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I am interested in the posting regarding Bryce Hacking on the http://groups.google.com/group/jamesnjanehackingfo/web/hacking-family-war-heroes website.  I am researching Bryce's life and wondering where I can find more information regarding the items posted.

 

Thank you for any direction you can offer.

 

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James 'n Jane

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Sep 3, 2010, 12:39:45 PM9/3/10
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Most of the information for Bryce came from a life sketch written by
his niece Donna Hacking Erickson, and is pasted below:

BRYCE DENNISON HACKING
October 4, 1920 – December 23, 1989

By Donna Hacking Erickson (1993)
In the "History of Henry Franklin Hacking" as a short life sketches
for each of his children

Bryce was the tenth son, eleventh child of Henry Franklin and Martha
Wilcox Hacking, the only sibling born in the new home in Archer,
Idaho. He was three years old, seven months younger than his nephew,
Vern, when Vern came to live with him. They had the measles, both sick
in one bed. Bryce thought he should have all the attention. Vern was
afraid he would die like his mama. They got so jealous they wouldn't
lie side by side. One would get at the foot of the bed and one at the
top. However, they grew to be life-long friends.

On July 4th, 1926, Bryce and Vern sparred as the curtain raiser for a
professional boxing match. When the bell rang the boys started
slugging. The three-round match was called a draw. People cheered and
flipped coins – ten or twelve dollars – into the ring. The boys
couldn't get their gloves off fast enough to pick up the money.

Bryce’s brother, Kenneth, told the kids if they’d cry when they got
spanked the spanking would quit. Vern learned that well and it worked.
When Bryce got spanked he'd say, "That don't hurt." He'd get whacked
harder. He'd run outside behind the house and do his crying. Vern
tried to get him to cry when he got spanked but he said, "I can't. I
just can't."

Bryce attended school in Archer and graduated from Madison High School
in Rexburg. He farmed for his brother, Marion, and did seasonal work
for neighbors. They liked to hire Bryce because he was dependable,
efficient, and pleasant to work around.

After graduation, Bryce, Vern, and Scott Wilcox turned hobos and rode
the freight train up to Big Hole, Montana, to put up hay for two
months. Pay wasn't bad at $2.50 a day. They were used to a dollar and
a half. One time a horse kicked Bryce in the stomach. He barely had
enough wheeze to tell what happened. At meals there would be fifteen
or twenty men sitting around a big table. One day Bryce held a big
bowl of gravy with one hand. Just as he passed it, the bowl slipped
and dumped hot gravy all down Vern’s front.

After a year at BYU, Bryce went to California where he worked building
gliders, then at Douglas Aircraft. In the Army Air Corps in World War
II Bryce was a staff sergeant. He served as a mechanic in the glider
corps, stationed in France and Belgium, transporting food to troops in
Holland. Bryce slept on the flight back from a three-day pass to
London, and awoke a few feet from the burning plane on a mountainside.
His neck, face, hands, and hair were burned. Both legs, and his jaw
also, were broken in two places. He was taken to England for three
days where his bones were set, then sent to Canada for plastic
surgery.

At Madigan Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, the bones had to be
rebroken and silver tubes and plates screwed in to hold them together.
When he had healed and the casts came off, they found he had a broken
hip, broken so long it was impossible to pull together so they wired
the hip bone to the pelvic bone and put him in a body cast. His fused
hip caused him to swing his right leg forward while he tipped all his
weight on his left leg. He left the hospital as 80% disabled, but
anyone who could put on waders and get in fishing spots like Bryce
could, or build, or roof, was certainly not disabled.

At Madigan, Bryce met Elizabeth (Betty) Totten, a nurse from New
York. They were married December 28,1948, in Bakersfield, California.
Their children are Mary, Barbara, twins – Phillip and Michael,
Loretta, Gloria, Melvin, Elizabeth, Charles, and Patricia.

In Bakersfield, Bryce built apartments until his fathers death in 1949
when he returned to Archer to farm his mother's land. In 1954, he
built his mother a small home near his sister, Florence. Martha
rented the farm to others and Bryce helped build the Air Corps Cadet
School in Colorado Springs. So that his wife and children could attend
Catholic church and schools, Bryce moved to Pocatello, Idaho, where he
worked as a contractor and carpenter, building single home dwellings,
duplexes, and apartment buildings until his retirement. For ten years
Bryce and Betty spent their summers in Idaho, near their children, and
winters in Kingsville, Texas. They were in Texas when Bryce died at
age 69.

