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Sylvester Horr
1854 - 1922 (67 years)1. Sylvester Horr was born on 23 Sep 1854 in Mason's Grove, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA; died on 30 Jul 1922 in Mills, Antelope Co, Nebraska, USA. Other Events:
- Census: 1860 1870 1880 1900 1910 1920
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REVIEW
4-26-1916
Deloit Items
*Mr. and Mrs. S. [Sylvester] Horr departed last Thursday noon for Thunder Hawk, S. D. where they will visit their daughters, Mrs. Robt. McKim [Ella/Ellen Richardson] and Mrs. Claud McKim [Olive Horr]. From there they will go to Montana to visit their son, Bert Horr. Mr. and Mrs. Horr expect to be gone all summer.
[[The following census information was compiled and contributed by Joyce S.
1860 Census: Crescent, Pottawattamie Co, Iowa
Living in the household of Levi & Sarah Skinner and Levi's son Joseph, with Martha Richardson and her two small children.
Sylvester Horr, age 6, bp IA
James Horr, age 5, bp IA
Note Sarah was the boy's step mother, and the mother of Martha Richardson.
Following household is Sarah's son James A. Mowery, age 31, and Hannah M., age 14.
1870 Census: Milford, Crawford Co, Iowa
Living in the household of John & Lucy Dobson with eight children, all in school. (no Ellen)
Sylvester Horr, age 15, farmer, bp IA
1880 Census: Nebraska: Antelope Co, Mills
Sylvester Horr, age 25, bp IA, p's bp MI, Farming
Ellen Horr, wife, age 20, bp IA, p's bp MI
Next household to brother James.
1900 Census: Milford, Crawford Co, Iowa
Sylvester Horr, Sept 1854, age 45, m 25 yrs, bp IA, f's bp unk, m's bp IA, Post Master
Ellen Horr, wife, Jan 1859, age 41, 2 births 1 living, bp IA, f's bp OH, m's bp KY, Dep Post Master
Olive McKim, dau, Nov 1881, age 18, bp NE, f's bp IA, m's bp IA
Claud D. McKim, so-in-law, Nov 1877, age 22, bp IA, f's bp PA, m's bp VT
Ellen Richardson, ad dau, Dec 1888, age 11, bp NE, f's bp IA, m's bp IL
Transcribed as Hoer
1910 Census: Milford Twp, Crawford Co, Iowa
Sylvester Horr, age 55, m 34 yrs, bp IA, f's bp IL, m's bp KY, Post Master
Ellen Horr, wife, age 51, 2 births 1 living, bp IA, f's bp OH, m's bp KY
Gertrude Mc Kim, gr-dau, age 8, bp IA, f's bp IA, m's bp NE
1920 Census: Lincoln, Perkins Co, South Dakota
Transcribed as HARR
Sylvester Horr, age 65, bp IA, f's bp unk, m's bp WV, Farmer
Ellen Horr, wife, age 61, bp IA, f's bp OH, m's bp KY
No others listed in household.
Previous household is dau Olive and husband Claud McKim and their four children.
Two other McKim households on this page.Sylvester married Ellen Dobson on 7 Nov 1875 in Mason's Grove, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Dobson and Sarah Kendrick Best Taylor) was born on 26 Jan 1859 in Mason's Grove, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA; died on 10 Oct 1927 in
. [Group Sheet] Children:
- 2. Minnie Horr was born on 12 May 1879 in Mason's Grove, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA; died on 3 Jun 1879 in Mason's Grove, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA.
- 3. Olive Horr was born on 12 Nov 1881 in Clearwater, Antelope Co, Nebraska, USA; died in 1958 in
; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA. - 4. Ella Mae Richardson was born in Dec 1888 in Nebraska, USA.
- 5. Bert Horr
Generation: 2
2. Minnie Horr (1.Sylvester1) was born on 12 May 1879 in Mason's Grove, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA; died on 3 Jun 1879 in Mason's Grove, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA. Notes:
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3. Olive Horr (1.Sylvester1) was born on 12 Nov 1881 in Clearwater, Antelope Co, Nebraska, USA; died in 1958 in ; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA. Notes:
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Groom's Name: Claude D. Mc Kim
Groom's Birth Date: 1877
Groom's Birthplace: Deloit, Ia
Groom's Age: 22
Bride's Name: Olive Blanche Horr
Bride's Birth Date: 1881
Bride's Birthplace: Clear Water, Nebraska
Bride's Age: 18
Marriage Date: 12 Nov 1899
Marriage Place: Deloit, Crawford, Iowa
Groom's Father's Name: William Mc Kim
Groom's Mother's Name: Almeda Darling
Bride's Father's Name: Sylvester Horr
Bride's Mother's Name: Ellen Dobson
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status: Single
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status: Single
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M02566-3
System Origin: Iowa-EASy
Source Film Number: 1035130
Reference Number: Vol 2 Pg 6 Cn 2738
Collection: Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992
Mr. and Mrs. Claude McKim celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary. Lemmon Leader Newspaper (South Dakota) published on Nov 16, 1950
To see photo of Mr. and Mrs Claude McKim
Go to: http://livingmemories.innovative-evolutions.com/NM/NorrisMcKim.swf
Click on: Continue
Click on: View a Sample Memorial Tribute (photo of Norris)
Click on: About Me (photo of Mr. and Mrs. Claude McKim on page 2, photo of Norris and his two sisters on page 4.
