Dale was also born at Dupree on February 22, 1935. Mae was born at Priest River, Idaho on May 11, 1938, and Inez was born March 10, 1940 at Priest River. We moved to Idaho in 1937. We live on a place two miles south of Priest River. Everett worked in the woods from 1937 to 1958. Then he worked for the Corps of Engineers from 1965 to 1973. We both enjoy good health. Everett is 81 and I am 72. We will be married 55 years in October, 1981. YELLOW HAWK quotes from Ruth Yellow Hawk Thunder Hoop "My father, Solomon Yellow Hawk (1847-1930), and his brother, Steven Yellow Hawk (1842-1909), are the only two sons of my grandmother, Wasicuwin or Julia Deloria Yellow Hawk (1826-1917). Her father was a Frenchman. Julia had a sister and one or two brothers. Deloria, one of the brothers, has a grandson who is now a minister, Vine Deloria, an Episcopal." In 1882, the Des Lauriers built Fort Tecumseh on the west bank of the Missouri, a mile south of the later Fort Pierre, for the Columbia Fur Company. In 1843, Julia Deloria "married a full-blood Indian of the Itazipco band: Yellow Hawk. My grandfather had three wives, but the third one had no children that I know of. Both my father and his brother were converted into Christian life and left all the old ways." By the late 1870's both Stephen and Solomon Yellow Hawk had become assistants to Reverend Thomas L. Riggs at Oahe. After 1876, settlers swarmed into Peoria Bottom (near Fort Sully on the Missouri), telling the Indians they must leave that area, which the Indian people had considered theirs for two generations. With T. L. Riggs, and at (later Governor) Mellette's suggestion, Stephen or his brother, Solomon, Yellow Hawk and Spotted Bear went before the court in Bon Homme and applied for citizenship. Then, at the land office in Springfield, they filed claims for land on Peoria Bottom. Their entries were accepted in 1879. Nineteen other Indians also made homestead entries there. There had been no precedent of an Indian filing a claim. [photo - Yellow Hawk (SDSHS)] SOLOMON YELLOW HAWK "In the old days back, my father had two wives. One from their community. The other wife he left with his two sons, he said, because he had to, as he wanted to be a Christian, although it was heart-breaking because he loved his sons. Their mother was from Fort Thompson, Kangi Okute. This happened way back before I existed, but I have been told." Elizabeth Saul returned to Crow Creek with her sons, John Saul(b. 1878) and Thomas Saul (b. 1876). "He [Solomon] married Wipehan/Woman Hair (d. 1881) in a Christian way. Their girl was Eunice, the one I followed to school. The other is Alien (1868-1943). He went to school at Santee Normal Training School in Nebraska and another name was given him: Alien West.'' His Indian name had been Mate Hoksila. Alien West married Nancy Winona (1873-1964), the daughter of John and Elizabeth Cloud. Alien and Nancy were married in 1893 and their children were: Collies Jewett West; Benjamin; Jessie O. (married Sophia LaBlanc); Eugenia (Mrs. George Runs After); Hazel; Fred; Mamie (Mrs. Joe Yellow Head); Phillip; Rebecca; Melissa(Mrs. Robert Annis); Rueben; Estella (Mrs. Jack Claymore); and Francis W. West. "About two or three years after Alien and Eunice's mother died in 1881, my mother, Josephine, and father, Solomon, were united in marriage in a Christian way. "Josephine/Isabelle Shouts/Yells (1852-1929) was the daughter of Abel (d. 1896) and Nancy/Yells/Towanke Waste Win (1817-1903) Rattler.'' "Then I came along and my sisters followed one by one." Ruth (1887- 1972; Mrs. Harry Thunder Hoop); Elizabeth (b. 1890: Meter); and Bessie (b. 1892: Mrs. Leon Veo or Vieus). "It was at Oahe, South Dakota on May 25, 1887, the day I was born. It must be a beautiful day with all the wildflowers in bloom, with chokecherries, plums, currants, sweetpeas, bluebells, all in bloom that sent out sweet fragrance all over the air with the sweet smell of soil shooting up long blades of green grass and meadowlarks, brownthrush, crow, making all the noises to beat the band while the others warble sweet melodies, it must be this kind of a day as it always was." "My grandma told me my father came riding bareback and said, 'Mother, come now. Ina wana hiyu we.' Well, I didn't know what was going on while I was growing in the crib, but far back as I can remember, we lived in a shingle-roofed log house at the foot of the northeast side of Oahe where I was born. I remember too that we lived in a huge hewed cottonwood log house, that the army