Hildred Jay Hart, the first child of Lemuel Jay Hart and Esther Maria Ashe, was born in Tuscola County, Michigan, May 28, 1902. He lived with his parents on their 60-acre farm located just south of Hart's Corners until he was 18 years old. He was a student at Vassar High School, Vassar, Michigan, graduating in 1922.
In the summer of 1922, Hildred was driving a truck loaded with potatoes to sell at the Detroit Farmers' Market, when the truck broke down in front of the Worth Welch farm south of Davison. He noticed their eldest daughter, Naomi, but concentrated on getting the truck fixed. It was not repairable so he rented another truck to get the potatoes to market. Later he and his father drove a team of horses the 30 miles to Davison to retrieve the broken truck. The Welch family invited them to stay for dinner, and Hildred and Naomi began to correspond. Their relationship blossomed and four years later they became engaged to marry.
During his last two years in high school, Hildred worked on a farm about one mile from Tuscola doing chores and operating a milking machine. He worked at the Chevrolet and Buick factories during the summer. He attended Michigan State College (later named Michigan State University) and graduated in 1927. He and Naomi Phoebe Welch were married December 25, 1926. Naomi was born at West Branch, Michigan, December 30, 1905. The Lord blessed this union with two sons: Richard Marlin Hart, born October 24, 1929, and Ronald Jay Hart, born June 24, 1932.
After their marriage, Hildred got a job teaching vocational agriculture at the high school in Lake Odessa, Michigan. He taught there for seven years, but retired from teaching in 1934, partially due to ill health and partly because teaching was not something he enjoyed. They spent the next year working on the home farm on Hart Road near Tuscola with his father and his Uncle George Hart. In 1935 he joined the Cooperative Extension Service as a 4-H Club Agent. The first twenty years in this capacity were spent at Howell, Michigan, and the last ten years at Centreville, Michigan.
On November 29, 1954, The National Association of County 4-H Club Agents presented Hildred with a Distinguished Service Award. The text of the program is as follows:
"Hildred J. Hart is the County 4-H Club Agent in Livingston County, Michigan, where he has served for the past eight years. Previous to that time he served as District Club Agent in four counties of the state, to bring his 4-H term to nineteen years. He came into 4-H Club work with five years experience as a Vocational Agriculture Teacher.
He served as President of the Michigan Club Agents Association in 1953 and has been active on committees of the National Association for the past three years.
"Hildred is an active Churchman and belongs to the South Eastern Michigan 4-H Camp Association, the United States District agriculture Council, the Howell Square Dance Club and State and National Club Agents Association.
He attended the school on Human Development at the University of Maryland. His undergraduate work was at Michigan [State College].
The Michigan 4-H Agents Association awarded him the Distinguished Service Award in 1952. He is credited with being an excellent recreation man, with an outstanding camping program. He has written one of the State 4-H bulletins on plastics. The record indicates his county has been well represented when state and national winners have been selected.
A. G. Kettunen, State 4-H Club leader says of him: ‘Mr. Hart is a sound and thorough organizer. He thinks, he plans, then he works his plan. He has built a sound leadership organization to develop the 4-H Program in the County. As a man, he possesses sterling worth and quality, and is the kind of man who sets the right pattern for youth to follow.'"
Hildred suffered a heart attack in 1965 and retired from 4-H on July 31, 1965. He and Naomi remained active members of the First Baptist Church of Three Rivers (Michigan).
Since he was a young man, Hildred had been interested in family history and did research when he could. After his retirement he realized that if he didn't write down what he knew, it would be lost to the world forever. So he and Naomi began to work on "The Genealogical History of Lovira Hart Sr." They did an enormous amount of gathering facts about not only Hart ancestors, but also about many contemporary individuals—for a total of over 500 families. The book was published in 1979 (ISBN, 0-9602794-0-7).
Hildred faced declining health during the last ten years of his life, and died of a heart attack on September 13, 1989, at the age of 87 in Three Rivers, Michigan.
In the summer of 1922, Hildred was driving a truck loaded with potatoes to sell at the Detroit Farmers' Market, when the truck broke down in front of the Worth Welch farm south of Davison. He noticed their eldest daughter, Naomi, but concentrated on getting the truck fixed. It was not repairable so he rented another truck to get the potatoes to market. Later he and his father drove a team of horses the 30 miles to Davison to retrieve the broken truck. The Welch family invited them to stay for dinner, and Hildred and Naomi began to correspond. Their relationship blossomed and four years later they became engaged to marry.
During his last two years in high school, Hildred worked on a farm about one mile from Tuscola doing chores and operating a milking machine. He worked at the Chevrolet and Buick factories during the summer. He attended Michigan State College (later named Michigan State University) and graduated in 1927. He and Naomi Phoebe Welch were married December 25, 1926. Naomi was born at West Branch, Michigan, December 30, 1905. The Lord blessed this union with two sons: Richard Marlin Hart, born October 24, 1929, and Ronald Jay Hart, born June 24, 1932.
