Moody County Queries
2004
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Shannon (Heaven7494@aol.com) Sun Jan 4
19:12:48 2004
Hello. I was looking for a Herbert EASTMAN. I was told
that Eastman is a common name among those of the Flandreau Reservation, which
is in Moody County,
I think. He was in an orphanage around 1880, he was born in 1872. Thank you for any help.
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Aileen
Collom (freidamac@msn.com) Thu Feb 12 10:08:27 2004
HOLBROOK, I am looking for information on William or Bill HOLBROOK who was
supposed to have liven in Flandeau in the mid to late
1800's. I hope someone can give me some info. Thanks
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Gerald B.
Hingtgen Sr. (gbajkhb@netins.net) Tue Feb 17 09:38:41 2004
Looking for decencents of Frank and Nick HUSS.
Who moved from Jackson Co. Iowa to Dell Rapids around 1905 to 1910.
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Becky (Pederson) O'Donnell
(beckyjaneod@msn.com) Sat Feb 21 17:17:09
2004
I am looking for any information regarding my PEDERSON family roots. The only
information that I have found is about my grandfather's (Ervin) sister, Dagmar (PEDERSON) LUNT. My great grandfather, Anders
PEDERSON was born Abt. 1858 in Denmark.
He married Anna OLSON. He died between 1927 and 1929 in Volga,
SD. I have original documents regarding his
will and the farm that he owned. My grandfather was Ervin Harold PEDERSON, b. August 11, 1902, Fremont,
South Dakota; d. April 04, 1976, Vancouver,
Clark County, Washington.
He married Margaret Lucille LARIMER August
09, 1924 in Moody Co., South Dakota.
They had two sons, Roger and Kenneth, both born in Lake
Campbell, SD. Both are
deceased. Other children of Anders and Anna PEDERSON are:
Albert Theo PEDERSON Elwyn Everette
PEDERSON, m. DELIGHT Elma Alice PEDERSON, m. NIELSON Dagmar
Marie Karoline PEDERSON, b. September 27, 1896, Lake Cambell, SD;
d. April 03, 1980, Dell
Rapids, SD. She married Hugh LUNT July 1915 in Flandreau,
SD. Any information would be extremely
helpful. I have several photos from the 1920's of this family
and would be willing to share them and information.
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Charles Ihlenfeldt
(chuckndee@ia.net) Wed Mar 3 12:28:15
2004
I'm told that my grandmother, Jessie MOODY, with her
family, traveled to S.Dakota from Iowa
to homestead. Wondering how the county got it's name
and whether there is any connection.
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Joanne Johnson
(jodon@mcisweb.com) Sat Mar 13 17:34:25
2004
Would like any info on JOHN OTTO who liked in
Flandreau. He is buried in the Flandreau cemetary. He was married twice. Second
wife MAGGIE MATILDA ORENDORFF OTTO. He had a son also JOHN OTTO of I
believe Ward, SD
from the first marriage. Kids Edward, Evelyn, Jean, Maggie,
Walter and Helen from second. Any info on either family would be appreciated. Thank you.
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Floyd Red Crow Westerman (carla
morgenstern) Fri Mar 19 18:45:46 2004
how can I get a copy of the birth certificate for my father, born on the
Flandreau Indian reservation? I was born on the Sisseton-Wapeton
reservation. His name was
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Charles Harnett
(cbharnett@yahoo.com) Tue Mar 23 16:18:37
2004
I'm trying to fill in some blank pages for my great
uncle, who had a business in Sioux City
in 1867-1875 before joining the gold rush to the Black Hills
in 1876. I'm told that he spent considerable time in Moody
County, where he enjoyed hunting
and may have owned land. He appeared in early history of nearby counties, so if
you have histories for the period 1857-1878, we might find him there. I
understand that not too many records exist for those early days, but anything
you can find will be much appreciated. His name was
Daniel HARNETT, born in Ohio
around 1835, died in Deadwood 1878. His wife's name was Emma. Many thanks for
your time and help.
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Fran Eichler
(fran-eichler@mchsi.com) Sun Apr 18 10:45:08 2004
DEWEY & WILMA (ALGER) BAINBRIDGE lived in Flandreau, Moody Co, SD, in 1972.
They were originally from the Kingsley, IA area. Am interested in finding
obituaries although I don't know when they passed
away. Fran in Iowa
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Tom Munday
(tmunday@san.rr.com) Wed Apr 21 20:40:23
2004
I have been told my great-Grandmother Mary L BALLARD
died in Landreau between 1900 and 1912 and was burried there. I would like to know the name of cemetery
and the date of her death/burial. Her sister Charlotte APPLEBY was supposed to buried next to her grave in 1912. Thank you for any info or
guidance.
