In eighteen eighty-five, "Mollie" Delahunty was teaching in Antelopeville (now Kimball) and staying at the home of the Lynchs. Jennie Hunt is frequently referred to and believed to be the first teacher, but according to Oberfelder, she must have followed Miss Delahunty. This is also supported by the record of teachers' certificates issued in Cheyenne county. Daniel Klein says that the first teacher was Lorena Thomas, but that must have been after Sioux count}- was organized. Lorena Thomas was one of the first teachers in the organized county, but she was then only seventeen years of age. The first school in district number one was about four years before that, and Miss Lorena Thomas was then only about thirteen years old.

Back to thi; Beginning

The busy mind of the present generation may not find it uninteresting to go back to the beginning of things in Sioux count}'. Not entirely to the days of Sage or the American Fur Company, nor even to the time of Indian war. But to the days when George Gerlach was rounding up cattle on Sioux county's bread acres, and join with him and his early associates in some of the early pranks of abundant vitality and buoj - ant youth.

One of these affairs was on the old Dull Knife battle ground near Harrison. While rambling through the hills northwest of tin town, he stumbled upon the slightly exposed remains of some of the Indians that had fallen when Dull Knife's band had made its break for liberty from the barracks al Fort Robinson. Among his findings was the scalp and long hair of an Indian, and a skull. He decorated his. own head with the wig of the Indian and elevated the skull upon a stick. Thus decorated, he made a spectac ular invasion of the home of his parents, and his mother, in the queer way that mothers have, failed to appreciate the prowess of her son.