JayIrvinH self proclaimed mountain man...
My grandpa on my mother’s side's
name was Ernest Shaw
born October 3rd 1877.
Grandpa was a farmer out by Snowville Utah. My grandma
Betsy Grace Vanderhoof Shaw's
Betsy Grace Vanderhoof, December 22,
1884-October 22, 1964 -sister,
Edith Vanderhoof Hurd
and her husband Horton Hurd
also had a farm in Snowville and lived
there until their death.
I have a good picture of Ernest Shaw's
sister,
Olive Theresa Shaw.
I never met her however my cousins say she was a really great lady.
View photograph of moms
Aunt Tress -- >
Grandma Grace got lonely out at Snowville
and persuaded grandpa to moved into
town. They moved to Ogden, Utah and
lived in a big brick house
on 12th Street. I had a photo I cherished
very much of Ernest and Betsy Grace
Shaw's farm house taken from my grandma's
old photo album that shows my grandpa
and grandma in front of the house with
my mother and her syblings. The house was later sold and moved
to Willard, Utah.
JayIrvinH's Mom lerona Mary Shaw was named after
grandma Grace's sister Mary Lerona Vanderhoof, a granddaughter
of William A. and Minerva Wade Hickman,
my great great grande parents.
Lerona Married Leroy Shawl in Malad,
Idaho in 1913. Lerona Mary Shawl died
in 1952 just a year after I was born.
JayIrvinH has read a letter written by his grandma Grace (Vanderhoof) Shaw.
She wrote when she lived on the farm at
Snowville. They paint a picture
of a very lonely young woman. That was typical
of the farm women of the day. I think
that's why they moved to town (Ogden). My mother
told me while in Snowville, my grandpa
worked hard in the fields all day from sun up to sun
down. They would take him
lunch out in the field where he would
eat it and go back to work. Maybe that
was her uncle Zooty "Zotique
Perault," that she was
talking about. They were all hard working
farmers and my mom spoke fondly of
her Uncle Zooty saying he called her his "Little dutch Girl".
Zotique's place was located
in Washington state. He and my Aunt Esther (Esther Irene Vanderhoof)
ran a dry farm on the Plateau between
Hermiston, Oregon and Prosser. There
is still a "Hickman Road"
up there that is very close to where
they farmed.
Information below
provided
by Matt Hickman son of Blain Hickman
son of Earl Hickman). Thank you Matt Hickman!
"The Old Jesse Vanderhoof place
was adjacent to Earl Hickman Ranch,
Bill Hickman (his son)
ranch or later the the Baumgardner
place.
My Aunt May and Roy Shawl
ran that place. The last I heard, Carl
Steed owned it.
Horton and Edith Hurd
had a place that was just North of
May and Roy Shawl's.
Edmund and Maud Hurd
had a place just South of May and Roy."
(Edmund Hurd was married to
Rebbeca Maud Vanderhoof, Grandma Grace
Vanderhoof's sister, in 1915 out in
Malad, idaho)
Matt goes on to
say, "May and Roy lived
about a mile away from our ranch. Maude
and Edmond lived even closer. It was
only half a mile. I never knew May.
She died when I was very young. Roy
was a good old guy. He and my grandfather,
Earl Hickman, were best of friends.
We used to go help him haul hay and
tend cows. I remember going on round
ups with Roy and Grandpa and the cowboys.
Those were exciting times for a little
boy. Roy and Edmond had a little feud
going before he died. There was some
land adjacent to Roy's ranch that no
one in particular claimed. He used
it for pasture and such. I guess Edmond
bought the property without Roy knowing
and that upset Roy quite a bit. Edmond
was well within his rights, but being
friends and married to sisters they
should have worked that deal out better.
It's a shame that they were feuding
in their old age."
JayIrvinH continues... My great great grandma was, Lerona
Minerva Hickman , 4th
of 8 children born to Minerva Wade
and William Adams Hickman.
Lerona, the first white child born
in Shambip, Rush Valley, now Tooele
County, Utah, was just 15 when she
married her husband, Jesse Lyman
Vanderhoof. Together they
had 15 children, beginning their family
in Montana before permanently returning
to Utah where they lived out the rest
of their lives.
--- excerpt from: http://www.hickmansfamily.homestead.com/Lerona.html
"He always wanted
to go back to farming and
his health got poor and the older ones
began to marry off and before Joe was
five years old we sold out there and
moved to Stone, Idaho and raised the
last of our family out here. Warren
the old one, May the next, Edith, Ester,
Maud and Joseph. We bought a place
of Phil Arbon partly broke up and I
sure learnt how to burn sage brush.
