Norman N. Hazelton

HAZELTON, VAN FLEET, LANDERS

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Date: 4/19/2020 at 10:22:50

HAZELTON. N. N. Hazelton was born April 5, 1843, at Madison, Ohio. He served two years and nine months as private, Company A, 111th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Was honorably discharged and returned to his old home in Ohio.

He soon moved to Wesley, Illinois, where he met and married Alice Anna Ball, January 19, 1867. He was baptized into the [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints], January 15, 1869, at Wesley, Illinois, by Nelson Van Fleet. Was ordained an elder, December 9, 1877, at Nobletown, Kansas, under the hands of Father Landers and Nelson Van Fleet. Removed from Kansas to Lamoni, Iowa, in March, 1881, where he has since resided, and where he died April 11, 1898.

He was the father of three daughters and two sons. Wife, three daughters, and one son remain to mourn. Services in the brick chapel at Lamoni, April 12; interment in Rose Hill cemetery. (The Saints' Herald, volume 45 p. 272)