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Donald Hacking, 18981981 (aged 83 years)

Name
Donald /Hacking/
Given names
Donald
Surname
Hacking
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage28 October 1895Escalante, Garfield, Utah, USA
1 year
elder brother
Henry Franklin  Hacking 1896-1985 with 3rd wife Annabelle Stewart 1909-1971.jpg
18961985
Birth: 14 October 1896 26 19 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death: 19 May 1985Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA
22 months
himself
Donald and Amelia Hacking and family 2.jpg
18981981
Birth: 31 July 1898 28 20 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death: 8 November 1981Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
23 months
younger brother
Clarence Marion Hacking 1900-1990.jpg
19001990
Birth: 26 June 1900 30 22 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death: 22 August 1990Sunnydell, Madison, Idaho, USA
2 years
younger brother
19021902
Birth: 11 September 1902 32 25 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death: 20 October 1902Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
16 months
younger brother
Leonard Elliot Hacking 1903-1954.jpg
19031954
Birth: 26 December 1903 34 26 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death: 5 September 1954Bakersfield, Kern, California, USA
3 years
younger brother
19061907
Birth: 26 November 1906 36 29 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death: 21 March 1907Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
4 years
younger brother
Kenneth Elbert Hacking 1910-1991.jpg
19101991
Birth: 1 August 1910 40 32 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death: 24 September 1991Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, USA
2 years
younger brother
19121913
Birth: 12 November 1912 42 35 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death: 28 February 1913Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
18 months
younger sister
Florence May Hacking 1914-1961.jpg
19141961
Birth: 1 May 1914 44 36 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death: 18 September 1961Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
2 years
younger brother
Thayne William Hacking 2.jpg
19162002
Birth: 11 August 1916 46 39 Archer, Madison, Idaho, USA
Death: 6 January 2002Lava Hot Springs, Bannock, Idaho, USA
4 years
younger brother
Bryce Dennison Hacking 1920-1989.jpg
19201989
Birth: 4 October 1920 50 43 Archer, Madison, Idaho, USA
Death: 23 December 1989Kingsville, Kleberg, Texas, USA
Family with Karen Emilie (Amelia) Hintze Jorgensen
himself
Donald and Amelia Hacking and family 2.jpg
18981981
Birth: 31 July 1898 28 20 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Death: 8 November 1981Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
wife
Amelia Jorgensen 1906-1983.jpg
19061983
Birth: 29 August 1906Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Death: 1 January 1983Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Marriage Marriage13 September 1925Spring Canyon, Carbon, Utah, USA
17 months
son
Douglas and Donald Hacking circa 1933.jpg
19272010
Birth: 21 January 1927 28 20 Spring Glen, Carbon, Utah, USA
Death: 31 October 2010Rio Verde, Maricopa, Arizona, USA
16 months
son
Douglas Ray Hacking 1928-2003.jpg
19282003
Birth: 8 May 1928 29 21 Spring Canyon, Carbon, Utah, USA
Death: 5 March 2003Stansbury Park, Tooele, Utah, USA
3 years
daughter
Janice Laray Hacking 1931-2016.jpg
19312016
Birth: 29 August 1931 33 25 Spring Canyon, Carbon, Utah, USA
Death: 25 November 2016Arizona, USA
9 years
daughter
Karen Elnora Hacking 1940-2007.jpg
19402007
Birth: 24 March 1940 41 33 Price, Carbon, Utah, USA
Death: 18 September 2007Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
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Last change
21 May 202208:15:12
Author of last change: Danny
Note

DONALD HACKING

31 July 1896 – 8 November 1961

By Donna Hacking Erickson (1993)

In the History of Henry Franklin Hacking as a short life sketches for each of his children

“I, Donald Hacking, can say that I came of solid and worthy parents who left me the heritage of an honored name, a good mind and body, and a desire to learn and progress." Thus started Donald’s personal history. He was proud of his parents, Henry Franklin and Martha Wilcox Hocking. He remembered well his birthplace, Cedar Fort, Utah. He helped his father clean up the Martha Parker Wilcox lot and move their family into the home.

After moving to Canada in 1909, at age 11, Donald used old Bill and Prince to haul bulk grain from threshing machines to mills and elevators at Magrath and Bradshaw Siding. Once he and Frank and a hired man were moving sheep down a roadway between fields of green grain. The sheep went wild. Try as they would the boys could not get the sheep out of the crop. Totally frustrated, they had stopped to eat while they decided what to do when the foreman rode up and threatened, “Your old man will sure hear about this."

After the family moved to Sunnydell, Idaho, in 1914, Donald worked for the Wilcox brothers on their Rexburg Bench dry-farm. For several years he worked early spring until late fall, long after school started. He cut and hauled dry aspens to fire a steam driven rig to drive a 250 foot well. They moved a house to the location, repaired and remodeled it, fixed up a bunk house, built barns and corrals and planted a potato patch and garden. To earn extra money, on weekends and after school, Don and his cousin, Ellis Wilcox, unloaded and stacked corn and grain at the mill, unloaded train cars of coal, and dug trenches with crews constructing Rexburg’s sewer system.

From fall 1916 to spring 1920 Don went to Ricks Academy, a four-year high school. He played tackle in football, center in basketball, participated in chorus, dramatics, debating, track, and band. He was student body president his junior and senior years.

Don joined the army during World War I and was sent to Communications School at the training center at LESAC in Logan, Utah. He had his shipping orders to go to France when the Armistice was signed 11 Nov. 1918. He received his discharge a few weeks later.

In the spring of 1921 Don was attending BYU when he was offered a job at Knight-Spring Canyon Coal Co. He worked there twelve years rising from shipping clerk to tipple foreman in charge of all outside activities, in Spring Canyon he met the blonde belle of the area, Amelia Jorgensen, whom he married September 13, 1925. Their children are Donald, Douglas, Janice, and Karen.

Don completed correspondence courses in business and law and was preparing to take the bar examination when the depression hit. He served as clerk of court in Price Utah, until 1941 when he was appointed by the governor to the Utah Public Service Commission. Dons decisions helped shape the course of the Dept. of Registration, the State Trade Commission, and the State Securities Commission in adapting to the rapid growth of Utah.

Don never got over being a farmer. Their home on Harrison Boulevard in Salt Lake City had a wash at the back where he constructed a chicken coop. Early every morning the rooster crowed in spite of city ordinance. The neighbors reported him. He sold the chickens and borrowed an old truck and crates for delivery. On 2nd South almost to Main Street the lids fell off the crates. When he stopped the chickens hopped out. A photographer took a snap and next day the Salt Lake Tribune pictured Don, the Commissioner, in bib overalls, chasing chickens. A move to an acreage in Holladay provided a place for his chickens, cows, and Shetland ponies. And, in 1973, a wonderful place for his retirement.

Don belonged to the Lions Club, chaired the Carbon County Rodeo and the Robbers Roost Roundup. He belonged to VFW and the Last Squad Club. He actively participated in events and politics of both Carbon and Salt Lake counties.

Of his family, Don said, "We have a great bunch of kids, grandkids, and great grandkids, all of whom are mighty interested in our care and well being. God bless our tribe."