Hannah Hardy

Brief Life History of Hannah

When Hannah Hardy was born on 9 October 1839, in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jacob Hardy, was 42 and her mother, Louisa King Kimball, was 30. She married Ephraim Knowlton Hanks on 27 March 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1850. She died on 20 October 1909, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John P Gibson
1831–
Hannah Hardy
1839–1909
Marriage: about 1865
Myron Carlos Gibson
1866–1927
Elmer H. Gibson
1869–1915
Louisa Kimball Gibson
1870–1934

Sources (23)

  • Hannah A. Gibson, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Hannah A. Gibson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
  • Hanah Hardy, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1847

Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.

Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.

Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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