After their marriage, Hildred got a job teaching vocational agriculture at the high school in Lake Odessa, Michigan. He taught there for seven years, but retired from teaching in 1934, partially due to ill health and partly because teaching was not something he enjoyed. They spent the next year working on the home farm on Hart Road near Tuscola with his father and his Uncle George Hart. In 1935 he joined the Cooperative Extension Service as a 4-H Club Agent. The first twenty years in this capacity were spent at Howell, Michigan, and the last ten years at Centreville, Michigan.
On November 29, 1954, The National Association of County 4-H Club Agents presented Hildred with a Distinguished Service Award. The text of the program is as follows:
"Hildred J. Hart is the County 4-H Club Agent in Livingston County, Michigan, where he has served for the past eight years. Previous to that time he served as District Club Agent in four counties of the state, to bring his 4-H term to nineteen years. He came into 4-H Club work with five years experience as a Vocational Agriculture Teacher.
He served as President of the Michigan Club Agents Association in 1953 and has been active on committees of the National Association for the past three years.
"Hildred is an active Churchman and belongs to the South Eastern Michigan 4-H Camp Association, the United States District agriculture Council, the Howell Square Dance Club and State and National Club Agents Association.
He attended the school on Human Development at the University of Maryland. His undergraduate work was at Michigan [State College].
The Michigan 4-H Agents Association awarded him the Distinguished Service Award in 1952. He is credited with being an excellent recreation man, with an outstanding camping program. He has written one of the State 4-H bulletins on plastics. The record indicates his county has been well represented when state and national winners have been selected.
A. G. Kettunen, State 4-H Club leader says of him: ‘Mr. Hart is a sound and thorough organizer. He thinks, he plans, then he works his plan. He has built a sound leadership organization to develop the 4-H Program in the County. As a man, he possesses sterling worth and quality, and is the kind of man who sets the right pattern for youth to follow.'"
Hildred suffered a heart attack in 1965 and retired from 4-H on July 31, 1965. He and Naomi remained active members of the First Baptist Church of Three Rivers (Michigan).
Since he was a young man, Hildred had been interested in family history and did research when he could. After his retirement he realized that if he didn't write down what he knew, it would be lost to the world forever. So he and Naomi began to work on "The Genealogical History of Lovira Hart Sr." They did an enormous amount of gathering facts about not only Hart ancestors, but also about many contemporary individuals—for a total of over 500 families. The book was published in 1979 (ISBN, 0-9602794-0-7).
Hildred faced declining health during the last ten years of his life, and died of a heart attack on September 13, 1989, at the age of 87 in Three Rivers, Michigan.
Hildred Jay Hart, the first child of Lemuel Jay Hart and Esther Maria Ashe, was born in Tuscola County, Michigan, May 28, 1902. He lived with his parents on their 60-acre farm located just south of Hart's Corners until he was 18 years old. He was a student at Vassar High School, Vassar, Michigan, graduating in 1922.
In the summer of 1922, Hildred was driving a truck loaded with potatoes to sell at the Detroit Farmers' Market, when the truck broke down in front of the Worth Welch farm south of Davison. He noticed their eldest daughter, Naomi, but concentrated on getting the truck fixed. It was not repairable so he rented another truck to get the potatoes to market. Later he and his father drove a team of horses the 30 miles to Davison to retrieve the broken truck. The Welch family invited them to stay for dinner, and Hildred and Naomi began to correspond. Their relationship blossomed and four years later they became engaged to marry.
During his last two years in high school, Hildred worked on a farm about one mile from Tuscola doing chores and operating a milking machine. He worked at the Chevrolet and Buick factories during the summer. He attended Michigan State College (later named Michigan State University) and graduated in 1927. He and Naomi Phoebe Welch were married December 25, 1926. Naomi was born at West Branch, Michigan, December 30, 1905. The Lord blessed this union with two sons: Richard Marlin Hart, born October 24, 1929, and Ronald Jay Hart, born June 24, 1932.
After their marriage, Hildred got a job teaching vocational agriculture at the high school in Lake Odessa, Michigan. He taught there for seven years, but retired from teaching in 1934, partially due to ill health and partly because teaching was not something he enjoyed. They spent the next year working on the home farm on Hart Road near Tuscola with his father and his Uncle George Hart. In 1935 he joined the Cooperative Extension Service as a 4-H Club Agent. The first twenty years in this capacity were spent at Howell, Michigan, and the last ten years at Centreville, Michigan.
On November 29, 1954, The National Association of County 4-H Club Agents presented Hildred with a Distinguished Service Award. The text of the program is as follows:
"Hildred J. Hart is the County 4-H Club Agent in Livingston County, Michigan, where he has served for the past eight years. Previous to that time he served as District Club Agent in four counties of the state, to bring his 4-H term to nineteen years. He came into 4-H Club work with five years experience as a Vocational Agriculture Teacher.
He served as President of the Michigan Club Agents Association in 1953 and has been active on committees of the National Association for the past three years.
"Hildred is an active Churchman and belongs to the South Eastern Michigan 4-H Camp Association, the United States District agriculture Council, the Howell Square Dance Club and State and National Club Agents Association.