A two roomed log house on it partishened
in four rooms. It was very comfortable,
only in wet weather them Idaho shingles
would leak. We homesteaded 80 acres
across the road in Utah and built us
a nice frame house with upstairs in
it and shingles on it that we fetched
from Snowville. It was an easy place
to live in, free range, free water,
free wood, the hills abound with cedar
or juniper. Fruit don't grow here yet
horses can winter out here all winter,
cattle can't. This is the sheep trail
from Montana to the desert around the
lake. The sheep-dip is on the Utah-Idaho
line just above our place. I have seen
thousands of sheep here this winter.
It is a good hay ranch. The water ditch
runs full length of our place, but
alas they [the children] are all gone.
They are all married and gone. We are
left alone in our old age."
Lerona Vanderhoof children as follows
and many of them are in the photographs
and portraits within this web site:
Huldah Abigail Vanderhoof,
born May 31, 1872; Katharine Fidelia
Vanderhoof, born May 11,
1873; Sarah Emma Vanderhoof
(Sadie), born January 19, 1875;
Artamiscia Donna Vanderhoof,
born November 1, 1876; Jesse Edward
Vanderhoof, born March
12, 1878; Giles Edgar Vanderhoof,
born June 10, 1879; Jane Ellen
Vanderhoof, born December
21, 1880; Gilbert Henry Vanderhoof,
born October 6, 1882; Betsy Grace
Vanderhoof, born December
22, 1884; Warren William Adams
Vanderhoof, born July
25, 1885; May Lerona Vanderhoof,
born October 10, 1889; Edith Lillian
Vanderhoof, born July
12, 1892; Esther Irene Vanderhoof,
born October 12, 1893; Rebecca
Maud Vanderhoof, born
August 25, 1895; Joseph Francis
Vanderhoof, born March
6,1897 - death 1918.
There is a book written about my great
great grandpa William Adams Hickman
oldest son of
Edwin Temple Hickman and wife Elizabeth
Adams.
http://www.signaturebooks.com/excerpts/wild.htm#ch8 Wild Bill Hickman and
the Mormon Frontier by author Hope
A. Hilton.
My great great grandpa William
Adams Hickman was a Mormon polygamist.
At one time he had 10 wives. My grandma
Betsy Grace was born of his third wife,
Sally Manerva Wade.
There daughter lerona Manerva Hickman was jayirvinh's
grandma Grace's mother.
Jayih remembers... I never got to talk to grandma grace
and barley remember her. I barley remember
my mom mentioning something about me
being related to a mormon polygamist
with 9 wives. It has been spoken of
among the relatives of that time that
there ties with William A. Hickman
(Wild Bill Hickman) were kept, quiet.
About Grandpa Shaw
From what my mother,
Lerona Mary Shaw born March 12, 1910
told me, after they moved to town grandpa,
Ernest Shaw got to drinking and
gambling with the city slickers and
they got most of the farm away from
him. He must have been wealthy at one
time. He owned property near 12 street
and Washington Blv. in Ogden, Utah
a very busy interesection now. In fact
I believe that section of Ogden was
part of his farm. When the great depression hit they lost there house due to a mortgage.
I have a picture of his car, a
Model A Ford -->.
He and grandma split up and he ended
up in a little stone house on 13th
Street close to 12th street. Grandma
(Mrs. Grace Shaw) was
able to purchase a house on 2 acres
of land at 1150 Kiesel Avenue
Grandpa rolled his own Prince
Albert cigarettes while sitting by the wood stove in his old stone house.
I always loved that stone house, he
had a huge raspberry patch in the yard.
I could walk down the rows and the
berry bushes were over my head. Mom
and I would always go over and pick
raspberries and she would can them.
Grandpa had a big nose, all the Shaw's
did. My grandparents both ended up
in a rest home out in Roy, Utah. They
took grandpa out there because he'd
drink to much wine and the neighbors
were afraid he'd hurt himself. I remember
one visit to the rest home when grandpa
gave me a red neckerchief the only
thing he ever gave me except for a
bag of marbles in a denim bag. I think he wanted to give me something.
That's where they passed away, out at Roy they called it, the Weber
County Convalescing Home. In those days when ya got old your kids sent
you out to Roy. There death certificates list that as there last place
of residence. However they did not really do much living there.
Grandma had lost her marbles
by the time she was out there. She sometimes could not
recognize her own daughter but she seemed to recognize her own
husband. Mom said they passed each other in the hall out there and
smiled at each other.
Kate Vanderhoof right, resembles my
grandma Grace. They were sisters.
