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Note: erf by John J. Sumner, J.P. and wit by Mrs. H.A. Spalding * Wm Spalding, both res od Bedford.
PETERSBURG SUN, Apr 24 and May 2, 1941:
" H.J. HADLEY DEAD
Harney Hadley, aged 82, died at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. jerry Mannor, of Temperance, at 3:00 P.M. April 24. His death was due to complications.
A lifelong resident of Whiteford township, he had lived alone in his home until recently. When he was 28 years old he was married to Miss Addie Spalding, of Lambertville. this couple raised a family of three daughters and one sone, all of which survive. In 1920 Mrs. hadley passed away. Later Mr. Hadly married Mrs. William Schrader, of Ottawa Lake. She preceded him in death in 1929.
During his life Mr. Hadley was engaged in several occupations --an apprentice in a boiler making firm, bought, butchered and sold cattle wholesale, gardened and repaired machinery.
These left to mourn are three daughters, Mrs. Fred Clegg, of Whiteford, Mrs. Mannot and Mrs. Alby Wohlgamuth, of Deerfield, a son, Clyde, of Otta Lake, 13 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral services, which were in charge of Hemenway and Valentine, were held at the Mannor home on Sunday, April 27, at 2:00 P.M., and grandsons served as pallbearers. Burial was made in the Whiteford Union cemetery."
Of Unknown Source, an article (Special to the Evening News), date unknown:
"WHITEFORD MAN, 82, LIKES LIVING ALONE
Farmer, Boilermaker, Repairman Ascribes His Long Life to Hard Work
Whiteford Center, June 5--H. J. Hadley, resident of Whiteford Gardens who began his eighty-second year of life May 29, has procen that a man of advanced age can 'live alone and like it." In his modern little home with its electric refrigerator, bathroom and furnace he does his own housework and putters around his garden, listens to the radio and reads. In recalling his past which remains in his mind as clearly as though it all happened yesterday, he says enthusiastically, 'Just ask the people around here what a 'storner I used to be.'
His father, a trader and stock buyer, started farming on 50 acres including the corner now occupied by Shelly's gas station on the Petersburg-Toledo road. He traded a yoke of oxen for the land which he cleared himself. Much of it was low and wet, Mr. Hadly recalls, as a young man, hunting turkey, deet, fox and coon in the surrounding woods and swamps.
He attended school in the little old frame school house that preceded the present brick school. Arithmetic and geography were his favorite subjects, although he was the best writer in school and could wade through Sander's Fourth Reader with the best of them. In February of his thirteenth year he had to quit school because of the death of his father, but he lost no opportunity in later years of improving his education.
By this time the homsetead had grown to a farm of 104 acres with another patch of 331/2 acres a mile down the road. Here he learned early to work like a man to help support his mother and five sisters. His father had planted an extensive apple orchard that bore remarkably. Me. Hadly remembers selling 20 barrels of cider one year, hauling it to Toledo five barrels at a time and selling it at five dollars a barrel.
In his twwnty-eigth year he married Miss Addie Spalding of Lambertville and after two more years on the farm, moved into Toledo where he apprenticed himself to a boiler-making firm on Water Street at $1.50 a day where he became an expert boilermaker and was soon making two dollars a day. Prices were in proportion to wages. The best pork could be bought for three and one-half cents a pound.
After eight years of boiler making, he returned to the 30 acrs that were left of the old homestead and with John Fletcher bought cattle, butchered, and sold them wholesale in Toledo. This business lasted three years, then he worked into truck farming, raising berries and vegetables in the summer and working in the boiler factory in Toledo in the winter. Finally he built a small repair shop on his farm from which he went about repairing threshing machines and other types of boilers.
In 1918 he lost the sight of one eye when a piece of steel entered it while repairing a boiler in Samaria. Since then the sight of the other eye has been dimmed by a cataract. He sees to work and read now only by the use of two pairs of glasses.
Mrs. Hadley died in February 1920, after raising a family of three daughters and one son. Mrs. William Schrader of Ottawa Lake became the second Mrs. Hadley in 1927. In 1928 they bought an acre and a half of land in Whiteford Gardens and built the home in which he now lives. She passed away in 1929.
