Hastings, Mrs. Robert

HASTINGS, FUNK, NEWCOMER, THOMPKINS, ICENBICE, WOLF, BROWER

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Date: 1/5/2013 at 07:09:52

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

HASTINGS, Mrs. ROBERT—Deep River Twp—pg 731. Section 14, P.O. Deep River. Her great-grandfather, Wolfgum Newcomer, came to America from Switzerland when ten years old; settled and farmed in Pennsylvania. Her grandfather was a farmer in Washington county, Maryland, where her father was born in 1781, married Catharine Funk, farmed, and died in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1830. Mrs. Hastings (nee Amelia Newcomer) was born in Washington county, Maryland, January 11, 1827; was married in Ogle county, Illinois, March 16, 1845, to Robert Hastings, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1821. His ancestors were Irish, and his father came to the United States and settled in Maryland early in life. Mr. and Mrs. H. immigrated to this county in 1855, and settled upon the present family estate. To them have been born the following children: Henry M. (born December 8, 1846; drowned in his twenty-second year), George W. (born January 11, 1849; married December 4, 1873, Sarah Icenbice), Oscar F. (born August 29, 1850; married March 14, 1878, Angelina Thompkins), Norval N. (born September 6, 1852; married Alfretta Wolf, December 16, 1877); Anna G. (born March 21, 1855; married April 3, 1874, to Jacob Brower), William C. (born February 14, 1857), Minnie M. (born March 15, 1859; married March 14, 1878, to Jeremiah Wolf), Kate V. (born December 24, 1860), and John T. (born March 29, 1865). Mr. H. died suddenly February 14, 1874. He was an active and consistent member of the Christian Church. He left an estate of 240 acres of excellent farming land and fifteen of timber. Eighty acres of the estate have been deeded to one of the sons, George W.