Hi Larry,
So sorry it has taken me so long to answer your e-mail and thank you for all the many years you have spent gathering material on the Hiatt family.
I realize the amount of time and energy it takes to undertake such a huge project. I have worked on other lines of my mother's genealogy and have compiled rather a large record on the Singletons, and I hope Del Taylor is still working on the Taylor lines of our family. I have also been working the the Jester line, which is the name of my mother's grandmother, Her name was Margaret Jester, who married Zachary Hutchins. I have three books on the Hutchins line, working with Rita Townsend to be sure that our family records are included in her books.
I love the work and have one son and his family who were also bitten by the Genealogical Bug. I broke my back in January, so my children didn't want me to live alone any longer so now I am living in a lovely Independent Living facility, the Coventry, and have a lovely apartment with almost everything I need from my home.
It has been lots of years since I began my own family history story, so now that I am 86 years old, my children are encouraging me to put more time in this effort.
My husband name is Joel McKay Jolley. He was born in Tropic, Garfield Co., Utah and passed away 22 May 2010. His family joined the church in Dresden, Tenn. in 1842, moved to Nauvoo, then to Utah in 1850. He had a large family. The oldest son and his family left Nauvoo and moved to Iowa, where they stopped to raise crops for those who were coming after them. The husband died the first year, 5 months after their 9th child was born. My husband's great grandfather was her oldest son. In the spring his widow came to Utah to live with her father in law who had been here several months.. There are a huge number of Jolleys as a result of the large posterity of this family. They have kept very good records and have published three volumes of their records.
I love the work on my family lines and would love to get a copy of the family pedigree chart, if you have one you could share with me. I would also be interested in getting a copy of the CD of the Hiatt records is they are available. How in the world do you manage to get the temple work done on such a large group of people?
. There is no longer an organized Hiatt Family Organization in Utah. I was the Sec/Treasurer and closed out all of the records about 20 years ago, when it was recommended by Pres. Ezra Taft Benson that we dismantle the older groups and break them into grandfather units, which we did. It was a good idea because many of the grandfather groups began having their own reunions,.
Thank you for all you have done to help gather and preserve the records of the Hiatt family.
Sincerely,
Mary Jolley
I would be interested in getting a copy of the up to date pedigree chart of the Hiatt family, if one is available.