Mr. Hadley attributes his longevity to hard work, adding that it couldn't be his abstinence from tobacco as he chewed since he was 5 years old when it was recommended by old Doc Kennedy of Sylvania for worms and liver trouble. He was for many years an active Mason and Odd Fellow, having joined the former lodge in 1884 and until recent years, serving offices in both organizations.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peelhe calls his prize neighbors. They are always doing nice things for him, and if he should become ill as he did four years ago with a heart attack, all he has to do is hang a red cloth in his west window and they are soon there to care for him. He says he has nothing to complain about except his eyes and if it weren't for their failure, he would still be out working just as hard as ever.
The family celebrated his eighty-second birthday the Sunday before its arrival at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mannon (?), near Temperance. The present besides the honored guest were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collard of Sylvania, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clegg and son, Carl, of Ottawa Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Gensler and family of Samaria, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Easter and family of Toledo, Clare Turner of Ypsilanti, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goede, jr., of Petersburg, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Kuhlman of Dundee and Mr. and Mrs. Alby Wohlgamuth of Deerfield."
GSMCMR, vol iii, pg 261: He res Whiteford, she of Bedofrd. He a farmer. Perf by John J. Sumner, J.P. and wit by Mrs. H.A. Spalding * Wm Spalding, both res od Bedford.
PETERSBURG SUN, Apr 24 and May 2, 1941:
" H.J. HADLEY DEAD
Harney Hadley, aged 82, died at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. jerry Mannor, of Temperance, at 3:00 P.M. April 24. His death was due to complications.
A lifelong resident of Whiteford township, he had lived alone in his home until recently. When he was 28 years old he was married to Miss Addie Spalding, of Lambertville. this couple raised a family of three daughters and one sone, all of which survive. In 1920 Mrs. hadley passed away. Later Mr. Hadly married Mrs. William Schrader, of Ottawa Lake. She preceded him in death in 1929.
During his life Mr. Hadley was engaged in several occupations --an apprentice in a boiler making firm, bought, butchered and sold cattle wholesale, gardened and repaired machinery.
These left to mourn are three daughters, Mrs. Fred Clegg, of Whiteford, Mrs. Mannot and Mrs. Alby Wohlgamuth, of Deerfield, a son, Clyde, of Otta Lake, 13 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral services, which were in charge of Hemenway and Valentine, were held at the Mannor home on Sunday, April 27, at 2:00 P.M., and grandsons served as pallbearers. Burial was made in the Whiteford Union cemetery."
Of Unknown Source, an article (Special to the Evening News), date unknown:
"WHITEFORD MAN, 82, LIKES LIVING ALONE
Farmer, Boilermaker, Repairman Ascribes His Long Life to Hard Work
Whiteford Center, June 5--H. J. Hadley, resident of Whiteford Gardens who began his eighty-second year of life May 29, has procen that a man of advanced age can 'live alone and like it." In his modern little home with its electric refrigerator, bathroom and furnace he does his own housework and putters around his garden, listens to the radio and reads. In recalling his past which remains in his mind as clearly as though it all happened yesterday, he says enthusiastically, 'Just ask the people around here what a 'storner I used to be.'
His father, a trader and stock buyer, started farming on 50 acres including the corner now occupied by Shelly's gas station on the Petersburg-Toledo road. He traded a yoke of oxen for the land which he cleared himself. Much of it was low and wet, Mr. Hadly recalls, as a young man, hunting turkey, deet, fox and coon in the surrounding woods and swamps.
He attended school in the little old frame school house that preceded the present brick school. Arithmetic and geography were his favorite subjects, although he was the best writer in school and could wade through Sander's Fourth Reader with the best of them. In February of his thirteenth year he had to quit school because of the death of his father, but he lost no opportunity in later years of improving his education.
By this time the homsetead had grown to a farm of 104 acres with another patch of 331/2 acres a mile down the road. Here he learned early to work like a man to help support his mother and five sisters. His father had planted an extensive apple orchard that bore remarkably. Me. Hadly remembers selling 20 barrels of cider one year, hauling it to Toledo five barrels at a time and selling it at five dollars a barrel.
In his twwnty-eigth year he married Miss Addie Spalding of Lambertville and after two more years on the farm, moved into Toledo where he apprenticed himself to a boiler-making firm on Water Street at $1.50 a day where he became an expert boilermaker and was soon making two dollars a day. Prices were in proportion to wages. The best pork could be bought for three and one-half cents a pound.
