Hardy, Lillian, 91, 29 Oct 1995, Rapid City
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Lillian Nicholson Hardy, 91, of Rapid City, died Sunday, October 29, 1995 at a local nursing home. Survivors include one son, Keith William Hardy, and two grandchildren, William and Chevelle.
Visitation was held one hour before services at Behrens Mortuary, Rapid City.
Services were at two p.m. Thursday at Behrens Mortuary, with Rev. Kenneth Smith officiating. Burial was at Pine Lawn Memorial Park, Rapid City.
Obituary entered by Mike Burson
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Mary Lillian Nicholson first married in 1923 to Amos Tatum Norris of Strong, Union County, Arkansas, who was born at Aurelle. He was a cook in the US Army during WW I.
Amos and Lillian soon moved to Ballinger, Runnells County, Texas, where he was employed as a foreman for the L. T. Campbell Company. (This company is no longer active, and I was unable to determine what sort of business it was).
By 1930, they were living in El Dorado. Amos' occupation was "Foreman - Teaming." Not sure exactly what this was, but a number of others on the same census page were listed as "teamsters, moving dirt." Must have been some sort of construction work, possibly on roads.
Amos and Lillian divorced sometime in the decade of the 1930s, although I could find no specific record.
In 1940, her life was set to change drastically. Enter William Henry Hardy.
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It is unknown why or when Mr. Hardy first came to Strong. However, die to subsequent events, it appears to have been in the 1939-40 timeframe. The "why" is lightly-informed speculation.
William Henry Hardy was born at Madrid, Iowa in 1887. Nothing is known about his early life other than the fact he had married and divorced twice before coming to Arkansas. He was a horse-trader by occupation. He also appears to have been a gadabout-gaddis, a man who wouldn't stay in one place.
His route to Strong, Arkansas is an unknown, the "why" of it, but based on subsequent events, horse-trading (perhaps other livestock too) seems to be the root of it. Much earlier in his life, Hardy was in the farm machinery and stock business in North Dakota, and ran a stock farm in Montana in the 1930s.
Years ago, someone told me verbally that Hardy spent most of his time around the Clark Mule Barn in Strong. This place was prime territory for horse trading, and probably a lot of other things. I was also told he had a "unique" nickname, but that information now escapes me.
At any rate, during this time is when he met Mary Lillian Nicholson of Strong. Those two must have hit it off good. By sometime in the summer of 1940, they left Strong together, unmarried at the time. They landed in Kenton, Michigan.
On July 29, 1940, the pair obtained a marriage license in Houghton County. They wed at Ewen, Ontonagon County, Michigan, on August 3, 1940.
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Hardy left Lillian at home in Kenton while he, for unknown reasons, returned to Strong alone. This was in the summer of 1942. While at Strong, even at age 55, he was required to register for the WWII draft. In the space for "someone who will always know where you are," Hardy wrote: Mrs. Hardy (Lillian) Kento, Michigan. One wonders what sort of pressing business caused him to make the long trek back to Arkansas, alone.
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Lillian Nicholson Hardy, 91, of Rapid City, died Sunday, October 29, 1995 at a local nursing home. Survivors include one son, Keith William Hardy, and two grandchildren, William and Chevelle.
Visitation was held one hour before services at Behrens Mortuary, Rapid City.
Services were at two p.m. Thursday at Behrens Mortuary, with Rev. Kenneth Smith officiating. Burial was at Pine Lawn Memorial Park, Rapid City.
Obituary entered by Mike Burson
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Mary Lillian Nicholson first married in 1923 to Amos Tatum Norris of Strong, Union County, Arkansas, who was born at Aurelle. He was a cook in the US Army during WW I.
Amos and Lillian soon moved to Ballinger, Runnells County, Texas, where he was employed as a foreman for the L. T. Campbell Company. (This company is no longer active, and I was unable to determine what sort of business it was).
