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Title: Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings

Author: Z. S. Hastings

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A U T O B I O G R A P H Y

O F

Z. S. H A S T I N G S

W R I T T E N F O R H I S B O Y S

HARRY
PAUL
OTHO
MILO

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Effingham
Kan.

Christmas, 1911

Dear Paul,--

I am sending to each of the other boys a copy of my Autobiography
like this I send you. I hope you will be interested in it; read it,
preserve it, and give it to some of your children, to be read and
handed down and down until the second Adam comes the second time.

I am sure I would be glad to have something of this kind from my
father, even from his father's father's father's, etc., back to
father Adam, the first Adam.

Z. S. Hastings

C H A P T E R O N E

Birth. Name. Parent's Religion. Blood. Ancestor's
Religion and Politics. First Recollection. Father's
Family. From North Carolina to Indiana

I was born March 15th 1838 at a place now called Williams in Lawrence
County, Indiana. When the day came for me to be named, mother said,
"He looks like my brother Zachariah," but father said, "He looks like
my brother Simpson." "All right", said mother," we will just
christen him Zachariah Simpson." And that is my name unto this day.

Now, when mother said 'christen' she did not mean what is usually
meant by christening a babe, for if she had they would have had to
take me to a river, for mother and father both believed, when it came
to baptizing, that is required much water. Mother, when baptized,
was dipped three times, face first, and father once, backwards making
in each case an entire submerging or an immersion. Religiously mother
was called a Dunkard and father was called a Baptized Quaker. "Now",
said father, one day to mother, "this out not to be, we are one in
Christ, let us be one in name." "All right," said mother, "let us
drop the names Dunkard and Q