had left and given to both my father and uncle. We lived there in winter time and in summer time we would move away to Bad River up the creek some twenty miles, where my father built a log house. We had a garden and fields. My father would go trapping for wolves and coyotes or chop up wood for sale. We would take it to Fort Pierre." "My father was a Congregational minister among his own people." "My uncle, Steven Yellowhawk, used to move to a parsonage for the summer. My father, Solomon Yellowhawk, would take all our livestock along with Grandma's, branded TSBY.'' Stephen Yellowhawk died in 1909. Solomon Yellowhawk's allotment was near La Plant, adjacent to the land bought by the railroad in 1910 for the town of La Plant. Solomon sold his adjacent land to Fred LaPlante, an Indian and a trader at Cheyenne River Agency, in 1914. Solomon lived with his wife, Isabelle, in La Plant until her death in 1929, and then he lived with one of his daughters. He died in 1930. (See also "My Life at Oahe", "Congregational Minister" by Ruth Yellow Hawk Thunder Hoop.) SOLOMON YELLOW HAWK by Ruth Thunder Hoop It must be around 1889 or 1890, my father, Solomon Yellowhawk, was a policeman. There was the Indian Agency at Fort Bennett, South Dakota. I also remember there was an army of soldiers; there were buildings where they stayed. I can still hear the bugle call that sounded and the many guns fired. We used to camp there. For some reason it seemed a long time to me. Across from Fort Bennett on the other side of the Missouri toward the east, was Fort Sully. There was the Fort Bennett Boy's School, and there was the St. John's Girl's School on the northeast side of the Agency. This Agency was the Fort Bennett Agency. In later years it was moved to the place up the Missouri where it has been, but now it is moved to Eagle Butte. Well, talking about Fort Bennett, I recall one time, it must have been a ration day, as I saw the women and men standing in rows along the house. It was a cold day. As I was playing, running around, I saw big snow flakes falling. I dressed so warm I didn't feel the cold. Afterwards I found out it was in January. My mother had been busy there with the others. Finally she came and called me, so I followed her along until we came to one of the police quarters. There a woman came forward and met mother and took us inside. She was her cousin. As I remember, we were sitting there, mother and the woman talking, when a man came inside and shook hands. Then he said, "Takoja", meaning grandchild, to one. There has been a war over there, pointing south, killing all the children, women, and men. The soldiers have done it. So I jumped up crying, holding onto mother's dress. I was so scared. This was the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, December 30. I well remember that man who came and told about the battle, Shaving Kajipa. After that, the Indians were all scattered. People from Standing Rock found their way to this part of the country after Sitting Bull was killed. This is what I heard from the old people that knew what happened at the time. Now, that was the time as a police or a scout, my father was appointed by the agent to load up provisions in a spring wagon and team and to go and try to find where there might be some Indians hiding away and starving. Well, he said as he was going away far off on the prairie, he saw one little tipi. People came outside. He whipped the horses and went as fast as he could go, fearing they might get away from~ him, but when he stopped, they all came to him. Women and the children crying for want of food. There was one thing he told and laughed was that they tried to talk English to him because he looked like a wasicu (white person). Father spoke to them. So they were glad to get what he provided for them and he told them to get back where they came from. STEPHEN YELLOW HAWK After his first two wives died, Stephen Yellow Hawk married Martha Whirlwind in 1883. Their children were Lucy Creek and Matthew Yellow Hawk (1886-1956). Martha died in 1892 and Stephen married Nancy Cook in 1895. Their five children were: Marion; Mildred (d. 1917); Joseph Yellow Hawk; David (d. 1898); and Jessie Yellow Hawk (d.1896). Matthew Yellow Hawk was married to Carrie Bear Eagle of upper Cheyenne River. Carrie died after one son was born, Bertran Isadore Yellow Hawk (1912-1966). Bert Yellowhawk was married to Anne Elk Head of Green Grass community. Out of that union three children were born: Goldie Ann (b. 1934); Gerald (b. 