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Sent by Kenneth Macy

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Sent by Ron Tetrick

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Sent by Ron Tetrick

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From Beulah Whitwer of Tilden, Neb. Oct. 1967. "I don't know what relation Uncle Stephen Hiatt has left. They would be grandchildren. His son died this spring but could not go to funeral."

Amelia, NE
Nov 22, 1966
Dear Mrs. Hiatt
I saw your article in the Cappers Paper. That Jesse Hiatt was an Great Uncle of your husband.
We could be related to, as Jesse Hiatt was a great Uncle of my husband.
Uncle Leslie, Arthur & Elam were an uncle of my husband. We have the picture of the old apple tree and my husbands father, Stephen an Uncle Arthur & Aunt Evaline is standing by it.
If you ever get down here, would like to have you come & see us. My husband Arthur just passed away in June. (1966) I thought it would be interesting to write you.
Respectfully
Mrs. Arthur Hiatt, Amelia, Nebr.

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Found in paper from Sadie Hiatt Moore.

In some records his middle name was L.
A letter from Norwalk State Hospital to Sadie Moore.

Dear Mrs. Moore:
I am correspoding with you in regard to your late brother, Arthur L.
Hiatt, a former patient at this hospital.
You are no doubt aware of the fact that Mr. Hiatt was comitted here on
December 16, 1946 because he had a stroke, followed by irrational behavior and ideas of persecution. Since that time, he had been confined to bed rest because of a paralysis of the right upper and lower extremities. His blood pressure was elevated and he showed evidence of heart disease associated with hardening of the arteries.
Since his admission to the hospital, he was comfortable and constantly
under treatment for his heart condition until he gradually passed away without any pain on January 30, 1949.
Please be assured that while at the hospital he recieved the best of
medical and nursing care and was kept as comfortable as possible.
Yours Very Truly,
F.H. Garrett, M.D.

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Sent by Ruby Hiatt Casey Anderson, my mother.
Arthur had one son. According to Charles Holbrook of Los Angeles, Calif. Arthur had a son named Richard ? Arthur Dean Jr.? who had one girl.

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Sent by Doris Travis

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Sent by Dewey Tetrick

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Sent by Winnifred Scanland, Mildred Wynes
"Encounter at San Roque, P.I.-- Spanish American War."
If anyone has a copy of "Campaigning In the Philippines" about the Spanish
American War, they could find an account of Arthur R. Hiatt, "51 st Iowa
Regiment" and picture of their band on page 14, telling of a skirmish at San
Roque, P.I. He is the full story, with picture of the band.
Arthur was sent, with a small group of other soldiers, to scout for clean,
drinkable water around the abandoned huts. Those huts were built upon
stilt-like supports, and were of bamboo. After finding nothing elsewhere, my
father entered a more distant hut and noted that across the room appeared to be
a concealed sliding door. Crossing over, he pushed it back, and as he did so a
native, who had hidden in that closet, sprang out at him with two knives, a
bolo and machete. As Arthur leaped backward to avoid the attack, his foot went
throught the thin bamboo flooring and he was imprisoned in it. He was stabbed
in the chest, and his only recourse was to grab both knives, though they were
cutting to the bone in his hands. The native just then heard the shouts of the
other searching party calling for my father and leaped out and fled to another
hut, where he was trapped. Meanwhile Arthur had fainted from loss of blood and
was eventually hospitalized in Manilla. In the account of the skirmish, Arthur
was dismayed to read that the attack his mistakenly printed with the wrong name
of the victim, and he naturally corrected it on his copy of the book.
He was a member of the Elks, Independent Oder of Odd Fellows, (IOOF), and
the Masonic Lodge.