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Note: 1. From an interview with Hazel Rarick Smith by Linda Hawes Hartanov: Rachel Carey was Irish Canadian and met and married my Dad in South Dakota. They had a farm with a very rustic house and Rachel had her three daughters very close together. When the oldest, Altha, was about 6, Dad had to go into town for some supplies (I'm not sure if town was Bradley or Clark - their farm was as close to one as the other). A severe summer electrical storm came up and Rachel apparently went outside to bring in the animals. She was struck by lightning and died. Dad had stopped by his brother's house and Will and his wife Julia wanted Frank to stay with them until the storm ended. But he said "No. I feel like I need to get home." So he went on through that horrible storm and when he got home found Rachel dead and the three young girls terrified. Rachel had a hard life in the rough South Dakota country. After Rachel died, her old maid sister, Mary Carey, used to check on the girls at intervals. She lived in South Dakota, and after my Mom and Dad moved to Michigan, she would come to visit from time to time to make sure the girls were all right. My Mom always dreaded those visits! One story I remember hearing is that Dad's oldest girl, Lulu, wanted to take piano lesson very badly, so she made a deal with her father. If she worked all summer in the fields and around the farm she could take piano lessons in the fall and winter. When the time came, however, Rachel (Lulu's step-mother) said she needed a coat more than the piano lessons and there wasn't money for both, so Lulu never got her piano lessons. I think she and her step-mother didn't get along very well." 2. Land Patent (BLM), South Dakota, Rachel Carey, 8 October 1889: Legal Description: SWNE 18/ 118-N 56-W No 5th PM SD CLARK 3. On June 24, 2000 I visited the Prairie Hill Cemetery in Bradley, SD where Rachel Carey Rarick is buried. Her gravestone is next to the gravestone of her parents, George and Emily Wright Carey and her brother, Arthur A. Carey. The cemetery is well kept and in a picturesque setting. (See pictures in scrapbook). 4. From "Centennial History, Clark County, South Dakota, 1881-1981", pg. 110: "A group of early settlers in this area decided they wanted a church of their own denomination, so in 1888 a meeting was called by Rev. O.C. Carey [brother of Rachel, CH]. The following were charter members: Nelly McKenney, Geroge,Emily, A.A.[Arthur], M.[Myers], Mary E., and Rachel Carey, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hart, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. and Lizzie Young, Mary and Maggie McLeish, Louisa McEwen, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Allen, Dr. L.F. Case, J.T. and Sare E. Durdle, Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Westover, Mrs. Luca Todd and Mabel Hoover. This church was to be known as the First Regular Baptist Church of Bradley. Rev. C. W. Bennett was the first pastor. At the beginning, Bryant and McLauren Settlement and Bradley shared the pastor. Bryant soon left the parish and McLauren Settlement people came to Bradley. The Sunday School was organized in 1888. The first Baptist church was built in 1897 while Rev. Babcock was the pastor."
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