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Note N01695
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Sent by Dewey Tetrick and Evelyn Fox.
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Note N01762
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Sent by Dewey Tetrick
From an Email, 8 Feb 2008
From jrosenow33@home.com
Subject: Re: Hiatts from ia. and ind
Date: 19 Jul 2001 17:14:06 - 0600
Dear Gene,
I have gotten back into my quest for info about my ancestors. I am originally from Elwood, IN (Madison Co.) which is a few miles from Grant Co. My grandfather was Jacob Hiatt (b. 1847) who was the first white child born in Green Township, Grant Co. His parents were Levi and Ann (Adamson) Hiatt. Levi was born in 1818 in Ohio.
I believe the Hiatts in Grant and Madison Counties aer all related. Many of them are buried in Forrestville Cemetary, just north of Elwood.
Do you have any information about Jacob and his siblings or Levi's parents and siblings? I would be so grateful for any info you have.
I am trying to find the connection between Levi and the original John Hiatt and Mary SMITH who came to America in 1699.
Thanks again Email me at jrosenow33@home.com
Judy Rosenow
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Note N03410
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See HH Book, also see Index of Surnames by the Iowa Gen. Society, Vol I,
pg. 132, 1972.
Information also sent by William Graham, 917 Bench Blvd., Billings, Mont.
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Sent by Dewey Tetrick
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Sent by Dewey Tetrick and Ron Tetrick
Indiana Neighborhood, Farms and Cemeteries.
Levi Hiatt owned 144 acres between Knox Chapel (Church and Cem.) and town of Rigdon, near where Madison and Grant Counties join. Knox Cahpel is near Point Isabel, Ind.
Days owned land 80 acres along east side of Knox Chapel Cemetery. SE of
Kokomo; NE of Elwood. Green Township, Grant Twp. Opened up in 1850.
Tetricks, Hiatts, Lightfoots, Days and Kelly, Sam Houston Tetrick's land in Madison County started at corner where Grant Co. meets Madison Co. on the Know Chapel Road. They lived in a cabin back in woods, gone now. Rigdon is on border between Grant and Madison Counties. All families lived in this
immediate area. Cemetery is east from Rigdon (Jog in road). Hiatts buried in Rigdon Cemetery, Ann and Levi, Oliver, oldest son. David and Jacob, William Tetrick buried here, too. (In middle)
Most Tetricks buried in Knox Chapel Cemetery prior to 1880 by chapel.
After across road.
Levi Hiatt came in 1848 to plat Green Co. from forest land.
Acid rain has taken off writting in most.
Hiatts: Levi and Ann Adamson
13 kids: Oliver oldest, married a Lightfoot. David b. 1859, Jemima 1873
married Eli Lightfoot, Jacob (Lawrence's line)
Cemetery east from Rigdon (Jog in Road) Levi Hiatt buried here, and Ann.
Oliver, also, David and Jacob.
1848 Levi came to plat Green Co. from forest land.
Per Lawrence: Levi Hiatt and Ann and Eli and Jemima Hiatt Lightfoot moved to Kansas. Hiattsville south of Kansas City by Fort Scott. Eli got word father died and he returned to farm. Levi and Ann must have, too, as buried there.
A David Hiatt married an Indian when he moved to Iowa and was kicked outr of Quaker church. 3 Books have been written on Hiatts. Index of Grant Co. cemeteries is in Public Library.
CHURCH
Kelly's were Presbyterian in Ireland prior to 1720. Many Grant Co. people were Presbyterians. 3 kinds of Presbyterians in early days:
1) Old Style
2) New Style; Kelly's in Ireland
3) New Prospect
Knox Chapel between Point Isabel and Rigdon, Ind. Pilgrim Holiness -
became Wesley Methodist Cemetery at Rigdon. - many belonged to it.
Quakers - Hiatts buried in Rigdon Cem.
(Preceeding notes taken from old notes copied and sent by Dewey Tetrick.)
This is from a letter from Arnett Hiatt in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1983 to
Evelyn Fox in Tipton, Ind.
Early one morning in the spring of 1869 four covered wagons pulled out form the Levi Hiatt home near the northeast corner of Rigdon, Ind. In the first wagon was Silas Rich, his wife Mary Ann (May) Hiatt Rich. The family always called her May, I remember my father speaking of Aunt May Rich. With them were probably four of their children, Mimmie, Clara Effie, Hester, and Willie. Several of their children had died in infancy.
In the second wagon was Eli Lightfoot and his wife, Jemima Hiatt Lightfoot. With them wer probably four of their children, but I am not sure which ones.
In the third wagon was William Hiatt, 19 years of age, and his brother
Jonathan (Jot) Hiatt who was 16 or 17 at that time. The wagon and team
belonged to William Haitt.
The wagons were pulled by two teams of oxen and two teams of horses. I am not sure which had which, but am sure that the team of my grandfather, William Hiatt, were horses.
When they reached Kansas most of the land in the northern and central part of eastern Kansas had already been homesteaded, so they continued on to the south, and finally took up claims in western Labette County.
I noticed that you say that your grandfather spent five years in Kansas.
