Notes from Sandy Delano.
FamilySearch information indicates Joseph Hardy was born 22 Jun 1734. The birth date is more likely 8 Feb 1748.
Joseph Hardy of Connecticut, Camden, Maine, Islesboro, Maine, Searsmont, Maine was born between 1740-1750. The date based on Searsmont, Maine 1830 US Census of Joseph Hardy Jr. where Joseph Hardy Sr. was known to be residing.*
*1829 Mar 27 Islesborough town meeting article to see what method the town will take to support Joseph Hardy a pauper of this town now living in Searsmont.
*1830 Apr 13 Islesborough town meeting voted to allow Joseph Hardy Jr. $30/year for to keep his father Joseph Hardy and to clear this town of expense.
1830 US Census Joseph Hardy had one male aged 80 to 90 years in residence. (born 1740-50)
Joseph Hardy was from Connecticut (not New Hampshire) and most probably born 8 Feb 1748 in Westerly, Rhode Island.
1800 Census Hancock County, (Islesboro, Maine)
Joseph Hardy head of household
Where did you come from?
Answer: Ct.
Males > 45 1 (Joseph I born before 1755)
Females 26-45 2 (Sarah, Lydia)
Females >45 1 (Sarah Richards)
1800 U.S. Census Lincoln County (Camden)
Joseph Hardy Jr.
Males <10 1 (Zachariah)
Females 26-45 1 (Elizabeth Thorndike)
Males 26-45 1 (Joseph Hardy Jr.)
Notes from Sandy Delano.
Name from Abraham Ogier family who on same day as Joseph Hardy Sr. was granted land in Camden, Maine
1773 Jun 28 The twenty associates permitted Abraham Ogier to settle on lot number 33 in Camden, Maine.
1773 Jun 28 Meeting of Twenty Associates. Voted that Mr. Joseph Hardy be permitted to settle on lot #66, Camden, Maine
Lewis Ogier Hardy
Residences: Passamaquoddy, New Brunswick, Canada; Searsmont, Maine; St. George, Maine; Unitah, Utah
1803 Oct 17 Date of birth at Passamaquoddy, New Brunswick, Canada
1831 Jul 06 Date of marriage intentions to Phebe French.
1831 Jul 28 Date of marriage to Phebe French at Belfast, Maine.
1840 US Census St George, Maine; Lewis Hardy with wife and two boys and two girls.
1842 Aug 05 Lewis and Phebe Hardy of Searsmont, Maine sold land in St. George, Maine for $40 to brother Robert Hardy
1850 Lewis Hardy went west with brothers Zachariah and Joseph Hardy. (He and three sons went to California?)
1855 Apr 03 Date of marriage to 15 year old Clarinda Jane Doffelmyre.
1857 Mar 12 Date of marriage to Marilda Murch.
1897 Mar Date of death.
HARDY, LEWIS O. Born Oct. 15, 1803, Camden, Me. Came to Utah with Lewis O. Hardy handcart company.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah Genealogies and Biographies H Privates Children through first marriage: Henry; Phoebe, m. Lewis Bonitis; Robert; Mary, m. ........... Lawson;
Notes taken from numerous family histories.
Lewis' father, Joseph Hardy, was a Sea Captain on a large fishing and trading or freighting vessel which traveled up and down the Eastern coast, from New York to Maine and even to the Florida coast. Sometimes he would be gone for weeks and months at a time. He was also a carpenter and ship builder and in these trades his three sons became very expert at, and followed until they left their native home for the call of the West.
The family first heard the Gospel preached by Elder William Hyde, in Searsmont, Maine, a little town near their home and where they afterwards moved. Elder Hydes' sermon impressed them very deeply and they were soon converted and baptized into the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The date being August 10, 1840. Early the next year they joined a company of Latter-day Saints who were going west to Nauvoo to be with the main body of the Church. They left comfortable homes, and all they possessed, taking with them only what they could haul on the wagons. The Hardy family at the time consisted of: Joseph (father) and Betsy (mother); Zachariah (eldest son), his wife, Eliza Ann Philbrook and children; Lewis (second son) and wife; Elisa (daughter), and her husband, Abiah Wadsworth, and their family; and Joseph (third son), with his wife and children.
It was a long and rough journey over mountains trails and the mother, Betsy, being so frail and delicate soon became to ill to continue. They decided it was best to accept the invitation of a family of Saints, who lived along the way and who offered the father and mother a home until she was able to resume her journey. Their son, Joseph, returned for them about two months later. The rest of the family reached Nauvoo about October 28, 1841. The father, Joseph Hardy, died after reaching Nauvoo, early in 1842, and the mother died in 1843.
