BIO; HOARD, Hezekiah 1882 GEAUGA COUNTY OHIO
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1882 History of La Grange County  Indiana
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

	HEZEKIAH HOARD is the eldest of ten in 
the family of Hezekiah and Lodema 
(Babcock) Hoard, natives of New York. The elder 
Hoard was a soldier in the 
war of 1812; he moved to Geauga County, 
Ohio, in 1832, thence to this 
county in the fall of 1835, where he died 
at the home of the subject in 
December, 1869, his wife having died three 
years before at the same place. 
The subject was born in Stephentown, N.Y., 
March 14, 1807; he removed to 
Geauga County, Ohio, where he bought a farm, 
sold it in 1835, and came to 
Lima Township, this county, where he farmed 
on shares until 1838, when he 
came to this township and invested in eighty 
acres of unimproved land; he 
yet lives on this farm, having added sixty 
acres more and largely improved 
it. Mr. Hoard was married January 1, 1832, 
to Rhoda Ingraham, a native of 
New York; she died November 9, 1838. Of 
two children born to them, one 
(Myron) is yet living. February 28, 1841, 
Mr. Hoard was married to Miss Ann 
Wilcox, who was born December 19, 1814, 
and is one of four children born to 
William and Nancy (Cain) Wilcox, natives 
of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Hoard 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church and have had six children, 
three of whom are living -Mary, now Mrs. 
Randolph; William and George.





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