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Page 2 The John Green family came from Illinois and settled near Olivet, Dakota Territory in 1875, where they lived until moving to Okobojo Township in Sully County in 1883. As I remember hearing about it they moved from Olivet with Oxen and wagon with some farm equipment. The Glessner family came from Waynesburg Ohio where John had had practice as a jeweler, dentist and undertaker but no farming. It was rough going for all of the new settlers for the first few years but there is no object in my trying to describe their up and downs. The important part is that they made it. I do know that the main fuel was buffalo chips and twisted hay and if lucky a load of wood from the Missouri river about 20 miles away. I’m not sure if the Greens had a frame house the first year or not. But it seems to me that Glessners |