Osawatomie, where he met and married Violet Hoover, has two daughters. Wayne and Violet now live in LaCygne, Kansas. LAVERNE married Georgia Fletcher and moved to Springfield, Illinois. They had one son and still live in Springfield. LYLE married Dorothy Wallace. They had five daughters and one son who died at the age of 11. Lyle and Dorothy now live in McPherson, Kansas. VELMA, the youngest, married Ralph Ditto. They had three daughters and are living in Bennington at the present. Joseph Hardisty now 94 years old is still active and walks down tcwn each day from his home. Alice passed away in 1955. They had celebrated their Golden Wedding in 1947. ED HARE FAMILY By Mabel (Griffin), a daughter In the year of 1912, Edwin C. Hare, his wife and four children, Mabel, Orville, Viola and Wilma moved from their Mitchell County home to a farm one mile north of Bennington; this farm is known as the Harvey Miller farm. Edwin Hare and Miss Myrtle Childs, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Oscar Childs, were married in Simpson, Kansas, and made their first home on a farm near Barnard, Kansas. Five children blessed this home. Their older son died in infancy and the younger son, Orville, passed away in March, 1982. The children attended the Bennington Schools and all graduated from our local high school. After farming 29 years, Mr. and Mrs. Hare decided to move to Bennington. They resided there till Mr. Hare's passing in 1958. Presently Mrs. Hare is living with her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Griffin. Their daughter Viola, married to Will Allen, passed away in 1960; Wilma, wife of Vernon Seymour lives in the Caledonia neighborhood; Mabel, wife of Clyde Griffin, resides in Bennington; and Orville, who occupied the farm north of town, is deceased. Many of the descendants of this family live in this area. E I. HEYWOOD FAMILY Written by a son Elmer Irving Heywood and wife, Martha (Mattic) C. Heywood, moved to Bennington in the fall of 1900 to teach in the Bennington schools. The family at that time included Mr. Heywood's widowed mother, Elizabeth, son, Harold R. and a daughter, Ruth C. After spending two years in the Bennington schools, he became Bennington's second R.F.D. carrier, working under Mr. Herr, Postmaster. At this time Mr. Heywood purchased property one half of a mile east of Bennington, where he reared his family. In Bennington were born. Austin T., Paul I  Grace R., and Stella Mae. Mr. Heywood obtained a local preacher's license in the Methodist Church and filled many preaching engagements. He enjoyed debating and this to him was a hobby.. He was also active in bettering the school and worked for such in town meetings. Mrs. Heywood was probably better known in Bennington for aid in the homes of sick and at the time of child birth. She became; as time went on, more and more active in church work. They succeeded with their limited resources in helping their children through College and to teaching positions. Mr. Heywood retired from carrier service after twenty-nine and a half years and died at the age of 86 in April, 1954. Mrs. Heywood died three years later. The family that now remains is Harold and Grace of Salina Kansas, and Austin of Kingman; Paul died in infancy, Ruth died in 1955 and Stella died in 1965. KREBS-HORN FAMILY HISTORY By Nina Horn Eisenhauer George Krebs migrated to America from Fiefenbach, Wurtenburg, German in 1845 to seek his fortune in the United States. Here he met and married Miss Wilhelmina Ulrick. They came to Kansas in the early 1860's and homesteaded two miles east and two miles south of Bennington. Upon their arrival they immediately built their part dugout and part frame house.  After one and a half years they hauled enough lumber from Abilene, Kansas, to build a new home. Mr. Krebs was by trade a casket maker: During the dreaded cholera epidemic he made scores of caskets for pioneers in the Solomon Valley. Lumber and other material used in making the caskets was hauled from Abilene, Kansas. RETURN NEXT