Historic photograph of Ethel May and
Betsy Grace Vanderhoof,
Eddie Vanderhoof holding baby,
Olean Vanderhoof.
Kneeling is, Chester (Chet)
Archibald who married Cleo Vanderhoof,
Eds sister. Far right
is Cleo Vanderhoof, sister to Edd, daughter of Ethel and Warrne Vanderhoof and granddaughter of Lerona Hickman Vanderhoof.
Brett Vanderhoof is there grandchild
son of Olean and tells me Nessie is
still living with her daughter at age
92. Picture taken somewhere in Oregon we think.
William Warren Vanderhoof b. 1885 married
Ethel Cleotha Sparks -pictured left-1907
in Stone, Oneida, Idaho. Died in McMinnville,
Yamhill, Oregon - 1968. notes: listed
in the WWI Civilian Draft Registration
in Oneida, ID. ss# 541-18-4914 UT WEBER
NORTH OGDEN PCT 1900 1910 & 1920
census Holbrook, Oneida, Idaho.
Vanderhoofs I have living in Oregon
in my records are: Geroge W. Vanderhoof
born 1897 the son of George D.
Vanderhoof, son of Francis
H. Vanderhoof residing:(1860
Chester, Ottawa, Michigan. 1870 census
West Chehalan Pct,Yamhill,Oregon. 1900
census Star Pct, Malheur,Oregon. 1910
censuses Onterio & S Vale, Malheur,
Oregon 1920 census N Vale, Malheur,
Oregon - stock raiser) George D. Vanderhoof's
daughter Eva L. Vanderhoof
born Oregon in 1895.
Gilbert Vanderhoof
(1900 census Sievers Creek Pct., Clackamas,
Oregon. Logger 1910 census Bull Run,
Clackamas, Oregon. general farmer Laborer)
Jesse Vanderhoof born
1901 Oregon (1910 census Bull Run,
Clackamas, Oregon.) John Vanderhoof
born 1875 Oregon (1900 census
Sievers Crk Pct, Clackamas, Oregon
1910 census Bull Run, Clackamas, Oregon.
Mail Carrier) Lela Vanderhoof
born 1903 (1910 census Bull Run, Clackamas,
Oregon.) Lilly Vanderhoof
born 1908 (1910 census Bull Run, Clackamas,
Oregon.) Nichalis Vanderhoof
b 1908 (1900 Sievers Crk Pct, Clackamas,
Oregon 1910 census Bull Run, Clackamas,
Oregon - hired man farm laborer - 1920
census Bull Run Prct., Clackamas, Oregon.
farmer) Tracy Vanderhoof
b 1880 (1900 census Sievers Crk Pct,
Clackamas, Oregon. 1910 census Bull
Run, Clackamas, Oregon. farm laborer.
1920 census Bull Run Prct., Clackamas,
Oregon - laborer lumber mill)
Ernest Shaw's father Ambrose Shaw among
first settlers in Utah.
My grandpa Shaw's father was early Utah pioneer and settler,
Ambrose Shaw.
Ambrose Shaw was a pioneer coming
to Utah by a wagon train part of the
Spencer Eldredge Company
in 1847 taking part in the mormon migration
from Illinois
to Iowa then Utah.
He was first married to
Pamela Dunn just befor their exodus
with the Mormon Pioneers to Utah.
He was later married
to Mrs.
Minerva Pease Stone
on January 1, 1875. His early house
was built on a hill where the Mound
Fort Ward was, and is now. It was then
known as Mound
Fort.
JayIrvinH remembers... As a young boy his mom had told him his
great grandpa had a house up there near Mound Fort Church & ward. He went up there with a friend one day
exploring and found an old had made
clay marble. He wondered if it was his grandpa's?
Ambrose migrated west with the mormons
but never joined the church until about
a year befor his death. [my aunt Bev told me Ambrose got mad at the mormons].
His father, John Shaw, resided
at Victor until 1825 when he moved
to Bennington, New York. In 1842 he
became a member of the Latter Day Saints
Church. He was baptized by Elder Sweet.
In 1843-1844, he moved with most of
his family to Laharp, Hancock County,
Illinois. In 1845 John and Maria were
endowed in the New Latter day saints
Temple at Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1846
they moved with the exodus of saints
to Council Bluffs, Iowa, then known
as Kanesville. In 1848, they moved
to the “Valleys of the Mountains” in
Lorenzo Snow’s Company.
When nearing
the end of their journey at Weber River,
his Company received orders to await
the arrival of President
Brigham Young’s company.
On their arrival, both companies
continued on to the Great Salt Lake
Valley, arriving at Great Salt Lake
City which it was then called; Valley
of the Mountains, September 20, 1848.
