This group of photographs are of Franc Permilla Rumsey Hardy, born 1870 in Howell, Michigan; died 1936 in Howell, Michigan. She married Royal Crittenden Hardy.
The first photograph is labeled "Franc Charley Hardy".
These photographs are of the Hardy Farm and Hardy family at the farm. In the first photograph, left to right, Unknown, and salesman for McCormick with horse and buggy.
This is a photograph of "Eva", a cow at Moore Farm, 1910/1916. Noted on the photograph the following production statistics: dropped a scrubb cow 3/21/1910 dropped a bull calf, 8/24/1912; dropped a heifer calf, 8/12/1913; dropped a heifer calf, 10/15/1914, and dropped a heifer calf, 5/24/1916. Also June 1 - 30, Milk 1248.8; test 6.3, fat/lbs 78.7374, and July 1 -31, milk 1180.0, test 7.8, fat 92.040.
This photograph is of four generations of Hardy's standing in front of the Hardy home, Osceola Township, Livingston County, Michigan, about 1896. Left to right, Ephraim Jennings Hardy, Ephraim Wilson Hardy, Royal Crittenden Hardy and Harold Wilson Hardy.
These are photographs of Ephraim Jennings Hardy, born 4/2/1817 in Vermont, and died 11/15/1899 in Osceola Township, Livingston County, Michigan. He arrived in Osceola about 1835; he was a Michigan pioneer.
These are photographs of Ephraim Wilson Hardy, born 2/20/1848 and died in 1928. He was born and died on the Hardy Family Farm in Osceola Township, Livingston County, Michigan. Ephraim was the father of Royal Crittenden Hardy.