He attended the school on Human Development at the University of Maryland. His undergraduate work was at Michigan [State College].
The Michigan 4-H Agents Association awarded him the Distinguished Service Award in 1952. He is credited with being an excellent recreation man, with an outstanding camping program. He has written one of the State 4-H bulletins on plastics. The record indicates his county has been well represented when state and national winners have been selected.
A. G. Kettunen, State 4-H Club leader says of him: ‘Mr. Hart is a sound and thorough organizer. He thinks, he plans, then he works his plan. He has built a sound leadership organization to develop the 4-H Program in the County. As a man, he possesses sterling worth and quality, and is the kind of man who sets the right pattern for youth to follow.'"
Hildred suffered a heart attack in 1965 and retired from 4-H on July 31, 1965. He and Naomi remained active members of the First Baptist Church of Three Rivers (Michigan).
Since he was a young man, Hildred had been interested in family history and did research when he could. After his retirement he realized that if he didn't write down what he knew, it would be lost to the world forever. So he and Naomi began to work on "The Genealogical History of Lovira Hart Sr." They did an enormous amount of gathering facts about not only Hart ancestors, but also about many contemporary individuals—for a total of over 500 families. The book was published in 1979 (ISBN, 0-9602794-0-7).
Hildred faced declining health during the last ten years of his life, and died of a heart attack on September 13, 1989, at the age of 87 in Three Rivers, Michigan.
In the summer of 1922, Hildred was driving a truck loaded with potatoes to sell at the Detroit Farmers' Market, when the truck broke down in front of the Worth Welch farm south of Davison. He noticed their eldest daughter, Naomi, but concentrated on getting the truck fixed. It was not repairable so he rented another truck to get the potatoes to market. Later he and his father drove a team of horses the 30 miles to Davison to retrieve the broken truck. The Welch family invited them to stay for dinner, and Hildred and Naomi began to correspond. Their relationship blossomed and four years later they became engaged to marry.
During his last two years in high school, Hildred worked on a farm about one mile from Tuscola doing chores and operating a milking machine. He worked at the Chevrolet and Buick factories during the summer. He attended Michigan State College (later named Michigan State University) and graduated in 1927. He and Naomi Phoebe Welch were married December 25, 1926. Naomi was born at West Branch, Michigan, December 30, 1905. The Lord blessed this union with two sons: Richard Marlin Hart, born October 24, 1929, and Ronald Jay Hart, born June 24, 1932.
After their marriage, Hildred got a job teaching vocational agriculture at the high school in Lake Odessa, Michigan. He taught there for seven years, but retired from teaching in 1934, partially due to ill health and partly because teaching was not something he enjoyed. They spent the next year working on the home farm on Hart Road near Tuscola with his father and his Uncle George Hart. In 1935 he joined the Cooperative Extension Service as a 4-H Club Agent. The first twenty years in this capacity were spent at Howell, Michigan, and the last ten years at Centreville, Michigan.
On November 29, 1954, The National Association of County 4-H Club Agents presented Hildred with a Distinguished Service Award. The text of the program is as follows:
"Hildred J. Hart is the County 4-H Club Agent in Livingston County, Michigan, where he has served for the past eight years. Previous to that time he served as District Club Agent in four counties of the state, to bring his 4-H term to nineteen years. He came into 4-H Club work with five years experience as a Vocational Agriculture Teacher.
He served as President of the Michigan Club Agents Association in 1953 and has been active on committees of the National Association for the past three years.
"Hildred is an active Churchman and belongs to the South Eastern Michigan 4-H Camp Association, the United States District agriculture Council, the Howell Square Dance Club and State and National Club Agents Association.
He attended the school on Human Development at the University of Maryland. His undergraduate work was at Michigan [State College].
The Michigan 4-H Agents Association awarded him the Distinguished Service Award in 1952. He is credited with being an excellent recreation man, with an outstanding camping program. He has written one of the State 4-H bulletins on plastics. The record indicates his county has been well represented when state and national winners have been selected.
A. G. Kettunen, State 4-H Club leader says of him: ‘Mr. Hart is a sound and thorough organizer. He thinks, he plans, then he works his plan. He has built a sound leadership organization to develop the 4-H Program in the County. As a man, he possesses sterling worth and quality, and is the kind of man who sets the right pattern for youth to follow.'"
Hildred suffered a heart attack in 1965 and retired from 4-H on July 31, 1965. He and Naomi remained active members of the First Baptist Church of Three Rivers (Michigan).
Since he was a young man, Hildred had been interested in family history and did research when he could. After his retirement he realized that if he didn't write down what he knew, it would be lost to the world forever. So he and Naomi began to work on "The Genealogical History of Lovira Hart Sr." They did an enormous amount of gathering facts about not only Hart ancestors, but also about many contemporary individuals—for a total of over 500 families. The book was published in 1979 (ISBN, 0-9602794-0-7).
Hildred faced declining health during the last ten years of his life, and died of a heart attack on September 13, 1989, at the age of 87 in Three Rivers, Michigan.
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