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Thurtell and Related Families
Notes for Grace THURTELL
The entry about Ransom B. Folts in the 1901 Biographical Sketch Book of Grant County, Wisconsin, shows his wife's sister, Grace Thurtell, was the wife of John McKann of South Dakota. The entry for John McClain shows his daughter-in-law, Grace Thurtell McClain, and her husband, John McClain, were living on their farm and cattle ranch in South Dakota and had five children, John, Grace, Bertha, Glenn, and Henry.
She is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for the Town of Jamestown, Grant County, Wisconsin (SD 2, ED 110, Page 3), enumerated June 2, 1880, as Grace Thurtle, age 21, single, born in Wisconsin, living with her widowed mother, Anna Thurtle, and her siblings Frederick, age 25, a miner, Harriet, age 23, and Belle, age 19, whose occupation is teaching school.
Grace and John McClain are listed in the 1900 U.S. Census for Meade County, South Dakota (Volume 11, SD 1, ED 34, Sheet 7, Line 29) living in the second ward of the City of Sturgis, Sturgis Township, Meade County, South Dakota. John McClain is shown as age 46, born in Wisconsin in October 1853, with his father born in Tennessee and his mother in Pennsylvania. He owned their home with no mortgage and had no months of no employment, with his occupation shown as stock raiser. He and his wife, Grace McClain, had been married 19 years according to this census. She is shown as age 40, born in March 1860 in Wisconsin, with her father born in England and her mother in Indiana. She is the mother of five children, all living with their parents. John E. McClain is shown as age 15, born in Wisconsin in May 1885, and at school. The four younger children were all born in South Dakota. This census record shows that Grace L. McClain is 10, born in February 1890, and is also in school. Bertha M. McClain, age 7, born in December 1892, is at school also. Leo G. McClain, age 5 and born in March 1895, and Henry C. McClain, age 3 and born in December 1896, are not yet in school.
Grace McClain is listed as head of the household in the 1920 U.S. Census (Volume 23, Enumeration District 175, Sheet 5, Line 17) in Scotch Leap Township, Perkins County, South Dakota. She is shown as age 60 born in Wisconsin, with her father born in England and her mother in North Carolina. She is shown as a farmer, operating a farm she owns on her own account, and is listed as married and able to read and write English. With her is her son, Henry C. McClain, age 22, born in South Dakota, with his father born in the United States and his mother born in Wisconsin. He is shown as single and a farm laborer working on the home farm and is able to read and write English.
Grace Thurtell, 1859-1926, born in Wisconsin, is listed among the pioneers in the Sioux Valley Genealogical Society, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57104, on a web site found in October 1999 at http://www.rootsweb.com/~sdvgs/index19.htm. The web site shows she was issued a Pioneer Certificate at the request of family members or interested parties as a resident in the Dakota Territory prior to statehood in November 1889.
A database index of Bureau of Land Management Records found on the internet in January 2000 at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/land/perkins.htm shows that John and Grace McClain and John E. McClain (possibly their son) had five different land patents in Perkins County, South Dakota, all at the 7th Meridian, Township 018 N, Range 012 E, in Sections 8 and 9. John McClain had two homestead patents dated May 26, 1908. The one in Section 8 was for 120 acres, with a document identification number 3645. The same document identification number is also referred to a homestead of 40 acres in Section 9. Document number 108181 dated February 1, 1910, is indexed to cash sales of 120 acres in Section 8 and 40 acres in Section 9 to John E. McClain. Document identification number 447193 dated December 5, 1914, refers to a cash sale of 80 acres to Grace McClain in Section 8.
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