[[The following census information was compiled and contributed by Joyce S.
Living with parents and husband in 1900.
1900 Census: Milford, Crawford Co, Iowa
Olive McKim, dau, Nov 1881, age 18, bp NE, f's bp IA, m's bp IA
Claud D. McKim, so-in-law, Nov 1877, age 22, bp IA, f's bp PA, m's bp VT
1910 Census: Dewitt Twp, Perkins Co, South Dakota
Claude D. Mckim, age 3?, m 11 yrs, bp IA, p's bp US, Stone Mason
Olive B. McKim, wife, age 28, bp NE, p's bp IA
Gertrude ? McKim. dau, age 8, bp IA
Bertha A. McKim, dau, age 7, bp IA
Norris ?. McKim, son, age 3, bp IA
1920 Census: Lincoln, Perkins Co, South Dakota
Claud Mc Kim, age 44, bp IA, f's bp PA, m's bp VT, Farmer
Olive Mc Kim, wife, age 37, bp NE, p's bp IA
Gertrude Mc Kim, dau, age 18, bp IA
Bertha Mc Kim, dau, age 16, bp IA
Norris Mc Kim, son, age 13, bp IA
Arlo Mc Kim, son, age 2 4/12, bp SD
1930 Census: Lincoln, Perkins Co, South Dakota
Claude D. Mc Kim, age 49, m at 19, bp IA, p's bp PA, Farmer
Olive Mc Kim, wife, age, 48, m at 18, bp IA, p's bp IA
Norris Mc Kim, son, age 23, bp IA, Farm Work
Arlo Mc Kim, son, age 13, bp SD
William Mc Kim, son, age 7, bp SD
Abbie Mc Kim, sister, age 63, single, bp IAOlive married Claude Darling McKim on 12 Nov 1899 in Deloit, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA. Claude (son of William Martin McKim and Almedia Augusta Darling) was born on 18 Nov 1876 in Mason's Grove, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA; died in Mar 1966 in
; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] Children:
- 6. Gertrude Ellen McKim was born on 2 Jul 1901; died in Jan 1986; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA.
- 7. Bertha McKim died in 1968; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA.
- 8. Norris Salvestor McKim was born on 13 Feb 1907 in Deloit, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA; died on 31 Oct 1988.
- 9. Arlo Claude McKim was born on 25 Feb 1917 in Thunder Hawk, Corson Co, South Dakota, USA; died on 13 Dec 1994; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA.
- 10. William McKim was born on 28 Sep 1923; died in Nov 1969.
4. Ella Mae Richardson (1.Sylvester1) was born in Dec 1888 in Nebraska, USA. Notes:
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Ella married Robert James McKim on 2 Jun 1906. Robert (son of William Martin McKim and Almedia Augusta Darling) was born on 4 Nov 1877 in Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet]
5. Bert Horr (1.Sylvester1) Notes:
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Generation: 3
6. Gertrude Ellen McKim (3.Olive2, 1.Sylvester1) was born on 2 Jul 1901; died in Jan 1986; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA. Notes:
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Gertrude married Okko Waldecker. [Group Sheet]
7. Bertha McKim (3.Olive2, 1.Sylvester1) died in 1968; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA. Notes:
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Bertha married Henry Waldecker. [Group Sheet]
8. Norris Salvestor McKim (3.Olive2, 1.Sylvester1) was born on 13 Feb 1907 in Deloit, Crawford Co, Iowa, USA; died on 31 Oct 1988. Notes:
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Norris McKim: About me
I was born in Deloit, Iowa in February of 1907, to Claude McKim and Olive Blanche McKim (Horr). By the spring of the same year my parents loaded my sisters and me onto a covered wagon headed west; with my father's parents and brothers with a plan
to homestead tracts of land that were adjoined. We settled in Corson/Perkins Counties in South Dakota, near what is now Thunder Hawk, beside the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. All this before I had reached my first year of age. Near to us at the same time a small rail stop was turning into a town that I would later be known as Lemmon. A place I would later call home.
