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Anthony was adopted.
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SENT FROM MARY HIATT
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Some Quaker Families Vol I, page 544, 548. Anthony's son, Daniel Hiatt,
mentioned in this book. Living 13 Feb 1909. Vol II of before mentioned book # 1688, first wife Esther Mary James.
Daniel was married to Esther, sister to Zelinda who married Seth Hiatt
#1055 in HH Book Vol I. Daniel married 2nd to Phebe W. Heacock see page 343
Vol I, HH Book Vol I.
See Vol 4, Indiana Quaker Records, pg. 158.
(Hiatt, Anthony) wife Rebekah b. 12-23-1810
children: Calvin born 11-09-1830
Daniel 09-21-1838
Thomas 10-27-1840
See also HH family History, pg. 226, #381 The Quaker records has different dates.
- Anthony and Rebecca were second cousins, their grandfathers being brothers.
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See pg. 342 HH book, volume I, went to CA 1873/74 and was never heard from.
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Anthony was adopted.
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Sent by Helen Ferguson.
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SENT FROM FERRON HIATT
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Sent by Clifton Hiatt.
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Note N00593
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Sent by Laura Marshall.
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Sent by Mildrecd Wynes. Also taken from Vera, his sister, at the family
reunion Sept. 1, 1991. Archie once lived in Colorado, later retired in Mo. Oil
was discovered on his land in Colo. so he was able to retire on that amount.
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Went to California from Harper Co., KS.
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Sent by Barry Jackman.
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Sent by Bernice Norris.
From Index to Marriage Records of Pulaski Co., IN 1850-1920 by Indiana Works Progress Administration, 1940.
Archie M. HIATT married Sadie R. Royer - Dec. 28, 1910.
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Sent by Arnet Hiatt. They had no children.
This is from a letter from Arnet Hiatt in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1983 to
Evelyn Fox in Tipton, Ind.
Early on morning in the spring of 1869 four covered wagons pulled out from
the Levi Hiatt home near the northeast corner of Rigdon, Indiana. In the first
wagon was Silas Rich, his wife Mary Ann (May) Hiatt Rich. The family always
called her May, I remember my father speaking of Aunt May Rich. With them were
probably four of their children, Mimmie, Clara Effie, Hester and Willie.
Several of their children had died in infancy.
In the second wagon was Eli Lightfoot and his wife, Jemima Hiatt Lightfoot.
With them probably four of their children, but I am not sure which ones.
In the third wagon was Jacob Hiatt. Jake was 21 years old and was engaged
to a girl in Indiana. The next year he returned to Indiana and married her,
and brought her to Kansas.
In the fourth wagon was William Hiatt, 19 years of age, and his brother
Jonathan (Jot) Hiatt who was 16 or 17 at the time. The wagon and team belonged
to William Hiatt.
The wagons were pulled by two teams of oxen and two teams of horses. I am
not sure which had which, but am sure that the team of my grandfather, William
Hiatt were horses.
When they reached Kansas most of the land in the northern and central part
of eastern Kansas had already been homesteaded, so they continued on to the
south, and finally took up claims in western Labette County.
I notice that you say that your grandfather spent five years in Kansas.
That must be correct, for I remember my grandfather say that after several
years, Eli Lightfoot's father died suddenly in Indiana and that Eli Lightfoot
and his family returned to Indidna and took over the family farm. They sold
their homestead in Kansas. The year that I was five years old we lived on a
rented farm that joined the farm of Eli Lightfoot had homesteaded. I remember
hearing my father speak of that.
Silas Rich donated an acre in the southeast corner of his homestead for a
cemetery and both he and Aunt May are buried there. I don't remember them, but
as a child I remember our family visiting often in the home of Al Rich, their
son, who was of course my father's first cousin. I don't remeber the next son,
Jonatha, I think he died as a child. But I well remember Wilbur Rich, Fred
Rich and Ern Rich, as he was called. And I have visited often with the
youngest daughter, Gertrude or Gertie, who married Ollie Walker, and their
family. They had three children, Emily, John and Margaret. Emily died just
recently.
I know that Jake Hiatt and his family returned to Indiana after about ten
years, but don't know the reasons.
Towns and gatherings were few in those days. My grandfather, William
Hiatt rode horseback 50 miles to the town of Fredonia to attend a revival
meeting. There he met a 16 year old girl, Susie Long, and was so attracted to
her that he continued to ride to Fredonia to see her, and that fall they were
married, and he brought her to his homestead. Her father was the doctor in
Fredonia, and was fairly well off, had two servants to do all the house work
and the cooking. My gradmother knew almost nothing about cooking, and I have
heard her tell often, about how her husband had to teach her how to cook. One
of her favorite stories was about a week after they were married, and were
living his homestead claim that she noticed some pumpkins growing in the corn.
