Notes for Abraham Estes: From the book, The Estes Family in VA;
Journals of the House of Burgesses of VA
Vol. 1752-58 pg. 9
Petition of Abraham Este for a Runaway Negro who hath runaway and was found in the woods, was offered to theHouse and the question being put that the said Petition be received. It passed in the negative.
Vol. 1758-61, page 39, also page 64.
Several claims of Abraham Este (other names given also) for taking up Runaways, therein mentioned.
More about Abraham Estes: Fact 1: Abraham owned 100 acres of land in King and Queen Co., VA.Larry Anderson
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(2466.) JABEZ SMALL (874.) (232.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 30-9mo-1826.
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Found IN HH Book Volume I
FIFTH GENERATION: GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF WILLIAM HIATT
(874.) RACHEL HIATT (232.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 8-4mo-1804; (? m. (1St). to ---- Harris, by whom she had a son, Alfred ?).; m. (?2nd). (marriage bond, Wayne Co., Ind.: Amos Small to Rachel Hiatt - 1-1mo-1822)., to AMOS SMALL, son of Gideon and Sarah (----).Small; b. 10-8mo-1798; they lived for a time in Grant Co., Indiana.
CH: (2464.) Isaac H.; (2465.) Sarah; (2466.) Jabez; (2467.) Nathan M.; (2468.) Mary; (2469.) Malinda; (2470.) Eli; (2471.) Lemuel; (2472.) Leander.
FOUND IN HH BK
Sent by Ruhama Shannon from Sulgrove Family Record.
Kae Oats remarks that she has Randolph Co., IN instead of Wayne CO.(232). ISAAC HIATT (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 24 August 1778, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 28 February 1841, Wayne Co., Ind.; m. 20 August 1801 (date of marriage bond, Guilford Co., NC.), to HANNAH SULGROVE; b. 18 October 1782, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 30 August 1870, in Randolph Co., Indiana. Removed about 1814 from NC. to Wayne Co., Ind. (R44).CH: (873.) Catherine; (874.) Rachel; (875.) Enos; (876.) Jabez; (877.) Lemuel; (878.) Nathan ; (879.) Mary; (880.) William; (881.) Martha; (882.) Lydia.
History of Wayne Co., Ind.: p. 211 - Isaac Hiatt, on the quarter now owned by J. Butters and Robert Cox. (R92).
1810 Census, Guilford Co., NC.: Isaac Hiatt, Jr. - 1 male aged 26 to 45, 3 males under 10; 1 female aged 26 to 45, 4 (?). females aged 10 to 16, 2 females under 10.
1820 Census, Wayne Co., Indiana: Isaac Hiatt - 1 male aged 45, 2 males aged 10 to 16, 3 males aged under 10; 1 female aged 26 to 45, 2 females aged 16 to 26, 2 females aged under 10.
1830 Census, Wayne Co., Ind.: Isaac Hiatt - 1 male aged 50 to 60, 2 males aged 15 to 20, 1 male aged 10 to 15; 1 female aged 40 to 50, 1 female aged 15 to 20, 2 females aged 10 to 15.
Sent by Ruhama Shannon from Sulgrove Family Record. See also HHH by WPJ.
D/o James Sulgrove and Catherine Sullen.
(880.) WILLIAM HIATT (232.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 13-4mo-1817.
(2423.) TENA VIOLET HIATT (856.) (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 27-4mo-1871, Iowa; living 1950 near Perris, California; m. (1st). 27-12mo-1891, to JOHN HENRY POWELL, of Peoria, Illinois (b. in All.) ; d. prior 1903; m. (2nd). 27-9mo-1903, to OLIVER D. SILVERTHRONE, son of Richard and Anna Mary (Clendenning). Silverthorne; b. 1857, Muscatine Co., Iowa; d. 1935; bur. In Hill of Zion Cemetery, Adair Co., Iowa.CH: (By first husband). (4427.) Leonard Zane; (4428.) Lawrence Rex.
( By second husband). (4429.) Clen Denning; (4430.) Oliver Dorral. (R27).Mrs. O. D. Silverthorne resides with her youngest son near Perris, Riverside Co., Calif. __ Route 2, Box 9. She has furnished much interesting and valuable data on her Hiatt ancestors and relatives for use in the compiling of this volume.
