History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
644.

JOHN HAFNER was born in Spencer County, Ind., July 18, 1845.  His father 
came from Germany at an early day.  There were but two children--John, 
and Margaret, now the wife of George Rimers.  When he was six years of 
age his father died.  He lived on a farm in Spencer County, Ind., till 
he was seventeen years of age, when, in 1861, he came to Kentucky.  He 
lived in Louisville about four years; from there went to Union County, 
and in 1873 went to Hopkinsville.  He lived there three years, and then 
came to Owensboro.  He is a gardener and brick-maker by occupation.  He 
owns eight and three-fourths acres of good land just west of Owensboro. 
 He was married June 25, 1872, to Anna Goins, who was born in Crittenden 
County, Ky., Jan. 28, 1846.  They have five children--Gertrude, Ida Ann, 
John Peter, Thomas B. and George William.  Mr. Hafner is a Lutheran in 
his religious faith.  Mrs. Hafner was reared in the Methodist church, 
but of late has come to believe that the Catholic is the better faith, 
and proposes to rear her children in that church.  Mr. Hafner has a 
brick house forty feet long and sixteen feet wide, with a hall and 
twelve-foot ceilings, that he and his wife built alone.  She made the 
mortar and/carried the brick.   They have just finished burning a kiln 
of 200,000 brick, doing all the work themselves, and now have a kiln of 
$20,000.  They always get the highest price for their brick, as Mr. 
Hafner is a celebrated brick-maker.

Hafner Rimers Goins
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