1869 Jul 23: WILLIAM SLATHILL HEWITT born, Blue Rapids, Marshall, KS, s/o
Richard Hyde and Nancy Jane (Strange) Hewitt.
1870: Census
Richard Hewitt 25
Nancy (Strange) Hewitt 19
Wm S. 10/12
1880: Census of Blue Rapids Twp, Marshall Co. KS
RICHARD HEWITT 36, farmer ILL ? ?
NANCY J. (Strange) HEWITT 29 MO VA MO
William S. 11 son at home KS IL MO
Hettie E. 9 dau KS ILL MO
1895: Census of Blue Rapids, Marshall Co., KS.
R. H. Hewitt, 51 M, birthplace IL, came from IL, profession Restaurant.
Nancy J. Hewitt, 42 F, MO MO Homemaker
W. S. Hewitt, 25 M, KS KS Laborer
Hettie A. Hewitt, 23 F, KS KS Teacher
1895: RICHARD HEWITT & SON WILLIAM S. HEWITT filed on land in
Jennings OK. William Slathill was 26 years old. Richard was 51.
TO DO! Get the rest of the censuses on this family. His two children
were born in Blue Rapids in 1869 and 1871, so there should be a
1900, and 1910 and 1920 on them. Richard and Nancy Jane died and are
buried in Jennings, Pawnee OK. Their dau, Hettie md in 1897 in Marshall Co. KS, so Richard/Nancy might be in KS till then. WS md in 1898 in OK, so probably they moved down that year.
1898 Jul 31: WILLIAM SLATHILL HEWITT md Lillie Belle Wharton in Jennings, OK.
1914: Snapshot-about 1914. Lillie B. Hewitt 37, William S. Hewitt
45, Ruth Hewitt 7, Richard Hyde Hewitt 70. Probably at Jennings, OK.
1928: Snapshot-1928 LILLIE BELLE HEWITT age 51, William S.
Hewitt 59, daughter, Ruth Hewitt 21.
1928: Snapshot-1928 LILLIE BELLE HEWITT age 51, William S.
Hewitt 59, and his mother, Nancy Jane Hewitt 77. Probably at Jennings,
OK.
1931 abt: Snapshot of 4 people. L to R. #1 ? Elderly gentleman with
goatee., (Could it be Wm Maloney, bro-in-law of Richard Hewitt, Hettie's
father?) #2 is Hettie about 60. about1931. #3 Hettie's bro William S.
Hewitt. #4 is Will's wife, Lilly (Whorton) Hewitt 54.
1938: Snapshot-about 1938 Lillie Belle 61, and husband Will 69.
1938: Snapshot-about 1938 Lillie Belle 61, and husband Will 69,
with their children Harry Glenn Hewitt 39, and Ruth Hewitt 34.
1944: Snapshot of Will Hewitt, possibly in his last year. He looks
about 75 which would be 1944.
11945: Snapshot- 1945. "The Hewitt Home in 1945. It only had 2 room
down and 2 up when they got it. Kitchen was a log room off to one side.
The house has burned down and rebuilt now."
1945 Mar 12: Death of WILLIAM SLATHILL HEWITT at Drumright, OK.
1957 Nov: Letter to Carol from Iva Campbell (cousin of William S. Hewitt),
"Will Hewitt and I were very close as cousins. He seemed almost
like a brother to me. He was such a good person. Used to stay with us
and my grandfather Rolin Strange quite a lot when he was a young man.
Worked on the farm for my grandfather. Aunt Jane was my favorite Aunt.
Guess because she always made over me so much as did her mother, my
grandmother Matilda. I was six years old when she died and can
remember all the family being there the children and grandchildren and
their lovely big farm house which was close to the big blue river not far
from the Hutchinson place and the Hutchinson Mill. . . I can remember
being over to grandfathers and grandmothers and how I loved grandma.
And I can remember going to spend a week or two during the summer
with my Aunt Jane. They lived on a farm and I used to love to go down to
the spring and get a good cool drink of spring water. They used to carry
their drinking water . . .I can remember how Aunt Jane and Willie as I
canned him used to spoil me and were so good to me that no wonder I
liked to go to my Aunt Janes. . .Aunt Jane was the third child of
grandfather Rolin and Nancy Strange and my father was their sixth child
I find according to our family Bible Record. . . I traced our family history
as far as my grandfather Rolin Strange & his two brothers from the . .
.history of the Stranges which is on file at the Congressional Library
here in D. C. . . .we do have a most interesting background and a history to
be proud of. . . Both the Strange & Campbelll's have their family crest. . .
The information that I am sending you now I have taken from our family
Bible record.
More information on William S. Hewitt and Lilly (Whorton) to be found in
envelope containing genealogy letters from Hettie Dexter. Also in file
under Hewitt.