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Ivan Lovette LATHAM (1883-1971) |
Photo above taken in Florida
Photo on left taken at farm on
Olentangy Drive
Photo on right taken in Florida
Ivan Lovette LATHAM
Ivan married Anna Reeb HESS, daughter of Henry Rutherford HESS and Katie REEB, on Aug 25, 1909. (Anna Reeb HESS was born on Jan 28, 1887 in Franklin Co., OH, USA, died on Feb 20, 1979 in Franklin Co., OH, USA and was buried in Union Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin Co, OH, USA.) |
Noted
events
Photo taken about
1903 at Dunblane Farm near Shawnee Hills
Keldon (son), Ivan L. and Anna Reeb Hess Latham
The story goes
that Grandpa went to the woman who owned this farm (presumed to be Mrs. John
Dun) and asked
if they could trade rent for 10% of the money he made from the crops he would
grow. She eivdently agreed.
The farm was about 230 acres (which went all the way down to the river). Some
of the acreage was treed so
he got permission to clear some of the trees in order to make more farmable
land.
I am not sure
how many years they lived there. Mother (Phyllis Mary Latham) was born there
in 1919.
Grandma's father, Henry Rutherford Hess passed in 1930, at which time she
and Grandpa inherited his farm
on Olentangy Drive (where I was born). I have not yet found a photo of the
Olentangy farmhouse, although
others are available taken inside on various special occasions.
Photo taken about 1963 of Brookside
house
I believe it
was the late 50's or perhaps 1960 when Grandma and Grandpa decided to sell
the Olentangy Drive farm and
retire from farming. They sold it to a man (who I believe, unbeknownst to
them) already had a developer who would
buy it from him at a much higher price. Shortly thereafter, the house was
torn down and University Shopping Center
was built there, across from the Old Section of Union Cemetery. I remember
the day of the farm auction just before
they moved to this home which overlooks the lake across from Brookside Country
Club.
Union Cemetery ~ Columbus, Ohio
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