“Grasshopper Cross”
402
1966
Union
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
The huge wooden cross in the cemetery, replaced the rude one erected on that day in May, 1876, when Father Pierre Boucher led his pilgrimage of Catholic and Protestant marchers back to Jefferson, after an eleven mile trek seeking Divine Intervention in the grasshopper plague. It was the third cross erected that miraculous day. The grasshoppers left.
Location
Union County, near St Peter’s Church in Jefferson (1988)