He married Sarah Howard, the day that he left
for duty in the Civil War. After the war he returned home and farmed. They had
two boys, Morton H. and Ernest H. In 1881, after a divorce from Sarah, he moved
to Kimball, Brule County South Dakota. He started a Indian Trading Post and lost
it. Sarah and the two boys and Sarah’s sister Marion continued farming until
Morton married Emma Packard in 1888, and then sold farm to her brother Clark
Howard.
He was admitted to the Old Soldiers Home, Hot
Springs, South Dakota on February 28, 1911. After spending a lot of time between
South Dakota Human Services Center, in Yankton , South Dakota and the Old
Soldiers Home in Hot Springs, South Dakota. He was declared insane, on 3-29-1917
and transferred to Yankton, South Dakota on 4-2-1917, at 76 years of age. He was
listed as a Danes and not Dains, with senility conditions. I have no date of his
death and were he is buried, but will find out shortly.
Items from Old Soldiers Home forms:
Listed as: Henry S. Danes
Admitted: 2-28-1911
Declared insane: 3-29-1917
Discharged: 4-2-1917
Nearest Relative:Martha ????
Lady friend: Della Bordin, from Albany, New York
From: Kimball, South Dakota
From National Archives:
Ludlow Township, Allamakee County Iowa, 1870
Dains, HS 30 farmer, born Michigan
Sarah 32 keeps house, born Vermont
Morton 4 at home, born Iowa
Ernest 2 at home, born Iowa
From Postville Review, 1873-1898
Groom: Dains, Morton H.
Bride: Packard, Emma A.
Date: 6-6-1889
Place: Frankville, Iowa
Who by: Rev. W.H. McCuskey
Married. At the residence of the brides father, in
Frankville township, Winneshiek county, Iowa on November 27, 1873 by H.S. Dains,
Justice of the Peace; Mr. John L. Webster and Miss Sarah J. Letchford, both of
Frankville.
WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHO HIS FATHER AND MOTHER WERE