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Note N01116
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Sent by Dorothy Lang Hiatt
Taken from HH Book. Page 434.
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Note N00807
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Harmon Hiatt Record, 1895
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Note N03035
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Sent by Richard Ratcliff.
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Note N03145
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Dau. of Thomas Purviance.
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Note N00264
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John Hiett and Sarah Locke were second cousins
The Hiett and Fichter Families of Brown Co., Ohio by Bruce Grimes.
John Sr's last Will, written Feb 10, 1865 and probated October 26, 1865 was witnessed by Andrew Neeper and Thomas Neeper. He gave his son, John, three parcels of land; the Parker farm, the Morgan farm, (the Hiett Family Cemetery is on the Morgan Farm) and the Sawmill farm. To his daughters, Eliza and Arbelas, assorted items including a "corner cupboard, that Jackson made." Appointed as executors: "my son John Hiett and my friend Andrew Evans." (Andrew Evans is the son-in-law of William and Mary Hiett, the other early settlers with whom John Hiett came to Brown Co.)
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Found in HH Book, Sent by Myrthilda Lamb.
Keziah and Soloman had no children.
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I have also that they were married in Richland Co., IL 11/14/1858. Jesse also went by HYATT.
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Sent by Mildred Wynes.
The Centerville Iowegian June 7, 1893.
Wedding Anniversary.
On Tuesday, May 30 a number of relatives assembled at the home of Mr.and
Mrs. Suel Hiatt, four miles south of Moravia; the occasion being the
celebrationof the 60th anniversary of their wedding day. according to previous arrangements, the children, grandchildren, and other friends, gathered all the old homestead bringing well filled baskets, thereby contributing to the nuptial feast. It was a pleasure to both parents and children to surround the parernal board, where they had so often gathered in days gone by. Father and mother Hiatt were married in N.C. in 1833; came to Iowa 1845 and settled the farm on which they now live. After dinner had been served, this being Decoration Day quite a number of the guest marched to the cemetery near by to decorate the graves.
Marriage information sent by Marjorie Smith of Erie, Kansas June 1987, found in North Carolina Archives.
William and Sara came form N.C. with their family in 1845. They first
went to Hillsboro, Iowa ( near Salem) Henry Co. They than went to Appanoose
Co., in 1849. The Morman Trail ran past their farm (east of Denny Cemetary in Appanoose Co., ) Salem was the first Quaker settlement west of the Mississippi River. The oldest legible stone in Denny Cem, in 1835.
Moravia Union, Moravia, Iowa 1 Nov 1819 Column "The Way it Was"
Now, information from the obituary of one of th earlies Moravia citizens:
"Williamson Suel Hiatt was born in Guilford County, N.C., on May 15, 1811. Departed this life January 28, 1889, being at the time of his death 87 years 8 months and 13 days old.
Mr. Hiatt was married to Miss Mahala Hayworth, May 30, 1833. To them were born seven children, 5 sons and two daughters. In 1845 he, with his wife and four children, moved to Henry Co., Iowa. In 1849 he moved to Appanoose County and took a preemption claim, built a house and lived a contented and prosperous life, enduring many privations, it is true, but with the wife of his youth he lived until July 31, 1893, when God called her hom, since which time one of his daughters and grandson have lived with and cared for him in years of his extreme age.
At the time of the death of his companion, he with six children were left to mourn their loss. The separation has not been long and he had gone into the great beyond.
Mr. Hiatt leaves behind him 6 children, 22 grandchildren and 16
greatgrandchildren. An old and respected citizen, a neighbor much respected
and lamented, a father and friend has gone, having lived out the measure of his days in peace.
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THE HISTORY OF MADISON CO., IA 1879
(before creation of the famous Delicious Apple)
Hiatt, Jesse, Soctt twp., Farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 35; P. O. Peru; born in Wayne Co., IN, Feb. 19, 1926; his parents moved from there when he was very young to Grant county; was raised there; he married Rebecca J. Pearson, November 18, 1848; they emigrated to this county in 1855, and located where he now lives; they came by wagon and were twenty-one days on the road; owns 419 acres of land; they have five sons and five daughters; Sylvester P., Sarah E., Joseph N., Matilda B. and Malinda D. are twins, Noah W., William L, Tena Violet, Serena J. and Sylvanus L.
Sent by Paula Moore 1870 Census of Madison County, Township of Scott, Iowa. Page 06 Line 21 Jesse age 47 occupation farmer born in Ind., Rebecca age 42 Keeping house, born in Ohio Sylvester age 20 Works on farm born in Ind, Sarah 19 born in Ind, Joseph 17 born in Ind, Matilda 15 born in Ind, Malinda 15 born in Ind, Noah 12 born in Iowa, William 9 born in Iowa, Sylvenus 7 born in Iowa, Serena 7 born in Iowa.
