”VOLGA.

Thomas Bandy—farmer; born in Indiana in 1827, moved with his parents to Iowa; left Iowa in 1853 and settled in Minn. Came to Brookings Co., in the fall of 1878, and settled one mile north of Volga, where he built a house in that year, and where he has since resided. Married to Elizabeth D. Ware, a native of Ohio, and has had ten children, one son deceased, and six sous and three daughters living.”

Source:  History of Southeastern Dakota, by Western Publishing Company, Sioux City, Iowa, 1881, page 385