Jasper Newton Hanner (1852 - 1952)

Born 15 Jun 1852 in Polk, Tennessee, United States

Husband of Harriet Emily Holloway — married 21 Mar 1878 in Mahomet, Champaign, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Aug 1952 at age 100 in Liberal, Seward County, Kansas

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Biography

Jasper Newton Hanner was a homesteader in Stevens County, Kansas. Join the Homesteaders Project.

Except as otherwise footnoted, the following adapted from Seward County Kansas.^[1]

Jasper was born 15 Jun 1852, probably at Polk County, Tennessee, the son of William and Elizabeth (Callahan) Hanner.^[2] By 1870, the family had moved to Driftwood, Jackson, Indiana.^[3] He married Harriet "Hattie" Holloway 21 Mar 1878 at Mahomet, Illinois^[4] where they made their home on a farm near Mahomet where their first four children were born.

Jasper first came to Kansas in 1885 to find a place for the family to live. In January 1886, the family departed Illinois by train and were snowbound at Eureka County, Kansas by the blizzard of 1886 before being able to get to the farm Jasper rented. After putting in a spring crop, Jasper went further west looking for a better place which he found in Seward County, Kansas. After fifteen days of travel the family arrived on a farm two miles southwest of present day Liberal (which did not exist at the time) on Christmas Day of 1886. The Hanners stayed on this first farmstead about 15 months. Times were tough and to make ends meet Jasper hauled rock from Sharps Creek for the foundations of buildings being built at Oak City, a town about seven miles southwest of present day Liberal, Kansas. The rock was taken from the stone corral where the Adobe Walls Trail crossed Sharps Creek.

Jasper then made a claim on a homestead about fourteen and a half miles southwest of Liberal in Vorhees Township, Stevens County, and here the family moved with their first home being a dugout to which two above ground rooms were later added.^[5][6][7] On this farmstead the Hanners last four children were born.

The Hanners were one of the few families who dug their own water well making their home a place frequently visited by neighbors from some miles around. It is remembered that Mrs Hanner helped treat those burned fighting the dangerous prairie fires. The Hanners next door neighbors were Hattie's parents, Mr and Mrs Eliot Holloway and after his death in 1897, Grandma Holloway lived with the Hanners. A Sunday school and church were started at the Center Valley School which later became the Zion Church of which Jasper was Sunday School superintendent for many years.

The Hanners had an orchard and made other provisions of which any extra was sold to the neighbors. Jasper's diary shows the prices of the era: peaches 50 cents a bushel, lard 10 cents a pound, $1 for a pig, women's cotton hose 50 cents, sorghum seed 80 cents a bushel. Hattie baked bread for all the area bachelor farmers. One entry shows Jasper paid $2.50 for a half interest in a harrow. He would dig post holes all day long for $1 per day. Hearing that he could find winter railroad work in La Junta, Colorado, Jasper got a ride to Hugoton and then walked 65 miles to Hartland to catch the train to La Junta where he was paid $1.65 per day while living in a dugout on the river bank. In the Spring he returned home to farm.

In 1911, Jasper moved the family to Liberal, Kansas where he had built a home at 823 North Washington Avenue and took a job as custodian of the old Washington School.^[8][9]

Hattie passed away in 1942 and Jasper lived with his daughter Ethel and son-in-law Bob Mills in Liberal where he reached the age of one hundred years. He passed away 26 Aug 1952 and is interred at the Liberal Cemetery.^[10]

Children

• Mary Belle - b 7 Apr 1879, m Thomas Smith, d 3 May 1966
• Jessie Oscar - b 10 Dec 1880, m Laura Lewis, d 20 Jul 1970
• George Wiley - 1882-1883
• Bertha E - b 20 Jun 1884, m Alonzo De Camp, d 9 Sep 1928^[6]
• Ira Allen - b 16 Jul 1889, d 4 Feb 1968^[6]
• Ethel V - b 15 Jan 1892, m Robert Mills, d 1985^[6]
• Lean Leota - b 22 Sep 1898, m Ira Kendall, d 18 Jul 1991^[6]
• Hazel Lucille - b 2 Oct 1902, m James Culver, d 10 Nov 1990

Sources

1. ↑ Seward County Historical Society, compiler, Seward County Kansas, K C Printers, Liberal, Kansas, 1979, pp 295-97, from information submitted by Ernestine Mills Davis and Roy Smith.
2. ↑ US Census, Year: 1860; Census Place: District 4, Roane, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1269; Page: 146; Family History Library Film: 805269
3. ↑ US Census, Year: 1870; Census Place: Driftwood, Jackson, Indiana; Roll: M593_326; Page: 360A; Family History Library Film: 545825
4. ↑ Illinois State Marriage Records. Online index. Illinois State Public Record Offices.
5. ↑ 1895 Kansas Census, Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1895 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: v115_151; Line: 1
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4} US Census, Year: 1900; Census Place: Vorhees, Stevens, Kansas; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0312
7. ↑ US Census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Voorhees, Stevens, Kansas; Roll: T624_455; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0211; FHL microfilm: 1374468
8. ↑ US Census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Liberal, Seward, Kansas; Roll: T625_550; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 224
9. ↑ US Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Liberal, Seward, Kansas; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0004; FHL microfilm: 2340453
10. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #10548579

Acknowledgments

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Hanner-52 was created by Charlotte Graves through the import of Love Family Tree 11.3.2014.ged on Nov 3, 2014.

This profile was re-sourced and rewritten 25 Nov 2020 T Stanton