Person:Hiel Gard (1)

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Hiel Abner Gard
b.19 Aug 1853 Browns Mills, Washington County, Ohio, USA
d.24 May 1907 Siskatoon, Siskatchewan, Canada
Parents and Siblings
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m. 25 Feb 1830
  1. Edward Dunsmoor Gard1830 - 1865
  2. Charles Edgar Gard1832 - 1902
  3. Mary Melissa Gard1834 - 1919
  4. Martha Jane Gard1836 - 1894
  5. Helen Josephine Gard1839 -
  6. Daniel Hosmer Gard1844 - 1925
  7. Hiel Abner Gard1853 - 1907
Spouse and Children
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m. 13 Nov 1879
  1. Nellie Ataline Gard1892 - 1992
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Facts and Events
Name Hiel Abner Gard
Gender Male
Birth? 19 Aug 1853 Browns Mills, Washington County, Ohio, USA
Marriage 13 Nov 1879 Dunham Township, Washington County, Ohio, USAto Flora Belle Ellenwood
Death? 24 May 1907 Siskatoon, Siskatchewan, Canada
Burial? Oakgrovecemetery, Marietta, Washington, Ohio, USA

From "ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF PHINEAS AND POLLY (GAGE) DUNSMOOR" by Nellie A GARD - 1971 Richardson Printing Corp. "DUNSMOOR/GAGE"

Hiel remained with his parents on the home farm at Vincent, OH.

After his father's death the farm was sold and Hiel and Flora moved to her father Milton Ellenwood's home in Dunham where Hiel took over the management of Milton's two farms. Hiel was elected to a township office but refused to serve. He raised good stock and particularly prized his merino sheep. He was very selective in his choice of buggies and equipment and many catalogues were found with correspondence relative to these things. Also, he kept a file of the early publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

After his wife Flora's death, Hiel went to Oregon where his cousins, the children of Mary Kimball (Dunsmoor) Palmer had settled. One of his letters describing the country and conditions there was so well written that his daughter Nellie saved it even though she had destroyed most other correspondence dating as far back as 1818, which might have proven valuable in current family history studies.

Hiel came to Montezuma, Iowa where Nellie was staying with Hiel's wife Flora's sister (Adelia Leora (ELLENWOOD) LEWIS. He then went to Oklahoma where he took a government land claim for 160 acres. Hiel was a good carpenter as well as a farmer. With help he built a frame house and barn as required in the claim contract. This quarter section of excellent wheat land was ten miles from Newkirk, OK, a railway division point, with the Arkansas river between. Hiel broke the sod and sowed most of the land to wheat, but after two crop failures due to drouth and after the fall wheat had been planted for the next year, he sold his claim, and in the late winter returned to Montezuma. There was a bumper wheat crop that summer

Hiel like his wife Flora, was the youngest in a family of seven children.

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