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Harford, Pulaski H.
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| LAST NAME: Harford
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FIRST NAME: Pulaski
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MIDDLE NAME: H.
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 10 Mar 1848
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DIED: 26 Jul 1897
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BURIED: (Spring Valley Cemetery)
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| OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Pennsylvania
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| DEATH PLACE: Spring Valley, Polk Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
Name of father John M. Harford
Maiden name of mother Martha Jane Wise
1850 PA CENSUS - Pelaski [Pulaski] Harford, age 2, b. Pennylvania, is enumerated with John M. Harford, age 35, occupation blacksmith, b. Pennslylvania, and M. A., age 31, b. Pennsylvania, along with Renonie, male, age 10, b. Pennsylvania, M. E., female, age 9, b. Pennsylvania, and C. W., male, age 5, b. Pennsylvania.
Also enumerated with the family are M. A. Gormly, age 28, female, b. Pennsylvania, John M. Gormly, age 2, b. Pennsylvania, and Charles Harford, age 26, occupation merchant, b. Pennsylvania.
MARRIAGE - to Hannah Lorene Dressler 10 Mar 1878 at Aspinwall, Nemaha Co., Nebraska.
[Hannah died in 1937 and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado].
1880 KS CENSUS - Pelasky [Pulaski] Harford, age 32, occupation farmer, b. Pennsylvania, is enumerated with wife Hanah, age 26, b. Illinois, along with Harry, age 1, b. Kansas.
DISCREPANCY - Pulaksi on marker, Pelaski on census records
PHOTOGRAPHS - the picture of Pulaski Harford, and his memorial are shown courtesy of James G. Sewell (grandson of Pulaski)
CHILDREN of Pulaksi and Hannah:
Harry Minor Harford
b - 2/5/1879 Randall, KS
d - 3/9/31 Haigler, NE
Frank Walker Harford
b - 12/21/1881 Randall, KS
d - 11/19/1957 Hemet, CA
Hugh Everett Harford
b - 1/5/1884 Randall, KS
d - 2/20/1886 Randall, KS
Clyde Randolph Harford
b - 1/8/1886 Randall, KS
d - 1/29/1968 ?
Ethel Maude Harford
b - 3/14/1888 Randall, KS
d - 7/13/1975 Auburn, NE
Ray Tennyson Harford
b - 10/10/1890 Randall, KS
d - 9/4/1925 Cino, CA
Elma Lorene Harford (twin)
b - 10/6/1892 Randall,KS
d - 10/24/1989 Yakima, WA (buried in Yakima, WA)
Stella Irene Harford (twin)
b - 10/6/1892 Randall, KS
d - 5/25/1989 Yakima, WA
Lottie Marie Harford
b - 8/31/1895 Lincoln, OR
d - 5/8/1995 Kent, WA
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
N/A
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OBITUARY:
SUICIDE
Of Polk County Farmer
P. H. Harford Deliberately Takes
His Life With a Shot Gun.
About 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, after the JOURNAL had gone to press, John Simpkins, a successful Polk county farmer residing in Spring Valley, brought the startling news to this city, of the suicide of P. H. Harford, a highly respected farmer whose home adjoins his. Everything associated with the death of Mr. Harford would indicate that it was a deliverate and determined suicide.
About 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, Mr. Simpkins, who was working in a field adjoining the Harford farm, was startled by the explosion of a gun followed by the screams of women.
He hastened at once to the home of Mr. Harford, where he found the husband and father of the distraced family, cold in death, with an ugly gunshot wound about three inches in circumference just over the heart from which the blood was flowing quite freely. From all indications, it is quite apparent that Mr. Harford was deliberate in his determination to end his life. It is presumed that the man, having seated himself on the ground, placed the stock of the gun against the barn and having placed the muzzle over his heart, with a small stick about three feet in length, discharged the fire arm with instant and deadly effect. When Mr. Simpkins arrived upon the scene, the gun was found laying alongside of the dead body with the barrel pointing to an ugly wound on his breast. The stick with which the man is thought to have discharged the shot gun was also found near the body.
Mr. Harford came to Oregon about five years ago from Kansas and purchased a farm in the lower end of Spring Valley, just one-half mile from the north line of the Polk County line. He was a succesful farmer, an industrious worker and a thorough mechanic. He was an excellent neighbor, hospitable and well liked and his family relations were quite pleasant all of which makes it difficult to assign a cause for the rash deed.
Mr. Harford was about 50 years of age and a member of the A. O. U. W. under the Kansas jurisdiction, having not transferred his membership since coming to Oregon. He leaves a wife and seven children, four boys and three girls, ranging in age from babyhood to manhood.
Daily Capital Journal 27 Jul 1897, 4:7
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INSCRIPTION:
Pulaski Harford
Born
Mar. 10, 1848
Died
July 26, 1897
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SOURCES:
Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1850 PA CENSUS (Washington Co., E. Bethlehem, FA #156)
1880 KS CENSUS (Jewell Co., Allen, ED 131, pg D19)
James G. Sewell
Pam Sewell
DCJ 27 Jul 1897, 4:7
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