The first Primitive Baptist church in South Dakota was organized on August 4, 1907, at Presho, in Lyman County, South Dakota, by Elder William T. Branson. Bro. Frank McCormick was also one of the charter members. Elder William T. Branson united with the Council Bluffs Church, at Loveland, Iowa, in 1887. In 1907, he was living at Reliance, South Dakota. He was probably the first Old School Baptist minister to preach in this state.
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