Jesse Hiatt's daughter, Tena, once wrote me (Jerri Fredin), "When my father came to Iowa (in 1857, according to Johnson, 1949) he bought land. One 'forty was in wheat. Jesse bought the wheat of Wm. Fenimore for a new wagon, a
"Basin" Wagon."
Upon his arrival in Iowa Jesse moved his family into a log cabin that was located on "forty acres broken"-- a tract adjacent to the James Emerson farm and in the same section as the Hartwell Ogburn home.
On his 40 acres Jesse raised this first Delicious apple tree, which he called the Hawkeye, a nickname for Iowa taken from Fenimore Cooper's book, Last of the Mohicans. Grandmother Rhoda 86, who lived on the farm adjoining the
west side of Jesse's place from 1888 until c. 1897, described the base of Jesse's seedling tree as being the size and shape of one's fist. Jesse had cut his seedling tree down twice because it was 10 feet out of row with the other
trees in his orchard and he had plenty of seedlings. When it sent forth new growth for the third time, bigger and better than before, Jesse decided that God meant for it to live and allowed it to mature.
The Delicious has the distinction of being grown in every apple-raising country in the world. Although the Delicious was not introduced into Japan until the 1930's, the story of its introduction appears in history books used in schools throughout Japan. I smelled its sweet fragrancd perfuming an entire apple warehouse in the snowcovered hills on the northernmost island of Japan, where the Delicious is the leading apple. I saw bowls of Delicious apples set before large Buddhas in some of the more beautiful and historic shrines in Japan. Leading department stores in Tokyo sell large Delicious apples painstakingly imprinted with Chinese good luck characters.
(4427.) LEONARD ZANE POWELL (2423.) (856.) (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 15-12mo-1892; deceased. (R27).
"I am Terra V. Hiatt - Silverthorne, 1903 Daughter of Jesse Hiatt who grew the Delicious Appple, 1872, Born Apr 27, 1871 at Peru, Ia.
The - Apple discovered 11872. My present address - age 95 yrs 7 months
Wirton, California
2708 W. Kenny Ave."Reading 'Open Session' in Cappers Weekly a lady who wrote saying Jesse Hiatt was her husbands great uncle.
My Jesse Hiatt had a grandson - named Jesse. This Jesse, my nephew, married at Winterset, Iowa. Had one or more children. Divorced - left - I no nothing more of him or his family; except a letter from my neice in Iowa, wrote
when Melvin Hiatt died a brother of the niece and Jesse Hiatt came from San Diago to Melvins funeral near Winterset.
What do you know or could it be the child born at Winterset is the one my nephew Jesse Hiatt child?
I wrote to Mrs. Roote Editor C. Meelly asking about a lady who had made 270 quilts - I learned the lady was working with the Council of Churches (Several who prepared the material she lady did the machine sewing shipped hers also.
I sent Mrs. Roots my Missionary Program of quilting.
I use discarded material. Do all sewing by hand.
Have shipped over-seas - Hong Kong - three (Voise of China & Asia) missionaries 98 quilts - where I wrote to her two years ago. She printed my article. Since I sent by last overse - Feb. '66 I've send 125 q - added to 98 made 125. Hong Kong. I'm still quilting for Christmas, friends. Are you interested?
Terra V. Silverthorne (Letter written to Mrs. David Hiatt of 925 E. Sioux, Pierre, S.D. Dec. 1966.
(2423.) TENA VIOLET HIATT (856.) (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 27-4mo-1871, Iowa; living 1950 near Perris, California; m. (1st). 27-12mo-1891, to JOHN HENRY POWELL, of Peoria, Illinois (b. in All.) ; d. prior 1903; m. (2nd). 27-9mo-1903, to OLIVER D. SILVERTHRONE, son of Richard and Anna Mary (Clendenning). Silverthorne; b. 1857, Muscatine Co., Iowa; d. 1935; bur. In Hill of Zion Cemetery, Adair Co., Iowa.CH: (By first husband). (4427.) Leonard Zane; (4428.) Lawrence Rex.
( By second husband). (4429.) Clen Denning; (4430.) Oliver Dorral. (R27).Mrs. O. D. Silverthorne resides with her youngest son near Perris, Riverside Co., Calif. __ Route 2, Box 9. She has furnished much interesting and valuable data on her Hiatt ancestors and relatives for use in the compiling of this volume.
