Selected Families and Individuals
Source Citations
Clifford Ivan NUTTING
1Darlene Linsmeyer Email, 17 Mar 2005.
2Obituary.
3Obituary. "CLIFFORD IVAN "CLIFF" NUTTING
Birth: Dec. 22, 1919 Park Falls Price County Wisconsin, USA
Death: Oct. 6, 2001 Wisconsin, USA [Edit Dates]
Cliff was the son of Clifford and Lottie Nutting. He worked as a plumber for Lehmann Plumbing and Gene Wagner Plumbing. After retiring from Gene Wagner Plumbing, he worked part-time as a maintenance man for Personal Budge service until February 2000. Cliff proudly served in World War II in the 95th Division and was a lifetime member of the Waukesha Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was also a member of the Plumbers Local No. 75 for 35 years. Cliff will be sadly missed by his children, Susan (Paul) Andrews of Big Bend and Cynthia (Michael) Mueller of Lannon; his special granddaughter, Stacie (Paul) Menning of Black River Falls and his special great-granddaughter, Sophia Rose Lynn Menning. He will also be missed by his sister, Emma Holt of Park Falls; his sister-in-law, Mildred Morgan of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jacqueline, in November 1997; his sister, Erma Schaper; his brothers, Robert and Reuben; and his infant granddaughter, Connie Louise Braudt."
Jacqueline MORGAN
1Darlene and Joan Holt visit 26 Aug 2005.
2Obituary, of Clifford Ivan Nutting.
Brice NEALEY
1Darlene Linsmeyer Email, 18 Mar 2005.
2Darlene and Joan Holt visit 26 Aug 2005.
3Darlene Linsmeyer Email, Email 25 Feb 2010 .
Darlene HOLT
1Darlene Linsmeyer Email, 17 Mar 2005.
2Darlene Linsmeyer Email, 22 Mar 2005.
James SHERARD
1census, Federal - 1880 - Turner Co., Dakota Territory, District 27, Ancestry p. 10 of 36, 7 Jun 1880.
2Census, Federal - 1900 - Turner Co., S. Dakota, Twsp 97, Ancestry p. 6 of 13.
3Census, Federal - 1910 - Turner Co., South Dakota, Hurley Ward 2, ED 415, Sheet 9B; Ancestry p. 2 of 4 . "Line 95 Dwelling # 65 Family # 65
Sherard, James Sr. Head age 67 Married (1st) for 37yrs b. Ireland f.b. Ire m.b. Ire immigrated 1864 Occ: own income Own home free
Sherard, Martha J. Wife 67 M (2nd) 37yrs b. IL Ire Ire
children born/living 13/9
Sherard, Bell M. Dau 27 S b. S. D. Ire IL Occ: seamstress."
4Jessie R. Sanborn, Sherard Family, from a book, "The Centennial of Hurley South Dakota" p. 532. "Sherard Family by Jessie B. Sanborn
James Sherard Sr. was born in the year 1842, in the county of Tyrone in that old congested country of Ireland. He passed away November 11, 1919, at the age of 77 years, 6 months, 5 days, in the home of his daughter Mrs. F. A. Cue, Hurley, South Dakota.
He heard of America and since he longed for more freedom, he left his native home and arrived in the new land at the age of 22. Six years later in Galena, Illinois he married Martha Jane White, a young Civil War widow, with two little boys; and became a father to these two boys, raising them to manhood - namely Samuel and Robert White.
Then he wished for a home of his own, but, alas, no money to buy. He heard of Dakota Territory and a county called Turner with Swan Lake as the county seat. After he investigated and found the county seat with its half dozen settlers his mind grasped the possibilities.
On the 17th of May, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. James Sherard and sons, Samuel and Robert White, also James and William Black, came to this new land. They drove through from Galena, Illinois by team and had some unpleasant experiences. At one place Mr. Sherard got stuck in a swollen creek and had to get out in water waist deep, unhitch his team and hitch a chain to the end of the wagon tongue to draw the wagon out. At one farm ranch they were charged seventy-five cents for a single feed of hay for each team "Evidently there were monopolists then as well as at the present time." (Quote from Joseph Andrew-Early Days in Spring Valley).
They were three weeks on the road. The claims near Swan Lake had been filed on. He pushed on a few miles west, stuck his stakes, built a new prairie home which was a sod cabin and a warm cave in which they spent the winter. On the 22nd of May, 1872, his little family moved out of the covered wagon. According to W. W. Stoddard Turner County Pioneer History this gave Mrs. Sherard the distinction of being the first woman to make actual settlement in Spring Valley Township, although there were others that settled there that same summer.
