FOUND IN FREMONT CO., CEM BOOK
FOUND IN ESTES FAMILY TREE
Sent by Leland Ruse Smith of Tabor, IA.
Sent by Marian Klima, Thelma Medlin, 1100 Taylor Ave. contacted the Family
Album with information from the "Hiatt Family History". She recieved the
information from her aunt, Vesta Ann Thornton Wood, who was married to Ralph
Wood, who was married to Ralph Wood. Ralph was the yougest brother of Thelma's father. There were 12 children in the family. The history book was published in 1964.
The three Hiatt brothers arrived in America from England prior to 1737.
One ancestor developed a Delicious Apple. In Winterset, Iowa there is plaque
in the city park "to commemorate the discovery in Madison County, Iowa, of an
apple variety by Jesse Hiatt in 1872."
This apple variety was orginally called the Hawkeye. Added information
from the book states that Joel an Patsy Estes, parents of Martha Ann Estes
Hiatt and Colorado pioneers, were the founders of Estes Park.