Hanna Basin Museum
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    • 2020 Carbon Cemetery Association and Hanna Basin Historical Society ​Spring Newsletter
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  • Carbon
    • Hanna Basin Museum - Time Line
    • CARBON CEMETERY RECORDS
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    • Carbon - Wings of Imagination - A Letter From Old Carbon
    • Carbon - A Poem by Mrs. C. E. Ellis
    • 2003: Carbon Cemetery Restoration
    • 2011: Carbon, Carbon County, Cemetery Restoration 2011
    • 2011: Bow River FFA Community Service Project: Carbon Cemetery
    • 2014: The Carbon Cemetery
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  • Hanna
    • HANNA HAPPENINGS
    • THE HANNA CEMETERY: From the Bottom of the Mine
    • HANNA CEMETERY RECORDS
    • Hanna Burial Plots and Lots >
      • Hanna Blocks and Lots 1 - 6
      • Hanna Plots 1 - 50
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      • Hanna Plots 81 - 129
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    • Hanna Early Churches >
      • Introduction to Hanna’s Early Churches
      • Episcopal Church - History, Bell and Cross
      • Methodist Church - Organ
      • Colored Baptist Church
    • Hanna Military in the Hanna Cemetery >
      • Hanna Cemetery - In The Military
      • Arthurs, Peter Killed in Action World War I
      • Love, Michael V. Killed In The Line Of Duty
      • Jones, William D. Died of Wounds Received In Action World War I
      • Lucas, Bernard R. Killed In Action World War II
      • Lucas, William C. Died of Wounds Recieved In Action World War II
      • Luoma, Arvo A. Killed in Action World War II
      • McAtee, William J. Killed in Action Vietnam
      • Saari, John Killed in Action World War II
    • Hanna Cemetery - Japanese Monuments Transcribed
    • Grave Headstones for Hanna Miner Fatalities Buried Elsewhere than Hanna
    • Hanna Where Did They Come From?
  • The People
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  • Coal Mines
    • A History of the Hanna Coal Miner from 1868 to 2017: Bob Leathers' Notebook
    • Hanna Basin Mining Companies and Mines
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    • 1903 June 30: Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 mine in Hanna >
      • Hanna 1903 Explosion Explained
      • List of Miners Killed in the June 30, 1903 Explosion
      • 1904 State Mine Inspector's Report for 1903 Explosion
      • 1903 Explosion Coroner's Inquest
      • 1903 Explosion - Earle Holmes Letter to Wilson Gobble
    • Hanna 1908 Mine Explosions Explained >
      • List of Miners Killed in the March 28, 1908 Explosions
      • 1908 Explosion Coroner's Inquest Report
      • Noah Young's 1908 Hanna Explosion Report to Governor B.B. Brooks
      • 1908 State Coal Mine Inspectors Report - 1908 Hanna Mine Number 1 Explosion
      • David M. Elias - State Mine Inspector Killed in 1908 Explosion
      • 1908 Explosion - Gov. B.B. Brooks Communiations
      • April 3, 1908 Chums From Boyhood Died Side By Side
      • April 16, 1908 U.P. May Not Be Liable
      • 1908: Newspaper Articles from The Wigan Observer in England About the March 28, 1908 Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna
      • Death of Noah Young - State Mine Inspector for the 1908 Explosion of Mine No. 1
    • 1916 Labor Agreement Between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators
    • 1917 Labor Agreement Between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators
    • 1970 - 1980: Bill Becker's Hanna Strip Mine Blasting Videos
  • Gallery
    • 1889-1912: ​ Elmer Larson - The Butvier Collection from Sally Hafdell and David Eriksson in Sweden
    • Images from Early Hanna Basin and Wyoming
    • Early History of the Union Pacific Railroad
    • 1910-1920: McNulty Family Photo Collection ​Albert Film - Hanna Basin Adventurer
    • 1920 -1930: Gert Milliken's Photo Collection of Unknown Children, Women, Men, and Families in Hanna
    • 1963 October 2: A Large Cattle Drive from Palm Livestock Company at Elk Mountain ​ to Hanna's Union Pacific Railroad Stockyard
    • 2017 April 18: Un​ion Pacific Steam Engine 844 Stopped at Hanna, Wyoming
    • 2019 May 17 and May 4: Big Boy​ 4014 and Engine 844 Were Running the Rails Again
    • Images of Old Carbon Today
  • Notebook

Mary and F. E. Ford: The Hanna Hotel

Images and notes from the Hanna Basin Museum with contributions by Bob Leathers

More about Mary Ford: ​Thunder under the House: One Family and the Hanna Mine Disasters by Tom Rea

