Ethel Hardy
(1883-1955)

1900-1909: High School Activities and Employment as a Teacher

1903

OldNews.com, Monroe County Mail, Fairport, New York, Thursday, 3 Dec 1903, p. 6 :
downloaded 20 Jul 2026.

OldNews.com, Cayuga Chief, Weedsport, New York, Thursday, 11 Mar 1905, p. 8 :
downloaded 22 Jul 2026.

The following clips from small town newspapers in upstate New York give us a glimpse of Ethel Hardy’s life as a teenager and young adult.

OldNews.com, Monroe County Mail, Fairport, New York, Thursday, 17 Dec 1903, p. 9 :
downloaded 20 Jul 2026.

1905

OldNews.com, Cayuga Chief, Weedsport, New York, Thursday, 8 Jul 1905, p. 8 :
downloaded 22 Jul 2026.

1904

OldNews.com, Monroe County Mail, Fairport, New York, Thursday, 14 Jul 1904, p. 7 :
downloaded 20 Jul 2026.

1906

OldNews.com, Monroe County Mail,
Fairport, New York, Thursday, 5 Apr 1906, p. 3 :
downloaded 22 Jul 2026.

OldNews.com, Cayuga Chief, Weedsport, New York, Thursday, 24 Sep 1904, p. 8 :
downloaded 22 Jul 2026.

1909

OldNews.com, Altamont Enterprise,
Altamont, New York, Friday, 6 Aug 1909, p. 1 :
downloaded 22 Jul 2026.

1910: Marriage to Sven Harry Liljestrand

The following documents and a newspaper account provide details of Ethel's marriage to Harry Liljestrand
on 15 Jun 1910 in Elbridge, New York.

Affadavit: 8 Jun 1910. Scan from family copy

License: 15 Jun 1910. Ancestry.com, New York, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1847-1849, 1907-1936 > Onandaga > 1889-1920 > image 618 of 654 :
downloaded 23 Oct 2024.

FultonHistory.com, Patterson Weekly News, Patterson, New York, Thursday, 23 Jun 1910, p. 4 : downloaded 20 Jul 2026.

Photograph Gallery

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

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

Hardy cousins: Aunt Bertelle (Ethel's sister, 2nd from right), Natalie (Bertelle's daughter) & John Chandler (back left), others ?, 1940s

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

1916-1919: Missionary trip to China with Harry

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