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Helen Sarah Price  (1893 ~ 1977)

 

10.2.8. Eighth child of Eliza A. Adams and Francis Price, Helen Sarah Price, was born December 11, 1893, in Langford, Marshall Co., South Dakota, U.S.

  She married Joseph Hanson, son of Matt Hanson and Mary Larson, October 29, 1925, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and had two children:

 

 

  Helen S. Price Hanson died July 27, 1977, aged 83 years, in Aberdeen, South Dakota and Joseph Hanson died November 23, 1935, aged 45 years in Madison, South Dakota and are interred at Riverside Cemetery.  

 

 

----- MARRIAGE -----

 

Price—Hanson

At 5:30 o’clock Friday evening at the Presbyterian Manse, occurred the marriage of Miss Helen Price of this city and Joe Hanson of Marysville, Kansas. Rev. Francis E. Reese officiating. The bridal couple were attended by Marguerite Price and James E. Delp.

  Mr. and Mrs. Hanson will make their home in this city. Aberdeen Daily News, Nov. 1, 1925.

 

 

----- OBITUARIES -----

 

Helen S. Price Hanson

Mrs. Joseph (Helen) Hanson, 83, a resident of the Americana Healthcare Center, died Wednesday evening, July 27, 1977, at St. Luke’s Hospital.

  Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, July 30, at the Gates Funeral Home with Rev. Jerry Wickre of the First United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Visitation will begin at noon Friday at the funeral home.

  Helen Sarah Price was born December 11, 1893, at Langford, South Dakota. She grew to womanhood in that area and married Joseph Hanson. They came to Aberdeen in 1917 and she had resided here since except for one year when she lived in Washington state. Mr. Hanson died November 24, 1935.

  Survivors include one son, Francis, of Aberdeen; one daughter, Mrs. Irene Kaven, Littleton, Col.; one brother, Jerry Price, Britton; 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

  She was preceded in death by her husband and a number of brothers and sisters. Aberdeen American News, July 28, 1977.

 

Joseph A. Hanson

January 27, 1885 ~ September 23, 1935

County’s No. 1 Public Enemy Is Dead

Officials Reveal Long, Heinous Record of Jailbreaker

Joe Hanson, jail breaker, went to his grave unmourned this afternoon after a blood clot brought his death to him suddenly. His ignoble end came late yesterday, September 23, 1935, less than four days after he was shot through the abdomen at the climax of a manhunt near Lake Herman. Although he was said to have preferred death to the lengthy imprisonment which would almost certainly have awaited him upon his release from the hospital, Hanson’s condition was considered better yesterday. The fatal complication, technically described as an embolism of the coronary artery, claimed the fugitive’s life at 5:25 yesterday afternoon. Peritonitis, feared as a dangerous complication likely to develop from the intestinal wounds, had not set it. Had Previous Record While Hanson’s body was being prepared in the Campbell funeral parlors today for burial, local officials unfurled the long record which revealed Hanson as Lake county’s public enemy No. 1. Long before the badman came to Lake county to make his home last October, he had already amassed a sizeable criminal record. Officials at Aberdeen, his former home, said he had served a year’s sentence for grand larceny committed in Union county. Later he was convicted and sentenced to serve 10 years in the state penitentiary for a statutory offence committed in 1927 upon a 13-year-old girl. After serving about seven years of the sentence, he was paroled in June, 1934, and soon afterward came to Lake county, establishing his home on the northeast shore of Lake Herman at the site commonly known as the Anderson farm. Sheriff Walter Foley of Lake county searched his place September 8 and arrested him on a grand larceny charge on the complaint that he had stolen twelve hogs in Miner county. He was being held for Miner county officials in the city jail here when he sawed his way through a barred window a week ago. Posse Starts Search After he had been seen near his home, a posse of citizens and officials combed cornfields near Lake Herman last Thursday afternoon. Hanson was captured late that evening, when Special Deputy Glenn Erickson shot him to prevent another escape. Since that time he had been in the local hospital receiving treatment for the gunshot wounds. Investigations made by local officials preceding and following his arrest for grand larceny gave positive evidence that Hanson had committed many other offences. Particularly atrocious were statutory offences against two 12-year-old Madison girls. In one case, the offence was committed in the presence of the girl’s 11-year-old brother. Officials said Hanson had, in a half dozen or more other cases, attempted to induce girls ranging in age from 6 to 14 years to accompany him on promises of show tickets or candy. Besides the hog theft charge which was to have faced Hanson in Miner county upon his release from the local hospital, he was also implicated in a theft of 130 chickens near Clear Lake in Deuel county, local officials said. The chickens had been brought to Hanson’s Lake Herman home, where they were identified as the loot. He was also involved in smaller thefts which he had either admitted or for which officials had positive proof. State Investigators Sent Because of the heinous nature of many of his offences, the new state department of justice sent three investigators here to check evidence procured by Sheriff Foley and other local officials. Their investigations corroborated written statements made by informants. While Hanson’s body was taken from the Campbell funeral parlors here to his grave, his accomplice, Clarence Waldrun, is in the county jail here. Waldrun was also arrested last Thursday night, near the end of the manhunt, and charged with aiding a prisoner to escape. Officials said Waldrun placed a hack saw blades in the lavatory window of the city jail for his companion to use in sawing two heavy bears in the window. Being unable to furnish appearance bonds, Waldrun is being held to circuit court. Officials said Hanson’s divorced wife, as well as a 9-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son, is living in Aberdeen. She did not come here for his burial. Madison Daily Leader, Sept. 24, 1935.

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