1916-1919: Missionary trip to China with Sven
Jan 1916 - portrait taken before she left with Sven on a Missionary mission to West China's Szechuan Province, provided by Christine Thompson, an Ancestry.com user
Photograph Gallery
Ethel Hardy
(1883-1955)
Ethel Hardy, about 1910
Sven, Ethel & Howard Liljestrand, Iowa, 1913
Sven, Ethel, Howard and Robert - picnic dinner, China, 1916 (Chinese watching in background)
Sven, Ethel, Howard and Robert - portrait, abt 1917
Sven & Ethel Liljestrand with Howard & Robert, China, "in the pine grove back of our house, just outside the orange grove," Dec 1918
Ethel & Sven with their 4 boys Howard, Robert, Oscar and Sven Jr., Upper Darby PA, 1927
Family portrait, 1927
Camping trip - Robert, Eric, Sven Sr., Sven Jr., Ethel, 1930
Ethel on crutches with a bruised foot after the bombing to her home in China, 1939 - see newspaper account on Sven page
Sven & Ethel, abt 1945
Hardy cousins: Aunt Bertelle (Ethel's sister, 2nd from right), Natalie (Bertelle's daughter) & John Chandler (back left), others ?, 1940s
Ethel Hardy portrait, about 1950
Ethel Hardy, St. Paul, 1951
Alma Erickson, Danish nurse at W.T.M.S., with Ethel
Ethel's home in Jordan, NY after Sven died in 1951
Ethel, Presbyterian Hospital, Denver, 1955
Ethel and friend, Presbyterian Hospital, Denver, 1955
China Correspondence
Originals of these papers are in the Huntington Museum in San Marino, California
Pages 1-78
(click images to view .pdf files)
Pages 79-155
Pages 156-225
Pages 226-256
Death in 1955
Obituary
FultonHistory.com. Pawling-Patterson News-Chronicle, Pawling, New York,
Thursday, 16 Jun 1955, p. 1 : accessed 12 Nov 2025.
Obituary
GenealogyBank.com, Utica Daily Press, Utica, NY, Friday, 10 Jun 1955, page 31 : accessed 2 Dec 2024.
Memorial Service
Family copy