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Zachariah Hardy

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Zachariah Hardy

Birth
Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, USA
Death
13 Feb 1846 (aged 46)
Montrose, Lee County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Zachariah was a sea Captain on the East coast, carpenter, and a ship builder. He heard the gospel preached by William Hyde in Maine, joined church August 10, 1840. Zachariah was a body guard to Joseph Smith, one of the first to reach the scene of the tragedy. Sealed in the Nauvoo Temple January 31,1846. Owned property in Nauvoo, but mobs forced them out of their homes across the Mississippi River for safety.
Called to go with the first company West, but Brigham asked him to stay and run the ferry. Operating the ferry three days and nights he contracted pneumonia and died February 13, 1846. His son and brother-in-law buried him during the night.
Daughters of Utah Pioneer History - Salt Lake City, UT
Zachariah was a sea Captain on the East coast, carpenter, and a ship builder. He heard the gospel preached by William Hyde in Maine, joined church August 10, 1840. Zachariah was a body guard to Joseph Smith, one of the first to reach the scene of the tragedy. Sealed in the Nauvoo Temple January 31,1846. Owned property in Nauvoo, but mobs forced them out of their homes across the Mississippi River for safety.
Called to go with the first company West, but Brigham asked him to stay and run the ferry. Operating the ferry three days and nights he contracted pneumonia and died February 13, 1846. His son and brother-in-law buried him during the night.
Daughters of Utah Pioneer History - Salt Lake City, UT

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