SENT BY SHERRY MITCHELL Taken from Kansas Poineets published Topeka Gen.
Society.
SENT BY SHERRY MITCHELL Taken from Kansas Pioneer published Topeka Gen.
Society.
Sent by Sherry Mitchell Taken from Kansas Pioneers published Topeka Gen.
Society.
Theron Genajah Hiatt, son of Henry and Abigail (Mead) was born 31 Jul 1868, m "The Last Day of the Fourth of July" at Twin Mound Kansas. He attended the Twin Mound School and the Lawrence Business College. As a small boy he watched the covered wagons headed west, and thought the sky was solid, with an archway for them to pass through. He was employed by Wells Fargo in Pueblo, Co., but he returned to Topeka in 1900 when his brother, Homer Hiatt, died, to run the grocery store in North Topeka. Homer left a widow and two small children.
6 Nov 1902 he married Mary Alice Fraser, dau of Sylvester and Mary Matilda (Guffin) Fraser. She was born 6 Aug 1874 near Meridan and as a child moved with her parents to near Dover. When the family moved to North Topeka, she attended the Old Quincy School. She worked as a dressmaker until her marriage, when they moved to a farm at Twin Mound, Kansas. She was known as "Mom Hiatt" to her many friends.
SENT BY SHERRY MITCHELL Taken from Kansas Pioneer published Topeka Gen.
Society.
She was born 6 Aug 1874 near Meridan and as a child moved with her parents to
enar Dover. When the family moved to North Topeka, she attended the Old Quincy
School . She worked as a dressmaker until her marriage, when they moved to a
farm at Twin Mound, Kansas. She was known as "Mom Hiatt" to her many friends.