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| Enos, Laura, Maude Emma and Kenneth Hardenbrook abt 1910 |
Laura Alice (Wortman)
Hardenbrook was born 14 April 1886 in the Town of Ulysses, Tompkins County, New
York to Menzo and Mary (Taylor) Wortman.
On the evening of June 8,
1905, at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Jacksonville, New York Laura married
Enos Hardenbrook. She and Enos had two children, Maude Emma (Hardenbrook) Agard
(my grandmother) and Kenneth Hardenbrook.
Enos and Laura lived in a
small farmhouse near Jacksonville on Swamp College Road. The house had two bedrooms; a very
small bedroom that they occupied and a small living room and a medium sized
kitchen.
The Hardenbrooks moved to
Ithaca, New York in the early 1930s. In 1936 they lived at 108 West State
Street; in 1937 they lived at 708 N.Aurora Street; in 1938 they moved to 115
Prospect Street where they lived until moving back to Jacksonville some time in
the early 1940s.
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| Kenneth and Laura (Wortman) Hardenbrook |
I remember great-grandma
Hardenbrook as a tall, slim, and serious woman. I don’t know if she ever had
formal training, but in her later years she worked as a type of visiting nurse.
Laura (Wortman)
Hardenbrook died 28 February 1978 at Ithacacare on Quarry Street, Ithaca, New
York at the age of 92. This challenge has brought to my attention that although
I knew great-grandma for many years, I didn’t really know her. That will be my
next challenge.
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