1936); and Carrie (b.1940). Goldie was married to Earl Beare, an ordained minister of the gospel. They pastored a church on the Rosebud until his death in 1974. They have two children: Richard (b. 1960), and Frances Ann. Carrie Elizabeth is married to Jim Willcuts, a Rosebud Sioux, now living in Los Angeles. They have three children: Michael, Kathy and Crystal. Gerald Yellowhawk entered the ministry early in life, surrending his life at age 18 to a full-time service in church work. He spent 4 years in a Bible College, training for the task that lay ahead. He spent 5 years in Pierre, as an assistant pastor. Gerald married Johanna Pierce, an Iroquois from Syracuse, new York. Together they have pastored in Pierre and Eagle Butte. They have traveled extensively in the interest of Christian work throughout the United States and Canada. In 1966, Gerald was ordained as an Elder of the Dakota Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Their children are James (b. 1958), Diane and Debra, twins born in 1962. Jim graduated from college in Indiana in 1981. C. W. YOUNG by Roger Young Charles W. Young was born January 27, 1874 at Mt. Morris, Illinois. As a young man, he attended Mt. Morris College, later in Indiana attending the Valparaiso School of Pharmacy, of which he graduated as a registered pharmacist. On October 6, 1901, he was united in marriage to Grace Dexter of Bryon, Illinois, who had attended music school at Oregon, Illinois, a teacher's college and had taught school for a number of years. The Young's then moved to Albert City, Iowa, where Mr. Young operated a drug store until the fall of 1910, when he came to Isabel to file a claim six miles west of Isabel. The neighbors pitched in and helped each other build their homestead shacks in January and February of 1911, as it was a very mild winter. It was said that the winter was so nice that many of the insects stayed alive all winter. In March of 1911, the family moved onto the claim and except for a few years that they lived in Isabel, this was their home until their death. Mr. Young passed away in 1947 and Mrs. Young in 1956. Mr. and Mrs. Young were members of the Congregational Church at Isabel. Mr. Young operated the Isabel Drug Store from about 1915 to 1919. He served as county commissioner in Ziebach County from approximately 1922 to 1934 and was on the board at the time of the building of the new courthouse in 1932. He also served for many years on the school board. The Young children are Harold W. Young, Warren Young and Roger L. Young of Isabel, South Dakota and Mrs. Irene Livingston of Jerome, Idaho. [photo - Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Young] [photo - Harold, Roger, Warren and Irene Young] ROGER YOUNG Roger was the youngest of four children born to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Young. He was the only one of the four to be born in South Dakota, and still lives on his father's homestead. He graduated from Isabel High School and spent some time working in the Pogany coal mine during the dry 30's. He spent 3 1/2 years in the South Pacific in World War II. In 1954, Roger married Jessie Dearborn and they had three children, Dale, Daniel and Wanda. Daniel died in an automobile accident at the age of 7. In 1972 they took foster children into their home. James and Michael Orman lived with them for 2 years. On their 25th wedding anniversary, they spent a month in Hawaii where Roger had spent a year while in the service. [photo - Roger, Jessie, Daniel, Wanda and Dale Young] [photo - Wanda, Jessie, Roger and Dale Young. James and Michael Orman] MR. and MRS. GEORGE J. YUSKO by Rose Griffith George Joseph Yusko was born in Neuhous, Bohemia, a small state in what is now Czechoslovakia, in December, 1863. He came to America when he was 17 years old. Anna Cecelia Drapp was born in Presov, Bohemia on April 24, 1873. She came to America with her parents at the age of five. Her father, being a miner, settled at Streator, Illinois, a small mining town downstate from Chicago. George worked in the sawmills in northern Illinois and Wisconsin. He moved to Streator to do blasting work in the coal mines. This is where he met Anna's father and was taken home to meet the family. George and Anna were married in 1897. They lived in Illinois until 1904 when they moved on a homestead in North Dakota. They had six children at the time: Mary, Anna, Sophie, Joseph, George and Margaret. Five more were born in North Dakota: Emma, Frances, Josephine and Ervin (twins who died in