The Hiatt Families of Clinton County, Ohio

ABNER HIATT, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, an old pioneer of Clark Township, was born near Martinsville February 10, 1821. His parents, Christopher and Jemima (Hunt) Hiatt, wore natives of North Carolina and Virginia, respectively. They came to Clinton County in 1813, and settled in Clark Township, where Mr. Hiatt died April 7, 1808, at the advanced age of eighty-five. Mrs. Hiatt died in June, 1808. Mr. Hiatt, our subject, wuh reared a farmer’s boy, and always followed the pursuits of that avocation till 1800, when he embarked in the mercantile business in Martinsville, which ho pursued one year, and removed to Martinsville, and has since lived retired. October 14, 1841, ho was married to Elizabeth Lytlo, who boro birn two children, viz., Francisco, born May 14, 1843, and married Catharine Millikan. He served in the Eightyfifth Regimental Battalion of the Ohio National Guards. In June, 1803, he enlisted in Company F of the Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged at the close of the war. Florence E., our subject’s youngest daughter, was born August If), 1851, and married J. C. Edwards, a harness-maker and dealer in boots and shoes, in Martinsville. Mr. Hiatt is a member of tho Village Council of Martinsville, and in politics is a close adherent to tho doctrines of the Republican party. He owns a good farm of 152 acres on Survoy No. 1008.

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CLARKSON HIATT, farraor, P. O. Martinsville, was born in Clark Township, June 25, 1823. His parents, Christopher and Jemima Hiatt, were natives of Guilford County, N. C., and Grayson County, Va., respectively. The former was born February 5, 1783, and tho latter June —, 1784. They were married in Grayson County, Va.. and cairo to Clinton County in 1813, and settled in Clark Township, where Mr. Iliatt died April 7, 1808. Mrs. Hiattdied in Juno following. They had a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters. Our subject is the fifth son and ninth child The Hiatt family are of English ancestry. Their genealogy is traced back to one of three brothers, who emigrated from England with William Penn in 1682, and who boro the original name of Van Hiatt, but since its advent in America it has been modified and changed, omitting tho first part of the word. Mr. Hiatt, our subject, was reared and brought up on a farm, and was educated in the common schools. March 3, 1847, he was joined in marriage with Jane Hollingsworth, daughter of James and Esther Hollingsworth, natives of South Carolina and Bedford County, Va. Mrs. Hollingsworth was born January 25, 1800. Mrs. Hiatt was born in Warren County, Ohio, August 5, 1826. They have seven children, viz., Lorenzo T) Francis M., Evelyn (wife of Cary N. Cluxton), Albert P., Lora M., Warren E. and Edwin J. In 1848, Mr Hiatt located on tho farm ho now occupies, which contains 131 acres, and pursues agri, culture and stock-raising. Ho and family arc consistent members of tho Society of Frionds, and politically he is a close adherent to Republican principles, formerly advocating Whig policies.

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FRANCIS M. HIATT.

Francis M.- Hiatt. now an enterprising nnd well-known farmer of Clnrk township, this county, was born on January 10. 1N.11, in Clinton county, the son of Clarkson and Jane (Holllngsworth) Hiatt. the former a native of ("lark township, this county, and the latter born ne:ir Rochester, in Warren county.

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ISAAC HIATT, farmer, P. 0. Lumberton. The Hiatt family were among the worthy pioneers, who are of English extraction, and to whom we are pleased to allot a space in the columns of the Clinton County history. Isaac is a son of

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If l. ri a gtihlJQir inii attributed the after prosperity of the county. The marks of those early settlers and finely developed country should be regarded by after generations as monuments in their lives. He married, in the year the county was organized, 1810, Ann Perkin who was born in the same State, county, and the same year as he. She came to Ohio in 1806, and first settled near Waynesville, but at the date of her marriage lived in Copresent limits of Union Township, Clinton County, where her father and step-inotW both died, her mother having died in her native State. Hezekiah and wife trod th - path of united life for over three score years, when her death in June, 1872, severed them; but two weeks later he, too, entered his final rest. After having been Ion** and useful members of the church of their choice, “ the Friends,” they spent a long an 1 an eventful life in this county, such as is worthy of the imitation and admiration o! future posterity. They were the parents of ten children, nine of whom grew to majority, and seven are now living, Isaac being the second eldest, and was born January 4, 1813, in Clinton County, where he has ever resided, and, is one of its oldest native born citizens, lie was reared amid log huts and unbroken forests, which have been replaced by fine dwellings and outstretched productive fields, lie received an education as times afforded, and lias by energy and self-appliances acquired.-oulicient knowledge to carry him successfully through life* and is now one of the leading landholder* of his township. He is nicely located in Lumberton, with all the surrounding that constitute a comfortable home. Though time has wrinkled his brow and silvered hi.- hair, he has withstood the'storm of many a day, and for many years a member of Unchurch of his father. His marriage was celebrated September 5, 1844, with Plu-he Oglesbee, with whom he has had seven children; five are now living. Mrs. Hiatt was born January 18, 1823, and is a daughter, of John and Sarah Oglesbee, who were among the early pioneers of the county.