By 1930, they were living in El Dorado. Amos' occupation was "Foreman - Teaming." Not sure exactly what this was, but a number of others on the same census page were listed as "teamsters, moving dirt." Must have been some sort of construction work, possibly on roads.
Amos and Lillian divorced sometime in the decade of the 1930s, although I could find no specific record.
In 1940, her life was set to change drastically. Enter William Henry Hardy.
_____________
It is unknown why or when Mr. Hardy first came to Strong. However, die to subsequent events, it appears to have been in the 1939-40 timeframe. The "why" is lightly-informed speculation.
William Henry Hardy was born at Madrid, Iowa in 1887. Nothing is known about his early life other than the fact he had married and divorced twice before coming to Arkansas. He was a horse-trader by occupation. He also appears to have been a gadabout-gaddis, a man who wouldn't stay in one place.
His route to Strong, Arkansas is an unknown, the "why" of it, but based on subsequent events, horse-trading (perhaps other livestock too) seems to be the root of it. Much earlier in his life, Hardy was in the farm machinery and stock business in North Dakota, and ran a stock farm in Montana in the 1930s.
Years ago, someone told me verbally that Hardy spent most of his time around the Clark Mule Barn in Strong. This place was prime territory for horse trading, and probably a lot of other things. I was also told he had a "unique" nickname, but that information now escapes me.
At any rate, during this time is when he met Mary Lillian Nicholson of Strong. Those two must have hit it off good. By sometime in the summer of 1940, they left Strong together, unmarried at the time. They landed in Kenton, Michigan.
On July 29, 1940, the pair obtained a marriage license in Houghton County. They wed at Ewen, Ontonagon County, Michigan, on August 3, 1940.
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Hardy left Lillian at home in Kenton while he, for unknown reasons, returned to Strong alone. This was in the summer of 1942. While at Strong, even at age 55, he was required to register for the WWII draft. In the space for "someone who will always know where you are," Hardy wrote: Mrs. Hardy (Lillian) Kento, Michigan. One wonders what sort of pressing business caused him to make the long trek back to Arkansas, alone.
Hardy, Lillian, 91, 29 Oct 1995, Rapid City
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Lillian Nicholson Hardy, 91, of Rapid City, died Sunday, October 29, 1995 at a local nursing home. Survivors include one son, Keith William Hardy, and two grandchildren, William and Chevelle.
Visitation was held one hour before services at Behrens Mortuary, Rapid City.
Services were at two p.m. Thursday at Behrens Mortuary, with Rev. Kenneth Smith officiating. Burial was at Pine Lawn Memorial Park, Rapid City.
Obituary entered by Mike Burson
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Mary Lillian Nicholson first married in 1923 to Amos Tatum Norris of Strong, Union County, Arkansas, who was born at Aurelle. He was a cook in the US Army during WW I.
Amos and Lillian soon moved to Ballinger, Runnells County, Texas, where he was employed as a foreman for the L. T. Campbell Company. (This company is no longer active, and I was unable to determine what sort of business it was).
By 1930, they were living in El Dorado. Amos' occupation was "Foreman - Teaming." Not sure exactly what this was, but a number of others on the same census page were listed as "teamsters, moving dirt." Must have been some sort of construction work, possibly on roads.
Amos and Lillian divorced sometime in the decade of the 1930s, although I could find no specific record.
In 1940, her life was set to change drastically. Enter William Henry Hardy.
_____________
It is unknown why or when Mr. Hardy first came to Strong. However, die to subsequent events, it appears to have been in the 1939-40 timeframe. The "why" is lightly-informed speculation.
William Henry Hardy was born at Madrid, Iowa in 1887. Nothing is known about his early life other than the fact he had married and divorced twice before coming to Arkansas. He was a horse-trader by occupation. He also appears to have been a gadabout-gaddis, a man who wouldn't stay in one place.
His route to Strong, Arkansas is an unknown, the "why" of it, but based on subsequent events, horse-trading (perhaps other livestock too) seems to be the root of it. Much earlier in his life, Hardy was in the farm machinery and stock business in North Dakota, and ran a stock farm in Montana in the 1930s.