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Ellen Jennings
(e.jennings@comcast.net) Tue May 11 20:55:35
2004
Would like information about the William DAILEY family
and any others (servants, etc.) who might be in the household in 1905 census.
Am also looking for Thora STRAND who I think was
living in Moody County
in 1905. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hopefully,
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Beth Ann
Jorgensen- deAcosta (SoloXXAB@yahoo.com) Thu May
20 20:18:22 2004
Looking regarding family Jorgensen/Jorgenson who had farm in Trent. My
father Edelbert Jorgensen, my mother Florence
Jorgensen moved to California but
my aunts and grandparents remained in Moody and Minnehaha
County. Lost contact as I moved to Mexico
- Looking for: BETTY MARSHALL JORGENSON, married to
ARNOLD MAC JORGENSON - believe she may have recently passed away - family buriel plots are in Dell Rapids - BETTY MARSHALL JORGENSON.
I believe she was born in 1902.....please advise if
possible date she passed away....THANKS
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Deb
(deb@soundceilings.com) Wed Jun 30 22:04:06 2004
ROGNESS; ENGEBRETSON; Looking for information on a KNUTE ROGNESS (b1848 in
Norway) that arrived in Moody County from Decorah Iowa in the early 1870's and
he stayed in Moody County until about 1882. Knute Rogness married CARRIE (Kari) ENGEBRETSON in Souix Falls
in 1882, when they moved to the Luverne MN area. Both
Knute and Carrie (b 1856) were born in Norway,
with Knute originating from the North Aundahl area of Norway.
Knute also had a brother NELS N ROGNESS that settled
in the Luverne area and a sister that lived in Norway.
Any further information would be appreciated. Thank
you :)
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Patti Hitchcock
(phitchcock@sbc.net) Fri Aug 20 21:17:06
2004
My great great grandparents
were from Flandreau I believe. The name was Karl Gulbransen
or Gulbrandsen. Does anyone have any information on
this family? Thanks much,
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sue (sueraynes@hotmail.com)
Wed Aug 25 10:55:39
2004
I am looking for John Mickel/Mickle. I have a
marriage license for him given on the 7th Oct 1893. He claims to be from Egan,
Moody Co, South Dakota. He claims
to be 40 but we know he is older. He married a Dora Stevens on the 8th Oct 1893,
in Mercer Co. Ill. He could not have lived here very long. He was born in Ohio
in March 1845. He served in the civil war (82nd Infantry). He married in Iowa
about 1868 to a Lizzie Robb. Moved together to Nebraska
and divorced in 1880. What happened for the next 13 years.
We believe he joined the railroad, but we don't know
when. We think he may have married again. Possibly a Sarah Fivecoat
but we have no reason for thinking this. His name was Mickle
but becoming the black sheep of the family he changed
it to Mickel. Be interested in suggestions. He died
in Oregon. Thankyou
Sue
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Gary Gillette
(Gkmgillette@aol.com) Thu Aug 26 19:39:38 2004
Looking for information concerning my Great Uncle Orrie
Gillette, who lived in Flandreau, Moody, County, SD around 1900. My
Grandfather, John Joseph Gillette was born (1901) there and am
assuming Orrie was also born there. Any help would be appreciated
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Patsy Hittle Gore
(crosswind@matnet.com) Sun Aug 29 12:16:16
2004
LEINBACH roots .... In Answer to your query posted on Moody
County, SD website 2001. Enjoy
my Leinbach Diggins, Patsy
in Alaska
Henry A. LEINBACH b: 1832 Delaware Twp, Northumberland Co, PA d: Abt Dec
1906 Moody Co, SD s/o Daniel LEINBACH (1810-1846) & Lydia Stitzel (1809-1846) m: abt 1855 St. Joseph Co, MI Euphemia SMITH (1838-1918). His parents died of thyoid fever. 5 Children/4 survived: Frank C. LEINBACH (1858-1915); Samuel
LEINBACH (1859); other 3 unknown *unable to find them on the 1870 census. It's a mystery.
Source: O.C. Records: Vol.9; page 273; rec:5 Apr 1847;
over 14 app't Guardian Benneville
LEINBACH; Deed:GG:311; Northumberland Co, PA; Rec: 7/10/1849.
BIRTH: Henry A. LEINBACH b: 1833.
MARRIED: 1855 St Joseph Co, MI Euphrema
SMITH (1836-aft1907).
DEATH: abt Jan 1907 Egan, Moody Co, SD.
BURIAL: Hillside Cemetery, Egan, Moody Co, SD Block 6 Lot 23 grave 4.