After eight years of boiler making, he returned to the 30 acrs that were left of the old homestead and with John Fletcher bought cattle, butchered, and sold them wholesale in Toledo. This business lasted three years, then he worked into truck farming, raising berries and vegetables in the summer and working in the boiler factory in Toledo in the winter. Finally he built a small repair shop on his farm from which he went about repairing threshing machines and other types of boilers.
In 1918 he lost the sight of one eye when a piece of steel entered it while repairing a boiler in Samaria. Since then the sight of the other eye has been dimmed by a cataract. He sees to work and read now only by the use of two pairs of glasses.
Mrs. Hadley died in February 1920, after raising a family of three daughters and one son. Mrs. William Schrader of Ottawa Lake became the second Mrs. Hadley in 1927. In 1928 they bought an acre and a half of land in Whiteford Gardens and built the home in which he now lives. She passed away in 1929.
Mr. Hadley attributes his longevity to hard work, adding that it couldn't be his abstinence from tobacco as he chewed since he was 5 years old when it was recommended by old Doc Kennedy of Sylvania for worms and liver trouble. He was for many years an active Mason and Odd Fellow, having joined the former lodge in 1884 and until recent years, serving offices in both organizations.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peelhe calls his prize neighbors. They are always doing nice things for him, and if he should become ill as he did four years ago with a heart attack, all he has to do is hang a red cloth in his west window and they are soon there to care for him. He says he has nothing to complain about except his eyes and if it weren't for their failure, he would still be out working just as hard as ever.
The family celebrated his eighty-second birthday the Sunday before its arrival at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mannon (?), near Temperance. The present besides the honored guest were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collard of Sylvania, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clegg and son, Carl, of Ottawa Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Gensler and family of Samaria, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Easter and family of Toledo, Clare Turner of Ypsilanti, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goede, jr., of Petersburg, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Kuhlman of Dundee and Mr. and Mrs. Alby Wohlgamuth of Deerfield."
GSMCMR, vol iii, pg 261: He res Whiteford, she of Bedofrd. He a farmer. Perf by John J. Sumner, J.P. and wit by Mrs. H.A. Spalding * Wm Spalding, both res od Bedford.
PETERSBURG SUN, Apr 24 and May 2, 1941:
" H.J. HADLEY DEAD
Harney Hadley, aged 82, died at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. jerry Mannor, of Temperance, at 3:00 P.M. April 24. His death was due to complications.
A lifelong resident of Whiteford township, he had lived alone in his home until recently. When he was 28 years old he was married to Miss Addie Spalding, of Lambertville. this couple raised a family of three daughters and one sone, all of which survive. In 1920 Mrs. hadley passed away. Later Mr. Hadly married Mrs. William Schrader, of Ottawa Lake. She preceded him in death in 1929.
During his life Mr. Hadley was engaged in several occupations --an apprentice in a boiler making firm, bought, butchered and sold cattle wholesale, gardened and repaired machinery.
These left to mourn are three daughters, Mrs. Fred Clegg, of Whiteford, Mrs. Mannot and Mrs. Alby Wohlgamuth, of Deerfield, a son, Clyde, of Otta Lake, 13 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral services, which were in charge of Hemenway and Valentine, were held at the Mannor home on Sunday, April 27, at 2:00 P.M., and grandsons served as pallbearers. Burial was made in the Whiteford Union cemetery."
Of Unknown Source, an article (Special to the Evening News), date unknown:
"WHITEFORD MAN, 82, LIKES LIVING ALONE
Farmer, Boilermaker, Repairman Ascribes His Long Life to Hard Work
Whiteford Center, June 5--H. J. Hadley, resident of Whiteford Gardens who began his eighty-second year of life May 29, has procen that a man of advanced age can 'live alone and like it." In his modern little home with its electric refrigerator, bathroom and furnace he does his own housework and putters around his garden, listens to the radio and reads. In recalling his past which remains in his mind as clearly as though it all happened yesterday, he says enthusiastically, 'Just ask the people around here what a 'storner I used to be.'
