South Dakota

“In March 1925, we left the Sand Hills for Pierre, S. Dak.” 

                                              Lena and Ava Speese Day, Our Sod House Memories

Charles and Rose Meehan Speese left Nebraska for South Dakota in 1925, settling in Okobojo, also known as the Sully County Colored Colony. There, they met the family of William and Octavia McGruder Day. Lena Speese married George Day in 1929, followed by the 1931 marriage of Lena’s sister, Ava, to George’s brother, Lou.