Years ago, someone told me verbally that Hardy spent most of his time around the Clark Mule Barn in Strong. This place was prime territory for horse trading, and probably a lot of other things. I was also told he had a "unique" nickname, but that information now escapes me.
At any rate, during this time is when he met Mary Lillian Nicholson of Strong. Those two must have hit it off good. By sometime in the summer of 1940, they left Strong together, unmarried at the time. They landed in Kenton, Michigan.
On July 29, 1940, the pair obtained a marriage license in Houghton County. They wed at Ewen, Ontonagon County, Michigan, on August 3, 1940.
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Hardy left Lillian at home in Kenton while he, for unknown reasons, returned to Strong alone. This was in the summer of 1942. While at Strong, even at age 55, he was required to register for the WWII draft. In the space for "someone who will always know where you are," Hardy wrote: Mrs. Hardy (Lillian) Kento, Michigan. One wonders what sort of pressing business caused him to make the long trek back to Arkansas, alone.
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Lillian Nicholson Hardy, 91, of Rapid City, died Sunday, October 29, 1995 at a local nursing home. Survivors include one son, Keith William Hardy, and two grandchildren, William and Chevelle.
Visitation was held one hour before services at Behrens Mortuary, Rapid City.
Services were at two p.m. Thursday at Behrens Mortuary, with Rev. Kenneth Smith officiating. Burial was at Pine Lawn Memorial Park, Rapid City.
Obituary entered by Mike Burson
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Mary Lillian Nicholson first married in 1923 to Amos Tatum Norris of Strong, Union County, Arkansas, who was born at Aurelle. He was a cook in the US Army during WW I.
Amos and Lillian soon moved to Ballinger, Runnells County, Texas, where he was employed as a foreman for the L. T. Campbell Company. (This company is no longer active, and I was unable to determine what sort of business it was).
By 1930, they were living in El Dorado. Amos' occupation was "Foreman - Teaming." Not sure exactly what this was, but a number of others on the same census page were listed as "teamsters, moving dirt." Must have been some sort of construction work, possibly on roads.
Amos and Lillian divorced sometime in the decade of the 1930s, although I could find no specific record.
In 1940, her life was set to change drastically. Enter William Henry Hardy.
_____________
It is unknown why or when Mr. Hardy first came to Strong. However, die to subsequent events, it appears to have been in the 1939-40 timeframe. The "why" is lightly-informed speculation.
William Henry Hardy was born at Madrid, Iowa in 1887. Nothing is known about his early life other than the fact he had married and divorced twice before coming to Arkansas. He was a horse-trader by occupation. He also appears to have been a gadabout-gaddis, a man who wouldn't stay in one place.
His route to Strong, Arkansas is an unknown, the "why" of it, but based on subsequent events, horse-trading (perhaps other livestock too) seems to be the root of it. Much earlier in his life, Hardy was in the farm machinery and stock business in North Dakota, and ran a stock farm in Montana in the 1930s.
Years ago, someone told me verbally that Hardy spent most of his time around the Clark Mule Barn in Strong. This place was prime territory for horse trading, and probably a lot of other things. I was also told he had a "unique" nickname, but that information now escapes me.
At any rate, during this time is when he met Mary Lillian Nicholson of Strong. Those two must have hit it off good. By sometime in the summer of 1940, they left Strong together, unmarried at the time. They landed in Kenton, Michigan.
On July 29, 1940, the pair obtained a marriage license in Houghton County. They wed at Ewen, Ontonagon County, Michigan, on August 3, 1940.
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Hardy left Lillian at home in Kenton while he, for unknown reasons, returned to Strong alone. This was in the summer of 1942. While at Strong, even at age 55, he was required to register for the WWII draft. In the space for "someone who will always know where you are," Hardy wrote: Mrs. Hardy (Lillian) Kento, Michigan. One wonders what sort of pressing business caused him to make the long trek back to Arkansas, alone.
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