Writing at Effingham, Kansas, at Christmas 1911, Zachariah Simpson Hastings set down his life for his sons Harry, Paul, Otho and Milo. He begins with his birth in Lawrence County, Indiana, in 1838, his family’s move from North Carolina, their religion and politics, and his earliest recollections, and goes on in plain, homely prose.
A modest family memoir that brings nineteenth-century Midwestern life close, valuable to readers of local and family history. Download the free EPUB.