infancy) and John. Their two oldest daughters married in 1912. Mary married Maurice Tracy, a bachelor living near them. Anna married August Schad and moved to Minnesota. In 1915 the Tracy's filed on a homestead near Coal Springs, South Dakota. In 1916 Sophie, the third daughter, filed on a homestead near Lantry, South Dakota. George bought the Edwin Hodgdon homestead, the next quarter east of Sophie's, then took hers over too, as she decided she didn't want to live there. There was just a small shack on the Hodgdon place, so George subleased the Kuhn homestead from Bill Lemke for a couple years until he could get a house built or bought. They bought a house from Jill Frederickson, a school teacher that homesteaded a mile north and east of the Hodgdon homestead. They got the house moved and moved in, in the late fall of 1918. The winter of 1918 and 1919 proved to be a terrible one, in many ways. There was so much snow, and it was the year of the flu epidemic. The railroads were blocked, and fences were snowed under. It was on Christmas day that Anna and George received a telegram informing them that their daughter and husband, Mary and Maurice Tracy, had both died with the flu, near Coal Springs. Anna caught the train the next day and stayed overnight with her daughter, Sophie, who was employed at the Joyce Hotel in Faith at the time. The next day John Tracy, Maurice's brother, took them out by team and bobsled some 25 miles to the Maurice Tracy home. It was a trip full of anxiety, not knowing what was in store for them when they got there. They didn't know who was taking care of the children, Mercedes, 5, Rose, 3, Josephine, 2 and Thomas, 9 months. Neighbors by the name of Clark took Josephine, and Simmons' took Thomas in their homes to take care of until a relative got there to take over. A neighbor, Mr. Price, came each day to keep the fires going. Maurice's mother came out from Lemmon with the mailman. She arrived a day or so before Anna did, so took care of Mercedes and Rose. John Tracy took care of all the funeral arrangements. Sophie and Mrs. Joyce were the only ones able to attend the graveside rites. A Mr. Brisco took Anna, Sophie and the four children to Faith where they stayed in the Joyce Hotel. They had their meals at the (Dad) Burton Cafe. When they were able to travel, they came to Lantry by train where they were met by George and a neighbor, Marion Smith, with a team and bobsled. The courts appointed George and Anna guardians for the Tracy children, so they grew up near Lantry, South Dakota. Margaret, Emma, Frances, John and the Tracy children all attended the Soliday rural school until it was moved in 1924. Then John and the Tracy children attended Rosene School. Joseph joined the navy in 1920. After he returned from World War I, he lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He married Marie Johnson of that city. They lived in Minneapolis until the early thirties when they moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Here they lived until they died, Joseph in April of 1971 and Marie in October of 1976. They had no children. Gust and Anna Schad and their four boys: Donald, Lester, Floyd and Sylvester, moved out from Heron Lake, Minnesota in 1924. They leased the C. C. Burkhart homestead west of Yusko's. They had two more boys after they moved here, Jerome, who died in infancy, and Charles. They lived on the Burkhart place until Gust died in 1934. Anna later married John Knodel. They are both deceased. Then Donald bought the Vincent Adrignola place in 1935 and they moved there. Lester, Floyd and Sylvester all served in World War II, and Charles served in the Korean War. Margaret married Robert Massee from Chicago, Illinois in 1925. They worked at various jobs for a couple of years, then moved to Chicago where they lived until Margaret died in February, 1967 and Robert died in 1968. They had one girl, Ruby. In the spring of 1926, the house on the homestead burned. They built a new one that summer. That fall George had to have surgery at Pierre, and he never fully recovered. He died in 1927. George, Jr. came home that spring to help put in the crops. He stayed and farmed on his own after that. He married Annie Knodel in 1928. They had two children, Irene and Herman. George was killed in a mine in Walla Walla, Washington in 1940. Emma married Elmer Priebe of Lemmon in 1929. They lived through the depression in Lemmon, then moved to Eugene, Oregon, where Emma still resides. They had one daughter, Wanda Mae. Frances married