I've been gone ever so long from this blogsite. Not sure why...I guess I just didn't have enough stories left to sink my teeth into. On Face Book at the moment family members of Hattie Daugherty Place are appreciating their connection with this magnificent woman. Hattie was my mother's great aunt, and my beloved grandfather's (Fred Irvin Daugherty) aunt. I'd like to share a column from the Wessington Times (South Dakota), circa 1950, written by Hattie when she was elected as the Pioneer Daughtor of the Wessington Women's Study Club in September, 1949. In my Prairie Roots Newsletter I've been including her memories as written to her granddaughter, Audrey Sisco Walker. I'm not sure of the date of that writing. Both documents differ enough that it's important to have access to both.
"I, Hattie Daugherty Place, pioneer of South Dakota, was born October 31, 1863, near the little town of Green Valley, Tazewell County, Illinois. My father, William Henry Daugherty, was born in Virginia in 1830. My mother, Martha Peppers, was born in Ohio in 1838. Father's ancestors, indicated by the name Daugherty, probably originated in Ireland. He had no record of how remote their coming to the United States. Mother was from the good sturdy Holland Dutch. Her parents were born in the United States, and she could remember her paternal grandparents reading their German Bible.
My parents married and settled in Illinois, and farmed there until the spring of 1881. Father came to South Dakota to find a location for a home. He started for Minnesota expecting to locate somewhere near Minneapolis, but the coaches of the train were filled with men Dakota Territory bound. Some had been here and told such convincing tales of the territory's wonders that father came on with them."
Continued in the next blog posting....
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