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known as high-functioning autism.
• "She wanted more than anything to connect with those around her, and she did that through her actions," said her grandmother, Margaret Knaphus.
• Madison used money she saved from her own birthday to buy supplies for handmade cards, origami, sewing projects or storybooks to give her siblings and parents on their birthdays. She was well-mannered but not cuddly, Knaphus said.
• "Instead of hugs, she showed her zest for life by what she did for others," Knaphus said. "She was a gifter."
• Madison also was a determined child, according to Knaphus. At age 8, she was the only girl on her baseball team. She took lessons before and after school as a young child to improve her reading, and worked hard to hone her skills on the French horn, which helped her earn a scholarship to the South Dakota Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.
• Madison also mastered origami and loved to go bike riding, in-line skating and rock climbing, according to the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan.
• She was born in Orem, Utah, and will be buried in that state later.
• Eagle Tail's funeral is scheduled for Saturday in Rapid City, where he spent part of his life. An all-night wake begins at 5 p.m. and ends with the 10 a.m. Saturday service at the Mother Butler Center. Burial will follow in a Rapid City cemetery, according to Edstrom & Rooks Funeral Services at Serenity Springs.
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Judge sets bond restriction for SD murder suspect
• WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) -- A judge has ordered a South Dakota man accused in a child's death to have no contact with the child's mother and other relatives.
• Twenty-five-year-old Jay Barse, of Watertown, appeared in court on Tuesday. Judge LeeAnn Pierce kept his bond at $50,000 but granted the request by Codington County State's Attorney Dawn Elshere that Barse have no contact with the immediate family of the child if he bonds out.
• Barse is charged with second-degree murder in the death last week of 14-month-old Serenity Seaboy from head trauma. Authorities say Barse is the live-in boyfriend of the girl's mother.
• He is due back in court April 2.
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