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schoolchildren to her nearby claim shanty, fed them and sent them home.
• Coursey sat by his mother's bedside when she died in September 1914. "The last thing she said to me before she passed away was this: 'Son, you will never know the burden that was lifted from my heart the next morning after the Big Blizzard, when I looked out and saw you four older children scampering home over the snow-drifts, when I was positively sure you had all perished in the storm.'"
•  This moment in South Dakota history is provided by the South Dakota Historical Society Foundation, the nonprofit fundraising partner of the South Dakota State Historical Society. The South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre is an official site on the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail. Find the Foundation on the web at www.sdhsf.org

•  PIERRE, S.D. - Gov. Dennis Daugaard has ordered flags lowered to half-staff at the State Capitol on two days this week for former state Rep. Burdette Solum and former state Supreme Court Justice Frank "Rudy" Henderson.
• Flags at the Capitol will fly at half-staff on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in honor of Justice Henderson, who passed away Dec. 28, 2012, at the age of 84.
• Frank "Rudy" Henderson was an associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court from 1979 -1994.  Prior to that service, he was a state circuit judge in the Seventh Circuit from 1975 - 1979.  Henderson also served in the South Dakota Senate, representing Rapid City, from 1965 -1966 and 1969 -1970, and he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1970.  Henderson was a veteran of the United States Army, and earned a Bronze Star for his service in the Korean War.
• On Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, flags at the Capitol will fly at half-staff in honor of Rep. Burdette Solum, who passed away  Dec. 28, 2012, at the age of 85.
• Solum served nine years in the South Dakota House of Representatives, representing his native Watertown.  After serving a single term from 1991-1992, Solum returned to the House to fill a vacancy in 1998, serving until 2004.  Solum was a 21-year veteran of the South Dakota National Guard, and his unit was activated during the Korean War.  He was also the father of current Rep. Roger Solum, also of Watertown.