CHARLEY F. GRAVES.
C. F. Graves owns and operates a fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres situated on sections 19 and 20, Clifton township, Spink county, and has been a resident of South Dakota for over thirty years. He was born near Chicago, Illinois, on the 26th of April, 1861, a son of Daniel P. and Leonora (Digging) Graves. The family is of Scotch descent, but was established in this country before the war of the Revolution. Daniel P. Graves was a farmer of Champaign county, Illinois, where he had removed in 1865 and where he remained until 1882, when he came to this state and homesteaded a part of the farm now belonging to C. A. Graves. The land was raw prairie when it came into his possession, but he brought it to a high state of cultivation and gathered therefrom abundant harvests. He died in October, 1908, at the age of seventy-eight years, having survived his wife since 1889. She was sixty nine years of age when she passed away and both she and her husband are buried in the Ashton cemetery.
Charley F. Graves was educated in Champaign county and left high school when a youth of nineteen years. He then assumed the management of his father's farm, but when twenty-one years of age came to South Dakota and filed on a preemption claim which he improved. In 1899 he purchased his father's property and that farm and his claim, making four hundred and eighty acres in all, are both well improved and highly cultivated. He follows mixed farming, but is giving added attention to the raising of stock. He is a man of untiring industry and, as his crops are planted in good season and well cared for according to the most approved methods, he almost invariably has a high average per acre of grain. His stock is of good grade, bringing a high price upon the market.
Mr. Graves was married in Ashton, this state, on the 3d of December, 1888, to Miss Esther Roberts, a daughter of John T. and Ellen (Davis) Roberts, the former a pioneer farmer and carpenter of that district. He died in 1904 and was buried in the cemetery at Ashton. His wife survives and makes her home at Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Graves have one daughter, Nellie, the wife of Erwin Bloomhall, who is residing upon the homestead, and they have a little daughter, Edna. Mr. Graves is a republican and has taken an active part in local public affairs, serving as county treasurer for two years and in a number of town offices. (Note: according to the 1910 census, Nellie was the only child born to Esther.)
Fraternally he is a chapter Mason and also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He like wise belongs to the Eastern Star.
For over three decades Mr. Graves has been actively connected with the agricultural interests of the county and has been one of those progressive farmers who have made Spink county one of the prosperous sections of the state. He has made many improvements upon his farm, erecting all of the buildings, and has kept everything in splendid condition, and the success which he now enjoys is but the merited and natural reward of his enterprise and ability.
This biography appears on pages 1012-1013 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, [email protected].
C. F. Graves owns and operates a fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres situated on sections 19 and 20, Clifton township, Spink county, and has been a resident of South Dakota for over thirty years. He was born near Chicago, Illinois, on the 26th of April, 1861, a son of Daniel P. and Leonora (Digging) Graves. The family is of Scotch descent, but was established in this country before the war of the Revolution. Daniel P. Graves was a farmer of Champaign county, Illinois, where he had removed in 1865 and where he remained until 1882, when he came to this state and homesteaded a part of the farm now belonging to C. A. Graves. The land was raw prairie when it came into his possession, but he brought it to a high state of cultivation and gathered therefrom abundant harvests. He died in October, 1908, at the age of seventy-eight years, having survived his wife since 1889. She was sixty nine years of age when she passed away and both she and her husband are buried in the Ashton cemetery.
Charley F. Graves was educated in Champaign county and left high school when a youth of nineteen years. He then assumed the management of his father's farm, but when twenty-one years of age came to South Dakota and filed on a preemption claim which he improved. In 1899 he purchased his father's property and that farm and his claim, making four hundred and eighty acres in all, are both well improved and highly cultivated. He follows mixed farming, but is giving added attention to the raising of stock. He is a man of untiring industry and, as his crops are planted in good season and well cared for according to the most approved methods, he almost invariably has a high average per acre of grain. His stock is of good grade, bringing a high price upon the market.
Mr. Graves was married in Ashton, this state, on the 3d of December, 1888, to Miss Esther Roberts, a daughter of John T. and Ellen (Davis) Roberts, the former a pioneer farmer and carpenter of that district. He died in 1904 and was buried in the cemetery at Ashton. His wife survives and makes her home at Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Graves have one daughter, Nellie, the wife of Erwin Bloomhall, who is residing upon the homestead, and they have a little daughter, Edna. Mr. Graves is a republican and has taken an active part in local public affairs, serving as county treasurer for two years and in a number of town offices. (Note: according to the 1910 census, Nellie was the only child born to Esther.)
Fraternally he is a chapter Mason and also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He like wise belongs to the Eastern Star.
For over three decades Mr. Graves has been actively connected with the agricultural interests of the county and has been one of those progressive farmers who have made Spink county one of the prosperous sections of the state. He has made many improvements upon his farm, erecting all of the buildings, and has kept everything in splendid condition, and the success which he now enjoys is but the merited and natural reward of his enterprise and ability.
This biography appears on pages 1012-1013 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, [email protected].
