Heber Willard Harker
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SPOUSE: (1) MARGARET ANN TERRY
Marriage: 27
June 1878
Place: Salt
Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
SPOUSE: (2)LARA LARSON
Birth Date:
14 November 1858
Birth Place: Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah
Death Date:
26 September 1943
Burial: Cardston,Alberta,
Canada
CHILDREN
Martha
Ann Harker
Heber Lawrence Harker
Joseph Alma Harker
Ellis Harker
Myron Harker
Leroy Harker
William Ross Harker
James Evan Harker
Benjamin Harker
Edna Alvina Harker
Lavar Harker
LeVern Harker
Elmer Harker
Margaret Harker |
1879-1879
1880-197?
1881-1956
1883-1890
1886-1955
1889-1903
1891-1956
1893-1978
1895-1896
1897-1915
1898-1899
1901-198?
1903-1995
1906-197? |
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FAMILY
Father: JOSEPH HARKER
Mother:
SUSANNAH SNEATH
SIBLINGS
John Harker
Job Harker
Joseph Harker
William Sneath Harker
Henry Harker
Benjamin Harker
Mary Ann Harker
Ephraim Harker
Isabell Harker
Heber
Willard Harker
Alvina Harker
Levi Harker
Samira Susannah Harker
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
History of Heber Willard Harker
by James Evan Harker (son)
Heber Willard Harker, the son of
Joseph Harker and Susannah Sneath was born 14th of November 1858
at Taylorsville, Utah. Here they loved on the farm where Heber
helped his father with the farm work and caring for the sheep.What
schooling he had was in the Grade Schools of his hometown. Suring
his boyhood it was his responsibility to walk three miles each
day to bring the cows, that provided milk for the family, home
from the pastures.
In his younger life he was fond
of athletic sports, excelling in boxing and wrestling. His hobby,
though was fishing and hunting. He went deer hunting with his
son, Vern, the fall fo his 84th birthday and was successful in
bagging a deer.
When he was eighteen years of age
he met Margaret Ann Terry, born 31st of August 1859, at Union
Fort, Utah, the daughter of Otis Lysander Terry and Martha Jane
Van Valkenberg of Fairview, Utah, who at that time was living
with her sister, Emma Jane Bennion, in Taylorsville, Utah. These
two young people fell in love and on the 27th of June, 1878 were
married in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their union was blessed with
fourteen children, eleven boys and three girls.
The family's first home was in
Vernon, Tooele County, Utah where their first two children, Martha
Ann, 1879, and Heber Lawrence, 1880, were born. While the family
was away visiting Margaret's parents in Fairview, somke children
were playing with gun powder. The scattered it around the Harker
home and granary, then touched a match to it, burning the building
and contents to the ground. When the family returned home, all
they had left were the clothes they were wearing. They returned
to Fairview, where a son, Joseph Alma was born. Heber and Margaret
returned to Taylorsville, where they built a home and lived for
a short time. Two sons were born there, Ellis in 1883, and Myron
in 1886.
In 1886 the family moved back to
Sanpete County, where Heber bought 90 acres of farm land near
Fairview, and built a home. He raised grain and stock and also
leased a herd of sheep from his sister-in-law. Six more children
were born there, Leroy, 1889, William Ross, 1891, James Evan,
1893, Benjamin, 1895, Edna Alvina, 1897, and LaVar, 1898. The
family attended LDS Church meetings in the School House in the
little hamlet of Milburn and here the children went to school.
Margaret was very resourceful, helping Heber by sewing and knitting
for the children.
Heber's brothers, Levi and Ephraim,
with their families had moved to Canada and had written glowing
accounts of the beauty of the country in Alberta. In 1900, Heber
and Margaret sold the farm and turned the sheep back to his sister-in-law.
They sold all their belongings except what they could load in
a boxcar. These included four head of horses, two milk cows,
fruniture and farm implements. On the 28th of March 1900, they
left for Alberta, Canada by train.
The family was met at Stirling,
the end of the line of the railroad, by Heber's brother, Levi
Harker and some of his boys, and were taken to their home in
Magrath. Two miles south of town, Heber bought eighty acres of
farmland near Pot-Hole Creek where they raised all kinds of grain,
cattle, and hogs. They built |
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