Leinbach Henry A. 1832-1906 Euphemia
1838-1918. *rst5/2002.
Civil War Pension Files: Henry A. LEINBACH Lt. A Chandlers Horse GD Michigan
Cav. Ut & SD 25 Jan 1892 #1087089
UT, Widow: Euphrena LEINBACH 26 Jan 1907, #862235 SD.
CHILDREN: Frank C. (1858-1915); Samuel (1859), m/m Kitty Heimbach?
[1]. Orphan Court Records Northumberland Co, PA; Henry LEINBACH s/o Daniel
LEINBACH ... Vol.9; page 273; rec:5 Apr 1847; over 14 app't Guardian Benneville
LEINBACH; Deed:GG:311; Rec: 7/10/1849; Northumberland Co, PA.
[2]. MARRIAGES: C-79 St.
Joseph Co, MI.
[4]. TOMBSTONE, Hillside Cemetery, Egan, Moody Co, SD Block 6
Lot 23 grave 4; *Reading **rst5/2002.
[5]. History of his brother Samuel E. LEINBACH, published
1911; KS. ---
[6]. Civil War Pension Files: Henry A. LEINBACH Lt. A
Chandlers Horse GD Michigan Cav. Ut
& SD 25 Jan 1892 #1087089 UT, Widow: Euphrena
LEINBACH 26 Jan 1907 #862235 SD.History of Moody
County, published 1986.
[7.] Henry A. Leinbach, Joiner ... St Joesph Co, Mich.
[8]. History of Moody County,
published 1986.
[9.] BLM land records in South Dakota
=== Egan, Moody Co, SD 160 ac. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Default.asp?
[10]. THE ONAGA JOURNAL 25 DEC 1884, Pottawattomie
County, Kansas.
[11.] Census records
1860 C: Henry LINBACH 29 <1830> PA (carpenter); (wf)
Euphemia 25 PA; Frank 2 M; Samuel 1/12 MI. p. L8
#446, White Pigeon, St. Joseph Co, Michigan. [Image #42].
1870 C: can't find yet??? Iowa
South Dakota????
1880 C: Henry LEINBACH 46 PA PA PA
(farmer); (wf) Euphenia 43
PA PA PA; p.15 L2 #305
Moody Co, SD. Twp 106 Range 50. [Image #29].
1900 C: Henry LEINBACH age 68 b: Apr 1832 PA PA PA (blank) m: 45yrs; (wf) Euphena age 53 b: Jul 1836 PA
PA PA m: 45 yrs 5c/4L;
p.17b L75 #41, Egan, Moody Co, SD. [ED270]. [Image #4].
*Neighbor is son Frank.
1880 C: Frank LEINBACH 22 MI PA PA
(farmer); (wf) Carrie 18 MA ME MA; p.16 L27 #349
Moody Co, SD. Twp 106 Range 50. [Image #31].
1881 SD MI IL <s> (compositor); (son) Orrin 11
b: Mar 1889 SD MI IL p.17b L75 #41 Egan, Moody Co, SD [Image #4]. *neighbor are his parents.
1900 C: Frank LEINBACH age 42 b: May 1858 MI PA PA (farm hand) m: 0 yrs; (wf)
Ella 25 b: Apr 1875 IL CT CAN, m:0yrs 0c/0L; (son) Roy 19 b: May 1910 C: Fran
C. LEINBACH age 52 <1857> MI PA PA (none) m2:
10 yrs; (wf) Ella C. age 34 m1: 10 yrs 0c/0L;
(Mother), Euphemia age 73 PA PA
PA (wd) 5c/4L; p.166 L1 #105, Egan, Moody Co, SD.
[ED351 S6]. [Image #11]. *mention in the end of
census owns farm. *index Lembach 2-WD EGAN.
THE ONAGA JOURNAL 25 DEC 1884, Pottawattomie
County, Kansas.
Henry Leinbach of Sioux Falls,
Dakota and brother to S. E. and T. D. Leinbach, of
this vicinity, is visiting here at present. He called Tuesday, with his
brother-in-law, Mr. Everett, of St. Clere. Mr. Leinbach came from a cold country, but don't
see that travelling south made much difference in
climate. *mp2002.
Frank C. LEINBACH (1858-1915) m: abt 1879 Carrie WILLIAMS (1863-1892);
MARRIED: Carrie WILLIAMS (1863-1892) m2: 1900 Ella ___? Carrie
maybe/might d/o Gilman & Mary A. WILLIAMS
BURIAL: Hillside Cemetery, Moody, Egan Co, SD. [4].