Jesse Hiatt's daughter, Tena, once wrote me (Jerri Fredin), "When my father came to Iowa (in 1857, according to Johnson, 1949) he bought land. One 'forty was in wheat. Jesse bought the wheat of Wm. Fenimore for a new wagon, a
"Basin" Wagon."
Upon his arrival in Iowa Jesse moved his family into a log cabin that was located on "forty acres broken"-- a tract adjacent to the James Emerson farm and in the same section as the Hartwell Ogburn home.
On his 40 acres Jesse raised this first Delicious apple tree, which he called the Hawkeye, a nickname for Iowa taken from Fenimore Cooper's book, Last of the Mohicans. Grandmother Rhoda 86, who lived on the farm adjoining the
west side of Jesse's place from 1888 until c. 1897, described the base of Jesse's seedling tree as being the size and shape of one's fist. Jesse had cut his seedling tree down twice because it was 10 feet out of row with the other
trees in his orchard and he had plenty of seedlings. When it sent forth new growth for the third time, bigger and better than before, Jesse decided that God meant for it to live and allowed it to mature.
The Delicious has the distinction of being grown in every apple-raising country in the world. Although the Delicious was not introduced into Japan until the 1930's, the story of its introduction appears in history books used in schools throughout Japan. I smelled its sweet fragrancd perfuming an entire apple warehouse in the snowcovered hills on the northernmost island of Japan, where the Delicious is the leading apple. I saw bowls of Delicious apples set before large Buddhas in some of the more beautiful and historic shrines in Japan. Leading department stores in Tokyo sell large Delicious apples painstakingly imprinted with Chinese good luck characters.
(856.) JESSE HIATT (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 19-2mo-1826, Indiana; d. Feb. 1898, Madison Co., Iowa; m. 30-11mo-1848, to REBECCA JANE PEARSON, d/o Jonathan and Violet (Hawhee). Pearson; b. 1828, Akron, Ohio; d. 1911, Madison Co., Iowa. To Iowa 1857; originator of the famous Delicious Apple.CH: (2414.) Sylvester Pearson; (2415.) Sarah Ellen; (2416.) Joseph Nelson; (2417.) Matilda B.; (2418.) Malinda D.; (2419.) Noah Webster; (2420.) William Lewis; (2421.) Sylvanus Loy; (2422.) Serena Jane; (2423.) Tena Violet.
"Jesse Hiatt (son of William). moved to Iowa 18??. Settled in Madison County. In 1872 he propagated a new apple which he called the 'The Hawkeye'. In 1894 he sold propagation rights to C. M. Stark Delicious apple. (R91).
1850 Census, Mill Twp., Grant Co., Indiana: Jesse Hiatt, 24, Ind., Farmer; Rebecca J., 22, Ohio; Sylvester, 9/12, Ind.; Elijah Hiatt, 14, Ind.; William Hiatt, 75, NC.; Elizabeth Pearson, 15, Ohio.In 1950 Mrs. O. D. Silverstone (No. (2423.), a d/o Jesse Hiatt). wrote: "My father, Jesse Hiatt born in Grant Co., Indiana, in the year 1826. He, Jesse, was youngest son of William and Elizabeth Betsy Sulgrove Hiatt who were parents of twelve children.
"I am youngest of Jesse Hiatts ten children, was born in 1871. In Peru, Madison Co., Iowa. My father, Jesse Hiatt on his death bed of (cancer of the face). - who died in Feb. 1898 told me this - 'three Hyatt Brothers, came from England in Colonial Days. One returned to England one year later. One brother moved on inland. One lived in Guilford Co., NC where my grandfather William Hyatt was born in the year 1775.' …. My grandfather William Hyatt (English spelled with 'y'). went to Randolf Co., Indiana when a young man. There he married Elizabeth Sulgrove, they reared a family of 12 children, the youngest of whom was my father, Jesse Hiatt born in Grant Co., Indiana in 1826. I think there were six sons and six daughters. I know the names of but few of them, since my father moved his family of wife and five children to Iowa in 1857. And most all of his brothers and sisters still lived in Indiana. One sister, Easter, who married a man by that name, came to Iowa. She is buried here 1879 or 1880. One, sister, Matilda, married Joshua Burson and one brother, Aaron Hiatt and one brother Elam Hiatt also moved to Iowa. Elam returned to Indiana. David Hyatt a brother - one sister Rebecca, still in Indiana.
