The similarity of last names
December 9, 2009
No.
No, I’m not related to any Vilhauers in Aberdeen.
I’m not related to any Vilhauers in Mobridge or Winner. I don’t know any Vilhauers in Madison. Or Mitchell. Or Milbank.
Yes, I understand that Vilhauer is an original last name. It’s easy to remember (even if it’s apparently difficult for marketers to spell) and it’s seemingly one of a kind, especially in South Dakota. But that doesn’t mean I’m related to anyone in Woonsocket or Volga or any small town scattered across the great plains.
All of the Vilhauers I know live here in Sioux Falls.
Which means I should probably stop wondering if the woman who works at the nearby Kum and Go is related to the very famous (and very deceased) Deadwood rebel she shares a last name with.
Because no. She’s probably not.
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I’ve come to discover that a clan of Rausch live in the Hoven, SD, area. Like you, I’m often asked if I’m related to “any Rausches from Hoven”, and, like you, I offer the requisite, “No, but I hear that a lot.”
Unlike you, the two Rausch factions were once a single unstoppable army. That family was torn asunder when earthquakes literally ripped the Rausch apart, putting cousins on each side of a massive canyon. That canyon was The Grand Canyon. And that family was The Rausch Family (but I already pointed that out to you).
Apparently just before I moved to South Dakota twenty-plus years ago, a man named Mathis killed his wife. Unfortunate timing for yours truly. And for the record, I was born in Oklahoma and raised in Iowa and as far as I know, I have no convicted murderers in my family.