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Surnames: Hastings, Rainey, Simes
Classification: Query
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Joseph Hastings. John Hastings the father of our subject, is the eldest of nine children,
and is a son of Joseph Hastings, who was one of the first
settlers of Indiana, and who died in Daviess Co., at the age of 80 years. John was born
in North Carolina, June, 10, 1805, and came to Indiana with his parents, where he lived
until 1856, when he moved to Kansas, and yet lives there, at the age of eighty years. He
has been a farmer. He was married to Rachel Rainey, who was born in Tennessee in 1801.
she died in this county, when on a visit from Kansas, in 1871. Our subject was born in
Lawrence Co., Ind., Sep., 14, 1825. he made his home with his parents until thirty-one
years of age, when he married Abigail Simes, in 1856, and located on the farm where he now
lives. He owns a 160 acres of well-improved land. He is a Republican, and has been an
assessor of Bogard Township for eight years and has also been township trustee. He and
his wife are members of the Christian Church,and became the parent's of seven
children: John A., Malinda A.,(deceased), Rachel, Emily,Andrew J., Sarah, and an
infant(deceased).
History of Knox and Daviess County Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing ;Chicago;1886
Page 887