Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Hastings, Aaron May 2, 1808 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Jackson Township
p. 565 & 566

Aaron Hastings, the oldest native born resident of Wayne County, was born May 
2, 1808, a son of William and Sarah Hastings, his father a native of New 
Jersey and his mother of North Carolina. William Hastings went to North 
Carolina when a boy, and was there married. In 1807 he came to Wayne County, 
Ind., and settled in Boston Township, near the present town of Centreville. He 
cleared up his land and in the winter taught school. He died in 1845, from an 
injury received while chopping wood. His wife died in 1840. They had a family 
of twelve children, six of whom are living. Aaron Hastings was reared and 
educated in the county. In his early life he was engaged in farming; later he 
followed trading in stock, shipping to New York, and in packing pork. He was 
married in 1830 to Christina Reece, daughter of John and Ann Reece, of Henry 
County, Ind. They have had twelve children, seven of whom are living---
Solomon, William, Elias R., L. A., Margaret J., John, Mary Ellen. A son, 
Joshua, served through the late war, and subsequently died at New Orleans. Mr. 
and Mrs. Hastings are birthright members of the Society of Friends.


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