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Norris brown farm caribou,me

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This is likely the oldest remaining home in Caribou. Ivory Hardison settled on this spot in 1842, as one of Caribou's first settlers. He built a log home, which was soon replaced by this house. This house is famous for the huge elm tree growing up through the porch. The top half of the tree was cut down a few years ago. All of these buildings remain. The house is privately owned and occupied.

this farm is north of the farm I grew up on, Jacobs Farm @ 1270 Presque Isle Rd, Caribou, ME

Norris Brown was good friends with my grandfather, Dell Jacobs. My father in-law, Clarence J Dubay also worked for Norris for a while.

Ivory was my GGGG Grandfather. I'm having a hard time finding this house. Going on a ME trip next month and would like to at least swing by. What's the street location?

Hi Steve, my daughter is named Ivory after our mutual GGG grandfather and my great-grandfather. I live in Portland Maine. Hope to make the trip one day. Did you see inside the house on your visit? I've hit dead ends with every descendant I've reached out to....my parents and grandparents were at the reunion in 1999

Hello Jannette. We drove up around the driveway to look at the house. It was getting dark and decided not to bother anyone. Actually the place looked very rough from the outside. Not sure who, if anyone, was actually living there. We didn't go back. You can't miss the place on the left driving north to Caribou, before the cemetery. At the cemetery, Ivory's grave obelisk has been cleaned recently and looks great, but my GGG Oliver's obelisk was almost falling over. We had the cemetery pour a new base and reset it. Oliver followed his oil drilling uncles to Pennsylvania, then California, which explains how we got here. I Would love to hear about your branch of the family. I have much to share about ours.

Jannette, we were at the California reunion. Not sure what year that was! I have a large listing of Hardison descendants from the meeting I can get you a link too. We have been working on Ancestry and Wikitree for several years and making progress. I have several Hardison photos you may be interested in-- depending on your branch. I am interested in ALL Hardison photos for the Maine Hardison Wikitree. Contact me on FB- www.facebook.com/sdhardison (assuming you have an account.)

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According to my family history, the first Hardison set foot on American soil appears a to be Stephen Hardison who first appears in the court minutes of the Colony on Maine (Hoghead Island, Maine, near Kittery) in 1685. A since the court case involved “9,000 feet of pine timber” he must have been in the timber business.

Ivory Hardison was the Great Great Great Grand Son of Stephen Hardison I

Hi Roy! My father’s name is Roy also. Alan Crosby Hardison had a lot of Hardison (descendants of ivory ) genealogy worked out over 70 years ago. Recently we have found close genetic Y-DNA connections to the Hardisty family line of Yorkshire England. Email me at shardison@yahoo.com if you’re interested in hearing more. What branch are you?

We are descended from Jasper Hardison who left a Maine because of cold weather. He came by boat down to north eastern NC where he got his 640 acre plot. After division of the acreage among descendants became to small to farm, they sold their land for $0.25 and mover to southern a Middle TN. Maury and Marshall counties. That is where I grew up. My parents were tenant farmers.

Oops...forgot. They bought land for $0.02 an acre in TN.

Although Hardisons in America are all of English origin, the Y-DNA is different; Maine Hardisons come from a different family line than Tennessee/Carolina Hardisons. Jasper Hardison appears basically out of nowhere; there is no evidence that he came from Maine first. Have you done your Y-DNA?

I have not done any DNA testing.
I have only used the 691 page book “Hardison and Allied Families” complied by Fred L Hawkins and Dorthy Westmoreland Gilliam and work I did on Ancestry.com in 2012 when I wrote a history of the first 12 years of my life growing up on the tenant farm for my nieces and nephews.

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