Ed McGill in 1932. They lived south of Lantry. Thev had five children: Jacqueline, Geraldine, Lincoln, Hazel and Frances. Ed died in 1966 and Frances is in a nursing home in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Tracy children all graduated from high school. Mercedes from Lemmon in 1932, Rose, Josephine and Thomas from Dupree in 1934, 1936 and 1938, respectively. Rose married Alvin Griffith, a neighbor boy, in 1935. They live south of Dupree and have 10 children. Josephine married Alvin Denton in 1936. They live in Dupree and have five children. Mercedes married John Lemke in 1941. They have five children and live south of Lantry. Thomas served in the Air Force through World War II and the Korean conflict. He was promoted to Major before his death in 1962. He married Willa Shultz in California. They had two children, Greg and Cathy. Anna died in 1950. She lived with John until her demise. John still owns and operates the home place. He married Jessie Parker from Rapid City, South Dakota in 1962. She died in 1970. John is still living on the home place. [photo - Thomas T. Tracy, taken during World War II. He became a major in the Air Force] [photo - Anna Yusko, taken in 1948] [photo - Grandma Yusko feeding her bum lambs] OTTO ZIEGEL The Otto Ziegel family came to Ziebach County in 1911. He and his wife, the former Ida Schied, came from Merrill, Wisconsin and settled on the SE 1/4, Sec. 7, Twp. 13, Rge 18, in Ziebach County. Many hardships were suffered in those early days and no crops were raised the first year because of the drouth. Fortunately the Ziegel family brought milk cows from Wisconsin. The winters were severe and frequently blizzards lasted for three days. Mr. Ziegel was an active member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Faith until his death September 6, 1948. He was clerk of the school board in Cherry Creek District #2 from 1934 to 1944. Their children were: Mrs. Howard Capp, Mrs. Leona Hopper, and Mrs. M. Dobro. WARD and NETTIE ZIMMERMAN by Hazel Zimmerman Schwink Ward and Nettle Zimmerman were my parents. They homesteaded about 20 miles south of Dupree. From 1921 to 1929 my father farmed. Then, as drought conditions worsened, he farmed less and grazed sheep, shearing his own wool. During the early thirties he bartered his wool to a yarn factory in Maine, first for a knitting machine and then for yarn. Some very beautiful dyed yarns, and also some extremely coarse gray yarns from culled wool, that is the wool gleaned from barbed wire fences. I, my brothers, and my sister, (Donagene, James, Ward H., Robert and Hazel) wore home knit stockings, sweaters, mittens and gray crocheted woolen boots. In 1936 my father sold the sheep, moved to Dupree and went to work for the AAA, (later the Soil Conservation Service). He also leased a Standard Oil filling station which my brother, James, operated. James passed all of his high school tests and graduated; however, his daily attendance was almost zero. Some of my special memories include ice cream day where, in the summertime, on one day we would meet with our neighbors, bringing pies and cakes, to make and eat ice cream. Watermelon day was when three bachelors, Eck, Charles and Fred Campbell, planted watermelons in their cornfield. On watermelon day, all the neighbors were invited to the Campbell's for watermelon. There was a prairie fire, some time before 1934. We looked out the south window one summer day and there it was. It was south of us, a little to the west, headed north, approximately one mile wide. We lived about twenty miles south of Dupree, and this monster ran, as I remember, about halfway to town before my dad and our neighbors could stop it. The battle of stopping it lasted a while, perhaps a week, during which time the men devised or learned in desperation, the techniques of backfiring and plowing fire guards. One of the major events of my growing up in Dupree was the big fire (about 1939) which started at the north end of Main Street and burned all the buildings on the west side of the block. Our father, and the other volunteer firemen, were out most of the bitterly cold night trying to control the fire, and they were successful in keeping it from spreading across the street to the bank. During my third through sixth grade years in school, the new school was under construction and we attended school in the Legion Hall and Odd Fellows Hall. The first and second graders went to school in the courthouse. What a feeling of pride we had in our new school