That must be correct, for I remember hearing my grandfather say that after
several years, Eli Lightfoot's father died suddenly in Indiana and that Eli
Lightfoot and his family returned to Indiana and took over the Lightfoot family farm. They sold their homestead in Kansas. The year that I was five years old we lived on a rented farm that joined the farm that Eli Lightfoot had homesteaded. I remember hearing my fathe rspeak of that.
Silas Rich donated an acre in the southeast corner of his homestead for a cemetry andd both he and Aunt May are buried there. I don't rembmer them, but as a child I remember our family visiting often in the home of Al Rich, their son, who was of course my father's first cousin. I don't remember the next son, Jonathan, I think he died as a child. But I well remember Wilbur Rich, Fred Rich, and Ern Rich, as he was called. And I have visited often with the youngest daughter, Gertrude or Gertie, who married Ollie Walker, and their family. They had three children, Emily, John, and Margaret. Emily died just recently.
I know that Jake Hiatt and his family returned to Indiana after about ten years, but don't know the reasons.
Towns and gatherings were few in those days. My grandfather, William
Hiatt rode horseback 50 miles to the town of Fredonia to attend a revival
meeting. There he met a 16 year old girl, Susie Long, and was so attracted to her that he continued to ride to Fredonia to see her, and that fall they were married, and he brought her to his homestead. Her father was the doctor in Fredonia, and was fairly well off, had tow servants, to do all the house work and the cooking. My grandmother knew almost nothin about cooking, and I have heard her tell often, about how her husband had to teach her how to cook. One of her favorite stories was about a week after they were married, and were living on his homestead claim that she noticed some pumpkins growing in the corn. She asked him if he would like pumpkin pie for dinner. Of course he was pleased and said that would be fine. So she picked a nice yellow pumpkin, took it in and peeled it and cut into pieces. She had never seen a pumpkin pie made, but she knew how to make a pie crust. So she made a nicecrust, put it in the pan, and filled it with the cut up pieces of pumpkin, put a top crust on it, and put it in the oven and baked it. She had never heard that the pumpkin was supposed to be cooked before putting it in the pie crust. My grandfather's younger brother, Jot, was helping him with the field work that day, so came in to chat with them. They finished the first part of the meal, then she cut a nice piece of the pie for each of the men. My grandfather ate a bite of his, and she asked "How is it?" He was so much in love with her that he said it was just fine and kept on eating it. But his brother, Jot, was not so polite. He took one bite and just exploded.
The next year was a dry one, and there was no stream running through my
grandfather's claim. So he sold his claim and took the one west of it which
was still open.
A few years later the man who had bought his claim donated an acre in the
southeast corner to the Methodist Church and the Methodists in the community
built a large one-room church on the land. He had deeded the land to the
church with the provision that if the land ever ceased to be used as a church
the title would revert back to whoever owned the farm at that time. This man
later sold his farm to another man who was a big sheep raiser. A number of the Methodists in the community moved away and the church attendance dwindled so that it became apparent that they would not be able to keep the church growing. The new owner of the farm who was not a Christian was very happy about this and bragged all over the neighborhood that he would soon be using the church building as a sheep barn, and what a fine one it would be. The few Methodists that were left so hated for this to happen, and they approached a number of Baptists who lived in an adjoining community, and it finally would up by the Methodists deeding the church and land to the Baptists. That was nearly a hundred years ago, and there is still an active Baptist church in that building. The Hopewell Baptist Church. Needless to say, the sheep raiser was very unhappy about this.
Enough of this, but I think these are two interesting stories connected
with the Hiatt family in Kansas.
To go on with what I know of the family history, My grandfather's older
sister, Sarah, the one just younger then Jemima, married John Pickard and they later moved to Oklahoma. The family record says Covington, Oklahoma, and I am not sure jsut where that is. But I remember my father telling about when he was a boy, going with his parents to visit his uncle Johnny Pickard and his family in Oklahoma City.
Jonathan (Jot) Hiatt, the younger brother who came to Kansas with my
Grandfatherlater married a girl from Kansa, Ella Pence. I know that I do have a little more information about his family that I obtained when I visited once with a daughter of Loren Hiatt, but I have misplaced it for the time being.
The next brother, Aaron Hiatt, was married three times. The first two
wives and children by his first wife all died and are buried in Indiana. I
have visited their graves. Aaron and his third wife with Lonnie Hiatt, the
youngest child of his first wife, and Claude Hiatt and Lloyd Hiatt, the sons of his third wife, all came to Kansas somewhere around the turn of the century, and located in the town of Mound Valley, which was only a few miles from my Grandfather's homestead. As a small child I remeber visiting with the Aaron Hiatts in Mound Valley. I remember him as atall man with a full beard. Lonnie, the oldest son, married and lived the rest of his life in Mound Valley. Most of the time he owned and operated a produce and cream buying station, and selling feed. He had seven children, Inza, Harold, Byron, Chester, Herschel, Kenginnes, and live now in Stanley, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. He is retired now was a high school teacher and principal. Byron liveds in Denver, Colo, Kenneth Ray in Fredonia, Kansas, and Inez married Joe Morrison and they still live in Mound Valley.
Loren Hiatt came to Kansas with his wife, I don't know when, I think I do have the date somewhere. Fidella, who was living then with her daughter in Concordia, Kansas.
My grandparents had two children, Meda and Merton, my father. He wa born
in 1880 and die din 1969. Meda married Arthur Voris, and they lived most of
their lives in Guthrie.