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Note N00328 Index

1850 Census Mill Township, Grant Co., Ind. Living in the household of
Larken Brooks, brother in law.

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This is the mother of Donald Baker who lives at 1919 So. Chestnut St.,
Casper, Wyo. Tel 307-472-4106. He is the family historian and is a "Mormon",
he is interested in the family history and has an original Hiatt family
history. He has the family bible and will be able to help with the family
information.

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Note N00332 Index

Sent by GEORGE MOORE

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Note N00334 Index

Came to Kansas 11 May 1956 from Indiana with his parents. Anna Jane is the
sister of Ruth Hinshaw, wife of William Bentley Hiatt.
Family Heritage File, Hiatt I and Hinshaw II, Lyon county museum library
and archives.
Lyon Co., Marriage records Book B., pg 143.
1865 Kansas Census Lyon Co., Emporia Page 13
1875 Kansas Census Lyon CO., Emporia Page 25
Obituary Abel R. Hiatt Dead, The Emporia Daily Gazette, Emporia Kansas June
11, 1927 Page 2
Vital records of Lyon Co., Book 2 Registar of Births,

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Died young and unmarried. See HH book, volume I, pg. 341.

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Note N00336 Index

Sent by Dorothy Morris.

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Note N00337 Index

Moved to Whittier, Los Angeles Co., CA

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Note N00339 Index

This is a brother to James M. Hiatt, he is 45 years old, living in Jasper
Co., Iowa, Linn Grove Twnshp.

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Sent by Roger Woelfel of Lakewood, Ca. and Anna Clark of Chandler, Az.
The date of birth are totally speculative, based on approx. age of 20 when
married. It is only for the purpose of keeping a perspective time so that it
is easier to try and trace the time period we may look for.
Information also sent by Robbin Faules and Jeanne Bonham, notes also by
Mr. Conrad Feltner, but have been unable to locate him for further information.
Marvin Crawford has Abner married in Garrard Co., Ky., same date.
Sources of information from sheet submitted by Robbin Foules of Bothell,
Wa. Possible other children. Deed Book 6 page 235 June 20, 1821 - Brown ?
Co., Ky. Will book M pg 117. Info fro Mrs. R.P. Hiatt, Children ky court
record book A, pg. 132 Suhe?

ROCKCASTLE ROOTS, by John Lair
A Genealogy of Rockcastle County, Ky. Families Edited by J. Allen Singleton
Pgs. 80, 81, 82
Although the Hiatts do not trace their Rockcastle County origin back as far as many others, they share with the Houcks, the Hayses and the Adamses the reputation of having one of hte most completely documented ancestral charts of any family in Rockcastle County. If it later develops that they are descended from Col. Jost Hite they will acquire the antiquity for their line which is now missing. (They are not of the line of Jost HITE )
The difference in the spelling of the name has here-to-fore discouraged
extensive ancestral research, but it is to be noted that such change of
spelling had an even earlier origin. The important figure in early American
history, Jost Hite, had already changed from Heydt to Hite soon after coming to America from his native Holland.
The Rockcastle Hiatts head their family tree with Abner Hiatt and his wife, the former Lucy Peaslie, who came presumably from Virginia and settled first in Singleton Valley near Great Saltpetre Cave. They are said to have come in with a group of several families travelling together for protection, most of whom were brought in as experienced powdermakers to operate the salpetre works in the cave. While living in Singleton Valley, Abner was bitten by a rattlesnake, with near fatal results.
The names of neither Abner nor his two sons, William Peaslie or Bennett
appear in the Rockcastle census report before 1820, but is is certain that they were here well before that date, since a company organized for service in the War of 1812, under date of November 10, 1814 showed William Peaslie Hiatt, William Bethurum and Bennett Hiatt furnishing substitues to take their place on the roster of the company in which Loftus Cook, of this county, was first lieutenant.....
Members of the Hiatt family have been among the more substantial citizens
of Rockcastle County. Albert Hiatt, son of Allen and Eliza Fish Hiatt, was for many years before his retirement president of Citizen's Bank of Broadhead. Peter James Hiatt was one of our outstanding minister and married more couples than any other county minister, with the exception of Rev. Morton Owens. Charlotte Sommers Hiatt, who married Abraham Chestnut, was mother of three prominent ministers: Rev. James Monroe, Rev. Benjamin and Rev. Abraham Chestnut. Willie Hiatt, Sr., was long a successful merchant and his son, Willie, Jr., is following in his footsteps.
Four generation of the family have been born in and raised around the old
Bennett Hiatt home in Renfro Valley. The only time they left it was in 1878
when Jones and Tabitha Hiatt set out with their family in a covered wagon in
search of a new location. In Arkansas Jones died of swamp fever and his wife
and children came back to the old home place. A few years later Jones'
brother, William, married his widow and helped to raise his brother's family,
one of whom was Jones (Pappy) Hiatt, the last of the name to occupy the old log house, which is still standing.