I csan believe Karen's storyies about the Hiatts...I have some wonderful stories like
that of mostly women who married into this family...guess they are what made it so strong.
Thanks for the stories....Linda B
Adversity is the diamond dust with which Heaven polishes its gems. Robert
Leighton
--- On Sat, 1/15/11, KarenHiatt <karen(a)hiattfamily.com
wrote:
From: KarenHiatt <karen(a)hiattfamily.com>
Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] FamilySearch
To: "inrandol(a)rootsweb.com" <inrandol(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 10:38 AM
Andrea -- glad you posted about
FamilySearch.org & that the list is so
active. Rejoycing with you on your find. I used to do a genea-Dance
when I had a breakthrough, & my husband used to laugh, I was so happy.
Good times.
I just took a 9 month break from my computer & when I came back,
FamilySearch.org
had changed. Confused. Then delighted as I found Bob's parents'
marriage record.
In Kentucky, not Randolph County where they lived.
With birth years changed to show they were 21. Not. She was 19, he was
18 -- & everything else matched. The family story was that they were
high school sweethearts & got married on Valentine's Day.
Yes. Valentine's Day.
Now, I've told myself a story (since Bob died in 2002 & I can't tell
HIM (;-)
Hazel Eagy, Bob's mother, lived with her father's older sister Nancy &
his older brother, a minister; & Hazel's brother. The brother died,
the minister died -- & Hazel & Aunt Nan were left homeless when they
had to vacate the parsonage.
Moving in with Hazel's father wasn't an option (he'd remarried after
Hazel's mother died -- & the marriage to Susan Redman Eagy hadn't been
happy -- long story -- she filed for divorce).
Aunt Nan wasn't Hazel's legal guardian, able to sign for her
marriage -- & away they eloped, from Winchester, Randolph County,
Indiana -- to Kentucky.
I'm happy with the story, even though I have no proof. But it weaves
together some other puzzles -- why Aunt Nan lived with the DeLoe &
Hazel Hiatt family 13 years later when Bob was born (Aunt Nan died
within a few days in 1927.)
It helps explain why Doc Huddleston, a long-time Hiatt family friend
from Winchester was staying with them in Illinois for Bob's birth & to
care for Nan. (family story was mumps epidemic).
I'm being careful to record my story as a surmise -- but I'm satisfied
after 10 yrs of looking for elusive details.
Nan's death certificate was also on line -- & that has me searching in
another Illinois County for Bob's birth certificate, which has eluded
us -- Bob's family memories stopped when Hazel died when Bob was 12 --
& he left home.
So what he "knew" about his family was sketchy.
Lots of "Bob" stories I'm now telling our grandchildren -- race car
driver at 13, cowboy on a ranch next door (;-) to the King ranch, park
ranger, lots of etc. & Bob lied about HIS age, too.
He couldn't volunteer for the army in WW2, so at age 16, he registered
for the draft on his new "birthday", June 25.
Since there wasn't a birth certificate found for him where he thought
he was born (Cook County, ILL) he used that 6-25-25 birthdate all his
life.
Even on HIS first marriage license, so he was 22 on paper, not 19.
& I just found out that HER mother lied about Elsie Roberts Hiatt's
age, too. Would like to have words with HER. What was she thinking?
I have a whole new perspective on genealogical documentation. People
lie on paper for a number of reasons.
One document alone is not proof of age.
One document can puzzle me, & another give me aha! moments.
I wish Bob were still alive to share his parents' wedding story with
him -- & I STILL want to have words with him about his too-young war-
time bride (;-)
Their daughter recently found me (through genealogy posts & then
Facebook) & we are trading stories, as her mother abducted her from
Bob's custody in 1955.
& she has some family stories about the young Bob Hiatt that are new
to us.
Ahhhhh. Genealogy is good -- & family stories are better.
Thanks for sharing your good news with us.
Warm regards,
Karen King Hiatt
In cold, snowy Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Cell phone e-mail
On Jan 15, 2011, at 9:24 AM, "Andrea - Genealogy"
<andrea.genealogy(a)pceaze.com
wrote:
I would encourage all of you to look into
FamilySearch.org, they
have done
an update to their website and have added lots of new documents some
of
which you can see. You have to register and then login but folks, I
just
found my ggg grandparents wedding issuance and where it was in
England.
Another break through for me, and I'm just giddy with it! I wish my
parents
were alive now so that I could call them and tell them! They had
worked so
hard on this line and were only able to go back to my g
grandparents. The
internet genealogy is just amazing isn't it! Yeap! Giddy!!!!
Andrea
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