BlockDevoe Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909. 256 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
1 settlementWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devoe | 9 | - | - | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is not named in the chapter: it was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
256 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Devoe Township
On the 23rd of May, A. D. 1882, H. S. Utley, C. J. Cooper and A. F. Clark were the first settlers at this, to be a permanent center in the new county. Mr. Utley 's family did not arrive from Wisconsin until April, 1883. On August 20th, 1882, Butler Lambert and Robert Young arrived from Wisconsin and settled in the immediate neighhood. Rev. P. E. Knox, J. H. DeVoe, John Dubois, E. M. Jessup and George Butterfield were added to the settlement before the close of the year.
A store was opened by Messrs. Crossly & Baird, a postoffice called Cresbard, established, and a Sunday school organized at the store, which proved entirely too small for the number who desired to attend. A house of worship was promptly erected, and in 1884 they had a Sunday school with an average attendance of fifty -three, and preaching once in two weeks by Rev. Clinton Douglas, of Faulkton. In 1884 the DeVoe correspondent of the L-aFoon Record gave the names of the following pioneers, viz: Peter Phillips, T. B. Norton, Rush Francis, John Hoskin, D. Roy Jones, R. M. Griffith, C. C. Gettings, Thomas Morris, J. J. Price, J. H. Thomas, J. W. Tucker, J. H. Tucker, C. E. Kittinger, Harry Ressigue, M. C. Baker, Chas. O'Connell, E. Evans, G. W. Cropsey, and Fred Benson, who had located in that vicinity up to that date. In May, 1882, the tide of immigration had set toward eastern Faulk county, almost every day brought its party of pioneer settlers.
Provenance
Text from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.