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Submitted: 5/24/09 • Approved: 5/25/09 • Last Updated: 8/14/15 • R10485-G10484-S3
Birth: Jun. 21, 1841
Indiana, USA
Death: Sep. 10, 1909
Dell Rapids
Minnehaha County
South Dakota, USA
Pheobe Ferguson, daughter of Daniel Knapp and Sally Almira Wilson, was born Jun 21, 1841 in Indiana or Illinois and died Sep 10, 1909 [death date according to a certified death record] in Dell Rapids, Minnehaha Co., S.D. of a brain hemmorage.
Pheobe had six siblings - John, Mary "Polly", David, Charlotte, Daniel Jr. and Henry Knapp.
Pheobe married 1st husband - Jacob Caster Albertson on 10 Apr 1856 in Muscatine, Iowa.
Jacob Albertson died Apr 15 1862 in the war in Savannah, Hardin Co., Tennessee. Jacob and Pheobe [Knapp] Albertson had three children together: John Wilson Albertson, Sally Mira or Myra Albertson and William Albertson.
When Pheobe married Franklin Ferguson on January 06, 1864, he raised John, Sally and Wm. Albertson as his own children.
Franklin and Phoebe had seven children together - Senora (or Lenora) "Nora" Belle [my great grandmother], Monroe, Alexander, Charles, Peter, Nellie and Mark Ferguson. I was told that Monroe and Alexander died of Diptheria. Nora died of a heart attack.
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Obituary of Pheobe Ferguson:
Mrs. Frank Ferguson died Friday at the
age of 65 years after a lingering illness.
A husband, five sons and two daughters
survive her. The funeral was held Sunday
afternoon.
[Sioux Falls Daily Press dated
Sunday Morning 19 Sep 1909
Colton, South Dakota]
Contributed on 5/24/09 by dellsfig68
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