HALSTEAD, Chester H. [9]^[1]

1882 - 1967  (85 years)

• Name	HALSTEAD, Chester H. [9]
  Birth	26 Jan 1882	Jasper County, Indiana   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	15 Apr 1910	Newton Twp, Jasper County, Indiana   [4]
  farmer
  Living	1916	Newton Twp, Jasper County, Indiana   [1, 2]
  	CHESTER H. HALSTEAD Born in Jasper County January 26, 1882, he is a son of Micah B. and Virginia U. (Harris) Halstead. He grew up in this section of Indiana, attended the district schools near the old home and finished with two years in the Valparaiso Normal University. From college he returned home to take up farming and stock raising, and in that has found contentment and all the success which the average man expects from any line of business or profession. It was in March, 1909, that he moved to his present farm in section 7, and out of 245 acres he has it all under cultivation with the exception of eighty acres in timber and pasture. In six years' time he has done a great del to improve the buildings, has subdrained much of his cultivated area by the liberal use of tile, and now has a farm is capable of producing good revenues every season. On December 15, 1908, at Kiowa, Kansas, he married Miss Emily D. Askew, who was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, February 11, 1886, a daughter of Abraham and Eliza (Lester) Askew, and on the paternal side is of French ancestry. She is a graduate of the Cedar Bluff High School, also attended the normal school at Tazewell, Virginia, and was a successful teacher in her native state for two years. Abraham Askew, her father, was born in Russell County, Virginia, in 1833, and he died in that state October 9, 1908. He was an agriculturist, and was a great reader, especially of the Bible. Mrs. Askew was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, July 12, 1841, a daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Williams) Lester, and she was reared and educated in the old Dominion State of Virginia. There were eleven children in the Askew family, seven sons and four daughters, and six are living, namely: William H., a business man of Wichita, Kansas, and he is married and has eight children; Floyd H., a merchant at Cedar Bluff, Virginia, has two children; Thomas, a farmer in Tazewell County, Virginia, has two children; Lawrence, a farmer at Liberty, Ohio, has two children; Rebecca Ann, who resides with her mother in Rensselaer; and Mrs. Chester Halstead, who is mentioned in the biography of her husband elsewhere in this work. Rebecca Ann Askew received a liberal education, supplementing her common school course by attendance at the Women's Female College at Marion, Virginia, and she has studied both instrumental and vocal music. Mr. and Mrs. Halstead are the parents of two children: William Henry, born January 2, 1910; and Flora Virginia, born April 13, 1914. The Standard History of Jasper and Newton Counties The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1916
  Census	1 Jan 1920	Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana   [4]
  farmer
  Census	1 Apr 1930	Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana   [5]
  Charles H Halstead name Halstead city, Jasper, IN abt 1882 Emily D Halstead name Halstead city, Jasper, info abt 1884 William H Halstead name Halstead,name Halstead city, Jasper, info abt 1911 Flora V Halstead name Halstead,name Halstead city, Jasper, info abt 1915
  Name	Charles H Halstead  [6]
  _UID	E5C62C3185B43240AC3317237F4229FBB108
  Death	Apr 1967	Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana   [7]
  Person ID	I43338	Garys-Tree
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2009

  
  

  Father	HALSTEAD, Micah Brundage [8],   b. 3 May 1832, Crawford County, Ohio d. 27 Apr 1902, Newton Twp, Jasper County, Indiana (Age 69 years)
  Mother	HARRIS, Virginia Unity,   b. 1836, Indiana, USA
  Marriage	30 Aug 1857	Jasper County, Indiana   [8, 9, 10, 11]
  Family ID	F2919	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	ASKEW, Emily D.,   b. 11 Feb 1886, Tazewell County, Virginia
  Marriage	15 Dec 1908	Kiowa, Barber County, Kansas, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Living   2. HALSTEAD, William Henry [10],   b. 2 Jan 1911, Jasper County, Indiana d. Dec 1978, Mount Ayr, Newton County, Indiana (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F15907	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Feb 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S23] News account. Biobilography of Micah B. -The Standard History of Jasper and Newton Counties, The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1916 [S23] News account. Biobilography of Chester H.. -The Standard History of Jasper and Newton Counties, The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1916 [S914] Broderbund Family Archive records SSDI 1937-1997. " b. 26 Nov 1882" [S1149] Imported GEDCOM file fr Forest Smith 121705. [S67] Census rolls. 1930 Fed'l Census for Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana [S67] Census rolls. 1930 Fed'l Census for Newton twp, Jasper County, Indiana [S914] Broderbund Family Archive records SSDI 1937-1997. #305-42-7004 issued IN b. 26 Nov 1882 d. Apr 1967 last known Rensselaer, IN [S73] "Halstead - An Outline Guide To The Descendants of. p.54 [S320] "Hester Halstead Pier Ms 2000". p.67 I.D.#2948 "30 Aug 1857" [S23] News account. Biobilography -The Standard History of Jasper and Newton Counties, The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1916 [S1149] Imported GEDCOM file fr Forest Smith 121705. provides place of event