STREET, AARON JR.

STREET, PURCELL, HAINES, HILL, CAMP, HIATT

Posted By: Janice Sowers (email)
Date: 8/1/2006 at 15:18:43

PIONEER DAYS-HESPTER TOWNSHIP 1851-1941

Aaron Street, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth and children came to Winneshiek County in 1855 from Salem, Iowa. His father, Aaron Street, Sr., was the first settler of that town located twelve miles from Mr. Pleasant, in Henry County. They first settled in the community of Springwater, but came to Hesper township in a few years where the family home was situated for many years. They then went to the Indian territory in Oklahoma where he engaged in teaching. He was taken ill with typhiod fever and passed away there and Mrs. Street returned to Hesper.

One of the children, Bailey Street, was a leader of the Society of Friends. Although having a meager advantage of a new country, he acquired a good common school education and taught school in this country. He married Mary J. Purcell in 1868 and to them were born six children. Mary Street, another child, was born in 1839, at Salem, and came with her parents to Iowa at the age of 15. She married Bennett W. Haines, a native of Ohio, also of the Friends faith, and they were the parents of seven children: Mrs. Fred Hill; Mrs. Stella Camp of Hesper, N. D.; D. A. Haines, Florida; E.R. Haines, Decorah; Burritt; Mrs. Steven Hiatt, Jr., deceased; and Will of Hesper, N. D.

Two other children of Aaron Street, Jr., David Street, age 89 of Sturgeon Lake, Minn., and John Street, age 85 of Northfield, Minn., accompanied by E. R. Haines of Decorah, went to Salem a few years back to attend the hundredth anniversary of the little town. While no kindred of the Street family remains in Salem, they found several people who remembered members of the family.