Our family worked the land with two oxen for the first few years, and then a team was purchased to assist in the labors. I remember being taken away by the size of the two horses.
In the following years to come, I would be given two younger brothers, this was a big thing, because up to that point I had been the only boy of three children. Gertrude was the oldest of us, then came Bertha, followed by myself, Arlo followed in the tradition of boys next, and last born was Billy.
The boys outnumbering the girls on the farm only lasted till the younger two came of age, Arlo went off to WWII and Billy went of to school and was married, staying around where he graduated.
When Arlo returned from the war, he was minus a leg and became a Parkman at Yellowstone National Park where he remained until retirement.
Billy was killed in the early 70s by a moving car, while trying to help another motorist that had been involved in automobile accident. He was the first of us to pass.
A few hills over to the east, toward the Grand River, lived two brothers that we all grew up and went to school with. It goes to say that Bertha married Henry and Gertrude married Oko to become the Waldeckers. Each moving off to be with their new families, thus leaving just me to tend to the farm: which by this time had grown in size.
As the depression of the 30s hit, it made it tough to work an already tough land. Many of dads brothers signed over the lands they owned to the remaining and headed toward the greener pastures of California and other parts.
I stayed with Mom and Dad, I remember one fall and I had ridden one of our horses over to Oko's place to visit. A snow squall had come up and as I pressed for home it turned into a heavy white out. I had no clue what direction to go; lucky for me my horse had half an idea. My folks being worried that I might not be able to find my way in sat on the back porch, dad playing his trumpet and mom the violin. As the temperature dropped to more then I thought I could take much more of, I heard that sweet duet and it guided me to the safety and warmth of the homestead.
Time moves on, as it tends to do. My father I, along with one remaining bother worked the land; hiring help from Lakota relatives living on the reservation, when we could afford to pay them. The Lakota blood in our family tree is somewhat of an enigma and was never talked much about. Our family bond to the Sioux was however always prevalent. Chief Thunderhawk and my father would talk for hours and were the greatest of friends. The Sioux were our closest neighbors to the south. I had more of my learning from them then school as I had left school to work the farm after the third grade.
I worked the land and hunted the years away, as the years passed so to did my fathers brother William This now left two people with the task of working too many acres, even with the modern machinery we now possessed. Not far after William passed, mom took sick and this all was too much for my now aged father to bear. Dad decided to move to the town of Lemmon so mom could be close to the doctors that she now needed so badly. We sold off major parcels of the once vast lands in our holding. Land and lumber was purchased and I built them a house on Lemmon's North East side.
With less land to work, I was free to work part time on other projects, it was about this time major excavation began to clear out the town of Simm; a dam could be constructed to hold up the waters of the Grand River. This project kept me employed for a few years.
Working the new lake and the farm took most of my time. From the now submerged town of Simm sprang Shadehill Reservoir. Leaving nothing, but one small
patch of island from the hill above the town.
With in a few years of moving in to town we lost mother. The added burden of a long drought forced me to work less on the farm. This did however free me up to live a little of my own life. I went to work on the same land my father and his brothers had homesteaded with sweat and blood, but now in the employ of those who had purchased it, years earlier. It was during this time I began to court Katherine Wolfe, whom I would
marry. Marriage at the age of 53 was a new experience, but one that was long overdue.
Father: McKim, Claude Darling
Born: 18 Nov 1876
Died: Mar 1966
Internment: Lemmon SD
Mother: Olive Blanche McKim (Horr)
Born: 12 Nov 1881
Died: 1958
Internment: Lemmon SD
Sibling: Gertrude Waldecker
Born: 02 Jul 1901
Died: Jan 1986
Internment: Lemmon SD
Sibling: Bertha Waldecker
Born:
Died: 1968
Internment: Lemmon SD
Sibling: Arlo McKim
Born: 25 Feb 1917
Died: 13 Dec 1994
Internment: Lemmon SD
Sibling: William (Billy) McKim
Born: 28 Sep 1923
Died: Nov 1969
Internment:Norris married Katherine Wolfe on 28 Jul 1960. (daughter of John Wolfe and Lydia Kierschtman) [Group Sheet]
9. Arlo Claude McKim (3.Olive2, 1.Sylvester1) was born on 25 Feb 1917 in Thunder Hawk, Corson Co, South Dakota, USA; died on 13 Dec 1994; was buried in Lemmon, Perkins Co, South Dakota, USA. Notes:
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10. William McKim (3.Olive2, 1.Sylvester1) was born on 28 Sep 1923; died in Nov 1969. Notes:
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