Mr. Sherard filed a premption on the NE 1/4 of Section 10. He at once started his team to breaking and facing the real struggle to gain a home for himself and family and if possible, a little extra. Consequently he was up early in the morning to get the oxen moving to turn the prairie sod, or make a trip to Yankton (30 miles away) for supplies. He bucked the awful prairie fires, braved the terrible blizzards, kept a stiff upper-lip when the hail and grasshoppers descended, and looked steadily forward in faith for better days.
They had been in their new home only three months and six days when twin children were born- James Jr. and Jennie. As these were the first births in the nameless township Mrs. Sherard was given the honor of naming it, and as there were several large springs near, she named it Spring Valley.
That fall or winter, James Sherard proved up on his preemption and filed a homestead on the four south forties in Section 15, where he later moved and made his home for many years. He also filed on the southeast quarter of Section 23 as a timber claim and proved up on the same. He filed a soldiers' orphans homestead for his step-sons and proved upon the same in their name. Later on, on May 24, 1881, he received the Final Receivers Receipt of Homestead Certificate No. 1411 for S1/2 SW1/4 and S1/2 SE 1/4 of 15-97-54 160 acres, Spring Valley Township.
As we read of these experiences does it sound romantic or imaginary? "Let me quote from W. H. Stoddard Turner County Pioneer History: "Let me assure you, there was nothing imaginary in digging a living out of a raw prairie or raising a family in a one-room sod cabin with neighbors few and far between, and the quickest way to call him was to go on foot or borrow an Indian Pony of some six or eight miles away possibly. It was a great game. A few won out. Many families went back east to live with the old folks. Some lost through calamity and running deeply in debt."
In 1875, when a country post office was established in the township, Mr. Sherard was named Postmaster. His name was among early school officers and specifically I note he was elected Treasurer of Spring Valley School on June 26, 1883.
Even though Mr. and Mrs. Sherard had a large family of nine of their own, their big hearts reached out and took two little girls (children of a distant relative out of the poorhouse in an Illinois county and brought them to their Dakota home and raised them to womanhood namely: Mrs. George Muilenberg and Mrs. Joe Verley.
Once again I quote from W. H. Stoddard Turner County Pioneer History: "I do not know as Mr. Sherard ever became a member of any church, but this I do know, that he contributed to the building and maintaining of the early day M. E. Church that was built at Swan Lake and later moved to Spring Valley Township. I have positive proof that at one time he had saved five dollars to buy himself some warm winter underclothing, when a call was made for the help of the church, and upon his wife's declaration that she could mend up his old underwear, he said here goes the five dollars for the church. Of late years he was a yearly contributer to the support of the M. E. Church in Hurley."
Mr. and Mrs. Sherard raised the following children: James, Jennie (Mrs. Joseph Layne), William, Albert, Belle, Charles, Lizzie (Mrs. Festus Cue), and Samuel and Robert White.
James, William, and Charles all married and farmed in Turner County. They all had sons interested in the fertile land. They and their sons continued to work the land. Currently the only Sherards farming in Turner County are Duarne and Darrell Sherard, sons of Clyde Sherard, grandsons of James A. Sherard and great-grandsons of James Sherard from Tyrone County, Ireland." This articles sent to me on 12 Feb 2007 by S. Sherard.
5Census, Federal - 1900 - Turner Co., S. Dakota, Twsp 97, Ancestry p. 6 of 13.
6Ancestry.com, South Dakota Deaths 1905 - 1955.
7Census, Federal - 1900 - Turner Co., S. Dakota, Twsp 97, Ancestry p. 6 of 13, 8 Jun 1900.
8S. Johnston, Email 11 Feb 2007.
Martha Jane WHITE
1Census, Federal - 1850 - Jo Daviess Co., Illinois, Irish Hollow Precinct. "Line 10 Dwelling # 1727 Family # 1781
Andrew White age 50 male Farmer value real est. - $1000 born Ireland
Matilda " 43 f "
William L. " 11 m Ills
Samuel D. " 9 m "
Martha J. " 8 f "
Mary " 6 f "
Ann E. " 4 f "
John Fitzpatrick 94 m " Ireland."
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Jo Daviess Co., Ill., Elizabeth Twsp. "Line 26 Dwelling # 4388 Family # 4553
Andrew White 60 Male Farmer Value real est - 1000 pers est - 790 born Ireland
Matilda 57 f "
William L. 20 m farmhand Ills
Samuel D. 19 m " "
Martha J. 18 f domestic "
Mathew 16 m farm Hand " Attends school
Ann E. 14 f "."
