John Brought Plenty was the son of Charles (b. 1862) and Annie (b. 1871) Brought Plenty. He attended Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, 1912-1914. He was a WWI veteran and, according to the book North Dakota Veterans was "inducted at Fort Yates on March 4, 1918; sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa; served in Company A, 351st Infantry, to April 4, 1918; Company F, 132nd Infantry, to discharge. Grade: Private 1st Class, May 1, 1918; overseas from May 16, 1918, to May 17, 1919. Engagements: Offensives: Somme; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Amiens (Picardy); Verdun-Fromereville and Troyon (Lorraine). Discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on May 26, 1919, as a Private 1st Class." While he was fighting overseas, his first wife Emma and one of their daughters died in 1918. Their older daughter, Mary Jane, b. 1917, died before January 1920. On his return, he married Agnes Goodwood on June 1, 1919. They had a son, Vincent Victor, in 1922 who died in 1924. He served as a deputy sheriff from 1922 to 1924. John and Agnes divorced in 1924. Agnes then married Jasper Black Tomahawk. John married his third wife, Lucy Pierre LaFromboise, on January 1, 1926. They had a son, Kenneth, in 1931. John Brought Plenty was the Commander of the Albert Grass American Legion Post at Fort Yates in the early 1940s.
John Brought Plenty was the son of Charles (b. 1862) and Annie (b. 1871) Brought Plenty. He attended Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, 1912-1914. He was a WWI veteran and, according to the book North Dakota Veterans was "inducted at Fort Yates on March 4, 1918; sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa; served in Company A, 351st Infantry, to April 4, 1918; Company F, 132nd Infantry, to discharge. Grade: Private 1st Class, May 1, 1918; overseas from May 16, 1918, to May 17, 1919. Engagements: Offensives: Somme; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Amiens (Picardy); Verdun-Fromereville and Troyon (Lorraine). Discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on May 26, 1919, as a Private 1st Class." While he was fighting overseas, his first wife Emma and one of their daughters died in 1918. Their older daughter, Mary Jane, b. 1917, died before January 1920. On his return, he married Agnes Goodwood on June 1, 1919. They had a son, Vincent Victor, in 1922 who died in 1924. He served as a deputy sheriff from 1922 to 1924. John and Agnes divorced in 1924. Agnes then married Jasper Black Tomahawk. John married his third wife, Lucy Pierre LaFromboise, on January 1, 1926. They had a son, Kenneth, in 1931. John Brought Plenty was the Commander of the Albert Grass American Legion Post at Fort Yates in the early 1940s.
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