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Odber Miles and Loretta Hartt
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Odber Miles Hartt
Odber Hartt Family
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Odber
Miles Hartt
was born
on September 4, 1852 in New Brunswick. He was the son of George C.
Hartt and his wife, Margaret Jane (Fowler), better known as Martha. At the age of
13, he was an apprentice shoemaker in North Adams, Massachusetts.
There is no record of the family on the 1861 New Brunswick Census; it is
presumed that the whole family had moved to the US before that time.
When
Odber was about 19 years old, his father died.
Odber
married Matilda Loretta Kilburn, of Kingsclear, New Brunswick on December
16, 1878, in New York City. She was born on January 16, 1855 and
died on September 8, 1902, in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Loretta is buried in the Kingsclear-Kilburn
Cemetery with one infant. She was originally buried on the Kilburn
farm, but when the Mactaquac Dam was constructed, many homes disappeared
under the new head pond and cemeteries had to be relocated to higher
ground.
When
Odber Miles and Loretta returned to live in Fredericton, New Brunswick,
around 1897, they
lived on York Street where the Hartt Boot and Shoe Factory Company, Ltd. was
constructed in 1899. Two years later, after Loretta died, he sold his share
of the factory and moved back to the USA in 1904.
Odber,
later married a woman (Behrens?) who, from a previous marriage, had two
daughters. Odber's step-daughters from his second marriage were Pam
and Gwen Roberts. Odber
Miles Hartt died on March 5, 1918, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is said
that he was shoveling snow and died after entering the house. He is
buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, New York with three of his
infant children and his mother.
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Children born to Odber Miles Hartt and Matilda Loretta
Kilburn Hartt:
| Wilbur Hartt |
Born |
September 8, 1879 |
New York City, New York |
Married Nellie |
| Died |
September 1966 |
Oakland, California |
| Benjamin Franklin
Hartt |
Born |
March 22, 1882 |
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Died as an infant |
| Died |
August 3, 1883 |
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| Maud Margaret Hartt |
Born |
December 28, 1883 |
Tarrytown, New York |
Married Wilson Anderson Loudoun
of Chatham, New Brunswick; he was an accountant; family from Scotland in
1850s. |
| Died |
December 16, 1966 |
Fredericton, New Brunswick |
| Franklin K. Hartt |
Born |
August 18, 1886 |
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Died as an infant;
buried Kingsclear-Kilburn Cemetery, New Brunswick. |
| Died |
August 18, 1887 |
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| Etta M. Hartt |
Born |
December 10, 1889 |
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Died as an infant of
cholera; buried in Tarrytown, New York. |
| Died |
April 16, 1891 |
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| Harry Dell Hartt |
Born |
December 10, 1891 |
New York City, New York |
Married Virginia
Ackman, born
January 22, 1888; died September 5, 1969 in Huntington, Indiana. See
notes below. |
| Died |
1965 |
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| Frederick Hartt |
Born |
March 22, 1892 |
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Died as an infant of
cholera; buried in Tarrytown, New York. |
| Died |
August 10, 1892 |
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| Odber Raymond Hartt |
Born |
October 1, 1893 |
Tarrytown, New York |
Married Dorothy
Beaver; she was born
October 28, 1895; died January 10, 1982. |
| Died |
December 10, 1970 |
Wichita Falls, Texas |
| Hazel Loretta Hartt |
Born |
April 1, 1895 |
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Married Lawrence C. Brake on
November 24, 1919 in Allen County, Indiana |
| Died |
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| Mabel Idella Kilburn
Hartt |
Born |
May 19, 1889 |
Fredericton, New Brunswick |
Never married |
| Died |
April 9, 1994 |
Corona Del Mar, California |
Notes:
Wilbur (William) Hartt and Nellie (Brownie or "B") lived
in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1926, while working for Westinghouse
Corporation. Later, they moved to Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and stayed
there until 1960. Sometime in the 1960s, they (or he) moved to the
Oakland, California area to be close to their daughter and grandchildren.
[Information on the living deleted]. William C. Hartt (possibly Wilbur, above), according to an
article in the Rochester N.Y. Herald, owned a silver mine in Arizona. He
invented the gravity ore elevator which, along with the mine, provided a
comfortable income.
Maud Margaret Hartt and Wilson Loudoun of
Chatham, NB. They had one daughter,
Flora Hartt Loudoun (1911-1965). Flora Hartt Loudon married Frederick W.
Fenety in 1945; they had one child, a daughter. Both Flora and Frederick
are buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery, 318 Brunswick Street, Fredericton,
NB. [Information on the living deleted]
Harry Dell Hartt and Virginia Ackman had
two children: (1) Betty Louise Hartt, born Sept. 8, 1919, Huntington, IN, died
Sept. 1987, Huntington, IN; and (2) Geraldine Hartt, born June 23, 1907, died
Sept. 19, 2000. Betty Louise Hartt married Eugene Howell and they had two
children: Diane K. Howell, and Jack Edward Howell, born Sept. 3, 1947, Vietnam
veteran, unmarried, died in 2004. Geraldine Hartt married (1) Charles
Wilson on October 3, 1925; he died Oct. 5, 1975. Geraldine married (2)
Frank Helvie on Feb. 14, 1982; he died July 29, 1990 of a heart attack.
Geraldine and Charles had three children but one daughter, Sharon, died as an
infant from a respiratory illness.
Odber Raymond Hartt was a pilot instructor
during World War I. He married Dorothy Beaver and they had two children:
(1) Helen Emily Hartt, born Jan. 16, 1925, died Sept. 21, 1994; and (2) Odber Raymond
Hartt, Jr., born on February 3, 1920. Obder Raymond Hartt, Jr., married Joan Logan on February
11, 1950, in Wichita Falls, Texas, and lived in Abilene, Texas. Odber
Raymond Hartt, Jr. died on January 12, 1999. Helen Emily Hartt married
Robert Charles Thompson on July 25, 1946, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Helen
and Robert Thompson had five children. {Information on the living deleted].
Hazel R. Hartt and Lawrence Charles Brake
on Nov. 24, 1919, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Lawrence was born Sept. 1, 1896,
and died April 22, 1924, in Dawson Springs, Kentucky, from tuberculosis.
They had a son (foster child). [Information
on the living deleted].
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