Aberdeen Weekly News Monday, Mar 16, 1903 

DEATH OF MRS. SLACK 

Pioneer White Woman of Brown County Expires at Mellette 

A telephone message Friday from Mellette announced the death of Mrs. H. I. Slack of Rondell. Mrs. Slack was the first white woman to come into the James River valley between where Huron and Jamestown now are to make her home. She came in with her husband and children in the 70’s and remained for a season, when they were driven out by the Indians and remained away for awhile, after which they came back and made permanent settlement about 1879 at what became Rondell. 

She leaves one son and three daughters, one of the latter being Mrs. R. H. McCaughey of Mellette, another Mrs. Dayton and the other Mrs. Buckland. The son is a well-known resident south and east of Aberdeen.  

 

 

 

 

~Transcribed by volunteer researcher, Kathy Smith