After reaching Nauvoo they secured a cottage and rejoiced. Almost the first person they met was the Prophet Joseph Smith, with whom they soon became very intimately acquainted. Zachariah was chosen as a body-guard for the Prophet, and held this position until the Prophet's death; and at the time of the Martyrdom, he was among the first to reach the scene of the tragedy. After Prophet Joseph Smith was killed there was much sadness among the Saints. The mobs came and drove them from their homes. They were forced to cross the Mississippi River for their safety. Brigham Young was now their leader.
At the time of the move West Zachariah was called to go with the first company leaving, but later Brigham Young asked him to stay and run a ferry boat across the river to assist the fleeing Saints who were being driven and persecuted by angry mobs. Among the first to move was his own immediate family. The chilly winds of the Winter swept down upon them in such a force that it rivaled the terror of the mobs but Zachariah never wavered form his task. Halting only long enough to comb the ice out of his hair and beard he worked until all were safely across the river. On the night of February 11, 1846, a terrible storm came up and the next morning he was very ill with pneumonia. Lying on the deck of the ferry his hair had to be cut away as it was frozen to the floor. He died two days later, February 13, 1846, leaving his wife and six children, the youngest just five days old. The only shelter they had to stay in was a wagon box on the ground covered with canvas.
The family was afraid to cross the River to go back to bury Zachariah in the cemetery in the daylight. His brothers, Lewis and Joseph; his brother-in-law, Abiah Wadsworth; and his son, William, took the body and buried it in the night in the Nauvoo Cemetery. The River was frozen over by then. This left Eliza Ann alone with six children to provide for and with very little to live on until the spring. The weather was extremely cold and they had very little money. They left everything they possessed behind when they fled their home.
Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet, opened her doors to Eliza Ann and her family. She cared for them until Eliza Ann was able to travel. Then she said if she would give up her trip West with the Saints and remain with her, she would share her home and all she possessed with them, but Eliza Ann thanked her for her kind offer and said they would go west.
Lewis took Eliza Ann's family with the other Hardys and Wadsworths to a small town about 50 miles farther on where they remained until the spring of 1849, when they moved to Council Bluffs, where they remained until 1851. They started on their journey West on May 10, 1851. In the Captain Day's Company there were 50 persons. Eliza Ann had a small team on an old wagon which contained all her earthly possessions. Her eldest son William, drove most of the way, Eliza Ann and the older children walking and pulling a handcart while the two youngest children rode in the wagon. It was a long tiresome trip and Eliza Ann was often so tired and foot-sore at night that sleep was quite impossible, but she was never heard to complain at her sad lot but was always ready with a smile and cheering kindly words for those around her. Their trip was uneventful although they were troubled some with wandering tribes of Indians and they often had to stop and repair bridges and build rafts to cross swollen streams. All went well with them and they reached the Salt Lake Valley, which to them was indeed the Land of Promise, on September 18, 1851.
They were very pleasantly greeted and welcomed by those who had preceded them and after resting only one day and night Brigham Young sent them with a colony of Saints to settle in East Weber now called Uintah. It took them three days to make the journey as they and their teams were so tired and worn out from the long trip across the almost trackless plains. They arrived in East Weber September 21, 1851. There they lived several years, being sometimes threatened by Indians who at times were very troublesome. The Saints built a fort for protection against an out break and in the winter of 1854 they were compelled to move all the families into it, as the Indians were on the warmth and would often drive off all their horses and cattle.
Notes taken from:
Daughters of Utah Pioneers, An Enduring Legacy, - Vol. I-XII (12). Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Printing Company, 1978.
Kate Carter, Treasures of Pioneer History - Vol. I-VI (6), Salt Lake City, UT: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1952.
Unitah, a green fertile valley was first settled by white men in the year 1850. Lewis hardy was the " leading spirit, or presiding genius, of these early settlers." Other early settlers included Byram Lee Bybee, John M. Bybee, Joseph Kingsbury, Daniel Smith, Henry Beckstead, Joseph Hardy, John W. Windward, and John L. Smith.
In December, 1849, the General Assembly of the State of Deseret organized for legislative action. On January 28, 1850, the Assembly created Weber County, Utah. The boundaries of Weber were declared to comprise "all that portion of country known as Weber Valley, and extending as far south as Stony Creek, and west to the Great Salt Lake." The county seat was located at Ogden and the county was divided into three precincts.
Between 1850 and 1851, the pioneer canal or ditch was constructed. With additional settlers moving in by the Spring of 1852, a ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized and Abiah Wadsworth was sustained as bishop. The town was named East Weber and the land in the east part was laid out in blocks, or lots, with streets intersecting at right angles. Althought the valley was shared with the Indians, the Indians were unable to cope with the white man and his ways, and when they found hunting and fishing growing scarce, the Indians moved out.
