Biography of Henry Hiatt, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Henry Hiatt, an industrious farmer of Franklin County, was born in
Marion County, Ind., September 11, 1836, and is a son of Reuben and
Mary A. (Rogers) Hiatt, natives of Kentucky. The grandparents removed
from Virginia to Kentucky in an early day, and located on a farm.
Reuben Hiatt was born in Garrard County, Ky., where he was reared, and
whence, after his marriage, he removed to Indiana, settling in Marion
County in 1826; in 1844 he located in Johnson County on a farm, and in
1862 went to Kansas, where he died two years later. To Reuben and Mary
A. Hiatt were born five children, viz.: Hawkins, John, Reuben, Henry
and Sarah. At the age of nineteen Henry Hiatt went to Texas, returning
to Arkansas in 1856 and locating at Fort Smith. He married Angeletta
Taylor, daughter of Z. Taylor, and they have a family of eight
children, viz.: Mary A., wife of John Rank; William H.; Lillie, now
Mrs. O. Paggett; Sarah E., who married Robert Willis; Laura, Charles,
Eugene H. and Oscar L. Mr. Hiatt located on the farm where he now
lives in 1859. At one time he owned 640 acres, but he has given his
sons farms, and he now conducts a well-improved farm. In 1863 he
enlisted in the First Arkansas Battalion, United States Army, whose
headquarters were at Fayetteville, and served until the close of the
war, when he returned to his home. In politics he is a Republican. Mr.
and Mrs. Hiatt are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.