3Census, Federal - 1870 - Jo Daviess Co, Ill, Elizabeth twsp, Ancestry pgs 19 & 20. "Line 38 Dwelling # 147 Family # 147
White, Samuel age 29 M Farmer value real est. $4000 value personal est. $1200 born Illinois
Josephine 21 F Keeps House "
Emily 3 F "
Catherine 7/12 F born in Oct "
Martha 27 F "
Samuel 7 M "
Robert 3 M "
Henry 4/12 M "
Shellborne, Frank 14 M Farm hand "."
4census, Federal - 1880 - Turner Co., Dakota Territory, District 27, Ancestry p. 10 of 36, 7 Jun 1880.
5Census, Federal - 1900 - Turner Co., S. Dakota, Twsp 97, Ancestry p. 6 of 13, 8 Jun 1900.
6Census, Federal - 1910 - Turner Co., South Dakota, Hurley Ward 2, ED 415, Sheet 9B; Ancestry p. 2 of 4 , 19 Apr 1910. "Line 95 Dwelling # 65 Family # 65
Sherard, James Sr. Head age 67 Married (1st) for 37yrs b. Ireland f.b. Ire m.b. Ire immigrated 1864 Occ: own income Own home free
Sherard, Martha J. Wife 67 M (2nd) 37yrs b. IL Ire Ire
children born/living 13/9
Sherard, Bell M. Dau 27 S b. S. D. Ire IL Occ: seamstress."
7Jessie R. Sanborn, Sherard Family, from a book, "The Centennial of Hurley South Dakota" p. 532. "Sherard Family by Jessie B. Sanborn
James Sherard Sr. was born in the year 1842, in the county of Tyrone in that old congested country of Ireland. He passed away November 11, 1919, at the age of 77 years, 6 months, 5 days, in the home of his daughter Mrs. F. A. Cue, Hurley, South Dakota.
He heard of America and since he longed for more freedom, he left his native home and arrived in the new land at the age of 22. Six years later in Galena, Illinois he married Martha Jane White, a young Civil War widow, with two little boys; and became a father to these two boys, raising them to manhood - namely Samuel and Robert White.
Then he wished for a home of his own, but, alas, no money to buy. He heard of Dakota Territory and a county called Turner with Swan Lake as the county seat. After he investigated and found the county seat with its half dozen settlers his mind grasped the possibilities.
On the 17th of May, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. James Sherard and sons, Samuel and Robert White, also James and William Black, came to this new land. They drove through from Galena, Illinois by team and had some unpleasant experiences. At one place Mr. Sherard got stuck in a swollen creek and had to get out in water waist deep, unhitch his team and hitch a chain to the end of the wagon tongue to draw the wagon out. At one farm ranch they were charged seventy-five cents for a single feed of hay for each team "Evidently there were monopolists then as well as at the present time." (Quote from Joseph Andrew-Early Days in Spring Valley).
They were three weeks on the road. The claims near Swan Lake had been filed on. He pushed on a few miles west, stuck his stakes, built a new prairie home which was a sod cabin and a warm cave in which they spent the winter. On the 22nd of May, 1872, his little family moved out of the covered wagon. According to W. W. Stoddard Turner County Pioneer History this gave Mrs. Sherard the distinction of being the first woman to make actual settlement in Spring Valley Township, although there were others that settled there that same summer.
Mr. Sherard filed a premption on the NE 1/4 of Section 10. He at once started his team to breaking and facing the real struggle to gain a home for himself and family and if possible, a little extra. Consequently he was up early in the morning to get the oxen moving to turn the prairie sod, or make a trip to Yankton (30 miles away) for supplies. He bucked the awful prairie fires, braved the terrible blizzards, kept a stiff upper-lip when the hail and grasshoppers descended, and looked steadily forward in faith for better days.
They had been in their new home only three months and six days when twin children were born- James Jr. and Jennie. As these were the first births in the nameless township Mrs. Sherard was given the honor of naming it, and as there were several large springs near, she named it Spring Valley.
That fall or winter, James Sherard proved up on his preemption and filed a homestead on the four south forties in Section 15, where he later moved and made his home for many years. He also filed on the southeast quarter of Section 23 as a timber claim and proved up on the same. He filed a soldiers' orphans homestead for his step-sons and proved upon the same in their name. Later on, on May 24, 1881, he received the Final Receivers Receipt of Homestead Certificate No. 1411 for S1/2 SW1/4 and S1/2 SE 1/4 of 15-97-54 160 acres, Spring Valley Township.
As we read of these experiences does it sound romantic or imaginary? "Let me quote from W. H. Stoddard Turner County Pioneer History: "Let me assure you, there was nothing imaginary in digging a living out of a raw prairie or raising a family in a one-room sod cabin with neighbors few and far between, and the quickest way to call him was to go on foot or borrow an Indian Pony of some six or eight miles away possibly. It was a great game. A few won out. Many families went back east to live with the old folks. Some lost through calamity and running deeply in debt."