Bryce felt that his parents lived on in him, in the way he lived. He,
too, left a legacy of honesty, sacrifice, hard work, and love, that
lives on in his descendants.


If anyone has additional resources or stories to tell Uncle Bryce's
story, please send them to us.

Eileen Hacking Lentz

On Aug 29, 8:47 am, lbpq.c...@comcast.net wrote:
> I am interested in the posting regarding Bryce Hacking on thehttp://groups.google.com/group/jamesnjanehackingfo/web/hacking-family... website.  I am researching Bryce's life and wondering where I can find more information regarding the items posted.

James 'n Jane

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Sep 6, 2010, 3:07:51 PM9/6/10
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Apparently, there are other relatives with the name of Donna Hacking
Erickson, so to clarify the identity of the original author of
"History of the Henry Franklin Hacking," which includes a short life
sketch of each of Henry and Martha's eleven children, I have included
a short bio of the author Donna Mary Hacking #3_5_7_3_3, who was
married to Royle Dee Erickson. When Donna's mother LaVerne Liljenquist
Hacking's health began to deteriorate, she lived in a trailor close to
Donna. LaVerne had been a major genealogist and family historian,
whose work can be found in the Family History Library and other
libraries. Donna compiled the history of her grandparents, Henry and
Martha, using her mother's research as the foundation. Of course she
also knew the family members personally, so may have also included
additional things from her own knowledge of them as well as picking
the brain of Uncle Thayne (10th son of Henry and Martha), cousin Vern
(1st grandson of Henry and Martha), and cousin of Martha and neighbor
Rulon Wilcox.

Donna Mary Hacking was the second daughter of Clarence Marion Hacking
(3rd child of Henry and Martha) and LaVerne Liljenquist. Donna also
had three brother's that died in infancy. Donna was born 7 May 1940 in
Bear River Hospital in Tremonton, Utah where her father was working
for International Harvester until March of 1943, when the family moved
to Sunnydell, Idaho and bought a farm there. Donna loved horses and
became quite involved in many activities that honed her skills as an
excellent horsewoman. She was also very involved with 4H and became an
excellent seamstress among many other talents. Donna attended first
grade in the old Sunnydell School House (her Liljenquist grandparents
later converted it into a home and lived in it for several years).
Then she attended 2-8 at Archer School, and 9-12 in Rexburg,
graduating in 1958. She met Royle when he was attending Ricks College,
and they were married in the Idaho Falls Temple 21 August of that same
year. Royle earned his degrees in Elemetary Education at Ricks and in
Logan. They lived in Idaho Falls for several years, and then in 1967
they moved with their four daughters to a farm in Archer, accross the
street from the home that had been her Hacking grandparents' home in
Archer. It was also down the road from the home I grew up in, my
father Kenneth (7th child of Henry and Martha) being Donna's uncle. We
enjoyed having the Erickson family as close neighbors and seeing their
family continue to grow. I got to be a camp counselor, softball coach,
and Sunday school teacher for some of their daughters before I left
for college and my mission. After having seven daughters, the couple
finally had two sons, the second one born in 1980. However, they
weren't done yet. Another daughter and another son was born, making
eleven children althogether.

When I came home to visit from Pennsylvania around 1993, I went to
visit Aunt LaVerne and Donna as she was working on the "History of
Henry and Martha" and I purchased a copy (in a looseleaf binder and
sheet protectors), which I obtained at a later time after they added
pictures in 1996. After Donna died in 1999, I began to update my copy,
and then in 2006 I began to digitize it and make it available to other
family members. I hope this helps to clarify which history and author
we are talking about, and gives enough information to further the
research for Uncle Bryce.


