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Descendants Came to This County From North Carolina and Settle:!In What Is Now Union townsii.hTin; sixth annual rtunion of tin-Hester family will be held in Brook*IsidFurk, Indianapolis, on Monday, September C. Mrs. Jasper Hosier, or1 Union township cailcd the the TIMES-REPUBLICAN office Tuesday morning and ordered the invitation tarda printed und within the nesvt few days they will be sent out to the members of the Hosier family who live in almost every state of the Union. The Hester reunion is held every year on Labor Day and is one of the largest in the 6tatlt;\When good roads were still a* scarce in Indiana as brick streets ar'*In Brown county three brothers, John, .lames and Joseph Hester came to what is now Shelby county and set tied in Union township. The trip | was made in large canvas covered wagons and frequent fkirmishes E along the route with Indians composed a part of the proceedings every day But all three arrived safely and lived to iee the desolate region admitted as a state in IS 10. In those dayu the respected admonition, “Woodman spare that tree was a thing unbent of and ere many days bad elapsed p after the arrival of the three brothers had const meted a house hewn from tl the logs from the foreBt. By dint V of hard work and tireless energy the h brothers accumulated a considerable h amount of this worlds goodB and In tl time the term “prosperous farmer * n would have applied to them very ap- ii propriately. And the success tbal at- o tended the efforts of the three broth- 5 era has continued Into later years and t the members of the Hester family a no matter where they live are all In c a prosperous condition. In the ro flunions that ere hold each year many r:members of the family come severalhundred miles and last year members pof the family came frozn Kansas, nil* £nois and other Btates to be in nt- Stendance. Several members of the hfamily also live in California and Tex* haa. but it is aot known whether they owill attend this year or not One of tthe special feature of the program tlt;this year will be an address by Mrs. hMay Puckett Foster, of Kokomo, cMrs .Foster was also present last year Cand delivered an address. Many *jmembers of the family are from She!- aby. Rush and the adjacent counties bwill attend the event S _ ti
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Shelbyville Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Tue, Aug 17, 1909
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