"Elijah Hiatt, whose parents died -- and he, Elijah was reared in his (grandfathers and Jesse's home). My father, Jesse, remained with is parents, run the farm and looked after grandfather's orchard -- which was the first in that region.
"Jesse's (my grand). mother died 1848. William - his father died in 1855. Jesse, my father, married Rebecca Jane Pearson, 1848.
THE HISTORY OF MADISON CO., IA 1879
(before creation of the famous Delicious Apple)Hiatt, Jesse, Soctt twp., Farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 35; P. O. Peru; born in Wayne Co., IN, Feb. 19, 1926; his parents moved from there when he was very young to Grant county; was raised there; he married Rebecca J. Pearson, November 18, 1848; they emigrated to this county in 1855, and located where he now lives; they came by wagon and were twenty-one days on the road; owns 419 acres of land; they have five sons and five daughters; Sylvester P., Sarah E., Joseph N., Matilda B. and Malinda D. are twins, Noah W., William L, Tena Violet, Serena J. and Sylvanus L.
Sent by Paula Moore 1870 Census of Madison County, Township of Scott, Iowa. Page 06 Line 21 Jesse age 47 occupation farmer born in Ind., Rebecca age 42 Keeping house, born in Ohio Sylvester age 20 Works on farm born in Ind, Sarah 19 born in Ind, Joseph 17 born in Ind, Matilda 15 born in Ind, Malinda 15 born in Ind, Noah 12 born in Iowa, William 9 born in Iowa, Sylvenus 7 born in Iowa, Serena 7 born in Iowa.1880 Census of Madison County, Scott Twp., Iowa page 24 Line 04.
Jesse Hiatt age 53 born in Ind. occupation Farmer parents both born in N.C.,
Rebecca age 51 born in Ohio both parents born in Ohio, Matilda B. age 26 born in Ind, Malinda G. age 26 born in Ind, Sarah E. age 26 born in Ind., Noah W. age 22 born in Iowa, William L. age 20 born in Iowa, Sylvanius L. age 18 born in Iowa, Serena J. age 15 born in Iowa, Tina V. age 10 born in Iowa. All children were still home and single.Father Tree of Delicious Apples Is 60 by H.E. Hershey
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the discovery of the Delicious Apple in Madison County, Iowa, southeast of Winterset.
The mother tree did not come into bearing and reveal the remarkable quality of its fruit until it was eight years old, and now the aged tree, 68 years old, and still producing a generous crop annually, stands in a fenced enclosure in its original postion in the orchard on the old Hiatt farm, now owned by W. B. Landis, and received the homage of hundreds of vistors from 18 different states, from Maine and California, from Oregon and Louisiana, signed their names on the register kept at the orchard for the purpose.
It was in 1855 that Jesse Hiatt, the discoverer of the Delicious apple,came to Iowa from Indiana and settled in Madison County near Peru. After the first and most important tasks of building his house and breaking the soil were finished he turned his attention to the planting of an orchard, adding new varieties to his collection of fruit trees each year.Named Tree "Hawkeye"
In 1864 he purchased and planted several trees of the Bellflower apple, whose fruit he had known and loved in Indiana. One of these grafted trees died down to the root, but sent up a root sprout that grew vigorously, much to the disgust of the planter, who cut it off several times, not wishing to harbor and encourage any mongrel stock in his orchard. But in spite of discouragment the sprout persisted until finally Jesse Hiatt ceased his effort to eradicate it. And how fortunate for the world that change of heart.
Eight years later in 1872 the unwelcome sprout, now grown to be a stalwart tree, bore its first fruit, apples of unusual size, uncommon shape, and with a flavor and texture of flesh hitherto unknown.
Jesse Hiatt christened the new variety "Hawkeye" after the state of his adoption, and rejoiced in the discovery of this fine apple in his orchard.Sold Ten Million Trees
In 1894 samples of the fruit were submitted to a commercial nurseyman who recognized its excellence and the possiblities it held. He secured by contract the sole right of propagation, renamed the fruit "Delicious", and prepared for the distribution of trees of the new variety, securing the initial stock by cutting from the mother tree.