1921

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1921: The Pioneer

1925

1925 March 1:
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Mary Ford and her husband purchased the Hanna Hotel from Mr. and Mrs. John Cole.
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Mary Ford (Hanna Basin Museum: Painting by Erickson)
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Mary Ford (Hanna Basin Museum: Painting by Erickson)

1935

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1935. Hanna Hotel. Mary Ford (Hanna Miner)

1938

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Mr. F. E. Ford, Hanna and his niece, Miss Elaine Hughes and Miss Maxine Peterson (UPCCEM, Jan. 1938)
​The community of Hanna was shocked by the sudden death of Mr. F.E. Ford at Rochester, Minnesota, on December 2nd, after undergoing a major operation. Mr. Ford was born at Maryville, Missouri, July 20, 1881. He came to Hanna in 1919 and was employed by The Union Pacific Coal Company. He was married to Mrs. Mary Stebner on February 3, 1921. He then went into the hotel business, in which he engaged until his death. He had a frank and friendly disposition and greeted all who came to the hotel with a cheery smile and every courtesy. He was interested in Labor Unions, and had attended several Labor conventions prior to his career as a hotel manager. Mr. Ford was a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, the Lions Club and the Izaak Walton League. He was a lover of outdoor sports, and many of his friends enjoyed hunting and fishing trips with him. He leaves to mourn his passing his wife, Mrs. Mary Ford, of Hanna, and one brother in Iowa. Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church on December 5th with Rev. Brown officiating; Knights of Pythias, Rathbone Lodge No. 14, also held their services in the church. Interment was made in the Hanna cemetery.  (UPCCEM, January 1938)

1953

Mrs. Mary Ford Honored at Hanna by 300 People
Over 300 people were present at the Hanna Finnish hall Sunday to honor Mrs. Mary Ford. Hanna resident for 48 years who came to Laramie to make her home June 1.

Mrs. Ford has sold her Hanna hotel to Pete Owns and will make her home at 365 North Eighth here.

C. D. Williamson was master of ceremonies at the program Sunday. He told how Mrs. Ford's life had affected the community and had been parallel to it. He also said that she had had something to do with everyone in the town at some time or other.

Mark Jackson's Band played during the program and there were several vocal and instrumental numbers and a skit by several Hanna High School boys.

The town presented Mrs. Ford with pieces of furniture for her new home and other miscellaneous gifts.

People were present from Hanna, Denver, Cheyenne, Laramie, Rock Springs, Saratoga, Rawlins, Sinclair, Medicine Bow and the Elk Mountain area.

Among those from Laramie attending were Mrs. Ford's son, Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Stebner, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Grothe, and Mrs. Kate Leake, Mrs. O. L. Riedesel, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Hoel, Mrs. C. B. Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Clark and Mrs. Christensen. (Laramie Daily Bulletin, Tuesday May 19, 1953)

Hanna Honors Woman Hotel Owner 48 Years
Hanna, May 18: (AP) The town of Hanna turned out Sunday to honor its No. 1 citizen, Mary Ford.

Her efforts, fellow citizens "Have made the difference between existence and living for many people." Now she is moving to Laramie.

Mrs. Ford has lived in Hanna since 1905, and now she has sold her hotel and will move to Laramie. Her hotel through the years has been a haven for community's coal miners. (Newspaper unknown, date unknown)

Hanna Cemetery Record

Ford, F. E.
Link: Headstone: "Jul. 20, 1881 - Dec. 2, 1937" 
Plot: 109
Age: 56
Note: 
The community of Hanna was shocked by the sudden death of Mr. F.E. Ford at Rochester, Minnesota, on December 2nd, after undergoing a major operation. Mr. Ford was born at Maryville, Missouri, July 20, 1881. He came to Hanna in 1919 and was employed by The Union Pacific Coal Company. He was married to Mrs. Mary Stebner on February 3, 1921. He then went into the hotel business, in which he engaged until his death. He had a frank and friendly disposition and greeted all who came to the hotel with a cheery smile and every courtesy. He was interested in Labor Unions, and had attended several Labor conventions prior to his career as a hotel manager. Mr. Ford was a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, the Lions Club and the Izaak Walton League. He was a lover of outdoor sports, and many of his friends enjoyed hunting and fishing trips with him.
He leaves to mourn his passing his wife, Mrs. Mary Ford, of Hanna, and one brother in Iowa. Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church on December 5th with Rev. Brown officiating; Knights of Pythias, Rathbone Lodge No. 14, also held their services in the church. Interment was made in the Hanna cemetery.  (UPCCEM, January 1938)
Ford, Mary E.
Link: Headstone: "1890-1984"
Plot: 109
Age: 94

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