section 30 in Logan township. Isaac homesteaded the southwest quarter and Abe the southeast quarter. After filing on the land, Isaac proceeded to build a house 14 x 16 feet and after its completion, engaged a neighbor to break up five acres of sod; then he and Abe returned to Canada and after harvesting the crops, returned to Kansas with their families in the month of November, arriving at the old homestead on the seventh of the month in 1870. In 1871, Grandfather and Grandmother and son, Dick, came to Ottawa County and Dick was just of age. He found a delinquent quarter section of (and just across the road from Abe which he filed on and proved out. In 1872, John and Jim came to Ottawa County and on finding no homestead land, they each bought 80 acres. John bought a short way northwest of Bennington in the bottom, and Jim bought about three miles west of Delphos which was bottom land. Those early settlers saw some mighty hard times, such as the younger generation knows nothing about. For instance: the cost of living was high and scarce, there were no wells and the settlers had to use pond water and water from seep holes, which was very unhealthy. The winter of 1870-71, Isaac and his wife and oldest son went through a seige of typhoid fever, from which the son died. Abe and wife and one of the children were down with the fever at the same time, but recovered. When Jim arrived with his family, they were soon taken down with typhoid. Jim, Jane, and their children, Will; Jack (who are well known about Delphos), Susan and Lizzie, were all sick in bed at the same time; the result was that Jim and two daughters, Susan and Lizzie, died, leaving Jane a widow.After Jane and the boys recovered, they carried on and enlarged their property and each of the boys own a good home (these are ancestors to the Haley families that live in Delphos at present). For about two years after coming to Ottawa County, they would frequently get a report that the Indians were on the warpath north of them and were coming this way; the menfolks armed, but the Indians never came this far south after 1870, except peaceably. For a few years bands of them would pass through on their way to the Indian Territory. For a few years the settlers would go west after the fall work was done on a buffalo hunt and procure meat for the winter. Then again they had the grasshoppers to contend with when they took all their crops, except the wheat crop, which came too early for them. They had two such visits from the ''hoppers''. The early Haleys, on account of their industriousness, honesty, frugality and their spirit of ''stick-to-it-tiveness ", have all made good and were all respected and highly esteemed citizens and neighbors in the communities in which they lived. They are now all gone to their Eternal Home, and the younger members have become the old folks. John Haley, who was the father of Albert and John (whose descendants are still residing in our community) was the last of the Haley clan to depart this earth. HARDISTY FAMILY By Velma (Hardisty,) Ditto, a daughter Joe Hardisty, Sr. was born in Brazil, Indiana, in 1872. When he was seven years old he came to Kansas with his parents in a covered wagon. They settled around Junction City, but it was an extremely hard winter and his mother took sick, so his father moved back to Indiana where his mother passed away. A year later they came back to Kansas, this time they settled near Solomon Kansas. When Joe was 16, he moved to Minneapolis and worked for different farmers. Most of the time for Pogues and Geisens. It was while working for Geisens that he witnessed the mob hanging on the Geisen Bridge. It was near Minneapolis that he met and married Alice Stewart and they moved to Niles, Kansas, where their first child was born, MYRTLE MAE who is now Mrs. Bill Geist and lives in Hutchinson and had two sons. HAROLD, commonly known as ''Doc" , who married Kate Montgomery. They had a son and daughter; when the daughter was 6 months old Kate passed away. He later married Caroline Singer and two sons were born to this union. He lives in Abilene. VERNA ELLEN married Vernon Jumbarger and they had two daughters and now live in Wichita. JOSEPH, JR. married Grace Heywood and they had three daughters. He passed away at the age of 62. Grace lives in Salina, DARRELL married Maurine Lott. To this union was born two sons. He passed away and his wife later remarried and lives in California. WAYNE, who later moved to NEXT