Died as a young child.

The following article was in the Dec. 20, 1979 Lakeville Journal <P> Judith Hart Marries At Arizona Mission <P> CORNWALL - Judith Gaylord Hart and Michael John Andrews were married Nov. 24 at the St. Michaels Mission in St. Michaels Ariz. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hart of West Cornwall. <P> The mission is on private property on the Navajo Reservation. It was a double ring ceremony with the rings presented on a Navajo wedding basket. Navajo rugs decorated the alter aisle. Officiating was the Rev. John Lanyrath, OFM, pastor of Klagetoh Mission, 40 miles west of St. Michaels. <P> Mrs. Andrews received her B.S. at Northern Arizona University, magna cum laude and her M.A. at Northern Arizona University in the field of archeology and paleontology. She is currently acting registrar of Anthropological Collections at the Museum of Northern Arizona. <P> Mr. Andrews took his B.A. at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, and his M.A. at Northern Arizona University. he is currently staff archeologist and instructor in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. Also, he was a resident of St. Michaels and project director of the St. Michaels Historical Museum. he is the son of Robert and Mary Alice Andrews of Albuquerque, New Mexico. <P> The couple will reside in Flagstaff, Ariz., continuing to work in their chosen fields.

The following article appeared in The Lakeville Journal on Thursday, February 28, 1985

An Appreciation

Oliver Hart

By Philip W. Hart

Few people of my acquaintance had a greater variety of interests and a keener sense of life's challenges and opportunities than Oliver Hart. Collector, inventor, businessman, traveler, amateur geologist, natural history buff, backyard farmer and do-it-yourselfer - all these appellations he had a rightful claim to, and the wealth of information he amassed in the years of his life made him a fascinating person to converse or debate with. And visionary.

I have heard him many times speak about the challenges and excitement of the future, the opportunities and possibilities - words usually spoken without resentment or regret that the "old times" were changing. There was about him an almost audible ring of confidence that anything could be done, and this extended from making a critical engineering decision about a new product to repairing the tired Farmall tractor in the backyard. Truly the excitement of life coursed through his veins like a spring song from one's lips, and new ideas and aspirations would bud, grow, and blossom in any season.

His exuberance and enthusiasm for new ventures and adventures sometimes mystified people. If you went to visit him, you might find that he was panning for gold in Idaho, or fishing in Canada, or studying a solar design in Washington, or setting up a business in California, or studying anthropology in Northern Arizona. Perhaps he was away on one of the hundreds of business trips that took him throughout the country. I noticed all these things, the vigor, the energy, the knowledge about places and things that reached out beyond Cornwall.

In spite of being frequently away from home, he loved Cornwall. he often spoke proudly of his ancestry and was knowledgeable about it. His ancestors, in particular John Hart and Deacon Hart, owned large tracts of land up and down the Housatonic River from Cornwall Bridge to Canaan in the mid 1700s, and the village of West Cornwall was originally known as Hart's Bridge, as was the covered bridge at a later date. His maternal grandfather was affectionately known as "Grampa Oliver." He was a man of considerable reputation throughout the area for his artistic blacksmithing skills, which found expression in beautiful wrought-iron designs of candelabras, chandeliers, and household items. Samples of his work are evident today in and around Cornwall. Oliver did indeed have pride in the history of his home town.

He also felt a genuine sense of civic obligation about employing local people to work in his electronics business in Cornwall bridge, a business known as Neoweld. I remember how during several lean business years he found ways to employ many college students during the summer. Many even came to him on holiday breaks from college because they knew he would hire them even briefly to help them with pocket money. There were also years when he served his town in various capacities on boards and commissions.

He helped many people through the years with advice, and he helped people often by giving them confidence to take on new interests and challenges. Last year he began the groundwork for a book about Cornwall, a book I had heard him speak about in some detail at a corn roast family picnic at the Hart Farm on Cherry Hill. It was his wish to capture through records and interviews some of the wisdom and feelings of "old timers" in Cornwall. It was his belief that if such wisdom and feelings could be blended with the education of young people, and if youth could be encouraged to understand the universality of the search by people of all ages for peace and happiness, and excitement, and accomplishment, everyone would be well served.

The four children of Oliver and Ginny Hart grew up sharing much of the enthusiasm and interest in life which they felt around them. Oliver frequently spoke with pride of their goals and values. He will be missed by his family and all others who knew him who understood the brightness of life's glow that lit his way along.