Ancestor Soup

 Read Part 1  here , Part 2  here , Part 3  here , Part 4  here , Part 5  here , Part 6  here 1907 and 1908 were the years of change for Pet...

 Read Part 1  here , Part 2  here , Part 3  here , Part 4  here , Part 5  here , Part 6  here The S. S. New York It was April 20, 1901 when ...

I didn’t grow up knowing much about Pete Christensen except he was born in Denmark, owned Bell Bakery in Huron, and could be a little prickl...

Of the handful of visible gravestones in Peck cemetery, two, although broken, are very legible.  One of those stones belongs to Mary A. Roun...

Way out in the middle of nowhere, along South Dakota highway 28, sits a quiet little unobtrusive cemetery.  It’s something you could drive b...

  The window.   The little window on the left, with Grandma’s curtains still hanging nicely on either side of the sink.   I never knew how...

  Dr. Henry Seeman was the only physician in his small South Dakota town of Rockham for almost all of his years there, which made him popula...