The one firm of nurseymen has sold 10 million Delicious apples trees to orchardists in the country. There are grown in all apple producing sections, and produce a crop conservatively valued at 15 million dollars annually. All of this fabulous wealth finds its original source in the grand old tree that still survives, well protected and cared for in the orchard where it came into existence.
Farm Orchard produced Iowa's Delicious Apple by Robert D. Woodward contributing editor.
In late April 1894, my grandfather planted an extensive orchard on ahilside overlooking his farm in the Little Sioux River Valley in Western Iowa. In a small red notebook, he logged the names of the pears, plums, prunes, cherries and apples that he planted.
Today the notebook remains but the orchard is long gone, living only in the happy memories of those who saw the trees blossom to life every spring and fill the cellar with fruit every summer and fall.
My aunt talks fondly and proudly of the orchard on the old family farm, and of the red and yellow Delicious apple trees she and her husband had on their own farms in late years father up the Little Sioux Valley near Correctionville.
For each Iowan, I suspect, there are times when thoughts of summer are linked to fruit trees- the beauty of the blossoms, of the fruit, of the trees themselves.
Of all the fruit trees, the apple is the most common in Iowa. The first settlers in the state found numerous wild apple groves, but as they laid out their farms, they added orchards with their domestic favorites, especially apples.
Hiatt makes historyOne of those settlers, a Quaker named Jesse Hiatt, was to make history. He discovered the Delicious apple.
It's hard to believe that there wasn't always a Delicious apple, but there wasn't, not until Hiatt discovered it on his Madison county farm in 1872.
Three Hiatts emigrated to Madison County in 1855 from Indiana. On his new farm, Jesse, who loved apples, planted an orchard, an orchard that in time would produce a Delicious seedling.
In commemorating the apple years later, Paul Stark of Stark Bro's Nurseries in Louisiana, Mo., told how Hiatt's discovery came to their attention: "In 1893, Jesse Hiatt sent four specimens of his new apple to the fruit show which my father conducted at Louisana, Mo., each fall. These apples being a new, unknown sort, were placed with other new kinds to be carefully tested when the fruit was judged on the last day of the show. I have often heard my father tell of his sensation when he first tested the samples."
But a problem developed; the name of the entrant had been lost, so Hiatt couldn't be located immediately. The Starks waited a year until the next fruit show, and sure enough, along came another entry from Jesse Hiatt, who by then was urging everyone to take a closr look at his prized apples.
This time, the elder Stark contacted Hiatt,who wrote back, telling of his special apple tree:
"During the last 8 years, drouth (sic) and cold have killed three fifths of my orchard but this tree withstood it. Bears annually, yielding large quantities of luscious fruit, both beautiful and delicious. Splendid winter keeper; all declare it to be the best apple in the world.
"I am nearly 70 years old and have raised apples all my life and would not willingly overestimate it, but if it si not a better apple than any of your large list, it will cost you nothing."Name Changed
Hiatt called the apple the Hawkeye after his home state, but the Stark family purchased the variety from him and gave it a new name. My father carried continuously a little red notebook in which he would jot down appropriate names so they would be ready for new fruits whenever they were discovered," Paul Stark said years ago. "Four a number of years he had retained... one name, for which he hoped some day to find a new fruit, which would be worthy of the name. That name was Delicious and the moment he bit into the samples sent by Jesse Hiatt, he knew he had found the apple he had so long sough."
As I enjoy the beauty of the fruit trees in our backyard in Central Iowa, I like to think of Jesse Hiatt and of the xcitement and satifaaction he must have felt in developing his new apple. I likfe to think, too, of the pride my grandfather must have felt back in 1894 when he seet out more than 70 fruit trees on a Western Iowa hillside. Each, in his own way, was contributing to what I'd call heritage.There is some confusing data on the headstone which confuses me, according to what we could see on his headstone, with that of Rebecca's, it gave a date of 17 Jan 1858? as death, cannot be correct. aged 71 years 10 mo. 23 d. Could it have been 1898? Still in that case the birth date would have been 25 Feb. 1827 instead of 19 Feb. 1826.
This story sent by Dorra Silverthorne
The Man Behind the Delicious AppleA resume of Jesse Hiatts life. Jesse Hiatt was born in 1826, of Quaker parentage, on the Wabash River near Marion, Indiana. William Hiatt his father, a fruit grower. Jesse moved to Iowa early in 1850's whith his family of five children. Located near Peru in Madison County.