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A. C. HIATT, miller, Lumberton. To another of the native-born and worthy pioneers this sketch is consecrated. A. C. Hiatt is the youngest of a family of ten children, of whom seven are noyv living, and a brother of Isaac, whose biography appear* in this volume; was born June 28, 1827, in Union Township, Clinton County, Ohio, where he was raised to farm life and obtained a common school education, but by energy and industry he became self-educated, and is well fitted for his business. During life, lie has been principally engaged in farming, but in 1870 he engaged in his present vocation, and is noyv* the senior member of the firm of Hiatt & Wall, proprietors of tin Lumberton Grist Mill, elseyvhere mentioned in this volume. Mr. Hiatt’s political affiliations are with the Republican party, yvho have entrusted to his honor and ability the office of Justice of Peace three terms. In the year 1849, he married Louisa Babb, a native of Clinton County, and one year his junior. The issue of this union is six children, four of which are now living, viz., Robert R., William R., Hattie E. and Zenna. Mr- Hiatt is a daughter of Thomas and Mary Babb, who came from Virgina in 1811, and settled in Union Township, where they endured some of the pioneer privations, and where both died at medium ages.

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ALLEN HIATT, farmer, P. O. Lumberton. The progress, growth, development and present prosperity of Clinton County are unquestionably due to the enterprise, energy and foresight of her pioneers, and few of this class are more kindly remembered in Union and Liberty Township than the Hiatt family, whose genealogy and history largely appear in the above sketch of Isaac Hiatt. Allen Hiatt was born December 15, 1814, in Union Township, Clinton Co., Ohio, where he spent his early life, and in fact giving his father the benefit of his time until twenty-seven years of age, when he entered upon the duty of life for himself. He settled on his present farm of 250 acres, in 1855, and now owns two other good farms in the county. He is well situated in life, and possesses all that is essential to a neat, comfortable and desirable home. He is a practical and successful farmer, believing in doing all things well, and is surrounded by a fair selection of stock and farm implements. His interest in the welfare of all public improvements has well spoken for itself, during his life in Clinton County. He remained in single state of life until October 12, 1854, when he united in marriage with Mrs. Susan B. (Folger) Johnston, who was born August 25, 1823, in Cincinnati,

Ohio, the then embryotic city and present metropolis of the Central States. To this union have been given four children, all now living. To Mrs. Hiatt and her first husband, James M. Johnston, were given three children, who were raised by her and Mr. Hiatt in Clinton County. One of her sons, Albert Johnston, in 1861 responded to the President’s call for troops and enlisted to defend our country, for which he fought until life was extinct. On December 31, 1861, while engaged in the battle of Stone River, he was reported wounded, but was never discovered. Mrs. Hiatt is a daughter of John W. and Emma (Swain) Folger, who were both natives of Nantucket Island, and were distantly related to the material ancestry of Benjamin Franklin. John W. and Emma came to Cincinnati, Ohio, in an early day, where they matured and married, and he for many years followed New Orleans trading, but about the middle of the present century he buried his wife and married his second companion, who with him subsequently removed to Hennepin, Ill., where he died, and the widow still survives at the age of fourscore years.

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JOHN HYATT (deceased). Mr. Hyatt was born in Fayette County, Penn., July 21, 1804, was a son of Noah and Sarah Hyatt, natives of Maryland, but who removed in an early day to Pennsylvania and located in Fayette County, where they lived and died. He served through the seven years war of the Revolution, coming out of the war unharmed, and followed farming the balance of his life. They had seven sons and three daughters, all now believed to be deceased. John Hyatt, the youngest of his father’s family, was raised and grew to manhood in his native county; was married twice; first on August 3, 1826, to Nancy Lawhead, by whom he had seven children; five now survive — Mary A., wife of Lafayette Skinner; Sarah Jane, wife of Elisha Stackhouse, John H., George W. and Noah. Marshall I. (one of the deceased) served three years in the war of the rebellion, enlisting in Company B, Fortieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and while in the army took the measles, and from exposure took cold, which settled on his lungs, which was the cause of his death, January 20,

1877. In January, 1832, Mr. John Hyatt, with his family, removed to Ohio, and settled in Clinton County, on the farm where he lived till his death. His wife died October 1, 1848. On July 2, 1851, he married for his second wife, Mrs. Myra Winpiglar, a daughter of James and Hannah Hanly, natives of New York State; his ancestors came from Ireland. James and Hannah Hanly had seven children, three now survive — Myra, Susan and Jane. Mr. Hanly served three years in the war of the Revolution, contracting consumption, which finally terminated in his death. He studied medicine, intending to enter upon practice as a physician, but his health would not permit; he died in October, 1829. His wife survived him till August 5, 1870, aged seventy-five years. Mr. Hyatt, by his last wife, had three children — Louis H., born June 30, 1852; Barnett, born November 10, 1855, and Clara E., born January 7, 1861, now Widow Hodgson. Mrs. Hyatt, by her first husband, Isaac Winpiglar, had five children, two now living. Martha Helen, wife of George Robinett, and Rachel, wife of N. W. Vandervort. Mr. Hyatt died October 6, 1876. He was a farmer by occupation, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He started in life a poor man; when he landed in this county, he had but 25 cents left in money, with a wife and three children depending upon him for support. He located upon the place where his widow and two children still reside; there was but one acre cleared, all around was a wilderness. Here he labored through life, and by industry and economy, made his way through all discouragements and hardships, and before his death saw his farm cleared up and in good cultivation, with good improvements. He was upright in all his dealings, a man of character and integrity, and died esteemed and respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

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