In 1978 an article appeared in
the Ogden Standard Examiner written
by William Terry about my great grandpa
Ambrose Shaw...
In a small village of Victor, New York
about 10 miles south of Hill Cumorah
Ambrose Shaw, a Utah Pioneer of
1847,
was born sept 12, 1825.
His parents, John and Polly Maria Fox Shaw, left New York state when
Ambrose was in his teens and settled
in Illinois for a time. It is interesting
to note that his parents joined the Mormon
church but none of their children
were baptized at that time.
When the saints were driven from Illinois
in 1846,
John and Polly Shaw and four
of their sons started west with them
while three other sons and a daughter
settled in Illinois and Iowa. As the
refugees traveled westward and they
had picked a spot to camp for the night,
they would clear a place to not only
pitch their tents or other coverings
but they also cleared a place where
they coud play games, dance and sing.
Among the members of their company
was the family of James and Sally
Dunn
with their beautiful 16 year old daughter
Pamela.
Pamela and Ambrose were married on
June 22, 1846, near Mt. Pisgah, Iowa.
Ambrose and Pamela's parents fitted
them out with an ox team, a wagon and
supplies for the trip across the plains.
They joined the second company to start
for the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, arriving
in the Weber Valley in September 1847.
In the same company was Lorin Farr
who was only four years older than
Ambrose. These two later became very
good friends and co-workers in Ogden.
...
continued on separate page -->
I have the obituary of one Ambrose
Shaw, 1913-1977 that my
mother cut from the Ogden Standard Examiner.
His parents were Merlin and Erma
(Douglas) Shaw.
On March 3rd 1886 there was a horrible
fire at the Shaw House at Mound Fort
Settlement just north of Ogden city.
Two girls were burned to death ages
14 and 6. One was Ambrose's daughter.
Read the account printed in the Deseret
Evening News.
pdf/1886_house-fire.pdf
Jayih's great grandpa Ambrose Shaw helped build
Farr's Fort
Weber County, Utah has a monument with
g-g grandpa's name on it: Marker at
1049 Canyon Road – Farr's Fort
Across Mill Creek is the location of
the five acre Farr's Fort. It was erected
in 1850 by Lorin Farr, Ezra Chase,
Ambrose Shaw,
John Shaw, Charles Hubbard,
and other settlers to protect themselves
from Indian attacks. The fort was enclosed
on the east, south, and west by houses
joined end to end and facing inward.
The spaces between the houses were
picketed with poles and extending upward
some 12 feet. The north wall was never
completed. Nearly all the settlers
on the north side of the Ogden River
lived in this fort at one time. Lorin
Farr moved into town in 1853 and shortly
thereafter the fort was abandoned.
The land is now owned by a grandson
of Lorin Farr, R. Kenneth Farr.
The Farr fort was designed to enclose
all the territory within what is now
Wall and Madison Avenues (1940), and
21st and 28th Streets. Soon after 1858
Ogden ceased to be a small frontier
town huddled within its fort walls.
Eventually the walls had completely
disappeared. The population of Ogden
City in 1860 was 1,464 people, 323
more than the total population of the
entire county ten years earlier.
More about
Farr's Fort > | more about
Lorin Farr > |
Shaw_genealogy_pappers.pdf > |
Hadley Family History
My grandpa on my father's side was
Joseph Ellsworth Hadley.
born, August 19th 1869 in East Landesburo
Mass. To Thomas Hadley & Elizabeth
Griffith Hadley. Thomas Hadley was born Dec 31
1824 in Smethwick, Stafford England,
and married Nov 4 1846 in Warwick England.
Joseph E. Hadley's son, my dad, Irvin Joseph Hadley,
was born in September 26 1900 in Brigham
City, Utah. This picture of him on
the left was taken when he was 16 years
old In 1916.
My grandma on my father's side was Dagmar Rasmussen Hadley
-- >
She was born in 1868 in Copenhagen,
Denmark and died 1947, 4 years before
I was born.
I have always had a vision of my grandma
and me in heaven, I guess, showing
me what my life would be like before
I was sent to earth. My grandma and
I have always been good friends even
though I never knew her in the flesh.
I believe that, like a guardian angel,
I believe she has saved me from
harm's way many times
in my life.
She was a wonderful, kind woman on
earth and truly an amazing spirit.
After Irv and Lerona were married
May l943 in Farmington,
Utah. My dad and mom lived in grandma
Grace Shaw's trailer court right after they were married.