Jesse with his brother Aaron built the Christian Chruch at Peru. He wsa a prosperous farmer raising cattle, hogs and wheat. Built the largest barn in the County it is still a land mark. He lived in a 2 room log cabin. His undoing was a wheat mill; crops failed leaving him in debt, fifteen years to pay off the total loss. Not until 1895 did he build his beautiful home, completed in 1897, cancer of ten years took his life one year later. He went to his eternal home with his lord Jesus Crhist in February 17, 1899. Jesse's father William went with his family to the meeting house Sunday. The ladies in their long dresses and bonnets entered on the right side of the Church and the gentlemen on the left. Being the silent friend people quietly enter and be seated on benches. In time one moved by the Spirit may pray aloud, another read the Scripture, or preach a sermon. Some times just sit and silently pray and meditate often in tears, an occasional sob as they prayed their hearts onto God, no singing. Finally a man would arise go to a neighbor and shake hands saying God Bless thre John or Joe. The meeting would brake up, hand shaking and disperse.
At night when bedtime came and when Jesse, a little boy was ill, if his mother should sing a lullaby to him, his father would quietly leaves the house. Jesse was fond of trying new fruit grafting swans for sprigs of one kind of fruit tree to another so sap can flow into the near sprig. So two varities are growing on the last tree. He successfully grew pair scions as a crab apple tree, most unusul accomplishment, which bare fruit.
His farm was a gathering place for children on Sundays. Lost of mellons, grapes, pairs, peaches, apples, black haws, and many friends came, eat at tables in the large barn, all welcome nothing like Uncle Jesse place.
My mother was the youngest of nine children. The events I am relating are in articles mother wrote and also has told me. Her home was spaceous surroundings, rose, flowers, trees, green lawns, a wonderful place except the two room log cottage. In later years mother and her sister and two brothers were condsidering Jesse's two apples he had eveloped over the years called the Hiatt Sweet and Hiatt Black Apple. It dawned on them that the Hiatt Black with its off set shoulder and five knobs on blossem end plass the qualities of the Hiatt sweet, red and yellow dots also its sweet, spicy taste if cross polinated would be the Delicious Apple Seedling in the Hiatt Orchard.Sent by jrosenow33@home.com 30 Jul 2001
Jessie was my Grandpa, he moved to Madison Co., Iowaa with his brother Aaron. They started the town of Peru, Iowa, outside of Winterset Iowa. They built churches and the only grist mill in the county. Jessie originated the Red Delicious Apple. He sold the rights to the Stark Bors.in Missouri. I have picturs of them and of the original tree, etc. Also I have the original crazy quilt that his wife Rebecca made in the 1800's in very good condition signed and dated. If any of this information is of any help to you, Judy, Please let me know. SIncerely Gene Hiatt, Hiatts@gcsn.com
RE: HIATTS from IA and IN by Jrosennow33#home.com
RE: Hiatts from IA and IN by jrosenow33@home.comFolks Around World Bite Info Better Apples, Thanks to Starks
SEPTEMBER 13. 1966 Cappers WeeklyIf you like apples or apple pie,it's time to polish a big - red apple of appreciation for Stark Bro's at Louisiana, Mo.: in 1966 they are marking 150 years of working for better apples to eat, and better fruits and plants generally for folks around the world.
On October 15 the Stark-Burbank International New Fruit Show celebrating the 150th anniversary, will be held at the city of Louisiana. U.S. and foreign growers will enter new fruits to be judged by national and international authorities."
U.S. flag of 1816, year nursery was founded, had 19 stars for 19 states, and 15 stripes
You've no doubt enjoyed fruit from Stark trees, for Stark Bro's Nurseries & Orchards Co. is the biggest organization of its kind in the world. Since it was founded in Missouri in 1816 it has sold between 75 million and 100 million fruit trees. Planted 20 feet apart, the y would circle the earth more than 10 times! The nursery is indeed known around the world, especially for improved new fruits and for its special dwarf trees that produce giant-sized fruit. Starks have continually brought to our homes, farms, and orchards new and better varieties of fruits, nuts, shade trees, shrubs, roses and other plants.
We find the Stark family figuring in the earliest days of our country. Capt. James Stark fought in the Revolution, as an aide to George Washington. For his service, the government gave Captain Stark a grant of land in Kentucky. Led by Daniel Boone, Captain Stark and other settlers went there in 1785. In 1792, a son was born to Captain and Mrs. Stark - he was named James Hart Stark. and he grew up to found the Stark Nurseries in Missouri.
