Biography of G. W. Hanes, pages 727/728. History of DeKalb County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914. G. W. Hanes The success of men in any vocation depends upon character as well as upon knowledge, it being a self-evident proposition that honesty is the best policy. In every community some men are known for their upright lives, strong common sense and moral worth rather than for their wealth or political standing. Their neighbors and acquaintances respect them, the younger generation, heed their examples, and when they ”wrap the drapery of their couches about them and lie down to pleasant dreams,” posterity listens with reverence to the story of their quiet and useful lives. Among such men of a past generation in Indiana was the late G. W. Hanes, who was not only a progressive man of affairs, successful in material pursuits, but a man of modest and unassuming demeanor, well educated, a type of the reliable, self-made American, a friend to the poor, charitable to the faults of his neighbors, and who always stood ready to unite with them in every good work and in the support of laudable public enterprises. He was a man who in every respect merited the high esteem in which he was universally held, for he was a man of public spirit, intellectual attainments and exemplary character. G W. Hanes was born May 29, 1828, and died near Butler, DeKalb county, Indiana, on the 28th day of May 1897, lacking one day of being sixty-nine years of age. He came to this county with his parents when he was twelve years of age and with them tasted of the hardships, struggles and few pleasures of those trying pioneer days. On the 29th of September, 1866, he was united in matrimony with Harriet Altenburg, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Latson) Altenburg, natives of the Empire state. To this union were born eighty children, one of whom died in infancy. The seven surviving children were with him at the time of his death and during the long last illness administering to his wants with loving hands. In his early days the subject taught school and subsequently entered the dairy business with his brother, at which he was very successful. He was a good man in all that term implies, and was honored and respected by his neighbors and associates, who frequently solicited his sound advice on matters of business. Fraternally, Mr. Hanes was quite prominent in the Odd Fellows lodge, having belonged to the order at Butler, Lodge No. 282 and Encampment No. 160, for about twenty-eight years, during which time he was active in promoting the growth of that fraternity. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hanes were as follows: Cameron R., of Chicago; Sarah E., the wife of Charles Heffelfinger, of Chicago; Mary Ella, the wife of W. D. Gardner, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Pearl, deceased; Wilmetta, the wife of Milton Wagoner, of Goshen, Indiana; Altenburg, of Waterloo, this county; Carleton, at home; Clare, who lives with her mother, was married on November 25, 1909, to Eston McCague, who was born June 3, 1880, in Waterloo, this county. Mrs. Hanes and family still own the home farm, comprising one hundred and forty acres of land, one hundred of, which are tillable, and here they carry on general farming and stock raising. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com