His father, a trader and stock buyer, started farming on 50 acres including the corner now occupied by Shelly's gas station on the Petersburg-Toledo road. He traded a yoke of oxen for the land which he cleared himself. Much of it was low and wet, Mr. Hadly recalls, as a young man, hunting turkey, deet, fox and coon in the surrounding woods and swamps.
He attended school in the little old frame school house that preceded the present brick school. Arithmetic and geography were his favorite subjects, although he was the best writer in school and could wade through Sander's Fourth Reader with the best of them. In February of his thirteenth year he had to quit school because of the death of his father, but he lost no opportunity in later years of improving his education.
By this time the homsetead had grown to a farm of 104 acres with another patch of 331/2 acres a mile down the road. Here he learned early to work like a man to help support his mother and five sisters. His father had planted an extensive apple orchard that bore remarkably. Me. Hadly remembers selling 20 barrels of cider one year, hauling it to Toledo five barrels at a time and selling it at five dollars a barrel.
In his twwnty-eigth year he married Miss Addie Spalding of Lambertville and after two more years on the farm, moved into Toledo where he apprenticed himself to a boiler-making firm on Water Street at $1.50 a day where he became an expert boilermaker and was soon making two dollars a day. Prices were in proportion to wages. The best pork could be bought for three and one-half cents a pound.
After eight years of boiler making, he returned to the 30 acrs that were left of the old homestead and with John Fletcher bought cattle, butchered, and sold them wholesale in Toledo. This business lasted three years, then he worked into truck farming, raising berries and vegetables in the summer and working in the boiler factory in Toledo in the winter. Finally he built a small repair shop on his farm from which he went about repairing threshing machines and other types of boilers.
In 1918 he lost the sight of one eye when a piece of steel entered it while repairing a boiler in Samaria. Since then the sight of the other eye has been dimmed by a cataract. He sees to work and read now only by the use of two pairs of glasses.
Mrs. Hadley died in February 1920, after raising a family of three daughters and one son. Mrs. William Schrader of Ottawa Lake became the second Mrs. Hadley in 1927. In 1928 they bought an acre and a half of land in Whiteford Gardens and built the home in which he now lives. She passed away in 1929.
Mr. Hadley attributes his longevity to hard work, adding that it couldn't be his abstinence from tobacco as he chewed since he was 5 years old when it was recommended by old Doc Kennedy of Sylvania for worms and liver trouble. He was for many years an active Mason and Odd Fellow, having joined the former lodge in 1884 and until recent years, serving offices in both organizations.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peelhe calls his prize neighbors. They are always doing nice things for him, and if he should become ill as he did four years ago with a heart attack, all he has to do is hang a red cloth in his west window and they are soon there to care for him. He says he has nothing to complain about except his eyes and if it weren't for their failure, he would still be out working just as hard as ever.
The family celebrated his eighty-second birthday the Sunday before its arrival at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mannon (?), near Temperance. The present besides the honored guest were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collard of Sylvania, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clegg and son, Carl, of Ottawa Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Gensler and family of Samaria, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Easter and family of Toledo, Clare Turner of Ypsilanti, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goede, jr., of Petersburg, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Kuhlman of Dundee and Mr. and Mrs. Alby Wohlgamuth of Deerfield."
GSMCMR, vol iii, pg 261: He res Whiteford, she of Bedofrd. He a farmer. Perf by John J. Sumner, J.P. and wit by Mrs. H.A. Spalding * Wm Spalding, both res od Bedford.
PETERSBURG SUN, Apr 24 and May 2, 1941:
" H.J. HADLEY DEAD
Harney Hadley, aged 82, died at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. jerry Mannor, of Temperance, at 3:00 P.M. April 24. His death was due to complications.
A lifelong resident of Whiteford township, he had lived alone in his home until recently. When he was 28 years old he was married to Miss Addie Spalding, of Lambertville. this couple raised a family of three daughters and one sone, all of which survive. In 1920 Mrs. hadley passed away. Later Mr. Hadly married Mrs. William Schrader, of Ottawa Lake. She preceded him in death in 1929.
During his life Mr. Hadley was engaged in several occupations --an apprentice in a boiler making firm, bought, butchered and sold cattle wholesale, gardened and repaired machinery.
