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Occupation in 1900 Sedan City/Sedan Township/Chautauqua County/Kansas:US Soldier. He served in the Spanish American War/Philippine Insurrections along with John A. Hartzell. He had no children.

"Adam, son of Sheriff Hartzell, while out hunting on Monday, accidentally shot himself in the right leg above the knee. The wound is not considered dangerous."--6 June 1895, Sedan (KS) Lance

"Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses were issued by the Probate Judge of Chautauqua county during the month of October, 1908: ...Adam S. Hartzell, Peru, 29. Elba E Thomae, Peru, 24"--13 November 1908, Sedan (KS) Lance

"PERU COUPLE MARRIED. -- Mr. Adam S. Hartzell and Miss Elba E. Thomae, both of Peru, were united in marriage at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Inglefield in Sedan, Wednesday, October 28, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. R. T. Harkness, pastor of the M.E. Church, performed the ceremony. After the ceremony, a wedding dinner was partaken of after which the happy couple drove to Peru to take the train for Bartlesville where they will reside.
Only a few of the most intimate friends of the couple were present at the ceremony, those present being S.T. Hartzell and wife, C.D. Inglefield and family, N.B. Wall and family, H.W.Loomis and family, John and Lulu Hartzell, Dot Hillman, Francis Floyd and Mrs. Stella Kellner.
Adam Hartzell is a son of Mr. and Mrs. S.T. Hartzell of Peru. He was raised in this county and is well known and highly esteemed by a great many people. The bride is the only daughter of Mr. Ferd Thomae of Peru. Her mother died when she was an infant and she was raised to womanhood by Mrs. C.H. Inglefield of Sedan, at whose residence the wedding was held. She has a host of friends whose best wishes follow her."--October 30, 1908, Sedan (KS) Lance

"Offficial List of 1491 Names That Registered For Military Service In Chautauqua County Last Thursday. #1206 Samuel Trevill Hartzell, #1366 Adam Sinclair Hartzell, #1397 John Austin Hartzell"--19 Sep 1918, The Sedan (KS) Times-Star

"Adam S. Hartzell, 90, died Monday at noon at the Sedan hospital.
He was born at Peru, Kansas on March 8, 1879, to Samuel T. Hartzell and Emma Hartzell. He married Edith Fuller on June 20, 1929 at Wichita, He worked as an oil field guager for the Sinclair Oil Co.
He was a member of the Christian Church, Sedan Memorial V.F.W. and past commander, Vesper Lodge 136 A.F. and A.M., I.O.O.F. of Peru, past commander and past department commander of William McCarty Post 21 Spanish American War Veterans, and the Wichita Consistory 12.

Survivors include his widow of the home and one sister, Mrs. Lula Hanna, Ark Valley Manor in Arkansas City.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 3 p.m. at the Erdman-Oldroyd Funeral Chapel in Arkansas City with Rev. Joe E. Brown of the Christian Church at Edna, Kan., officiating. Committal services at the Spanish American War plot in Riverview Cemetery will be conferred by Vesper Lodge 136 and the Sedan V.F.W. Post. "-Arkansas City Daily Traveler, 15 Apr 1969.

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An email from Vicky Field at VickyPSILuvU@aol.com in 2003 says in part: I AM DOING A FAMILY RESEARCH FOR MY HUSBANDS GRAMMIE. HER NAME IS ALICE HARTZELL TEDFORD. GRAMMIE WAS ADOPTED BY SAMUEL AND EMMA HARTZELL.

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Death notice from Daily Hawk Eye Gazette, Friday Sep 22, 1939, page 2:
Austin Hartzell, Former Resident, Dies in Kansas.
Services were held at Prugh's chapel this afternoon for Austin L. Hartzell, former Des Moines county resident who died Tuesday in Arkansas City, Kan.
The funeral was conducted by Dr. W. T. Smith, pastor of First Methodist church. Burial was in Burrus cemetery.
He was born in Des Moines county March 9, 1857. He left here 10 years ago. In 1929 he married Mrs. Anna Gardner of Minneapolis. She died February 14, 1935. Several nieces and nephews survive.
Mr. Hartzell was a member of Progress Masonic lodge of Mediapolis.