Irvin Hadley was a barber and ran The
White Way Barber Shop
and later The Ben lomond Hotel Barber
Shop with Jim Lundgreen
and Dick Rose.
Both shops were on historic Washington
Boulevard
near 25th street Ogden, Utah. The name
was later changed to
The Ben lomond Motor Hotel.
JayIrvinH memiors:
It shocks me to see pictures of the
old hotel and remember walking through
the doors and going down the stairs
to the basement where dads barger shop was
next to the Tailor and Valet
shop that his friend Dale Maw
ran. I shined shoes
in that barber shop when I was 13 years
old taking over after an old Greek
man named Tom that shined shoes there
said he wanted to retire. Well Tom
decieded not to retire and moved up
to a ground level barber shop. the
cost of a shoe shine was 2 bits and
I raised it to 35 cents. On a good
saturday I might make $6.00 and I got
$3.00 a week for sweeping up the floor
several times a day and after closing.
In 1990 the Ben Lomond was added to
the National Register of Historic Places
as a building worthy of preservation
Hotel Ben lomond Hotel web site -->
I was an only child. My mom was not
supposed to be able to have any children
but guess what, she did at age 41.
I was a miracle sent down to earth
by my Danish grandma whom always wished
the couple could have children.
Irvin J. Hadley was previously married
to Elizabeth Minerva Wells
and I have have 3 step sisters from
that marriage. There names: Doris
Seamons, Fern H. England
and Joanne Griffin. Doris and Joanne would come every Christmas to our home and bring a gift. I don’t remember Fern ever seeing or speaking to dad.
When Doris was still alive she told
me that her mother was the most wonderful
lady on the earth and she could not
figure out why her dad had left her.
She told me, "I think dad must have
just liked boy's". Recently Fern said
that same thing in a letter she wrote.
I think the kids may want to blame
themselves for a divorce however it
had nothing to do with them. It was
between the adult married couple, Irvin
and Elizabeth. They were after all
married at a young age dad being just
22.
Pa never talked to me about the matter
only to say it wasn't the best. I know
it hurt him. 
He and Elizabeth had compatability problems. Erv loved to fish and Elizabeth thought that,
"ladies don't fish".
Dad was a fisherman and mom was his fishing partner
long before I came along.
Just about every picture I have that
dad took had to do with fishing.
Picture left: Lerona S. Hadley Lady Fisherman 1948. Fishing
a river in Cottonwood Canyon Star Valley Whyoming east of Smoot.
I met Kathy Zadrozny
in 1973 she lived in Kaysville, Utah
at the time. Her mother owned and lived
in a historic Victorian style house
picture historic house
there. One day we went out to Centerville to see
her horses. Her mother Ruth
(Pence) Hunter married a James Pack
Hunter and they had bought these horses
at that time. Kathy was the best thing
that ever happened to me in my life.
I was often told by friends and acquaintances
how hard it was to find a women that
would go out to the mountains and deserts
and live like we did. It was a miracle
I found her.
See My father with Kathy taken in 1973
--> when he lived at 685
Chester Street Ogden, Utah.
JayIrvinH's mother Lerona Hadley
was a seamstress
in Ogden. She worked at the Utah Tailoring
Mills formerly the Ogden Utah Nitting Company. She quit there
when he was born and returned after
he was grown. She worked hard
there many years for not much over
minimum wage about $1.65 at one time.
There was no health care no retirement.
Beuller and Bingham owned the company
and they got rich by not paying the
employees very well. I remember mom
telling me she got a nickle an hour
raise one time. It was monotonous work
sitting behind a sewing machine for
30 years. Mom used to tell me.
"You try sitting behind a sewing machine
for 30 years"!
On christmas they
had a christmas party and I'd have
to go get mom and drive her home. She
would allways get smashed. She drang
a little beer all the time but at these
christmas parties it was the only time
I ever saw mom drunk and hitting the hard stuff.
Lerona had been previously been married
to Clyde Newey a railroad
man in Ogden, Utah. She told me he drank
partied and was unfaithful to her so
she divorced him.
Memiors by JayIrvinH
When I was a kid, my mom would show
me the pictures in grandma's photo
album and point to things and tell
me what they were. She would repeat
this every few years. I would listen
and think that she would always be
there to tell me things. But now I
am old, looking at the pictures
and can't remember what they are. It's
foggy, and I kind of hear my mom's
voice but I am not sure if I can make
out what she is saying. I wish I would
have written it down. I thought she'd
always be here to talk to me and in
a way she is. I just can't hear her
as well. I think she can hear me just
fine. I love you mom.
Mom used to visit me out at the
sheep camp. I had her on a
horse out there a couple of times.
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