? Anglin and Martha Jane Hastings

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Husband ? Anglin

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Wife Martha Jane Hastings

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         Father: Samuel Hastings
         Mother: Martha Ann (Aunt Sis) Woolverton

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - ? Anglin

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Research Notes: Husband - ? Anglin

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Sources: Other : Halbrook, William Erwin, "A School Boy of the Ozarks", Ch
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General Notes: Wife - Martha Jane Hastings

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Research Notes: Wife - Martha Jane Hastings

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From Brinkley, Arkansas. She had had courses at Hendrix College when it
was first established, then two years at the Galloway Female Seminary at
Searcy Arkansas.

Her father died while she was attending Peabody College. She met William
Erwin Halbrook at Peabody College (the teachers' college at the University
of Nashville). She graduated in about 1904.

Minnie Dickson's "mother was Martha Lovejoy before she was married, had
some educational accomplishments for her day, and a most active and
devoted member of the Methodist church. She was ambitious for her
children and strove for them to get a college education. The others did
not respond with as much interest in education as did Minnie, who, after
three years in Hendrix and Gallowya was two and a half years in Peabody.
She majored in primary education and minored in music, vocal and piano.
As a primary teacher she was excellent, and as a manager of small children
in teaching and discipline she was superior.

About 1922, "The mother had a nervous breakdown. Physicians for some time
could not agree on her case. Finally it was discovered she had cancer of
the female organs, and an operation was inevitable. ... She apparently
recovered her poise for about a year, then gradually other spells came,
each time of longer duration and worse. We consulted different
neurological specialists but to no avail. We were given some
encouragement by them that in the course of time she might recover, and I
was not apprised of the hazards in her association with her children. But
we were eventually compelled to consign her to the State Hospital for
their safety." The latter must have been about 1926, for their children
ranged in age from 5 to 13. "After their mother had been confined some
ten years the authorities there advised that she was safe and sufficiently
recovered to return to the family. I rented an apartment from an
erstwhile Boone county neighbor, and when I brought her home to it, the
first thing she said was, 'I miss the little children.'" (from William
Erwin Habrook's "A School Man of the Ozarks, p148-150).

The returned to Little Rock, and then to Van Buren county. "In a few
months is was discovered that my wife had developed cancer of the lungs
and she quickly passed away. We laid her to rest where I hope to lie, in
the Huie Cemetery near Choctaw, among neighbors and friends whose
associations had been so dear to us during the happy days of our early
connubial life." (p150-151)

Sources: Other : Halbrook, William Erwin, "A School Boy of the Ozarks", Ch
14

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