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The Harveys: Seated: Andy Russell Harvey and Elzora Elizabeth B. Harvey; standing: Marvin]
Carl Harvey, John Harvey, Vinnie H. Rierson, Mary H. Olson, Annie H. Howard, Jessie H. Krue
Dock Harvey.Nere's second marriage was to Randine
Olson (1868/1905). Randine was born in
Norway. They had three children: Sarah, who
died at one year of age; Olive George
(1901/1975) who married Erma Owen; Ruby
Nora, my mother (1905) who married Carl
Anton Carlson
Nere's third wife, Anna Leland Olson
(1869/1957), was a widow. Their first two
children, a son and daughter, died at birth.
Their third child was: John Albert
(1909/1975) who married Sadie Nelson
(1909).
Nere farmed in Bosque County on the farm
he bought in the Mustang Community. My
Aunt Sadie, widow of Uncle Albert, still lives
there.
Nere died in 1921, at the age of sixty-four
years. He is buried in the cemetery by The
Old Rock Church.
by Mrs. Barry K. Wyld
HASTINGS, ALBERT
F499
John Albert Hastings was born in 1909 in
the Mustang Community, eleven miles west
of Meridian, Texas, (Bosque County) where
he lived his entire life. He died in 1975.
Albert was the son of Nere Hastings, who
came to Bosque County by covered wagon
from Daleyville, Wisconsin, in 1890. The
family name was Hastvedt, but was changed
to Hastings when they came to America. His
mother, Anne Leland Olson, was born in
Norway, 1869, and came to Texas in 1892.
She married Nere Hastings in 1907. She
never learned to speak English, but could
understand it, so that she could converse with
her family and friends. She died in 1957. Both
of Albert's parents are buried in the St. Olaf
Lutheran Church (Rock Church) Cemetery.
Albert married Sadie Nelson in 1939.
Sadie, daughter of Albert and Anne Nelson
was born in 1909. She is the twin sister ofClarice, (Mrs. Hans Dahl). Albert and
lived on the farm that his father had
steaded. His mother lived with them u
time of her death. To this union, four ci
were born. Nellie Ann and Shirley Ann
were born in 1940. Nellie married
Baldwin in 1958, and lives in Grand I
Texas. They have two sons, Tomm
Billy. Shirley married Hubert Johnson
Hico. They also live in Grand Prairi
their three sons, Jim, Tim and Scott.
Mary Ellen was born in 1946, and 1
Dallas. She works for Southwester
Telephone Company.
John Albert, Jr. was 1horn in 1954.
married to Mary Frances George,
Dallas. John is an attorney in Meridi
received his law degree from Baylor U
sity, in Waco.
In addition to farming, Albert Hi
was Bosque County Democratic Party
man for twelve years. Sadie was a gri
nurse and worked for Dr. Goodall in C
before her marriage. The Hastings' ch
attended the Cranfills Gap Public S
The Hastings family are active memi
the Lutheran Church.
by Mrs. Albert Has
HASTINGS, RAY
The Ray Hastings family is a true I
can family. It has its Scandinavian roe
its Anglo-Saxon roots. The Scandi
roots extend all the way to Telemar
Hedemarken, Norway. This is the are
north of Oslo, capitol of Norway.
The Norwegian side of the family e;
ted to the United States in the 1840's. S
brothers, sons of Terje Nerison Has
came with their families and others
Omli Parish, Telemark, Norway, in
They traveled on the ship called "Mag
to New Orleans. Two brothers, Terjer
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.vedt and Neri Hastvedt, left their company
there and traveled with their wives' families
on to Illinois and eventually on to Wisconsin.
They settled at Blue Mounds southeast of
Madison, capitol of Wisconsin. These two
families moved from Blue Mounds to
Brownsboro, Texas, in the winter of 1850-51,
but returned to Wisconsin during the winter
of 1851-52. They were not happy with what
they found in Texas. Three of their off-spring
, (born in America) were later to return to
Texas to live out their lives. THe other
brothers traveled by steam boat up the Red
River. Near Alexandria, Louisiana, the boat
ran aground on a sandbar. The people made
it to land but discovered it to be only an
island. They were rescued almost a week
later. An old man (Jorgen Olson Hastvedt)
died and was buried in Milam, Louisiana.
Some left the river at this point and traveled
over-land by ox wagon to East Texas. They
settled in Brownsboro. This Texas branch of
the family (Aslak Terjeson Hastvedt, Tellef
Terjison Hastvedt and Jorgen Terjison Hast-
vedt) took the name of Terje and added "son"
which was the Norwegian custom. The
Harvey, resultant name was Terjeson-later to be-
ger, and come Tergerson. The Wisconsin brothers and
their offspring kept the name Hastvedt with
some variations in the spelling. William
Tellef (Hastvedt) Tergerson died in Browns-
boro. His widow and her children including
I Sadie a son, W.T. Tergerson, and daughters Sally,
home- Betsy, Gurine, and Gunhild (there may have
until the been other children) in time moved to Bosque
children County which reminded them more of their
, twins homeland because of the mountainous
I Ross terrain. This move took place around 1880.
Prairie, About this time three brothers, Terjei (Tom),
ie and Nicholai (Nick) and Nere, sons of Ragnild
, from Nikolaisdatter and Terjei Terjeison Hast-
e with vedt of Wisconsin, decided to come south to
join their kin. Upon arrival they decided to
ives in Americanize the foreign-sounding name. The
n Bell English-sounding name of Hastings was
legally taken by all three brothers. All three
He is brothers (Tom, Nick, and Nere) reared
from families and have many descendants in and
an. He around Bosque County. Tom met and
Jniver- married his cousin, Sally Tergerson, a daugh-
ter of Tellef Tergerson. Sally and Tom shared
stings the same grandparents on one side (Terje
Chair- Nerison Hastvedt and Bergitte Tellefsdatter
aduate Oy). She was also a sister of W.T. Tergerson.
lifton, Ray Hastings is a grandson of this couple and
iildren a son of Tilden and Bettie (Olson) Hastings.
chool. Ray's mother, Bettie, was born in Bosque
bers of County to Norwegian immigrant parents
(Bernt Olson and Dorthea (Lund) Olson).
They came from Hedemarken, Norway. The
tings Olson and the Hastings families lived in the
area around Cranfills Gap. They were all
members of the Lutheran Church-first the
Rock Church and later St. Olaf Lutheran
F500 Church in Cranfills Gap.
The Anglo-Saxon half of this family came
Ameri- from Ireland, Scotland, and England. In the
ts and seventeenth century a nineteen-year-old
navian Irish lad landed in what is now North
k and Carolina and traveled down through what is
a just now South Carolina and settled in Georgia.
His sole possession upon landing was a flute.
migra- Other Scotch-Irish ancestors were also from
everal Georgia, their roots possibly going back to
tvedt, Oglethorpe's settling of Georgia. Some ances-
from tral roots come from Ireland by way of
1845. Bethany, Illinois. These people fought in the
nolia" Civil War-some north and some south of the
Hast- Mason-Dixon Line. All eventually ended up
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