CHARLEY F. GRAVES.
C. F. Graves owns and operates a fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres situated on sections 19 and 20, Clifton township, Spink county, and has been a resident of South Dakota for over thirty years. He was born near Chicago, Illinois, on the 26th of April, 1861, a son of Daniel P. and Leonora (Digging) Graves. The family is of Scotch descent, but was established in this country before the war of the Revolution. Daniel P. Graves was a farmer of Champaign county, Illinois, where he had removed in 1865 and where he remained until 1882, when he came to this state and homesteaded a part of the farm now belonging to C. A. Graves. The land was raw prairie when it came into his possession, but he brought it to a high state of cultivation and gathered therefrom abundant harvests. He died in October, 1908, at the age of seventy-eight years, having survived his wife since 1889. She was sixty nine years of age when she passed away and both she and her husband are buried in the Ashton cemetery.
Charley F. Graves was educated in Champaign county and left high school when a youth of nineteen years. He then assumed the management of his father's farm, but when twenty-one years of age came to South Dakota and filed on a preemption claim which he improved. In 1899 he purchased his father's property and that farm and his claim, making four hundred and eighty acres in all, are both well improved and highly cultivated. He follows mixed farming, but is giving added attention to the raising of stock. He is a man of untiring industry and, as his crops are planted in good season and well cared for according to the most approved methods, he almost invariably has a high average per acre of grain. His stock is of good grade, bringing a high price upon the market.
Mr. Graves was married in Ashton, this state, on the 3d of December, 1888, to Miss Esther Roberts, a daughter of John T. and Ellen (Davis) Roberts, the former a pioneer farmer and carpenter of that district. He died in 1904 and was buried in the cemetery at Ashton. His wife survives and makes her home at Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Graves have one daughter, Nellie, the wife of Erwin Bloomhall, who is residing upon the homestead, and they have a little daughter, Edna. Mr. Graves is a republican and has taken an active part in local public affairs, serving as county treasurer for two years and in a number of town offices. (Note: according to the 1910 census, Nellie was the only child born to Esther.)
Fraternally he is a chapter Mason and also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He like wise belongs to the Eastern Star.
For over three decades Mr. Graves has been actively connected with the agricultural interests of the county and has been one of those progressive farmers who have made Spink county one of the prosperous sections of the state. He has made many improvements upon his farm, erecting all of the buildings, and has kept everything in splendid condition, and the success which he now enjoys is but the merited and natural reward of his enterprise and ability.
This biography appears on pages 1012-1013 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, [email protected].
C. F. Graves owns and operates a fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres situated on sections 19 and 20, Clifton township, Spink county, and has been a resident of South Dakota for over thirty years. He was born near Chicago, Illinois, on the 26th of April, 1861, a son of Daniel P. and Leonora (Digging) Graves. The family is of Scotch descent, but was established in this country before the war of the Revolution. Daniel P. Graves was a farmer of Champaign county, Illinois, where he had removed in 1865 and where he remained until 1882, when he came to this state and homesteaded a part of the farm now belonging to C. A. Graves. The land was raw prairie when it came into his possession, but he brought it to a high state of cultivation and gathered therefrom abundant harvests. He died in October, 1908, at the age of seventy-eight years, having survived his wife since 1889. She was sixty nine years of age when she passed away and both she and her husband are buried in the Ashton cemetery.
Charley F. Graves was educated in Champaign county and left high school when a youth of nineteen years. He then assumed the management of his father's farm, but when twenty-one years of age came to South Dakota and filed on a preemption claim which he improved. In 1899 he purchased his father's property and that farm and his claim, making four hundred and eighty acres in all, are both well improved and highly cultivated. He follows mixed farming, but is giving added attention to the raising of stock. He is a man of untiring industry and, as his crops are planted in good season and well cared for according to the most approved methods, he almost invariably has a high average per acre of grain. His stock is of good grade, bringing a high price upon the market.
Mr. Graves was married in Ashton, this state, on the 3d of December, 1888, to Miss Esther Roberts, a daughter of John T. and Ellen (Davis) Roberts, the former a pioneer farmer and carpenter of that district. He died in 1904 and was buried in the cemetery at Ashton. His wife survives and makes her home at Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Graves have one daughter, Nellie, the wife of Erwin Bloomhall, who is residing upon the homestead, and they have a little daughter, Edna. Mr. Graves is a republican and has taken an active part in local public affairs, serving as county treasurer for two years and in a number of town offices. (Note: according to the 1910 census, Nellie was the only child born to Esther.)
Fraternally he is a chapter Mason and also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He like wise belongs to the Eastern Star.
For over three decades Mr. Graves has been actively connected with the agricultural interests of the county and has been one of those progressive farmers who have made Spink county one of the prosperous sections of the state. He has made many improvements upon his farm, erecting all of the buildings, and has kept everything in splendid condition, and the success which he now enjoys is but the merited and natural reward of his enterprise and ability.
This biography appears on pages 1012-1013 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, [email protected].
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