David Sleeth Hacker of Auburn died December 24; born near Fairland, Indiana, August 24, 1839; July 25, 1862, enlisted in Company F, Seventieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer infantry, of which Benjamin Harrison, afterward president of the United States, was colonel, and served until June 8, 1865; in the fall of 1865 came west with his father and they took homesteads in the southwest part of Nemaha county, three miles south of Febing, or Stone Church; March 7, 1867, married to Miss Nancy P. Giel, who died February 11, 1911; they had six children of whom four survive; moved with his family to Auburn, then called Sheridan, in 1877, where he had since resided; helped to organize the first Methodist church in the southwest part of the county and was one of the charter members of the first Methodist church in Auburn, and the last one of the original members of this church to die.
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Provided by contributor Harvey H.
David Sleeth Hacker of Auburn died December 24; born near Fairland, Indiana, August 24, 1839; July 25, 1862, enlisted in Company F, Seventieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer infantry, of which Benjamin Harrison, afterward president of the United States, was colonel, and served until June 8, 1865; in the fall of 1865 came west with his father and they took homesteads in the southwest part of Nemaha county, three miles south of Febing, or Stone Church; March 7, 1867, married to Miss Nancy P. Giel, who died February 11, 1911; they had six children of whom four survive; moved with his family to Auburn, then called Sheridan, in 1877, where he had since resided; helped to organize the first Methodist church in the southwest part of the county and was one of the charter members of the first Methodist church in Auburn, and the last one of the original members of this church to die.
Provided by contributor Harvey H.
Provided by contributor Harvey H.
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