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Sent by Bernice Norris and Frank Cox.
Listed in the 1850 Census of Cass County, Adam Township.
Fulton County Indiana School Enumeration Record 1896, Rochester Library
Rochester, Ind.
Parents Harmon, Wayne Township, Mother Hester.
Children- Edward A. 11-male
Emma M. 14-female
Harry Elmer 6-male
John Ellsworth 8-male
Martha Frances 16-female
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Note N01609
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Heiss Quaker Records Vol 6, page 8.
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Taken from HH Book. Sent by Dorothy Lang Hiatt
Harold M.D. Recently retired from being head of Phychiatry at Cincinnati
Verternas Hospital; semi-retired from faculty of Physchiatry, Cincinnati
Medical School and Holmes Hospital.
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Sent by Sharon Wolf. Feb 5, 2008, note from rrdmid@comcast.net
Dear Mr. Anderson:
I have known about you for several years, but have never made contact with you until now. You sent me Hiatt information in pamphlet form several years ago. I saved every one, but could never connect any of htem to my Hiatt ancestory. now that I am retired, I am very interested in searching my fahter;s famnily. Living in Houston, TX, I was pleasantly surpriesd to find the Vol 1 of Hiatt/Hiett Genealogy and Family History: 1699-1949 in Houston's genealogy library. It was in this volume that I was finally able to locate my grandfather. In that volume, none of my grandfather's siblings and subsequent family was listed. My grandfather was Harold Dawson Hiatt (3468), (1603) (594) (146) (22) (3) (1). His name is listed on page 722 of the eighth generation descendants of George Hiatt, He was born 17-12mo-1881; Married 14-6mo-1905 to Louisa Chatterton: died 20-10th-1959 in Fairfield, IA.
My father, Lester Harold Hiatt was their only child. Lester had two children: I was born 7/11/34 in Ottumwa, IA. My brother, John Harold Hiatt was born 02/5/41 in Burlington, IA. John is living in Houston and has never married. I moved to Texas when I was 16 years due to my father's health. I am married and have two sons and eight grandchildren (all reside in Texas).
It is my understanding that you were working on the geneaolgy of George Hiatt. I would be happy to send you info on all my family, plus some info on my grandfather's siblings in Iowa and Oklahoma. I also saw on the web that in July, George Hiatt has been accepted into the DAR. I would like to get the Doumentation for my grandchildren. I just "googled" "George Hiatt" Patriot" and found that information. But, then you probalby already know about that. I would appreciate any info you have on my families ancestry. When or if George Hiatt Genealogy is completed, I would like to have a copy. Sincerely, Mary Lou (Hiatt) Dunn, e-mail: rrdmid@comcast.net phone number 723-462-2568: Address is 9023 Colleen Rd, Houston, TX 77080
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Lineage of Roger Woelfel of Lakewood, Calif. dated Mar. 1990.
Tribute of a Pioneer
Harold Herman Hiatt, a native of Mendocino County, Calif. passed away
early Sunday Morning April 30, 1978 in Hemet, where he had resided for the past 11 years.
Mr. Hiatt came from a long and distinguished pioneer family from Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. He could count among his ancestors 2 Revolutionary War Veterans, as well as a host of early settlers who were at the fore front of the Westward Movement. His grandfather, Elijah Monroe Hiatt, crossed the Plains to California during the Gold Rush. In 1867 he established a ranch along Dry Creek in Southern Medocino County at a place later called Yorkville, where he also operated a stage depot and served as postmaster for many years. E.M. Hiatt was twice elected to the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors. Among his 11 children was Theophilus "Lee" Hiatt, who operated a ranch and vineyard in the Hopland area for many years and retired in Ukiah in 1934.
Harold H. Hiatt, the son of "Lee" Hiatt, was born December 18, 1895 at
Hermitage, a post-hamlet in Southern Mendocino County. He took his stagecoach ride at age 9 aboard a Concord Coach on the Mendocino to Cloverdale run. A second early recollection in his life was the San Francisco Earthquake. On April 18, 1906, he was awakened at daybreak by what sounded like " a dozen freight trains crossing a trestle at the same time." On the horizon, he could see tremors coming from the South "like ocean waves," as giant pines waves back and forth and a yawning fissure raised a portion of the ranch several feet above the rest. That night, and for 3 consecutive nights following, the southern horizon was brillantly aglow from fires burning at Santa Rosa and San Francisco. Harold slept in the grainary for 2 weeks while the house was being repaired.
After completing grammer school in 1911, Mr. Hiatt removed to Healdsburg, in Sonoma County, where he attended high school for 5 months. He was then employed as an electricians apprentice and then journeyman electrician by Moore, Rose and Emerson, electrical contractors, and thereby began climbing poles and handling hot juice at the age of 15--befor insulators in down guylines were used for safety. At this time he also began driving his first automobile: a 1910, two-Cylinder, friction-cluth Blackburn which could get up to 50 MPH on a long downhill slope.
In August of 1914, Harold Hiatt returned home to help his folks move from Yorkville to Hopland. That winter he contacted a severe case of pneumonia. His life was saved by his mother's mustard plaster, the formula for which had been in her family for generations.
In the Spring of 1915, Mr. Hiatt was employed as a lineman for the San
Joaquin Light and Power Company in Bakerfield--later being transferred to
Fresno as electrical troubleman, and, by early 1917, as fire electrician.
After a short period with Western Union near Tombstone, Arizona, he joined the Army Air Corps at the outbreak of the First World War. He began duty in charge of guarding oil storage depots in Waco, Texas, but soon found himself climbing poles again. Severely injured in that capacity, he was discharged for disability in September 1918, received vocational training as a disabled vetern and worked for the next few years for a number of electrical contractors. On one occasion he was called to do some wiring at a house on North Lake Street in Los Angeles. There he met Christina C. Erickson. They were married November 22, 1920 and, after short stays in Fresno and Huntington Park, took up residentce on Sheffield Avenue in Los Angeles, where they lived for nearly 40 years.
Mr. Hiatt was employed as a lineman and pole spotter for the Los Angeles
Bureau of Power and Light (now the Department of Water and Power) from 1924
until his retirement in 1961. He narrowly escaped death on several occasions: especially on one December night during the late "30's when he was blown out of a manhole at 4th and Main by the expolsion of the circuit handling all downtown ornamental lights. He was a strong union man during the union movement's formative years: as early as 1911 he was involed in the "Reid-Murphy War" over control of the electrician's union in the Bay area. He was a member of the Executive Board of Local 161, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, at the time of the Los Angeles strike of 1944.
Mr. Hiatt retired to Ukiah in 1962, then to Hemet in 1967, where he
resided at 980 Marion Avenue until his death on Sunday. He is survived by his wife, Christina, his brother, Raymond of Ukiah; his daughter, Mary Jane Woelfel of Covina, Calif. his sons Harold, Jr. of Arcadia, Calif. and William S. of Memphis, Tennessee; 8 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. His
grandchildren will always affectionately remember his as "Bobo"
Mr. Hiatt born to a pioneer family, carried on the pioneer spirit
throughout his long and active life. He was an upright, independent,
hard-working man who made his own destiny. May his spirit live on in those who follow him.