Orville Eugene Hartwell

12 July 1852–23 April 1916 (Age 63)
Platte River, Saunders, Nebraska, United States

The Life Summary of Orville Eugene

When Orville Eugene Hartwell was born on 12 July 1852, in Platte River, Saunders, Nebraska, United States, his father, Elliott Hartwell, was 33 and his mother, Hortense Rogers, was 24. He married Ada Eugenia Druce on 6 December 1876, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake City Ward 4, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 23 April 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Orville Eugene Hartwell
1852–1916
Ada Eugenia Druce
1854–1911
Marriage: 6 December 1876
Ada May Hartwell
1878–1946
Orville Eugene Hartwell
1880–1881
Ida Eugenia Hartwell
1883–1963
Beulah Helen Hartwell
1885–1952
Louise Hortense Hartwell
1887–1916
Gertrude Hartwell
1889–1970
Roscoe Earl Hartwell
1891–1971
Fred Grant Hartwell
1894–1920
Claire Alene Hartwell
1896–1974

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    6 December 1876Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (9)

    +4 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1854
    Age 2
    On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
    1863
    Age 11
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 18
    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    Name Meaning

    English (West Midlands): habitational name from any of several places called Hartwell (Staffordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, and Devon), all named with Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’.

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

    Sources (32)

    • Orvill Hartwell in entry for Hartwell, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
    • Orval Hartwell, "United States Census, 1880"
    • O.E Hartwell in entry for Fred G. Hartwell and Pearl I. Bench, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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