She asked him if he would like pumpkin pie for dinner. Of course he was
pleased and said that would be fine. So she picked a nice yellow pumpkin, took
it in the peeled it and cut into pieces. She had never seen a pumpkin pie
made, but she knew how to make a pie crust. So she made a nice crust, put it
in a pan, and filled it with the cut up pieces of pumkin, put a top crust on
it, and put int in the over and baked it. She had never heard that the pumpkin
was supposed to be cooked before putting it in the pie crust. My grandfather's
younger brother, Jot, was helping him with the field work that day, so came in
to chat with them. They finished the first part of the meal, then she cut a
nice piece of the pie for each of the men. My grandfather are a bit of his,
and she asked "How is it?" He was no much in love with her that he said it was
just fine and kept on eating it. But his brother, Jot, was not so polite. He
took one bite and just exploded.
The next year was a dry one and there was no stream running through my
grandfather's claim, so he sold his claim and he took the one west of it which
was still open.
A few years later the man who had bought his claim donated an acre in the
southeast corner to the Methodist Church, and the Methodist in the community
built a large one room church on the land. He had deeded the land to the
church with the provision that if the land ever ceased to be used as a church,
the title would revert back to whomever owened the farm at the time. This man
later sold his farm to another man who was a big sheep raiser. A number of the
Methodist in the community moved away and the church attendence dwindled so
that it became apparent that they would not be able to keep the church growing.
The new owner of the farm was not a Christian and was very happy about this
and bragged all over the neighborhood that he would soon be using the church
building as a sheep barn and what a fine one it would be. The few Methodist
that were left so hated for this to happen, and they approached a number of
Baptist who lived in an adjoining community, and it finally wound up by the
Methodist deeding the church and the land to the Baptist. That was nearly a
hundred years ago, and there is still an active Baptist church in that
building, the Hopewell Baptist Church. Needless to say, the sheep raiser was
very unhappy about this.
Enough of this, but I think these are two interesting stories connected
with the Hiatt families in Kansas.
To go on with what I know of the family history, my grandfathers older
sister, Sarah, the one just younger than Jemima, married John Pickard and they
later moved to Oklahoma. The family record says Covington, Oklahoma, and I am
not sure just where that is, but I remember my father telling about when he was
a boy going with his parents to visit his Uncle Johnny Pickard and his family
in Oklahoma City.
Jonathan (Jot) Hiatt, the younger brother who came to Kansas with my
grandfather, later married a girl from Kansas, Ella Pence. I know that I do
have a little more information about this family that I obtained when I visted
once with a daughter of Loren Hiatt, but I have misplaced it for the time
being.
The next brother, Aaron Hiatt, was married three times. The first two
wives and children by his first wife all died and are buried in Indiana. I
have visited their graves. Aaron and his third wife, with Lonnie Hiatt, the
youngest child of his first wife, and Claude Hiatt and Lloyd Hiatt, the sons of
his third wife, all came to Kansas somewhere around the turn of the century and
located in the town of Mound Valley, which was only a few miles from my
grandfathers homestead. As a small child I remember visiting with the Aaron
Hiatt's in Mound Valley. I remember him as a tall man with a full beard.
Lonnie, the oldest son, married and lived the rest of his life in Mound Valley.
Most of the time he owned and opperated a produce and cream buying station and
selling feed. He had seven children, Inza, Harold, Bryon, Chester, Hershel,
Kenneth Ray and Inez. Harold, Chester and Hershel are dead. Inza married
Lovell Mayginnes and now live in Stanley, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City,
Kansas. (1983) He is retired now and was a high school teacher and principal.
Byron lives in Denver, Col., Kenneth Ray in Fredonia, Kansas and Inez married
Joe Morrison and they still live in Mound Valley, Kansas.
You have perhaps heard of the Western Auto Stores? George Pepperdine, a
native of Mountain Valley started that chain of stores from one small store
after he moved to California. Claude and Lloyd Hiatt, the younger sons of
Aaron Hiatt were associated with Peperdine in these stores almost from the
first and spent all their lives in the organization. Harold Hiatt, Lonnie's
oldest son, also was with them until he died. George Pepperdine founded
Pepperdine College in Calif.
Loren Hiatt came to Kansas with his wife. I do not know when, I think I do
have the date somewhere, but have misplaced it along with the information
about Jonathan Hiatt. They settled near Glasco, Kansas. About ten years ago I
visited with his daughter Fidella who was living then with her daughter in
Concordia, Kansas.
My grandparents had two children, Meda and Morton, my father. He was born
in 1880 and died in 1969. Meda married Arthur Voris and they lived most of
their lives in Gutherie, Oklahoma. They had two sons, Carl and Walter. Carl
is dead and Walter lives in Buena Vista, Arkansas. My parents had six
children. I am the oldest, I was born in 1905. Then Lola, Ruth, Welma, Max
and Fred. Lola and Fred are dead. Ruth, Mrs. Byrul Joseph, and Welma, Mrs.
Lyle Witty, both live in Parsons, Kansas. Max lives in Altamont, Kansas.
After graduating from highschool I was a farmer until I was drafted into
the army in 1941. I spent five years in the army during WW II. After being
finally discharged from the army in Nov. 1945, I went to work for the soil
conservation service, spending most of my time there as a field engineer. I
retired ten years ago. My wife and I have had no children.