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Note N00829 Index

Sent by Max Hiatt.

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Note N00830 Index

There is a mix up on persons of same name but different parents, same dates.

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Note N00831 Index

Sent by Sherry Mitchell

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Note N00832 Index

H-Died in freight train wreck. Was on caboose car with a train load of
cattle.
Note: No Death Certificate available from Phelps Co., NE.
Note: Conflict on Birthdate: 15 and 16 Oct.
S-History of Elsie, Nebraska.

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Note N00833 Index

Sent by Helen Ferguson and Leland Smith. Charles was also a pall bearer
of his Aunt, Sarah Estes Hiatt, wife of William K. Hiatt, March 9, 1911.

Fremont CO., Iowa Census 1885
Charles Hiatt 36 b. Neb. Drayman and Baptist.
Nancy 38 Ind. Baptist
David 19 Fremont Co., Iowa
Lilly 10 " "
Lila 8 " "
Jessie 5 " "
Mary Belle 4 " "
Fay 0 " "

Leland Smith notes that the cemetery book states that he was born in 1856 and died in 1928.

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Note N00834 Index

Sent by Charles Hiatt. I do not know my mothers family as I was orphaned
along with my two older sisters. My sister Lois went to live with our Aunt
Agnes Worden. They liveed in Indianola, Iowa for several years and then moved
to Calif where Lois died in 1927.
My sister Wilma went to live with an Aunt and Uncle in Chicago. I was
taken by my Grandfather and Grandmother Hiatt when I was 2 years old. I lived
with them until I was nine and then moved to Montana and lived with my Aunt
Sallie Hiatt Austin. We have no clues what happen to my father.

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Note N00835 Index

Sent by Helen Fergusen. Was living in Omaha in 1907, at the time of his
sisters ill health from an appendicitis operation.

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Note N00836 Index

Charles Lincoln Hiatt, was the oldest5 child of Elwood and Elizabeth Ann
Ludy. At the death of his father he recieved about 45 acres east of
Winchester, Ind on County Road 100 North. He married Clara daughter of Elijah
and Elizabeh McConnell Mote on Sept 25, 1890. They had a daughter Edna
Elizabeth, After Clara's death he married Jennie Myrtle daughter of William
Riely and Martha Parsons Cox. There children were Harold Willard, Frank
Elwood, and Martha Helen. After Myrtle's death he married Flora Belle Johnson.
Mr. Hiatt was a farmer, had a diary, drove a school hack and in 1926 opened
Hiatt's slaughter house for custom butchering. In 1946 son Harold and his wife
Martha Ellen daughter of Charles M. and Margaret Rogers Keppler moved to the
Hiatt farm and operated the slaughter house until his retirement in 1966. The
farm is now owned by Harold's daughter Marjorie Elizabeth (Mrs. Harry Ketner)

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Note N00838 Index

Sent by Howard Hiatt

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Note N00839 Index

Sent by Leland Smith.

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Note N00840 Index

Known as "Doc", was the Executor of his mothers estate, Betsy D. 1914.
He was a also liked to box, went to Colo. around 1926. Had a gold mine
which he sold shares of to several of his brothers and nephews.
Had a fur trading co. in Sidney and once killed a silver fox that he sold
for about $300 around 1920. Had a pool hall in Sidney.
Information sent by his dau. Lucile Moorelock, of Denver, Colo.
Sent by Leland Smith from the Tabor Beacon 27 Mar 1913
Imogene- Doc Hiatt a local fur merchant recently bought a fox pelt for which
he paid $6.50. thinking at the time he had made a good bargain. This belief
has since been confimed by fur experts who pronounced by fur experts who
pronounced the pelt to be that of a true silver fox, an animal much sought for
but rarely found. And now comes the story that the pelt has been sold for
$300. The animal which once wore this costly coat is said to have been
captured in the hills near Sidney, but since there is supposed to have been a
nest of cubs left, representing a small fortune, those on the inside are
naturally quite reticent about giving out information.
Charles Milton and his family attended the 1927 Estes Family reunion at
Estes Park and listed himself as a second cousin. He was living in Colorado
Springs at the time. Actually, Peter Estes and Esther Hiatt were his great
Aunt & uncle, Joel a first cousin once removed.