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The Isaac Marvilla and Mina Wade Family
Isaac Marvilla Wade was born February 12, 1867, in Yorkshire, England. He had seven brothers and sisters, four of which died in early childhood. Isaac was very artistic and created pencil drawings. On the bottom edge of one pencil sketch is: Sam Waugh's 1875 Great Horton National School. These are not marked in any other way. Perhaps this was a school that Isaac attended while still living in England. Isaac did sign and date a drawing of a cross with flowers, in 1882. (This was drawn one year after journeying to America.) Isaac came to America with his father, Joseph Wade in October, 1881. He was 14 years old at the time. They lived in Holyoke, Mass. for a short time and then moved to Dakota Territory in May 1883. Isaac married Mina Marie Smith on June 6, 1891. Mina was born January 11, 1875 at Macomb, New York. Her parents were Levi Benjamin and Abigail Mills Smith. She had one brother and seven sisters. In the spring of 1883, she moved with her parents and siblings to a farm northwest of DeSmet. Isaac and Mina lived with his parents for a couple of years after they were first married. Then Isaac bought a quarter of land, three miles east of Manchester from a man who had relinquished his homestead. Isaac and Mina's had four children: 1. Edna Eva Wade, born February 28, 1892. She died March 3, 1980. 2. Clarence Herbert Wade, born May 12, 1893. 3. Marvilla Lovell Lorenzo Wade, born February 25, 1897. 4. Royal Smith Wade, born December 18, 1899. (In a letter written to Freda Sipher May 19, 1976, Edna Wade Kessell recalled: I remember Dad going down and work on building, and mother would take us children in the baby buggy and walk to see Dad. My mother worked so hard and got cross with us children sometimes. Dad would get down on the floor and play with us and mother would say he was worse than the children. Mother would play the organ and Dad played the accordion and we would sing.) In 1901, Isaac and Mina took their young family and moved to Shubel, Oregon. They packed their personal property in a box car and traveled by train. Isaac created a pencil drawing of their home site and dated it, "Spring of 1902." In letters sent back to family, they wrote: July 20, 1902, "Oregon is a good place to grow onions," and on September 10, 1902, "Forest fires, had seen enough of Oregon." They stayed only two years and then moved back to South Dakota. Isaac homesteaded west of DeSmet. He and his father Joseph were both stone masons, so Isaac chose a rocky half section of land. He used the stones in building the foundations of the buildings on his homestead site. He built a stone foundation in a western slope. The first floor of the barn was stone walled about 2 or 3 feet thick with just enough space on the east side for one foot windows above the ground level. The west side was built of wood where the doors were. Then he built a huge hay loft and grain bin above that. Isaac suffered his first stroke in 1911. He recovered enough to continue farming. After his second stroke, Isaac and Mina quit farming and moved into DeSmet. Isaac died January 13, 1918, after suffering his third stroke. He died just one month before his 51st birthday. Mina married John Walsh on June 20, 1918, in Sioux City, Iowa. They moved to California a year and a half later. He also died. She remarried a third time to John Reiland on July 2, 1924, and lived in San Diego, California. They returned to South Dakota in 1938. She died on September 6, 1944. (Some of this information was taken from a family history written by Lloyd Kessell and journal entries from Beatrice Wade Sipher.)
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