Lake Co. South Dakota
Photos of Lake County Ancestors
Additions or corrections to: Dolores Owen
WENTWORTH, SD
Allen Reitsma, John and Martha Dankert, and Martha's parents, Klaas and Marijke de Vries (all from Friesland, Netherlands) trying to make it by farming in the United States. Dankert's farm was 2 mi. straight east of Wentworth (according to the auction bill when they sold out).
Farm near Wentworth, SD, 1925-30 timeframe: LtoR front row: Maasdam child, Sadie Dankert, Henry Dankert. Back row: Maasdam child, Maasdam child, and Marie Dankert. Maasdam's were neighbors of John Dankert's.
Wentworth Area Farm, 1925-30 timeframe: John and Martha Dankert's farm home (old George Renner Place according to family history), standing left to right are: Marijke de Vries, John and Martha Dankert, Klaas de Vries, Allen Reitsma.
Wentworth area, Henry Maasdam, plowing with 8 horses hitched to a 3 bottom tractor plow. I have notes that says Maasdam's lived in a "round" house, an attraction for the area (the house could have been in Iowa, as well as South Dakota, they farmed in both states).
Copyrighted 2007 for Lake county South Dakota
This page was last updated on June 24, 2007
