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Descendants of James Edward Sr. MacKrell
2.JAMES EDWARD2 MACKRELL (JAMES EDWARD SR.1) was born January 17, 1859 in Butler Co., Pennsylvania, and died April 22, 1929.He married ELIZA ALICE SMITH, daughter of JAMES SMITH and BARBARA CROOKS.She was born April 19, 1870, and died August 18, 1961.
Children of JAMES MACKRELL and ELIZA SMITH are:
i. | JAMES A3 MACKRELL, b. April 12, 1887. | ||
4. | ii. | JESSIE VIOLA MACKRELL, b. October 30, 1888; d. October 22, 1972. | |
5. | iii. | MARTHA BIRDELLA MACKRELL, b. December 29, 1890, Alexandria, Hanson Co., S.D.; d. December 21, 1963, Gregory, Gregory Co., SD. | |
6. | iv. | WINIFRED GERTRUDE MACKRELL, b. November 13, 1892; d. February 14, 1976. | |
v. | ANNIE LINN MACKRELL, b. March 27, 1895; d. September 29, 1918. | ||
7. | vi. | PEARL MACKRELL, b. July 19, 1898; d. September 30, 1977. | |
vii. | DONALD EDWARD MACKRELL, b. March 29, 1901; d. January 30, 1920. | ||
viii. | LYLE GORDEN MACKRELL, b. September 18, 1905; d. July 06, 1958. | ||
ix. | DALE MARSHAL MACKRELL, b. November 06, 1907; d. 1963. | ||
8. | x. | BARBARA ALICE MACKRELL, b. August 04, 1910; d. September 05, 1958. | |
xi. | RAYMOND BERNARD MACKRELL, b. November 12, 1911; m. MINNIE FIEBLEKORN; b. April 19, 1899. | ||
xii. | BLAINE MACKRELL, b. March 16, 1916; m. ROSEMARY K MOORE; b. May 23, 1919. |
3.THOMAS JEFFERSON2 MACKRELL (JAMES EDWARD SR.1) was born 1864 in Butler Co., Pennsylvania, and died January 10, 1936 in Vale, SD.He married ALICE JACOBSON July 01, 1897 in Deadwood, S.D., daughter of GEORGE JACOBSON and ELIZA NYSTRUM.She was born 1876 in Chicago, Illinois, and died July 1960 in Billings, Montana.
Notes for THOMAS JEFFERSON MACKRELL:
Thomas J. MacKrell, the youngest son of Martha Jane McCollam Smith, spent his younger years in Butler County, Pennsylvania and his teenage years on his stepfather's farm between Mitchell and Alexandria, South Dakota.He spoke of spending a major part of one summer breaking forty acres of sod with a team of oxen.As a young man, he returned to Butler County where he worked for a period of time.In the 1890's, he returned to Alexandria and then in 1896 moved to Deadwood SD, where he found employment in a gold smelter.The black slag pile along Whitewood Creek at the lower end of Deadwood was his work site.
In 1897, Tom MacKrell married Alice Jacobsen from Alexandria and they established a home in Spruce Gulch, above the smelters in Deadwood.Eventually, the MacKrell's had nine children.
In 1908, Tom moved his family to a homestead eleven miles southeast of Vale, SD.He built a house and outbuildings and broke sod to establish fields.He supplemented his income by working for various neighbors. In 1913, after proving up on his homestead, he moved the family to a rented, irrigated farm, the Barry place, about eight miles southeast of Vale.Here he engaged in a corn and hog operation.In 1915, the MacKrell's moved back to their original homestead.Tom bought an adjoining quarter section, the Houghton place, and filed on an adjoining half section of pasture land under an extension homestead act.He had a full section of land at that point and he lived there for the remainder of his life.
On January 10, 1936 Tom passed away after suffering several strokes in the last four years of his life.In the late summer of 1936, Alice MacKrell went to live with her daughter, Gladys Viken, in Billings, Montana.George and Viola MacKrell stayed on the MacKrell farm.
Alice MacKrell died in 1960 and is buried beside her husband in the Sturgis Cemetery.Their oldest son, Allen, is buried beside them.Allen died while herding sheep in the blizzard of 1949.
Robert E. MacKrell
July 19, 1999
Children of THOMAS MACKRELL and ALICE JACOBSON are:
i. | FLORENCE3 MACKRELL, b. 1898; d. 1992; m. LEE SEMMONS. | ||
ii. | ALICE MACKRELL, b. 1900; d. 1993; m. MADSEN. | ||
iii. | ALLEN MACKRELL, b. 1901; d. January 03, 1949. | ||
9. | iv. | GEORGE MARTIN MACKRELL, b. February 22, 1903, Deadwood, S.D.; d. 1972, Spearfish, SD. | |
v. | GLADYS MACKRELL, b. 1904; m. VIKEN. | ||
vi. | JESSE MACKRELL, b. 1906; d. 1995; m. BACHAND. | ||
vii. | VERA MACKRELL, b. 1909; d. 1990; m. GILMORE. | ||
10. | viii. | JEAN MARIE MACKRELL, b. February 15, 1913, Vale, SD; d. December 02, 1992, Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa. | |
ix. | THOMAS WOODROW MACKRELL, b. 1915; d. 1998. |