Carlisle Hastings

Carlisle Hastings, immediately after his marriage to Hannah Granger, settled in McHenry County, Illinois and still occupies the farm purchased by him in that county at US Govt sale in the year 1838. They settled on what is now known as the Dunham farm in the spring of 1839, remained there for two years, then bought from the government in 1841, the farm where they now reside, no other conveyance, incumbrance or transfer of the land having ever been made since the issuance of the US government patent to him.

He and his wife found themselves in a favorable location for the exercise of the New England virtues of thrift and public spirit; they were in advance of the railroads with the influx of settlers a few years later; general sickness arose and admid the depression of business in the later forties great hardships were experienced. His education, acquired in the Suffield Institute, Suffield, Connecticut, stood him in good stead and together with the confidence of his fellow citizens, enabled him to do a valuable part in the organization of the new society into which he and his wife ahd cast their lot, never aspiring to any position of especial prominence. His neighbors were not long in discovering that he could be relied upon to do, with complete fidelity and straightforward good sense, whatever duties they required of him, so he was continually called upon to serve in the minor but important positions of township and county official duties.

A school teacher in his early years, he filled the position of County Superintendent of Schools and did his share toward organizing the public education of the county. Elected subsequently to Sheriff of the County, his administration of that office is still sometimes recalled as having been entirely successful. Never losing his interest in public affairs and never seeking any position for himself; occupied in the care of his farm and the growth and training of the numerous family that came to be provided for from it, he has remained steadily and contentedly on that little farm of 160 acres through all the changes of nearly sixty years.

A little over sixty miles from Chicago, just on the outside of the influence of that great center of western development, its presence and influence has served to quicken his interest in life while it has drawn away, one at a time or another, nearly all the children who have grown up around him. And now in extreme old age but hale and cheerful, he is able in contentment and comfort to husband out life's taper to the close. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/20376186/person/973491632/storyx/cf4...

Carlisle Hastings Birth: Apr. 25, 1815 Suffield Hartford County Connecticut, USA Death: Mar. 5, 1901

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 Hannah Granger Hastings (1817 - 1902)

Inscription: Father

Burial: Coral Cemetery McHenry County Illinois, USA Plot: No I20, Lot 2-17

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Created by: Phyllis Wallington Record added: Dec 21, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 45681567