By Sue Sylvester
Part IV will be divided into two parts and continued into next week.
In Part II and Part III of the Haverty family history, the Jack and Mollie (Holmberg) Haverty family were highlighted. Part IV will cover the last generation to farm the Haverty land and that was James and Agnes Haverty. I will use Mary Haverty Stumpf’s story for this part. Also I utilized plat maps, birth, death, census, and marriage records in my research. Mary provided the photos.
Mary Stumpf stated that the Haverty farm added another 40 acres, east of the farm by 1943. This 1948 plat shows Jack’s name on two pieces which adds up to 50 acres and James E. Haverty has his name on the property east of the original homestead. This property had been owned by his Uncle Thomas Haverty, Jr.
“It was Jim’s destiny to stay on the farm and work with his father, caring for both his father and mother in their advancing years. It was to this farm that Jim brought his lovely young bride, Agnes Pauline, daughter of Richard and Margaret Elizabeth (McKay) Hoffman.” (Just a reminder, Margaret McKay was the half sibling of Charles McKay who had married Ellen Haverty. Ellen was a sibling of Jack Haverty, Jim’s dad.) Agnes was born December 18, 1912 in Wright County, Minnesota. Her parents were farmers in Albion Township. The couple was married on February 9, 1929 in Wright County. Notice the year of marriage; hard times were ahead for everyone since the Great Depression was soon to arrive. Mary wrote, “Agnes said Jim was a very sharp looking, a popular young man, which was not hard to believe. Mary felt her dad was very handsome in later years.”
All of their children were blessed with growing up on the farm with their grandparents.
To this family five daughters were born. Jim carried on with the Haverty tradition of lots of girls but this time no male was born into the family.