“With the war ending, and the militia disbanding, I take measure of what we have lost, and what we’ve won. My hope and prayer is that sacrifices born by so many will spawn and fulfill the promise of our new nation.”

(Benjamin Martin, The Patriot –2000)

This page is dedecated to honoring those who faught for our freedom--sacrificing and suffering many hardships because of love of country.

Some gave the ultimate sacrifice.

We welcome additions to this page of those who were close to you. Submit the names, Hacking Family #, vital statistics, their story, and any Internet links to jamesnjane.hackingfo.gmail.com or https://www.facebook.com/groups/JamesnJaneHackingFamilyOrg.

Please see the Kenneth Elbert Hacking Family Tree on Ancestry.com for more information and sources for the individuals honored on this page. Rather than just having a list, we will be creating a profile page for each of our honored soldiers on Fold3.com and linking it here.

United States Civil War

Henry H. Hacking - H2_2, born 16 September 1833 in Holme, Westmorland, England, United Kingdom to William Hacking and Ann Pearson. After his father died, he and his living siblings immigrated to America with their mother, grandfather, and other Pearson relatives. They sailed from Liverrpool, Lancashire, England aboard the SS Rockall in April 1849, arriving 4 May 1849 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The family settled first in Ohio. Henry marrried Mary Ann Wilson 29 March 1854 in Sand Prairie, Lee, Iowa, United States. When Henry turned 21 he headed back to England to claim his inheritance. Unfortunately, he became shipwrecked and did not return for a long time. When he did return, he discovered his wife had remarried. He was quite upset! He was soon enlisted in the Union Army on 30 May 1861 in Philadelphia. He was killed during the 7 Day Battle at the Turkey Bridge at Turkey Island along the James River in Virginia. He had a premonition about it and he wrote letter insisting that Mary Ann should not get the money, only his daughter, who he had never seen.

https://www.fold3.com/memorial/634211499/henry-h-hacking

James Hacking VI - H3_1, born 23 November 1827 in Clawthorpe, Westmoreland, England, United Kingdom. He immigrated to America in 1849, setttling into St Louis, Missouri and working in the mines. He enlisted in the Union Army there. After the war, he move to New England with his wife and family of daughters where they could return to the occupation they had in England as weavers in the textile industry. He died 18 December 1898 in Acushnet, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.

https://www.fold3.com/memorial/657795398/james-hackingivi [This is the Memorial Page I created to add all information, and more detail about his family.]

https://www.fold3.com/memorial/656437297/james-hacking-civil-war-stories (locked)

https://www.fold3.com/memorial/656974070/james-hacking-civil-war-stories (locked)

https://www.fold3.com/memorial/635698967/james-hacking Memorial Page 2 (added story, sources, and image)

https://www.fold3.com/memorial/635686789/james-hacking Memorial Page 3 (added story, sources, and image)

James Hanley O'Brien - H3_4+(4), born 12 August 1823 in Limrick, Ireland and died 14 March 1864 at the Mount Pleasant Hospital in Washington, DC, a casualty of the Civil War. He had met and married Jane Hacking as her 4th husband while he served as a soldier at Camp Floyd (Crittenden) on 28 June 1860. When the Civil War started he reenlisted and went east to fight with the Union Army. Jane followed him with her two living children. Their son was born a few months before James died.

https://www.fold3.com/memorial/653613733/obrien-james-hanley-pvt-1823-1864

World War I

World War II

Howard Homer Mitchell - H3_5_1_11_3, born 16 March 1918 in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, USA and died 7 October 1943 on Wake Island. One of 98 civilian prisoners of war held by the Japanese from 1941 until they murdered them in 1943. Son of Fern Hacking and Arzy Mitchell and brother of Elmo Wayne Mitchell who shared the same fate. Story of Wake Island and the massacre can be found on Wikipedia at the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Island

Elmo Wayne Mitchell - H3_5_1_11_4, born 24 June 1920 in Hayden, Uintah, Utah, USA and died 7 October 1943 on Wake Island. One of 98 civilian prisoners of war held by the Japanese from 1941 until they murdered them in 1943. Son of Fern Hacking and Arzy Mitchell and brother of Howard Homer Mitchell who shared the same fate. Story of Wake Island and the massacre can be found on Wikipedia at the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Island

Lorenzo Edwin Bodily - H3_5_3_9_2, born 16 October 1922 in Moffit, Uintah, Utah, USA and died 25 October 1944 while serving in the South Pacific during World War II.

Bryce Dennison Hacking - H3_5_7_11, born 4 October 1920 in Archer, Madison, Idaho, USA and died 23 December 1989 in Kingsville, Kleburg, Texas, USA. He married his army nurse Elizabeth Madeline Totten, who was from New York, and they had ten children, which they primarily raised in the area of Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA.

As a young man Bryce went to California where he worked building gliders, then at Douglas Aircraft. In the Army Air Corps in World War II Bryce was a staff sergeant. He served as a mechanic in the glider corps, stationed in France and Belgium, transporting food to troops in Holland. Bryce slept on the flight back from a three-day pass to London, and awoke a few feet from the burning plane on a mountainside. His neck, face, hands, and hair were burned. Both legs, and his jaw also, were broken in two places. He was taken to England for three days where his bones were set, then sent to Canada for plastic surgery.

At Madigan Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, the bones had to be rebroken and silver tubes and plates screwed in to hold them together. When he had healed and the casts came off, they found he had a broken hip, broken so long it was impossible to pull together so they wired the hip bone to the pelvic bone and put him in a body cast. His fused hip caused him to swing his right leg forward while he tipped all his weight on his left leg. He left the hospital as 80% disabled, but anyone who could put on waders and get in fishing spots like Bryce could, or build, or roof, was certainly not disabled.

LaVerle Thomas Hacking - H3_5_14_4, born 19 January 1919 in Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah, United States and died 12 October 1948 in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. He married Jene Young of Blanding, and they had two children.

After attending BYU for a couple of years, LaVerle enlisted in the National Guard on 3 March 1941. While he was station in California, he married his sweatheart, Jene, on 3 July 1943. He spent a year in Hawaii, and then was shipped overseas in 1944, where he was a lieutenant in the Air Corps in Corsica. LaVerle was reported "Missing in Action" while on a bombing run in Italy. For months it was never known if he was dead or alive. He was alive, but he had to suffer the horrors in a German prisoner of war camp for seven months with no communication with his family. The Salt Lake Tribune reported him as a prisoner of war on 6 May 1945 in their War Honor Roll. When LaVerle returned home and was released from the service in August 1945, it was certainly a joyous reunion. Unfortunately it was all too short as he died quite suddenly two years later of menengitis. He became ill on Sunday morning and entered the hospital on Tuesday morning. He died the following evening.

Korea

Viet Nam

Kenneth Lee Hacking H3_5_7_7_4

Rulon Glen Hacking H3_5_7_7_6

Gulf War

Iraq War

Afganistan