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Began farming the home place at age 20 (1877) until 1881. Then Randall, Adam and he agreed to rotate the farming a year at a time between them as long as they remained single. November 1881 went down to Kansas on a span of mules.

In a letter to the Clerk of the District Court, Burlington, Iowa, dated June 13, 1939, Austin said "Dear Sir: Some three or four years ago I deposited in your office my last will and testament.
"Since that time I have established my residence in the State of Kansas, and desire that you send me my will. You will find inclosed $1.00 to cover costs of mailing and registering the same to me. Please send the will to me in care of Albert Williams, R. R. 4, Arkansas City, Kansas.
"I am at this time not physically able to make a trip to Iowa to personally obtain the will and I am anxious to have it in my possession.
"Very truly yours,
[Signed] A. L. Hartzell.
Handwritten note at the bottom says "sent June 17, 1939".

Middle name provided by Mark Hartzell.

Following is a letter from Austin to an attorney, motivated by a property dispute. In the letter, he gives a family history.
"Inasmuch as I have been sued by my nephew E. E. Hartzell, who has filed a claim in the district court asking for a partition of the Adam Hartzell estate, also an accounting f the rents since the death of Adam Hartzell, who died in August, 1890, he claiming an heirship by reason of his father being a son of Adam Hartzell, I will now give you a brief history of this property from the time Father bought it in 1844 to the present time, Oct. 1st, 1924.

First. Adam Hartzell was born in Pennsylvania April 6, 1809, was married in June 1833. He was a miller and mill wright by profession, having learned the trade under his father who was a miller and with the exception of two years spent as a captain of a canal boat, he followed his trade as miller until he was 35 years of age, when he moved to Iowa by boat, arriving in June, 1844 and in September following he bought a little farm consisting of 70 acres in Franklin Twp., 30 acres of prairie land, on which was a two room log cabin, a log stable and a chicken len. This 30 acres is in Sec. 34 and the 40 acres was timber land and was in Sec. 33, all in Franklin Twp. but 1 1/2 miles apart. He paid $10.00 per acre and total $700.00. Included in this purchase he got the man's personal property consisting of an old span of mules, some chickens and a cow or two and took possession right away, which was in Sept. 1844. At that time he had three children, John A the oldest 9 years old, Randell M., 6 years old, Adam R., two years old. Father farmed this 30 acres until 1850 when Larkin & Vanosdol, proprietors of Franklin Mills Flour Mills employed him as their miller and manager. He worked for them for five years when Larkin & Vanosdol sold the mill in 1855. In that year Father took charge of the Kossuth mill as miller and manager for Heizer & Cox, proprietors. He worked for them about 5 years. This mill was 9 miles from home and one of the boys would take him up there Monday morning on horseback and go and get him Saturday evening. It was while he was working as miller at Kossuth that he sent his Son John A Hartzell to Iowa Wesleyan College and he was graduated in 1860, having gone there five years.

When the war broke out in 1861, Randall M. the second son and Adam R. the third son, both enlisted in the army and as Samuel the fourth son was only ten years old, there was no one to carry on the farm, so Father came home and again took the farming on hie 30 acre farm. John A Hartzell was married soon after he graduated in 1860 and went to house keeping in Grandview, Louisa Co. Iowa where he was principal of the school. Randall M. Hartzell and Adam R. Hartzell having gone to war, the family at home were the following five children: Tillie 16; Maggie 11; Samuel 10; Michael 8 and Austin L 4 years old. Michael died in 1868 in his 15th year.

After the war was over, Randall and Adam spent several years in Arizona and California and John A Hartzell spent 3 or 4 years in New Mexico and Arizona, leaving his wife and two children, Elmer and Mattie, at his father's home. John A. Hartzell returned from New Mexico in 1869 and took his family and went to Ohio. Randall and Adam came back from California in 1870 and after a visit at the old home, went to southern Kansas and took up claims. Tillie was married in 1873 and Samuel was married in 1876, having farmed the home place along with other land rented from our neighbors for four years after he became of age.

