Charlie 'Charles' DuCharme

Charles was a Dakota Sioux man from the Cheyenne River Tribe

Biography:

Upon marriage to Mollie, Charles adopted the five (5) Benoist siblings from his first marriage.

1935 aerial photo of the Yankton State Hospital complex, Reuters

The Human Services Center in Yankton, South Dakota is a psychiatric hospital built in 1882. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1918, the hospital's name was officially changed from Dakota Hospital for the Insane to the Yankton State Hospital. This was done because of complaints that the original name had a derogatory connotation and other types of patients such as alcoholics, drug addicts, and epileptics were also housed there. The institution's name has been changed several times from South Dakota State Hospital for the Insane to South Dakota Lunatic Asylum to South Dakota State Hospital, to Yankton State Hospital.

Name and year of death from WPA 1941 Graves project for Corpus Christi Catholic Cemetery which is located near the site of the old mission on the Pine Ridge Rosebud Reservation, and is now known as Holy Cross, below is SD deaths on Ancestry
Charles Ducharme Hughes 28 Sep 1934

His profile is part of the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Canton_Asylum.

Research Notes:

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Sources:

1907 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6629-B7N8 : Sun Mar 10 05:06:07 UTC 2024), Entry for , 1907, pg. 695/819, line 757 (age 36), census of the Cheyenne River Sioux Indians, Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota

1910 May 6 - "United States Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPXT-72B : Fri Mar 08 01:42:16 UTC 2024), Entry for Charles Ducharme and Mollie Ducharme, 1910, pg. 44/1005, line 6 (age 39), census of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, Township 16, Dewey County, South Dakota

1930 Apr 2 - "United States Census, 1930", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQVS-J5D : Sun Mar 10 13:10:24 UTC 2024), Entry for Charles Ducharme, 1930, pg. 666/1155, line 25 (age 58), census of the Cheyenne Agency, Dewey County, South Dakota

1934 Sep 28 - "United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLRP-959B : Wed Jul 10 08:44:46 UTC 2024), Entry for Charles Ducharme, 28 Sep 1934, pg. 642/1079, line 801 (age 63), census of the Cheyenne River Reservation, Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota

1934 Sep 28 - "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL2-G94W : 16 October 2024), Charles Henry Ducharme, ; Burial, Pine Ridge, Oglala Lakota, South Dakota, United States of America, Holy Cross Cemetery; citing record ID 97295389, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
-Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97295389/charles_henry-ducharme: accessed November 22, 2024), memorial page for Charles Henry Ducharme (27 Jun 1871–28 Sep 1934), Find a Grave Memorial ID 97295389, citing Holy Cross Cemetery, Pine Ridge, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Becky (contributor 47506159).