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John Wesley Todd

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John Wesley Todd

Birth
Linn County, Iowa, USA
Death
7 Nov 1938 (aged 80)
Sully County, South Dakota, USA
Burial
Gettysburg, Potter County, South Dakota, USA Add to Map
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Block 9, Lot 352
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John Wesley Todd was born February 2, 1858, at Anamosa, Iowa, where he grew to manhood. He married Hattie Roberts, at Mitchell, Iowa, on December 25, 1877. The Todds filed on a homestead at Neligh, Nebraska, where they lived until 1888, and then moved to South Dakota, taking a tree claim in Potter County, where they experienced the Indian scare on November 22, 1890. In May, 1893, they moved across the county line and purchased the Henry Brisco homestead on the Southwest of One in 1901.

They went through all the hardships of those times without a murmur. They saw prairie fires sweep past their door, and listened to icy blasts rattle their little shack. Fuel had to be rustled off the prairies. There were no roads and the lumber wagon and riding horse were their only luxury of conveyance. Dry years robbed them of the fruits of their toil, but they never gave up. Success awaits at labor's gate, and so it was with the Todds. Endowed with fine common sense and a generous measure of business ability, they used their heads as well as their sturdy hands and acquired a good ranch, buying it piece by piece, as they were able to pay for it. They lived on this farm until Mr. Todd passed away, November 7, 1938. Mrs. Todd continued to live in the house until June 1943, when she moved to Onida to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Effie Cass. Shortly thereafter, she suffered a paralytic stroke and was an invalid until her passing on November 18, 1945.

1909 Postmaster of Country post office in Sully county, 18 miles southwest of Getysburg, the
nearest railroad point. Population 6
John Wesley Todd was born February 2, 1858, at Anamosa, Iowa, where he grew to manhood. He married Hattie Roberts, at Mitchell, Iowa, on December 25, 1877. The Todds filed on a homestead at Neligh, Nebraska, where they lived until 1888, and then moved to South Dakota, taking a tree claim in Potter County, where they experienced the Indian scare on November 22, 1890. In May, 1893, they moved across the county line and purchased the Henry Brisco homestead on the Southwest of One in 1901.

They went through all the hardships of those times without a murmur. They saw prairie fires sweep past their door, and listened to icy blasts rattle their little shack. Fuel had to be rustled off the prairies. There were no roads and the lumber wagon and riding horse were their only luxury of conveyance. Dry years robbed them of the fruits of their toil, but they never gave up. Success awaits at labor's gate, and so it was with the Todds. Endowed with fine common sense and a generous measure of business ability, they used their heads as well as their sturdy hands and acquired a good ranch, buying it piece by piece, as they were able to pay for it. They lived on this farm until Mr. Todd passed away, November 7, 1938. Mrs. Todd continued to live in the house until June 1943, when she moved to Onida to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Effie Cass. Shortly thereafter, she suffered a paralytic stroke and was an invalid until her passing on November 18, 1945.

1909 Postmaster of Country post office in Sully county, 18 miles southwest of Getysburg, the
nearest railroad point. Population 6

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