Frank C. Leinbach May 17, 1858 Apr.
19, 1915
[4]. TOMBSTONE, Hillside Cemetery, Egan, Moody Co, SD Block 7 Lot 30
grave __; reading by *rst5/2002.
[5]. Hillside Cemetery, Egan, Moody Co, SD Look-up ... Frank Leinbach is owner of Block 7 Lot 30. There the gravesites
occupied are number 3 and 4. Graves 1, 2 and 5 are
empty. *rs3/2002.
[6]. TOMBSTONE Hillside Cemetery, Egan, Moody Co, SD Look-up.
*rs3/2002.
"Frank C. LEINBACH May 17,
1858 Apr. 19, 1915
This was a pillow type of stone. The light was not
good enough (a cloudy day) but think the C. is correct. It may have been G. but
I will check again sometime in the future to make sure. I wished I had more sunshine
to really see it clearly. On the larger stone to the
north of his was a marker that had lots of lichens on
it. Her name was nearly impossible to read. In fact
the only thing I was able to read on her name was the last letter E. It was
written on a semi-circle curve and below it was wife of Frank LEINBACH died
Dec. 23, 1892 Aged 29 yrs & 25 dys".
Look-up: *rst5/2002..
[7]. According to the History of Moody County, SD, (Solomon
Williams Family; published in 1986, Frank's family moved to the West Coast)
*rs5/2002.
[8]. SOUTH DAKOTA BIRTHS: Orrin W
LEINBACH 1889 & Roy F. LEINBACH 1881 ---.
CHILDREN: SOUTH DAKOTA BIRTHS:
Orrin W LEINBACH 1889 & Roy F. LEINBACH 1881:
[1.] LEINBACH, ORRIN WILBUR M 03/19/1889 MOODY
[2.] LEINBACH,ROY F 05/11/1881 MOODY
Source: Birth Records SOUTH DAKOTA. http://www.state.sd.us/applications/PH14Over100BirthRec/index.asp.
This article in Kansas about Samuel E. LEINBACH brother of Henry A. LEINBACH
gave me lots of clues.
From A Standard History of Kansas and
Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley,
Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka.
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company,
copyright 1918
S. E. LEINBACH. Fifty years have passed since Mr Leinbach became a resident of Kansas.
He arrived in Pottawatomie County as a pioneer not long after the close of the
Civil war, in which he had played a gallant part as a Union soldier. The war
was the first great event in his life and his settlement in Kansas
the second. Mr. Leinbach developed a homestead and
has since acquired a large body of the fertile and valuable soil of Pottawatomie
County. He is now living at Onaga and has been a public spirited
factor in the progress of that community since the pioneer epoch.
Mr. Leinbach's ancestors came
out of Germany
and settled in Pennsylvania as
early as 1716. Since early times the family lived in Northumberland
County, Pennsylvania, where S.
E. Leinbach was born April 7, 1841, and where his father, Daniel Leinbach, was born in April, 1809.
Daniel Leinbach married Lydia Stitzel,
also of German ancestry. She was born in Northumberland
County in 1811. Both of them died
in the same year, 1846, victims of typhoid fever. Daniel Leinbach
was a miller by trade and occupation, and owned a flour mill
at McEwensville, Pennsylvania.
He was a democrat and he and his wife were members of the German Reformed
Church. S. E. Leinbach was the fifth in a family of
five children, and he and all his brothers were Union soldiers. The oldest,
Henry, enlisted and served in a Pennsylvania
regiment, from there moved out to Iowa,
and finally to South Dakota, and
after many years as a farmer he died in the latter state at the age of
sixty-five. Sarah, the second child, and the older daughter, married Mr. Smith
and died in Kansas City, Missouri,
in 1907. William was a veteran of the Civil war and afterwards a hotel
proprietor and died in Chicago, Illinois,
in 1911. Theodore was in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry, lost his right arm in
service, but afterwards became a successful farmer and owned a large place ten
miles southeast of Onaga,
Kansas. He died at Onaga
in March, 1917. Mary, the younger child, lives at Linden,
Kansas, the widow of James Everett, who
died on his farm ten miles southeast of Onaga in
1914.
S. E. Leinbach was five years
of age when his parents died. After that he lived with
his father's sister Mrs. Mary Carver and grew up at McEwensville,
where he was educated in the public schools. At the age of twenty, in 1861, he
enlisted in the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry as a private. He saw four years of
service, not being mustered out until September 22, 1865, some weeks after
the close of actual hostilities. His regiment was attached
during most of the war to the Army of the Cumberland.
