Index to Locations
Rockfield Cemetery
Vermillion Bluff View Cemetery
Wakonda Union Cemetery
Rockfield
Cemetery
Clay County, South Dakota
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Bluff View
Cemetery
Vermillion, Clay County, South Dakota
Founded 1882
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Andrew Ericson Lee (1847-1934) —
also known as Andrew E. Lee —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born near Bergen, Norway,
March
18, 1847.
Governor
of South Dakota, 1897-1901; defeated (Democratic), 1908;
candidate for Presidential Elector for South Dakota.
Died in Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., March
19, 1934 (age 87 years, 1
days).
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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Carl Gunderson (1864-1933) —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.; Mitchell, Davison
County, S.Dak.
Born near Vermillion, Clay
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), June 20,
1864.
Republican. Engineer;
surveyor;
farmer;
member of South
Dakota state senate 2nd District, 1893-94, 1897-1902, 1917-18; President
pro tempore of the South Dakota State Senate, 1899-1900; Lieutenant
Governor of South Dakota, 1921-25; Governor of
South Dakota, 1925-27; defeated, 1926; candidate in inconclusive
primary 1930.
Baptist.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; Elks; Freemasons;
Kiwanis.
Died in Mitchell, Davison
County, S.Dak., February
26, 1933 (age 68 years, 251
days).
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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John Lawlor Jolley (1840-1926) —
also known as John L. Jolley —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born in Montreal, Quebec,
July
14, 1840.
Republican. Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1867; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Dakota Territory Territory, 1868
(alternate), 1884;
member
Dakota territorial council, 1874-76, 1881-82; President
of the Dakota Territorial Council, 1874-76; mayor
of Vermillion, S.Dak., 1877; member of South
Dakota state senate 2nd District, 1889-92; U.S.
Representative from South Dakota at-large, 1891-93.
Died in Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., December
14, 1926 (age 86 years, 153
days).
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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Morris J. Chaney (1858-1940) —
of Newell, Buena
Vista County, Iowa; Wakonda, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born in White Rock, Ogle
County, Ill., October
1, 1858.
Republican. Farmer; banker;
member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 2nd District, 1903-10; Speaker of
the South Dakota State House of Representatives, 1905-10.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Palm Springs, Palm Beach
County, Fla., February
8, 1940 (age 81 years, 130
days).
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Osborn Chaney and Amanda (Rice) Chaney; married 1886 to Helen
McFarline. |
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memorial |
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Manual, 1903 |
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Horace J. Austin (1837-1891) —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born in Washington
County, N.Y., July 11,
1837.
Republican. Surveyor;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1865-67; member
Dakota territorial council, 1867-69, 1874-76; President
of the Dakota Territorial Council, 1867-68; member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 2nd District, 1891; died in
office 1891.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., February
27, 1891 (age 53 years, 231
days).
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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Aaron A. Carpenter (1826-1914) —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Concord, Essex
County, Vt., July 7,
1826.
Member
Dakota territorial council, 1867-69.
Died in Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., February
22, 1914 (age 87 years, 230
days).
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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A. B. Gunderson —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Republican. Member of South
Dakota state senate 2nd District, 1927-30; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Dakota, 1932.
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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Hans Gunderson (1832-1913) —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Norway,
1832.
Member
Dakota territorial council, 1877-78.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died in Clay
County, S.Dak., September
20, 1913 (age about 81
years).
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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Myrtle Shepard Lee (1874-1948) —
also known as Myrtle Sophia Shepard; Mrs. Andrew E.
Lee —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born in Fayette
County, Iowa, March
13, 1874.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
South Dakota, 1940.
Female.
Died in Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., December
31, 1948 (age 74 years, 293
days).
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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Lyman Burgess —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1862.
Interment at Bluff View Cemetery.
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Union
Cemetery
Wakonda, Clay County, South Dakota
Politicians buried
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Donald McMurchie (1896-1981) —
of Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born in Clay
County, S.Dak., October
2, 1896.
Republican. Farmer; bank
director; Lieutenant
Governor of South Dakota, 1937-41.
Congregationalist.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak., November
20, 1981 (age 85 years, 49
days).
Interment at Union Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Pearl E. Wallace. |
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