1880 Census of Madison County, Scott Twp., Iowa page 24 Line 04.
Jesse Hiatt age 53 born in Ind. occupation Farmer parents both born in N.C.,
Rebecca age 51 born in Ohio both parents born in Ohio, Matilda B. age 26 born in Ind, Malinda G. age 26 born in Ind, Sarah E. age 26 born in Ind., Noah W. age 22 born in Iowa, William L. age 20 born in Iowa, Sylvanius L. age 18 born in Iowa, Serena J. age 15 born in Iowa, Tina V. age 10 born in Iowa. All children were still home and single.
Father Tree of Delicious Apples Is 60 by H.E. Hershey
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the discovery of the Delicious Apple in Madison County, Iowa, southeast of Winterset.
The mother tree did not come into bearing and reveal the remarkable quality of its fruit until it was eight years old, and now the aged tree, 68 years old, and still producing a generous crop annually, stands in a fenced enclosure in its original postion in the orchard on the old Hiatt farm, now owned by W. B. Landis, and received the homage of hundreds of vistors from 18 different states, from Maine and California, from Oregon and Louisiana, signed their names on the register kept at the orchard for the purpose.
It was in 1855 that Jesse Hiatt, the discoverer of the Delicious apple,c
ame to Iowa from Indiana and settled in Madison County near Peru. After the
first and most important tasks of building his house and breaking the soil were finished he turned his attention to the planting of an orchard, adding new varieties to his collection of fruit trees each year.
Named Tree "Hawkeye"
In 1864 he purchased and planted several trees of the Bellflower apple,
whose fruit he had known and loved in Indiana. One of these grafted trees died down to the root, but sent up a root sprout that grew vigorously, much to the disgust of the planter, who cut it off several times, not wishing to harbor and encourage any mongrel stock in his orchard. But in spite of discouragment the sprout persisted until finally Jesse Hiatt ceased his effort to eradicate it. And how fortunate for the world that change of heart.
Eight years later in 1872 the unwelcome sprout, now grown to be a stalwart
tree, bore its first fruit, apples of unusual size, uncommon shape, and with a flavor and texture of flesh hitherto unknown.
Jesse Hiatt christened the new variety "Hawkeye" after the state of his
adoption, and rejoiced in the discovery of this fine apple in his orchard.
Sold Ten Million Trees
In 1894 samples of the fruit were submitted to a commercial nurseyman who
recognized its excellence and the possiblities it held. He secured by contract the sole right of propagation, renamed the fruit "Delicious", and prepared for the distribution of trees of the new variety, securing the initial stock by cutting from the mother tree.
The one firm of nurseymen has sold 10 million Delicious apples trees to
orchardists in the country. There are grown in all apple producing sections,
and produce a crop conservatively valued at 15 million dollars annually. All
of this fabulous wealth finds its original source in the grand old tree that
still survives, well protected and cared for in the orchard where it came into existence.
Farm Orchard produced Iowa's Delicious Apple by Robert D. Woodward
contributing editor.
In late April 1894, my grandfather planted an extensive orchard on
ahilside overlooking his farm in the Little Sioux River Valley in Western Iowa. In a small red notebook, he logged the names of the pears, plums, prunes, cherries and apples that he planted.
Today the notebook remains but the orchard is long gone, living only in the happy memories of those who saw the trees blossom to life every spring and fill the cellar with fruit every summer and fall.
My aunt talks fondly and proudly of the orchard on the old family farm, and of the red and yellow Delicious apple trees she and her husband had on their own farms in late years father up the Little Sioux Valley near Correctionville.
For each Iowan, I suspect, there are times when thoughts of summer are
linked to fruit trees- the beauty of the blossoms, of the fruit, of the trees
themselves.
Of all the fruit trees, the apple is the most common in Iowa. The first
settlers in the state found numerous wild apple groves, but as they laid out
their farms, they added orchards with their domestic favorites, especially
apples.
Hiatt makes history
One of those settlers, a Quaker named Jesse Hiatt, was to make history.
He discovered the Delicious apple.
It's hard to believe that there wasn't always a Delicious apple, but there wasn't, not until Hiatt discovered it on his Madison county farm in 1872.
Three Hiatts emigrated to Madison County in 1855 from Indiana. On his new
farm, Jesse, who loved apples, planted an orchard, an orchard that in time
would produce a Delicious seedling.
In commemorating the apple years later, Paul Stark of Stark Bro's Nurseries in Louisiana, Mo., told how Hiatt's discovery came to their attention: "In 1893, Jesse Hiatt sent four specimens of his new apple to the fruit show which my father conducted at Louisana, Mo., each fall. These apples being a new, unknown sort, were placed with other new kinds to be carefully tested when the fruit was judged on the last day of the show. I have often heard my father tell of his sensation when he first tested the samples."
But a problem developed; the name of the entrant had been lost, so Hiatt
couldn't be located immediately. The Starks waited a year until the next fruit show, and sure enough, along came another entry from Jesse Hiatt, who by then was urging everyone to take a closr look at his prized apples.
