Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together Here she met and married Elisha P. Hardy, January 13, 1866. They were married by Bishop Abiah Wadsworth. They made their home in Morgan living with her parents and keeping house while her mother taught school. In the spring of 1868, they moved to Hooper, Utah and lived about a year, returning again to Morgan. Mrs. Hardy cooked for some of the Union Pacific Road officials, and often Brigham Young came to eat with them as he preferred the quiet and order of her table to the noise and confusion of the road camp. In the spring of 1870, they moved back to Hooper to make their home. Here again she helped to make a new home and help build a new community. She helped in every way to make a living for her family. She was a teacher in the first Relief Society organized in Hooper. She had charge of sewing and quilting. As the homes were so far apart, she walked miles in order to make her monthly visits. She was an excellent home nurse, being called to attend and administer to the sick at any hour of the day or night or in any season of the year. In 1878 when her husband lost his right arm, she continued doing everything possible to help make a living for the family as there were five small children to support. "I had to help provide for our family of five small children, but with the help of the Lord, we managed very nicely until my husband was able to work again. We lived in Hooper until the fall of 1900 when we again moved to Morgan, Utah, where we have since lived and made our home." During this ordeal, as in many others, she proved her strength of character and her faith in God. With cheerful encouraging words, as well as hard work, she helped him overcome his handicap. She worked in their small grocery store while her husband ran his grocery wagon to the scattered homes in the valley, and tended his bees and chickens. She also took in sewing and all kinds of needle work. When her husband purchased the ranch in Cotton Wood Canyon, she helped to clear the land and build their home. She sold milk, butter, and homemade bread to miners and wood haulers who were working in the canyon. She would also drive to Morgan or Ogden to exchange her eggs and butter for groceries. In the fall of 1900, her mother became ill and they moved back to Morgan to be near and care for her. After her mother's death, they bought the Worlton home and lived there, continuing to go to the ranch in Cotton Wood in the spring, returning to their home in Morgan in the fall, until Mr. Hardy sold out and went into business in Morgan. They built the home that is now occupied by Carlos Clark. Mrs. Hardy still continued to sell bread, milk, butter and eggs. She was very active about her garden and home, being known from Lehi to Morgan for her fine vegetable and beautiful flower garden. One very seldom found her with idle hands. After she was too old to work outside, she spent her time at needle work and reading good books and current events to her husband. She had many dear friends in each place she lived, and many times had her friends and neighbors in her home to visit and have dinner with her. She was the mother of ten children, all of whom were with her at the time of her death. She died May 6,1917, in Morgan. ■©19- Zachariah Hardy and Eliza Philbrook Hardy In a colonial town called Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, lived a seafaring family by the name of Hardy. They had migrated to America from Europe. It was here that Zachariah Hardy, a son of Joseph Hardy and Elizabeth Thorndyke Hardy, was born on March 12,1799. He was the eldest of a family of four children. Zachariah eventually became a captain of a large vessel, the same as his father before him. It was about 1822 that he married Eliza Philbrook of Belfast, Maine, who was a daughter of Elisha Philbrook and Dorothea Witham Philbrook. While he was engaged in his trade, he first heard the gospel of the Latter Day Saints preached by Elder William Hyde in Siersport, Maine, in about 1839 or 1840. Zachariah readily accepted the Gospel as he recognized the truths in Brother Hyde's words, but his wife was a very faithful Methodist and, therefore, she couldn't see it as clearly and was reluctant to believe what they claimed. One day two missionaries of this church visited them and told her about the beliefs. She wasn't impressed so they decided to go on into the next town. One of them asked her if he could leave his Book of