When Samuel moved to Kansas shortly after he was married. Adam came home and farmed the place one year, 1876. The next year 1877, I being twenty years old, took full charge of the farm until the fall of 1881 when Randall and Adam and myself entered into an agreement to stay at home year about so long as we remained single.

In November 1881 Adam took charge of the farm and I on Nov. 21st started for Kansas on horseback leading a span of young mules, arriving at my destination, Peru, Kansas, on Dec. 14th, having traveled about 60 miles and was 23 days on the road. It was the following year 1882 that the 27 1/2 acres situated in Sec. 35 just across the road from where we lived was purchased from E. S. Burrus, deceased. Price $50.00 per acre, amount $1375.00. This property was deeded to father, he borrowing the money from his daughter Tillie Lines, whose husband had died in 1878 leaving the widow and three small children, they having moved in with father after her husband's death. Father gave her his note and we boys, Adam, Randel and myself mutually agreed that we would take care of the note from what we would realize on farming the place, which was satisfactory to all the family.

The next year 1883 Randel came home and took his turn running the farm, then the next year, 1884, I came back and took my turn running the farm. Sometime the latter part of that year, Randel and Adam slipped one over on me by both of them getting married, thus leaving me to continue running the farm and pay off the debt on the 27 1/2 acres, which I did but it was six years later when I had the note about all paid off, when on August 28, 1890, while threshing our grain with a steam threshing machine a spark from the engine set the grain stacks on fire, and everything was burned up, including barn, corn cribs, grainery and all out buildings, estimated loss about $1500. We had the barn insured for $300 and grain $200, total amount $500.

About two weeks later on, Sept. 14th, father died. No doubt the excitement of seeing the barn and everything burning up hastened his death. He was in his 82nd year.

Father died without leaving a will and as there were no debts and needing the insurance right away to start rebuilding the barn, buy seed wheat and other necessary expenses, we consulted T. B. Snyderm a Burlington attorney, who wrote up an article of agreement for my mother and the heirs to sign, giving me authority to collect the insurance, rebuild the barn and whatever expense there was above the insurance, they would pay their share equally with myself. This agreement you will find hereto attached.

It took several years to get over the effects of the fire loss. Fifteen years after Father died Mother passed away, which was in April, 1905, in her 89th year. She also died without making a will.

John A Hartzell, father of Elmer E. Hartzell, died in April, 1900 and his wife, Elmer's mother, died in April 1910. After Mother's death in 1905, us boys got together and talked the matter over and decided not to settle up the estate, for in doing so the old home would be broken up, which we did not want done as Sister Maggie and Tillie Lines were born there and were getting up in years and would not be satisfied to live anywhere else. So we left it that way. Now five years later, in 1910, I held a consultation with my brothers in regard to building a new house as the old log house was no longer comfortable and was past repairing. I told them I would willingly build a good house so the folks could live comfortably was hardly in shape to buy the farm. They said, Here Aus, you only need to buy the original 70 acres as you paid for that 27 1/2 acres. I told them that each of you spent a year at home after that was bought, yes that is true, but you stayed at home practically all your life and paid for this land and we won't have anything from it. It took us about 15 minutes to place a valuation on the 70 acres of $4900 or $700 a share, so I bought their interests at that price and went ahead and build a modern 8 room house and I think it was in 1916 I built another barn and made other improvements so that now it is a pretty well improved farm. Sister Maggie, Samuel and myself are still living on the old homestead which father purchased 80 years ago in September.

So this is the history of the Adam Hartzell farm and family up to the present time, October 1, 1924.

A. L. Hartzell.

"A. L. Hartzell was here from Peru, Wednesday. Mr. Hartzell's home is in Iowa, but he says he will be at Peru most of the time from now on, because his mill and farms there demand his attention."--16 October 1903, Sedan (KS) Lance

Austin was living with his older brother Adam Rowe in 1905.