As a boy, James helped his father grow apples and other; fruits. When he went pioneering himself, as a young man with a wife and baby son, he took along a bunch of apple scions, or twigs.
Across the Mississippi River., he built a log cabin and planted;
the apple scions. The family, grew until there were 17 young
(Sent by Mayme & Annis Bales)
Starks to feed, but the orchard grew as fast. As new settlers arrived, they came to Mr. Stark for grafted fruit trees, and he
found himself in the nursery
business before he realized it.Thru later Stark generations - now the sixth, the business has kept growing. Many branch nurseries have been added; Stark trees are growing in every state and on every continent.
In the early 1890s, Stark Bro's became interested in Luther Burbank's work, then little known. Starks bought several of his new hybrids, and the mutual interest continued more than 30 years, ending only with Mr. Burbank's death. Thru his wish, Stark Bro's was named exclusively to carry on his world-famous experiments and to introduce his new fruit discoveries and creations.
Stark Bro's searches the world constantly for better varieties. The popular Stark Golden Delicious came from a tree in West Virginia. Lloyd Stark (later a governor of Missouri) tasted an apple from the tree in 1914. He exclaimed, "It's a brand - new apple and it's got quality.
At once Paul Stark set out to talk to the man, A. H. Mullins of Odessa, W. Va., who had sent the apple. Mr. Stark found the apple tree first, after scrambling up a rocky mountainside, and was
doing some tasting when a mountain man suddenly, appeared. It was Mr. Mullins and the two soon arranged for purchase of the precious tree. They arranged to protect it with a big cage.The Stark Golden Delicious variety broke all records in quick acceptance in America and around the world. It's still growing in to popularity faster than any other apple. In fact, the Golden Delicious and Red Delicious types are people's two top favorite apples.
Stark Red Delicious is considered the most profitable variety ever found. It came from a tree in Jesse Hiatt's orchard in Iowa. He had tried to sell the tree to nearby nurserymen, but they laughed at him. No one in his right mind, they opined, would try to promote an apple with those queer bumps at one end.
But the moment Clarence Stark hit into this odd-looking apple, he exclaimed. "Delicious! That will be its name. Who sent this in?"
The `bumps'' became important assets as a way people could identify this great apple. Of course, the Starks bought the tree that had produced these wonderful apples.Starking Red Delicious Apples started as only a limb on a tree. About forty years ago, Stark Bro's got a letter from Lewis Mood of Monroeville, N.J., saying that a limb on one of his trees was acting strangely. The tree was a Stark Delicious he had bought from Starks several years earlier. All the apples on the unusual limb were a deep red, while all the other limbs were still green. Paul Stark went to New Jersey and bought the fabulous branch. Now it has millions of descendants, known as Starking Delicious; it has be-come the most popular apple in the U.S. and the world.
Even the Stark dwarf fruit trees resulted from a chance discovery. Men at Iowa State University found they could transform a standard young apple tree into a potential dwarf tree by grafting a six-inch twig of a dwarfing stock into it. The dwarf tree grew larger fruit- no one knew why. Stark Bros worked out their own patented process for producing dwarf apple trees. They paid $51,000 for the original semi - dwarf tree of Starkspur Golden Delicious and $25,000 for the original semi-dwarf tree of Starkrimson Delicious.
Stark dwarf trees need little space, but they yield big crops of giant - sized fruit. Starks estimate that millions of families, can now grow delicious health-, giving, tree - ripened fruit in their own back yards.
So, as young James Stark once helped neighboring settlers in a spacious new land, Stark Bros are helping Americans today to enjoy bigger and better apples even tho they most often settle on tiny city lots.June 7, 1966
Cappers Weekly
Stark Nurseries 150 Years OldYoung James Hart Stark, 24 years old, came to the banks of the Mississippi in 1816 with his wife and baby son. Carefully carried in his saddlebags were.apple scions, or twigs, from his home In Kentucky. The young pioneer homesteaded at a place that was to become Louisiana, Mo.
