McCook County South Dakota Genealogy

McCook County
South Dakota

Edwin Stanton McCook (1837-1873)
McCook County, South Dakota is named for him.
Born in Carrollton, Carroll County, Ohio, March 26, 1837.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary of Dakota Territory, 1872-73;
died in office 1873. Member, Freemasons.
Shot and killed by Peter P. Wintermute, a banker and political adversary,
at a saloon in Yankton, Yankton County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.),
September 11, 1873. Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
See more about McCook County at The Political Graveyard.

McCook County, South Dakota is located in southeast South Dakota, and its county seat is Salem.

This county website needs a New volunteer to become the New Coordinator. If interested please contact the SD State Coordinator, Linda Ziemann at her email below :

SDGenWeb State Coordinator - Linda Ziemann

“A Proud Part of the USGenWeb”

About the South Dakota GenWeb Project How we got here and who we are. Cities in McCook County
McCook County Resource List 850 McCook County Names Graduates of St. Mary's High School Graduates of Bridgewater High School Bridgewater Telephone Company Montrose Photos Montrose Memories Book Index Jayne County 1870 Census 1909 - 1910 Gazetteer Publishing Co. Business Directory Bridgewater Canistota Montrose Ramsey Salem Spencer Unityville 1916 R. L. Polk Business Directory Bridgewater Canistota Center Church Records Bridgewater Methodist Church 1888 Montrose Methodist Church 1888 Salem/Spencer/Canistota Methodist Church 1888 Military Records Canistota's Seventy-Fifth Anniversary 1884 - 1959 Book	Cemetery List McCook County Cemetery List A list of all known cemeteries in McCook County. Canistota Cemetery Erik Olson Cemetery Hillside Cemetery Montrose City Cemetery Monroe Reformed Cemetery Pleasant Prairie Cemetery Pleasant Hill Cemetery Ramsey Baptist Cemetery Ramsey Pioneer/Hill Cemetery Rasmussen Cemetery Riverside Cemetery Rose Hill Cemetery Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery Spencer Cemetery Spring Valley Baptist Cemetery St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery St. Patrick's Cemetery Sun Prairie Baptist Cemetery Unityville Cemetery Wildwood Cemetery Also visit South Dakota Gravestones! Images of headstones all over South Dakota. A huge Thank you to Ken Tiahrt for all his work in getting cemetery info for our use!
Leave a Message McCook County Queries Looking for a relative? Check out our message boards to see if someone else is looking too. Fellow Researchers Check out this list for some other genealogist searching in McCook County.	Other Resources McCook County Resources and Lookup Volunteers If you have any resources available that you could do look ups in we need you! Email Jodi . McCook County Newspapers McCook County Churches
Did you know McCook used to be a part of a now extinct county? It was called Jayne County. It was established in 1862 and abolished in 1871. The parent county was Dakota Territory. It's successor counties are: Hutchinson, McCook, and Turner.	The early history of McCook County from "Within These Borders"
Maps of McCook County and South Dakota Maps to help you in your searching

About the South Dakota GenWeb Project

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In June, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the South Dakota Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in South Dakota, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index.

At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page.

2000-2014
Jodi Sides
Former County Coordinator