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John Dickinson “Jack” Hale

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John Dickinson “Jack” Hale

Birth
Oldtown, Grayson County, Virginia, USA
Death
9 May 1929 (aged 81)
Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA
Burial
Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA Add to Map
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Sec 1 Lot 189
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Pioneer Cattleman and horseman, served in the SD state senate, owned property in SD and WY. Also known as "Jack". One of the first two from South Dakota elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1967.

Jack Hale is third from the right in the photo. Tom Mix, the movie star, is second from the right.

Jack Hale married Anna E. Kost of Illinois on January 6, 1881.

He was also one of the sixty cowboys in Captain Seth Bullock's Cowboy Brigade. They took their horses by train to Washington D.C. in March of 1905 to honor Teddy Roosevelt by riding in the inaugural parade.

After freighting and trailing hogs, sheep and cattle into the Black Hills he pre-empted spme prairie land near Tilford in Meade County, South Dakota. This place he called the Pleasant Valley Stock Farm.

When it became crowded in Meade County he founded the JH ranch at Hulett, Crook County, Wyoming in the late 1800's..one of the premier horse operations in the Black Hills area. He sold horses to the cavalry at Fort Meade, South Dakota.

Jack Hale passed away at 82 years of age from issues related to his heart.

Survivors include the following; two brothers, Thomas E, San Diego, CA and Troy, San Diego, CA and three sisters, Mrs. Betty Roberts, Oakland, CA: Mrs. Alice Sutherland, Lincoln, NE and Mrs Stark Bryant, Sturgis, SD: a daughter Mrs. J. D. (Mary "Florence") Naftzger, Sioux City, IA and two nephews, Cabell Hale, Rapid, City, SD and Charles Roberts, Hulett, WY (from obit in Belle Fourche Bee, May 17, 1929)
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Pioneer Cattleman and horseman, served in the SD state senate, owned property in SD and WY. Also known as "Jack". One of the first two from South Dakota elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1967.

Jack Hale is third from the right in the photo. Tom Mix, the movie star, is second from the right.

Jack Hale married Anna E. Kost of Illinois on January 6, 1881.

He was also one of the sixty cowboys in Captain Seth Bullock's Cowboy Brigade. They took their horses by train to Washington D.C. in March of 1905 to honor Teddy Roosevelt by riding in the inaugural parade.

After freighting and trailing hogs, sheep and cattle into the Black Hills he pre-empted spme prairie land near Tilford in Meade County, South Dakota. This place he called the Pleasant Valley Stock Farm.

When it became crowded in Meade County he founded the JH ranch at Hulett, Crook County, Wyoming in the late 1800's..one of the premier horse operations in the Black Hills area. He sold horses to the cavalry at Fort Meade, South Dakota.

Jack Hale passed away at 82 years of age from issues related to his heart.

Survivors include the following; two brothers, Thomas E, San Diego, CA and Troy, San Diego, CA and three sisters, Mrs. Betty Roberts, Oakland, CA: Mrs. Alice Sutherland, Lincoln, NE and Mrs Stark Bryant, Sturgis, SD: a daughter Mrs. J. D. (Mary "Florence") Naftzger, Sioux City, IA and two nephews, Cabell Hale, Rapid, City, SD and Charles Roberts, Hulett, WY (from obit in Belle Fourche Bee, May 17, 1929)
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