In 1875, when a country post office was established in the township, Mr. Sherard was named Postmaster. His name was among early school officers and specifically I note he was elected Treasurer of Spring Valley School on June 26, 1883.
Even though Mr. and Mrs. Sherard had a large family of nine of their own, their big hearts reached out and took two little girls (children of a distant relative out of the poorhouse in an Illinois county and brought them to their Dakota home and raised them to womanhood namely: Mrs. George Muilenberg and Mrs. Joe Verley.
Once again I quote from W. H. Stoddard Turner County Pioneer History: "I do not know as Mr. Sherard ever became a member of any church, but this I do know, that he contributed to the building and maintaining of the early day M. E. Church that was built at Swan Lake and later moved to Spring Valley Township. I have positive proof that at one time he had saved five dollars to buy himself some warm winter underclothing, when a call was made for the help of the church, and upon his wife's declaration that she could mend up his old underwear, he said here goes the five dollars for the church. Of late years he was a yearly contributer to the support of the M. E. Church in Hurley."
Mr. and Mrs. Sherard raised the following children: James, Jennie (Mrs. Joseph Layne), William, Albert, Belle, Charles, Lizzie (Mrs. Festus Cue), and Samuel and Robert White.
James, William, and Charles all married and farmed in Turner County. They all had sons interested in the fertile land. They and their sons continued to work the land. Currently the only Sherards farming in Turner County are Duarne and Darrell Sherard, sons of Clyde Sherard, grandsons of James A. Sherard and great-grandsons of James Sherard from Tyrone County, Ireland." This articles sent to me on 12 Feb 2007 by S. Sherard.
8Census, Federal - 1900 - Turner Co., S. Dakota, Twsp 97, Ancestry p. 6 of 13.
9Ancestry.com, South Dakota Death Index 1905 - 1955.
10Census, Federal - 1900 - Turner Co., S. Dakota, Twsp 97, Ancestry p. 6 of 13, 8 Jun 1900.
11S. Johnston, Email 11 Feb 2007.
Mary Belle SHERARD
1Census, Federal - 1900 - Turner Co., S. Dakota, Twsp 97, Ancestry p. 6 of 13.
2Census, Federal - 1920 - El Paso Co., Colorado, Manitou, ED# 112, Ancestry p. 5 of 24.
3Census, Federal - 1910 - Turner Co., South Dakota, Hurley Ward 2, ED 415, Sheet 9B; Ancestry p. 2 of 4 . "Line 95 Dwelling # 65 Family # 65
Sherard, James Sr. Head age 67 Married (1st) for 37yrs b. Ireland f.b. Ire m.b. Ire immigrated 1864 Occ: own income Own home free
Sherard, Martha J. Wife 67 M (2nd) 37yrs b. IL Ire Ire
children born/living 13/9
Sherard, Bell M. Dau 27 S b. S. D. Ire IL Occ: seamstress."
4Ancestry.com, South Dakota Births 1856 - 1903.
5Census, Federal - 1930 - Turner Co., SD, Salem ED 24, Ancestry p. 1 of 13. "Jorgensen, Clifford Head radio Y Farm Y age 33 m age 30 SD DEN DEN Farmer - gen farming
Zola wife 27 24 SD SD WI
Sherard, Belle servant 47 s SD N IRE IL Farmer - gen farming."
Jonathon BLYTH
1Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
Sarah GUSTIN
1Wyatt, Paul , Paul & Carolee Wyatt, Ancestry.com.
2Tom Hoot Email, 17Apr2005.
Samuel GUSTIN
1Wyatt, Paul , Paul & Carolee Wyatt, Ancestry.com.
2Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
Abigail SHAW
1Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
William GUSTIN
1Tom Hoot, Ebenezer Gustin, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com, Rootsweb.com.
Abigail THAYER
1Tom Hoot, Ebenezer Gustin, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com, Rootsweb.com.
John Hugh GUSTIN
1Tom Hoot, Ebenezer Gustin, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com, Rootsweb.com.
Mary Jane BUSHNELL
1Tom Hoot, Ebenezer Gustin, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com, Rootsweb.com.
Fuller, THOMAS
1Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
Abigail GUSTINE
1Wyatt, Paul , Paul & Carolee Wyatt, Ancestry.com.
Ebenezer GUSTIN
1Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
2Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
3Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
Isabel
1Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
David Augustine GUSTIN
1Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
2Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.
Jane JEAN
1Tom Hoot Email, 17 Apr 2005.