This time, the elder Stark contacted Hiatt,who wrote back, telling of his
special apple tree:
"During the last 8 years, drouth (sic) and cold have killed three fifths
of my orchard but this tree withstood it. Bears annually, yielding large
quantities of luscious fruit, both beautiful and delicious. Splendid winter
keeper; all declare it to be the best apple in the world.
"I am nearly 70 years old and have raised apples all my life and would not willingly overestimate it, but if it si not a better apple than any of your large list, it will cost you nothing."
Name Changed
Hiatt called the apple the Hawkeye after his home state, but the Stark
family purchased the variety from him and gave it a new name. My father
carried continuously a little red notebook in which he would jot down
appropriate names so they would be ready for new fruits whenever they were
discovered," Paul Stark said years ago. "Four a number of years he had
retained... one name, for which he hoped some day to find a new fruit, which
would be worthy of the name. That name was Delicious and the moment he bit
into the samples sent by Jesse Hiatt, he knew he had found the apple he had so long sough."
As I enjoy the beauty of the fruit trees in our backyard in Central Iowa, I like to think of Jesse Hiatt and of the excitement and satifaaction he must have felt in developing his new apple. I likfe to think, too, of the pride my grandfather must have felt back in 1894 when he seet out more than 70 fruit trees on a Western Iowa hillside. Each, in his own way, was contributing to what I'd call heritage.
There is some confusing data on the headstone which confuses me, according
to what we could see on his headstone, with that of Rebecca's, it gave a date
of 17 Jan 1858? as death, cannot be correct. aged 71 years 10 mo. 23 d. Could it have been 1898? Still in that case the birth date would have been 25 Feb. 1827 instead of 19 Feb. 1826.
This story sent by Dorra Silverthorne
The Man Behind the Delicious Apple
A resume of Jesse Hiatts life. Jesse Hiatt was born in 1826, of Quaker
parentage, on the Wabash River near Marion, Indiana. William Hiatt his father, a fruit grower. Jesse moved to Iowa early in 1850's whith his family of five children. Located near Peru in Madison County.
Jesse with his brother Aaron built the Christian Chruch at Peru. He wsa a prosperous farmer raising cattle, hogs and wheat. Built the largest barn in the County it is still a land mark. He lived in a 2 room log cabin. His
undoing was a wheat mill; crops failed leaving him in debt, fifteen years to
pay off the total loss. Not until 1895 did he build his beautiful home,
completed in 1897, cancer of ten years took his life one year later. He went
to his eternal home with his lord Jesus Crhist in February 17, 1899. Jesse's
father William went with his family to the meeting house Sunday. The ladies in their long dresses and bonnets entered on the right side of the Church and the gentlemen on the left. Being the silent friend people quietly enter and be seated on benches. In time one moved by the Spirit may pray aloud, another read the Scripture, or preach a sermon. Some times just sit and silently pray and meditate often in tears, an occasional sob as they prayed their hearts onto God, no singing. Finally a man would arise go to a neighbor and shake hands saying God Bless thre John or Joe. The meeting would brake up, hand shaking and disperse.
At night when bedtime came and when Jesse, a little boy was ill, if his
mother should sing a lullaby to him, his father would quietly leaves the house. Jesse was fond of trying new fruit grafting swans for sprigs of one kind of fruit tree to another so sap can flow into the near sprig. So two varities are growing on the last tree. He successfully grew pair scions as a crab apple tree, most unusul accomplishment, which bare fruit.
His farm was a gathering place for children on Sundays. Lost of mellons,
grapes, pairs, peaches, apples, black haws, and many friends came, eat at
tables in the large barn, all welcome nothing like Uncle Jesse place.
My mother was the youngest of nine children. The events I am relating are in articles mother wrote and also has told me. Her home was spaceous
surroundings, rose, flowers, trees, green lawns, a wonderful place except the
two room log cottage. In later years mother and her sister and two brothers
were condsidering Jesse's two apples he had developed over the years called the Hiatt Sweet and Hiatt Black Apple. It dawned on them that the Hiatt Black with its off set shoulder and five knobs on blossem end plass the qualities of the Hiatt sweet, red and yellow dots also its sweet, spicy taste if cross polinated would be the Delicious Apple Seedling in the Hiatt Orchard.
Sent by jrosenow33@home.com 30 Jul 2001
Jessie was my Grandpa, he moved to Madison Co., Iowaa with his brother Aaron. They started the town of Peru, Iowa, outside of Winterset Iowa. They built churches and the only grist mill in the county. Jessie originated the Red Delicious Apple. He sold the rights to the Stark Bors.in Missouri. I have picturs of them and of the original tree, etc. Also I have the original crazy quilt that his wife Rebecca made in the 1800's in very good condition signed and dated. If any of this information is of any help to you, Judy, Please let me know. SIncerely Gene Hiatt, Hiatts@gcsn.com
RE: HIATTS from IA and IN by Jrosennow33#home.com
RE: Hiatts from IA and IN by jrosenow33@home.com