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128	HART FAMILY.

8th, 1838; 2, Judah Hart, born February 13th, 1841; 3, Celia Olivia, born October 30th, 1844; 4, Amos Herbert, born September 6th, 1847, died in 1848; 5, Esther Florilla, born February 10th, 1854.

281. St. Louis, Mo.

OLIVER ARMSTRONG HART, St. Louis, Mo., eldest son of Eliphaz Hart, of Norwich, Conn., and his wife, Eliza (Armstrong), born February 13th, 1814, at Norwich, Conn.; married November 16th, 1843, Mary E. Hull, daughter of Abram, born January 2d, 1822, at New York City, and died at their residence, No. 1418 Lucas Place, St. Louis, Mo., February 13th, 1863, aged 41 years. Mr. Hart was formerly an architect and builder, but later was engaged in the manufacture of iron. He is now president of the St. Louis Gas Company, furnishing both St. Louis and Kansas City. He is worth half a million.

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE NINTH GENERATION.

534. Eliza, born October 21st, 1844. She is living single with her father in 1874.
535. Augustus Brewster, born March 15th, 1846; married November 26th, 1872, Charlotte Ballantine.
Samuel Wendell, born February 29th, 1848; died March 2d, 1848.
536. Mary Olivia, born July 16th, 1849; married January 26th, 1871, Edward H. Semple.
537. Anna Cornelia, born June 29th, 1851; married January 12th, 1871, Charles Bartles Bray, of New Jersey.

282. Norwich, Ut., San Francisco, Cal.

ALFRED HART, California, second son of Eliphaz Hart, of Norwich, Conn., and his wife, Eliza (Armstrong), born March 28th, 1816, at Norwich, Conn. He married January 21st, 1841, Mary C. Gardner, daughter of Charles Gardner, of Bozrah, Conn., born March 2d, 1820. In the spring of 1874 she resided at Denver, Col., and he at San Francisco, Cal. He is an artist in the line of painting.

[ In the book, "Square & Compass - A Journal of Masonry Denver, Colo. March 1896-March 1897" by Lawrence N.Greenleaf, there is a Memorial to Mary C. Hart on pages 101-102. She is the mother of Dr. Charles N. Hart of Colorado, Mrs. Edward A. Reser of Colorado, and Mrs. Silas M. Stone of New York.

The book says, "Mary C. Hart was born in Franklin, Conn. March 2, 1820 and died at Denver, Colo., Easter day, April 5, 1896. Her death was sudden and unexpected. She came from her childhood home to Cleveland, Ohio, in the early war times and a few years later to Colorado, where she lived for twenty-seven years..." "Her abilities as an artist and as a writer, had they not been subordinated to her interest in questions of practical charity, would have made her noted, but these graces she retained more for the immediate charm of her own household." ]

THEIR CHILDREN, BRING THE NINTH GENERATION.

538. Lillie Mitchel, born January 21st, 1842; married September 3d, 1866, Silas M. Stone.
539. Alfred Lawrence, born June 20th, 1843, at Norwich, Conn.; died August 3d, 1844.
540. Georgianna, born August 26th, 1845; married June 19th, 1871, Edward A. Reser.
541. Charles Nelson, born November 24th, 1849, at Hartford, Conn.; married June 22d, 1872, Lizzie A. Arms.
Eddie White, born June 20th, 1860, at Hartford, Conn.; died May 13th, 1864, at Hartford.