Introductory pages are pasted below:

HISTORY
OF

HENRY FRANKLIN HACKING I

28 NOVEMBER 1869 – 26 OCTOBER 1949

Includes histories of his wife,
MARTHA ELNORA WILCOX
and their eleven children:

HENRY FRANKLIN HACKING, II
DONALD HACKING
CLARENCE MARION HACKING
ARTHUR CLYDE HACKING
LEONARD ELLIOT HACKING
ORRIS LAMAR HACKING
KENNETH ELBERT HACKING
JOHN ELMER HACKING
FLORENCE MAY HACKING
THAYNE WILLIAM HACKING
BRYCE DENNISON HACKING



From written and oral histories and memories
Compiled and edited by
Donna Hacking Erickson
1993
Pictures added in 1996

Digitized, updated and extended by
Eileen Hacking Lentz
2006 – 2008






533 East 9000 South
Rexburg, ID 83440
(208) 356-0425
August 9, 1996

Dear Family,

Writing the histories of Grandpa Henry Hacking and Grandma Martha
Hacking, and the mini-histories of their children, has been a
wonderful experience for me. I not only came to know these people
better and too love them more, but I also came to know and love the
ones who told me about them.

I would like to pay a special thanks to Grandma for the history she
wrote. Much has been taken from that writing. A special thanks needs
to go also to Rulon Wilcox, whose excellent memory provided many
anecdotes. My gratitude goes to his wife Bessie for proofreading and
for helping clarify information.

Uncle Thayne and Vern have been helpful in giving details and
chronology. I love them and appreciate their memories and willingness
to share.

Thanks to all the cousins and aunts and friends and neighbors who
helped immensely with ideas and information and who have shared
pictures.

I hope Grandma and Grandpa and the uncles and Aunt Florence will be
pleased with the results. I am. These histories are my best effort
and, of course, are the gospel truth, at least until those written
about can make corrections themselves.

I hope that you will read these histories often and that you will come
to love these people as I have.

Sincerely



Donna Hacking Erickson



[address]
Salt Lake City, UT 84119
[phone number]
grann...@yahoo.com
13 February 2008

Dear Family,

Over the past couple of years, I have been anxiously engaged in
digitizing, gathering records, stories, and pictures with the purpose
of preserving and sharing the wonderful family legacy. We have largely
overlooked this legacy with each generation becoming farther removed
from even knowing who their ancestors are. I am a family history
consultant who has the opportunity to help others try to find even
small bits of information about their family. I look at what rich
histories our ancestors left for us, and the comparisons are so
striking. My sister Janet and I were recently discussing what capable
and thorough genealogists and family historians we have had in our
families, Donna’s mother, LaVerne Liljenquist Hacking, being a prime
example.

Unfortunately, all of those mentioned as having part in the
preparation of the original history compiled by Donna have died,
including Donna. Therefore, I decided to update and extend the book in
the digitized version, making it easier to share with each other and
collaborate in research. Most of the original book was digitized in
2006. I had some computer problems and thought I had lost those files,
but thankfully my son, Sam, who was attending BYU at that time was
able to salvage most of the information on my hard drive, but I had
forgotten where I had saved these files until this week as I was
preparing to do it all over again.

Donna’s book is full of pictures and images of documents, which help
to tell the story. I decided to make a series of files to keep the
file size smaller, since each of them includes lots of bit-hungry
images. This file includes the title page, introductory letters
(preface), a poem written by my father, and a table of contents. The
main body or story of the original book is in the second file. The
third file is an appendix with document images, family group sheets,
portrait pedigree charts (including an updated version with pictures
of all of the children, except Arthur Clyde and John Elmer)
transcriptions of the newspaper clippings of Grandpa’s obituary and
their 50th Wedding Anniversary. There are also some maps and locality
information included. Each of the children has a separate file, which
will include Donna’s original mini-history, but will also have
additional information and illustration. As I gather more from various
sources I will continue to update each of these files or create new
ones to attach to the whole package. The package will include several
file types so that you can use them to your best advantage in your
research and family enrichment opportunities.

We share these things freely with you. We want you to embrace these
wonderful people and take them into your heart and home. There is
nothing better to do to strengthen your family ties than to get to
know them by reading these stories with your children. However, to
ensure the continuing research, preservation, and dissemination of
this wonderful legacy, please consider joining the newly reorganized
Hacking or Wilcox family organizations and contribute to our noble
cause.

With great love,

Eileen Hacking Lentz







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>
> > Thank you for any direction you can offer.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Patty Quenton
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