These left to mourn are three daughters, Mrs. Fred Clegg, of Whiteford, Mrs. Mannot and Mrs. Alby Wohlgamuth, of Deerfield, a son, Clyde, of Otta Lake, 13 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral services, which were in charge of Hemenway and Valentine, were held at the Mannor home on Sunday, April 27, at 2:00 P.M., and grandsons served as pallbearers. Burial was made in the Whiteford Union cemetery."
Of Unknown Source, an article (Special to the Evening News), date unknown:
"WHITEFORD MAN, 82, LIKES LIVING ALONE
Farmer, Boilermaker, Repairman Ascribes His Long Life to Hard Work
Whiteford Center, June 5--H. J. Hadley, resident of Whiteford Gardens who began his eighty-second year of life May 29, has procen that a man of advanced age can 'live alone and like it." In his modern little home with its electric refrigerator, bathroom and furnace he does his own housework and putters around his garden, listens to the radio and reads. In recalling his past which remains in his mind as clearly as though it all happened yesterday, he says enthusiastically, 'Just ask the people around here what a 'storner I used to be.'
His father, a trader and stock buyer, started farming on 50 acres including the corner now occupied by Shelly's gas station on the Petersburg-Toledo road. He traded a yoke of oxen for the land which he cleared himself. Much of it was low and wet, Mr. Hadly recalls, as a young man, hunting turkey, deet, fox and coon in the surrounding woods and swamps.
He attended school in the little old frame school house that preceded the present brick school. Arithmetic and geography were his favorite subjects, although he was the best writer in school and could wade through Sander's Fourth Reader with the best of them. In February of his thirteenth year he had to quit school because of the death of his father, but he lost no opportunity in later years of improving his education.
By this time the homsetead had grown to a farm of 104 acres with another patch of 331/2 acres a mile down the road. Here he learned early to work like a man to help support his mother and five sisters. His father had planted an extensive apple orchard that bore remarkably. Me. Hadly remembers selling 20 barrels of cider one year, hauling it to Toledo five barrels at a time and selling it at five dollars a barrel.
In his twwnty-eigth year he married Miss Addie Spalding of Lambertville and after two more years on the farm, moved into Toledo where he apprenticed himself to a boiler-making firm on Water Street at $1.50 a day where he became an expert boilermaker and was soon making two dollars a day. Prices were in proportion to wages. The best pork could be bought for three and one-half cents a pound.
After eight years of boiler making, he returned to the 30 acrs that were left of the old homestead and with John Fletcher bought cattle, butchered, and sold them wholesale in Toledo. This business lasted three years, then he worked into truck farming, raising berries and vegetables in the summer and working in the boiler factory in Toledo in the winter. Finally he built a small repair shop on his farm from which he went about repairing threshing machines and other types of boilers.
In 1918 he lost the sight of one eye when a piece of steel entered it while repairing a boiler in Samaria. Since then the sight of the other eye has been dimmed by a cataract. He sees to work and read now only by the use of two pairs of glasses.
Mrs. Hadley died in February 1920, after raising a family of three daughters and one son. Mrs. William Schrader of Ottawa Lake became the second Mrs. Hadley in 1927. In 1928 they bought an acre and a half of land in Whiteford Gardens and built the home in which he now lives. She passed away in 1929.
Mr. Hadley attributes his longevity to hard work, adding that it couldn't be his abstinence from tobacco as he chewed since he was 5 years old when it was recommended by old Doc Kennedy of Sylvania for worms and liver trouble. He was for many years an active Mason and Odd Fellow, having joined the former lodge in 1884 and until recent years, serving offices in both organizations.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peelhe calls his prize neighbors. They are always doing nice things for him, and if he should become ill as he did four years ago with a heart attack, all he has to do is hang a red cloth in his west window and they are soon there to care for him. He says he has nothing to complain about except his eyes and if it weren't for their failure, he would still be out working just as hard as ever.
The family celebrated his eighty-second birthday the Sunday before its arrival at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mannon (?), near Temperance. The present besides the honored guest were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collard of Sylvania, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clegg and son, Carl, of Ottawa Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Gensler and family of Samaria, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Easter and family of Toledo, Clare Turner of Ypsilanti, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goede, jr., of Petersburg, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Kuhlman of Dundee and Mr. and Mrs. Alby Wohlgamuth of Deerfield."
Note: GSMCMR, vol iii, pg 261: He res Whiteford, she of Bedofrd. He a farmer. P
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