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WAUPACA COUNTY POST

October 8, 1925

 

SEVENTY FOUR YEARS ON ONE HOMESTEAD

P.K. HAYWARD, HALE AND HEARTY AT EIGHTY-TWO, HAS RECORD COUNTY RESIDENCE

 

            The question was raised recently in the Waupaca Post whether anyone had a record of residence on one farm greater than that of Thomas Goodell, Town of Waupaca, who had resided sixty-eight years on the same homestead.

            A subscriber of The Press living in Royalton, reports the record of Mr. P.K. Hayward of that town.

            Mr. Hayward, at the age of eight, came to Royalton, with his parents, from Lisbon, New York, in 1851.  They bought the land he now owns and put up a shanty 16 feet by 24 feet which later on was finished and served as a home during their lives.  After the death of his parents, Mr. Hayward bought his brothers’ interests and built a new house, the one in which he now lives.  Thus, it appears, Mr. Hayward’s residence on the homestead is seventy-four years.

            As for working, Mr. Hayward has put in a good many hard days work this summer.  In haying he worked all day with other men, and this fall he dug potatoes all day.  He does not miss a morning or evening milking, which is saying a great deal for a man who will be eighty-two years old on Christmas Day, 1925. – New London Press