On February 7, 1852, the Legislature appointed Isaac Clark as Probate Judge. On April 1st, he appointed Erastus Bingham, Lewis Hardy, and Jonathan Wells, Selectmen. David Moore was made County Clerk, B. F. Cummings was made Sheriff and James Brown, Assessor and Collector. At the first meeting of the County Court, April 24, 1852, in the home of Isaac Clark, supervisors for various settlements were appointed as follows: Edward Farley was named supervisor [p.368]"for South of Weber River;" Joseph Hardy for "East Weber Settlement;" Erastus Bingham, Jr., for "Ogden Settlement North of Ogden River," Jonathan Campbell for "Ogden Hole Settlement, North Ogden;" and Charles Hubbard for "Willow Creek Settlement."
In 1853, there were Indian uprisings with Chief Walker leading the Utes in a bloody war against the white settlers. Governor Brigham Young adviced the settlements to fortify their towns against a possible spread of the violence to the north. In East Weber, the residents decided to construct a mud wall around their community to help fend off any invasion by the Indians. The fort was constructed by throwing up a massive dirt wall on all sides. As the community grew in the following years, the fort wall was no longer needed.
In 1860, the settlement was organized as the fifth school district, with Robert E. Baird, Josiah Parry and Lewis Hardy as school trustees. A new log schoolhouse was erected under their direction. This district later became known as Lynne. As Ogden expanded and five roads terminated here, it became known as Five Points.
Notes taken from talk given at the funeral of her daughter, Effie Jane Rasmussen Powell.
Ester Jane Hardy was the ninth child of Lewis Ogier and Clarinda Jane Doffelmyre Hardy, born on July 10, 1871 in Beaver, Utah. When Ester was around 14 years old, she went to Wallsburg, Utah to visit a couple of her married sisters for about two years. (Note: Her older sister, Antoinette May Hardy Wall's first children was born in Wallsburg, Utah in 1888).
When Ester was about 16 years old, she went to visit another sister living near Vernal, Utah. (Note: Another older sister, Patience Maria Hardy Meeks had children born around that time in Jensen, Utah). It took Ester around 21 days to travel from Heber to Vernal. Then she went to Jensen where she met a tall cowboy, Johnnie Rasmussen, who was working for her brother-in-law. They were married on 3 May 1988. On February 20, 1889, they first child, Effie Jane Rasmussen was born. They had eleven children and were a happy family. There was always joy, happiness, music, and dancing in the family. Johnnie played the accordion and most of the children also played musical instruments and were self-taught. They always remembered birthdays by getting together and playing music.
Ester spent the last years of her life living with her eldest daughter (and my grandmother), Effie Jane Rasmussen Powell, in Vernal, Utah.
Notes taken from her obituary in the Vernal Express.
Effie Jane Rasmussen was the oldest of eleven children born to John Taylor and Ester Jane Hardy Rasmussen on February 20, 1889. She attended elementary school in Jensen and was valedictorian of her class when she graduated from the eighth grade. Effie was baptized on January 28, 1899 in the Green River. A hole was cut in the ice, which was about a foot thick, and a ladder was let down into the icy water. Since that time Effie was always active in and very devoted to the church.
Effie went on to Uintah Stake Academy, the only high school in Vernal at that time, where she met Heber Powell in 1905. They were married on August 8, 1906 in the Salt Lake Temple. About that time, several thousand acres of Indian Reservation had been thrown open for settlement by the white people. Heber filed on a homestead about 60 miles west of Vernal, in the present town of Bluebell. Effie was the first school teacher in Bluebell. The school was located in one of the two rooms of their log cabin, which was still standing in 1997.
In Bluebell, Effie was the first YWMIA president, as well as a teacher in Sunday School, Primary, and Religious class. She was also assistant ward clerk during the time Heber was the ward clerk. After a school and meeting house were built, Heber and Effie boarded several of the school teachers while they remained in Bluebell. Effie also served meals to many travelers, from the humblest red men that roamed the country to the most important civic and church officials. She had a reputation for being a good cook and always shared with others.
In 1915, Heber and Effie sold their home in Bluebell and moved back to Vernal. They built a small house on two acres of land which they had purchased from Heber's father, Alfred, in Naples. They lived there for about two years until they built the home where Heber lived until his death and Effie until ten weeks prior to her death. While in Naples Effie was a counselor in both MIA and Primary at the same time.
Effie worked for the Mutual Creamery Company for 20 years and was also employed by Calder Brothers and the Uintah Dairy Association. She was president of the Rasmussen Family Organization for many years and very interested in genealogy work. Effie was a member of the Camp Porter Merrell DUP since its beginning and served as class leader for a number of years and captain for 14 years. She served as a teacher for many years in Sunday School, Primary, and Relief Society. Effie also served two Uintah Stake Missions and was a Relief Society Visiting Teacher for over 60 years. She made her last visit in June, 1973, then became ill in July spending a week in the hospital. She was unable to walk since then and died in a Vernal nursing home on October 12, 1973.
times since June 24, 2002.