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Sent by Nell McLaughlin

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Estes Book, Walter Stenzel, Ruby Hiatt, Helen Ferguson, Leland Smith.

Obituary of W. K. Hiatt
Died:-- at his home three miles east of Thurman, March 14, 1902, W. K. HIatt,
aged 66 years, 11 months and 7 days.
W. K. HIatt was born near Peoria, Ill., in 1835. He has been a resident of Fremont Co. (Iowa) for nearly half a century. In 1866 he was married to Sarah Estes and to this union was born five children, N. J. HIatrt, O. H. Hiatt, Mrs. Sherman Penn, Mrs. John Woolsey and Emily Hiatt. He was converted in 1867 and united with the United Brethern church. The funeral services were conducted by Elders Mc Cracken and Barkhimer, after which the remains were laid to rest in the Mt. Zion cemetery.

Notes found in an old book, Sara A. was a sister to Martha who married
Joseph Hiatt.
Joseph was a brother to L. Page Hiatt, sons of Jesse and Mary (Proctor)
Hiatt.

1856 Census Iowa, Fremont Co., Sidney Township
Page 808 Elijah Hiatt Age 26 born Ill. Carpenter. and family, William K. Hiatt was living with this family.
William Hiatt age 21 born Ill.

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Presumably died about the same time as his mother, she died 4 years after
marriage and he at about 3 yrs. old.

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Sent by Marion Johnson. William and Charlotte are twins.

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Sent by Doris Travis

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Sent by Helen Andreason
William Luther Hiatt born 25 April 1889 at Salem, Utah, Utah son of Edmund
Franklin and Martisha Hutchins Hiatt. He spent his youth in Salem, Utah. When eight years of age his brother Wilford took him on horseback down to Salem Pond where he was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. After the baptism they wrapped him in a blanket put him back up on the horse behind Wilford and they returned home. Dating years came along and he loved to dance. He traveled from Salem to Spanish Fork, Utah by horse and buggy to attended the Saturday night dances.o This is where he met Mary Jane (Jeni) Moore. On the 24 Jun 1906 they were married at the home of her parents Hugh and Sarah Ann Jones Moore. Their children think this marriage to be one of the wisest decisions he ever made. Mary Jane Moore Hiatt was one of the noblest women in the world. They were the parents of fourteen children, two children died in infancy and they really struggled to raise the remaining twelve. A farmer by occupation William Luther filled his days with hard work.

His wife supported him working at his side to help. All the children were taught the value of hard work and the value of living a clean moral life. He was a good farmer. Most of their working years were spent in Payson, Utah. Although for a few years they lived at Blackfoot, Idaho. We remember him telling of traveling with team and wagon loaded with farming equipment from Payson, Utah to Blackfoot, Idaho. The trip took 9 days. Mother and children went by train. The move back which he made by horse and surrey took 6 days. This experience was a fond memory. Through the years they would prosper then fail and would state over again.
William Luther had many callings in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, serving as a choir leader for 7 years. The Choir was outstanding
and accomplished much good. He served in the Sunday School Superintendency.
He felt their greatest success to be taking the sacrament to the homes of the
ill and elderly that could not attend church.
After his father became elderly William Luther became president of the
Jesse Hiatt Family Organization. He served in this capacity for many years.
While he was president the first book of Hiatt-Hiett genealogy was family
history was published.
The family remembers him borrowing money to help finance this project.
Much good has come from the efforts of all those who worked so diligently to
accomplish this task. Many happy times were enjoyed from family reunions each year. Dances, good food, homemade ice cream. It is a musical family. They could usually get their own dance band together.
His wife Jeni died 1 Sept 1952 this loss was deeply felt by the whole
family. The children adored their mother. William Luther filled a mission to the Southern States for the LDS Church after the death of his wife. His
parents had moved from Mt. Airy, N.C. before William Luther was born, he being the first child born in Utah after the family joined the church and moved west. He married Carrie Clestella Corbett 7 July 1954 after he returned from his mission.
He recieved a very spiritual experience when called to be a ward clerk.
The morning of the day he was called he arose early. He heard a voice speak to him telling him he would be called to the position of ward clerk. Not telling anyone he continued working about the yard. The voice did speak to him three times during the day. He finally did tell his wife Carrie about the voice speaking to him and the message it gave. That evening the Bishop of the ward and the Stake President came to his home and he received the call. He served in this position for nine years.
William Luther lived to be almost 91 years old. He died 4 Mar 1980 and
would have been 91 the 25 April 1980. He was actively engaged in growing a
garden the summer before his death. He would remark "My spirit is so yopung
but my body is so old." He loved life. He loved to ride up the canyon and
find the tree where he carved his name when young, also to visit the areas
where with team and wagon they would go every fall to bring down a load of
wood. He enjoyed riding through the fields reminiscing at the places he had
worked as a youth and at the places he had farmed in his mature years. He
always requested "please go slow so I can get a good look at the fields." At
his death his descendants included 11 children, 50 grandchildren, 107 gg
granchildren and 10 gg grandchildren.
He had a firm testimony that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints is the only true church on the earth. He tried to live the commandments and work out his own salvation to the best of his ability.