There he planted the apple scions. As new settlers arrived, they came to him for grafted fruit frees, and Stark was in the nursery business before he realized it. This year the company he founded is observing its 150th anniversary. Its headquarters are still at Louisiana, Mo. Stark Bro's Nurseries and Orchards Company is the largest in the world and is internationally known. Today Stark trees are grown in orchards in every state and on every continent of the world.
The story of the Stark family has been the story of America. Capt. James Stark, father of the founder of the Stark nurseries, served as a personal aide to George Washington in the Revolutionary War. The Captain received a grant of land in Kentucky for his brave services, and he traveled there with Daniel Boone and other settlers
James Hart Stark himself, fought in the War of 1812.
For a third of a century, the Stark family was associated with lather Burbank, "The Master Plant Breeder." At Mr. Bur-bank's request shortly before he died, Stark Bro's was chosen to carry forward his great work of improving, testing, and distributing thruout the world his new fruits and plantsFIFTH GENERATION: GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF WILLIAM HIATT
"In 1857 Jesse Hiatt -- wife and five children together with Elijah Hiatt his nephew, moved to the Iowa prairies. In Iowa on a farm in Madison Co., Iowa five more children were added to our family. The four girls died unmarried …. The Hiatts after coming to Iowa spelled their name with an 'I' instead of 'y'. The Hiatts, Quakers, were very devoted to the Lords work. My father, Jesse and his two brothers Aaron and Elam promoted the building of the first Christian church in Peru, Iowa, in 1858 or 1860. And were financial pillars until 1890.
"Aaron moved to Iowa in early 1850, bought land laid out a town named it Peru. My father and Elam Hiatt came in 1857." (R27).
STORY OF THE DELICIOUS APPLE
by Mrs. O. D. Silverstone
(No. (2423.) ). (R27)."Jesse (Hiatt). bought 320 a. prairie land, raised wheat, corn, hogs and cattle. Money was easily made. He built a large barn -- had money for a house but -- there was no flour mill nearer than 60 miles. Friends induced him to first, build a flour mill. Joshua Burson -- Brother in law -- agreed to help -- he, Burson had been a miller in Indiana. The mill cost $12 500.00. Father had to borrow money at 10%. Two years later the chinch bugs and drought made a crop failure. Taxes raised - so did interest - to 20%. During the many years of hardships following the building of the mill, together with crop failures Jesse had become very discouraged. And to rest from physical labors, Jesse went to his 6 a. orchard where he communed with the Almighty who makes he fruits and new grafts to grow. This was most restful to his weary nerves.
"In 1870 - 71 - 72 - the sprout which developed into the well known and world wide known Delicious apple appeared in his orchard. It was very thrifty, father had enough seedling - it being outside the row, he cut it down. He did it the second time. But it insisted - the third time he said - 'If you must grow you may.' Its first apple - so different, so beautiful and fragrant when he tasted it - his first words were - 'It is the best apple in the whole world.' Jesse never changed his mind; for twelve years he tried to find some one who would propagate them that the world might benefit by them. At last - as the whole apple world knows he found the right party. And with Higher help he paid off all indebtedness. And two years before his death 1898 - he built the new house he intended building 20 years before. He never received any compensation for his apple tree. But he left a tribute to the whole world -- though he is unknown." (R27).
Found in HH Book, sent by Jean Whitney, In the 1850 Census of Grant Co.,
Ind. Rebecca has a sister Elizabeth Pearson living with them, born in Ohio.
Located headstone of Jesse and Rebecca in the Peru Cem. 6 Sept. 1992. Died 31 Aug. 1911, aged 83 years 1 mo. 7 days.
(2415.) SARAH ELLEN HIATT (856.) (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 6-3mo-1851, Grant Co., Indiana; d. unmarried. (R27).Sent by Jean Whitney
never Married.
(2417.) MATILDA B. HIATT (856.) (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 12-3mo-1855, Grant Co., Ind. (a twin).; d. unmarried. (R27).Sent by Jean Whitney, Twin to Malinda D., Never married.
(2418.) MALINDA D. HIATT (856.) (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 12-3mo-1855, Grant Co., Ind. (a twin).; d. unmarried. (R27).Sent by Jean Whitney. Never married.
(2421.) SYLVANUS LOY HIATT (856.) (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 20-2mo-1863, Iowa; d. unmarried. (R27).
(2422.) SERENA JANE HIATT (856.) (229.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 21-5mo-1866, Iowa; d. unmarried. (R27).