Only a few of the battles and skirmishes in which he participated can be named. He was at Perryville,
Kentucky, in 1862, at the close of that
year fought at Stone River
or Murfreesboro, in the next year
was at Chickamauga, and then did
his part in the great Atlanta
campaign. After the fall of Atlanta
he returned with General Thomas' army and was in the battles of Franklin
and Nashville in the closing days
of 1864.
After spending a year or so in
Pennsylvania Mr. Leinbach came to Kansas
in the spring of 1867. He was still unmarried and bought 160 acres in the
vicinity where the city of Onaga
was founded ten years later. He also homesteaded
eighty acres adjoining the quarter section purchased. This land is in Vienna
Township of Pottawatomie County
two miles south of Onaga. He still owns his homestead
and besides has 160 acres a mile west and another 160 acres a half mile north
of the last mentioned tract. All of this is the result of his enterprise as a Kansas
farmer and he is also a stockholder and director in
the Citizens State Bank of Onaga.
Mr. Leinbach is a past
commander of Onaga Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic and a past master of Onaga Lodge No. 188,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Politically he has always voted as a
republican, having cast his first ballot for Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
Five years after coming to Kansas
and in Vienna Township of Pottawatomie County in 1872 Mr Leinbach married Miss Lucy M.
Fulton, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Day) Fulton. Her father was one of the
pioneer school teachers of Kansas,
in which state he located in 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Leinbach
have four children. Chester A. is a graduate of the University
of Kansas and is now successfully
farming his father's place a mile south of Onaga.
Mary graduated at the State Normal at Emporia
and for six years taught school, until she married Leon O'Meara. They now live
on their farm a mile and a half south of Onaga. Florence, the second daughter, is a graduate of the State Normal
School of Emporia and taught in the schools of Clay Center, where she now
resides, the wife of Doctor Osterhoudt, a dentist,
Roscoe C. is a graduate of the Emporia Normal School and of the Kansas Medical
College and is now successfully practicing as a physician and surgeon at
Berryton, Kansas. Doctor Leinbach is
unmarried.
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Tracy
Bullis (trbullis@sbcglobal.net) Tue Sep 28 21:36:24 2004
I am looking for the children of Charles and Elizabeth GREEN. They moved to Moody
County about 1880 from Wisconsin.
In 1900, they lived in Grovena. They lived with his
brother, Arthur GREEN. The children were: Roy GREEN
(b. 1869 Avon, WI),
Lola GREEN (b. 1875 MN), Allie GREEN (b. 1877 MN), Carrie GREEN (b. 1880? Moody COunty).
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Berniece
(ayork_london@hotmail.com) Mon Oct 11 13:11:24
2004
Any info on UNDERWOOD's of Egan,Moody County.
My great grandfather was Horace and he was married to Mary J. HOPKINS. Mary's
father was Ezra HOPKINS. Horace's daughter, my grandmother, married name was
Lillie Underwood MEIER. She was married to William MEIER. The entire family
lived in Moody County,
Egan in particular since the end of the late 1800's. Most are
buried in the Hillside Cemetery
in Egan. Needing any info available to fill in many blank
areas. Thanks.
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Berniece (ayork_london@hotmail.com)
Sun Oct 17 20:35:31
2004
I am trying to find any info on my grandparents buried in a cemetery in Colman,So.Dak in Moody
County. Their names are/were
Raymond OLSON(1900- 1960) and his wife Bernice,
(1904-1967). They lived in Colman until their deaths. Bernice's maiden name was
AAKER/AKER and she had a brother named Kurt of which I know nothing. Raymond
had one sister that I know of by the name Beatrice. Any information that anyone
has would be greatly appreciated.
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Brooklin Westerman
(laweste@msn.com) Thu Oct 28 20:00:24
2004
I am trying to find a birth certificate,or
any records on my grandfather LeRoy Westerman who was a member of the Flandreau Santee Sioux
Tribe in Moody County.
I am also a member of the tribe .I am having problems locating hes birth certificate because i
am not to sure if he even has one. Please help me Thank You
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Gene Mattocks
(mattocks@pacbell.net) Wed Dec 15 17:10:47
2004
I am attempting to locate a distant cousin of mine, Linda HALVERSON -- daughter
of Gerald Henry HALVERSON and granddaughter of Henry "Hank" HALVERSON
of Trent. "Hank" HALVERSON owned land about 2
miles east of Trent until his death
in June 1972. Since that time, it is believed the land has
been held in trust by the First Premier Bank of Sioux Falls. Perhaps a neighbor of
the HALVERSON property or the lessee knows where Linda HALVERSON lives at
present. Gene Mattocks, 1044 East Landing Way,
Sacramento, California 95831
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