Person:Harriet Millard (1)

Harriet Amanda Millard Born: 19 Dec 1845, Ireland Married: near Hudson Bay Died: 1888

Harriette Amanda Millard was the youngest of 12 children. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was Dutch and Welsh. Other members of this family were Josephine Hulbert, Mary Nims, Eliza Davis and Tom Millard.

The following excerpt is from a letter written by Olive Pollock Nelson, dated Aug. 1 1949:

My mother, Annie Elizabeth McIntyre Pollock, told me that she never knew anyone with as good and lovable disposition as her mother (Harriette Amanda Millard McIntyre) had. My father told me more about the McIntyre family after my mother died than I had known before. He knew them, of course, in Grandpa McIntyre's better years when he was prosperous for a farmer in those times. Dad said he never knew a more hospitable home than theirs and that to come to their door at any time was to receive an invitation to come in and "have a clean bite to eat". From what I have heard from older brothers and sisters, I think our grandfather had a generous and jovial disposition.

The following excerpt is from a letter written by Alice Mae Pollock Stoops, dated June, 1951:

A few instances in the life of our grandmother Harriette Amanda Millard McIntyre as told by Annie Elizabeth McIntyre Pollock. Grandmother McIntyre was the youngest of a family of 12 children. I think she was born in Canada, for when she was still a babe in arms, the family was going visiting by sled and team and taking a short cut through the timber when a pack of timber wolves took after them. They had a ham which they threw to the wolves, which checked them for a while. Then when they had devoured that, they renewed the chase. The team was tiring and the parents had decided to throw the baby to the wolves to save the rest of the family. Just then they came to a clearing in the timber and the wolves left them. The baby of course was our grandmother.

Harriette McIntyre went to the Congregational Church when possible. She was barely five feet tall and almost as broad and had red hair. She died in the prime of life at the age of 42.

At the time of the big tornado in Missouri, in 1883, she had taken the children to the cellar and when the house was moved on the foundation and the lime dust was choking them, she emtied the milk from the big jars and turned them over some of the children.

She sent Annie and Mary, the two eldest girls, to Amity College at College Springs, Iowa.

The Hugh McIntyre family came to Atchison County, Missouri in 1877 and settled on a farm in the North Star Community northeast of Tarkio. The family moved to Oklahoma and were there at the time of the race for claims on the Cherokee strip in 1893. They returned to Atchinson County, Missouri possibly the same year. The trip was made by wagons taking livestock along. Until he died in 1895, Hugh McIntyre lived on a farm two miles south of Blanchard, Iowa near the former location fo the Hazel Grove School.

Harriet married Hugh McIntyre, son of John McIntyre and Catherine Sutherland, about 1812 in or near Hudson Bay. (Hugh McIntyre was born on 16 Dec 1835 in Salkirk, British America and died on 5 Apr 1895 in Hazel Grove, Atchison County, MO.)

From this marriage there were 19 children of which 10 lived to adulthood. John, Lewis Augusta, Catherine, Hattie Oalevia, Benjamin, Lewis Filson, Elmer and an unnamed boy died in infancy. Charles Edgar, born on May 5 1875, died on August 15, 1893 while the family was returning to Missouri from Oaklahoma.