on the first day of seventh grade. Our teacher told us nobody would be allowed to use ink, because we didn't want to get ink soots on our beautiful new floors. ZULAUF FAMILY by Pauline Zulauf Quinn Jacob Zulauf from Germany and his wife from Romania, Katherine Zulauf, came to South Dakota by horse and wagon in 1917. They homesteaded on a farm ten miles west of Isabel. His mother lived in Eureka, and her parents remained in Romania. Jacob and Katherine Zulauf had the following children: Katherine, b. 1908 (deceased); Frederick, 1910 (deceased); Pauline (myself), 1914; Edwin, 1918 (deceased); Lillian, 1922; and Jacob Benjamin, 1924. Two sons, Eddy and Edward, died as babies. Katherine and her father died in 1924 from typhoid fever. Fred had one son, Dewayne. Pauline had two daughters, Marjorie Bush and Loretta Cagle. Edwin had two daughters, Mardel Doyle and Jeanine Ryan. Lillian had one son, Elmer Samsel. Ben had three sons, Jim, Marvin and Danny. School attendance was at Bloom and Glad Valley schools. School was about a 3 3/4 mile walk. Mrs. Bennet was Pauline's first grade teacher. We stayed with Dad's brother, Alex, when we came from Eureka and started building a sod house. When completed, except for roof, doors and windows, Dad wrote his mother to borrow $100 and bought a two-room house and moved it in instead of finishing the sod house. It was heated with two stoves, using mostly cow chips, corn cobs and sagebrush. A tornado came through in 1924 and damaged many homes. Ben was three days old. Mother wouldn't go to a cave, so all who were home stayed in the house. Our father and two small children were in Glad Valley at the doctor's office. The store and post office were blown away. Two years after my father, Jacob Zulauf, died, my mother married Christ Goltz. Four children were born: John, who died an infant, Lorraine, Roman and Betty. [photo - Jacob Benjamin and Katherine Zulauf and their two children, Frederick William and Kattie] [photo - Alexander and Anna Zulauf family, 1930’s] ALEXANDER ZULAUF by Anna Zulauf Alexander Zulauf was born in northern Russia on November 14, 1894. He came to the United States in 1911 with his mother, 3 sisters and two brothers. Alexander came to Ziebach County in about 1916 to homestead eight miles west of Isabel, South Dakota. I don't have the land description. It was about a quarter and half land to a homestead. On October 24, 19181 Alexander married Anna Bertsch from Eureka, South Dakota. We lived on the homestead and started to build first a small house and then a pole barn and, and we farmed and ranched. On August 5, 1920, a girl was born and she was named Elsie. Later a boy, Danny, was born and died in infancy. After that came Esther, Tillie and Hilda. This increase in family called for a larger house, so Alexander bought a two story house and moved it to the homestead. Alexander and I fixed it up and moved in it with the family. We thought we had a mansion and lots of room. We still kept up the first house as a summer kitchen house to do all my canning and heavy work. One night, during the summer months, we were doing some heavy work in the summer kitchen and we still had old beds and old furniture in it, so we decided to spend the night there. A rainstorm came up during the night and lightning struck our new house and it burned to the ground. Alexander and I woke up and saved a few things from the new house. We lost our roomy house. We continued to live in our summer kitchen for several years. Then later, we decided to look for more farm land, and in 1927 bought a farm nine miles south of Bison, South Dakota and farmed. We had more children: Martha, Frances, David and Clara. The 1930's were bad years. We lost Esther in 1932. There were no crops so we left the farm and built a basement house in the town of Bison. We lived there until 1942 when Alexander and Clara passed away. Then I and the rest of the children moved back to Isabel in September of 1942. I bought a house which I sold in later years and am now living here in the Isabel Manor. I am 85 years old, as I was born on February 22, 1896. I have six children still living. Carl passed away in 1972 and Frances in 1975. [photo - The children of Ronnie and Alta Hertel with an Indian travois] [photo - “Don’t tear that little building down”] [photo - This sod house is located north of Dupree on land owned by Adam Hoff. It was built by Henry Torman, a bachelor homesteader] [photo - Honeymooners Lloyd and Daina Dunbar, on their way to his claim south of Faith]