Hazard, Frederick H.

Frederick Henry Hazard (1908-1983)

Winchester, NH/ Swanzey, NH/ Keene, NH

Author Jennifer Carroll

In 1930, 21-year old Frederick Hazard of Woodstock, VT, resided in Ashuelot, NH– an unincorporated community in the town of Winchester.  He was working as a laborer locally and was living within the household of his older brother John N. Hazard.  Also in the household was John’s wife and children, as well as Frederick’s mother Amanda (53 years old) and his sister Rachel (24 years old).  The Hazard clan had moved to New Hampshire in the mid-to-late 1920s and it is where Frederick would live out his adulthood.

Frederick Henry Hazard was born on June 19, 1908 in Woodstock, VT, the 8th child of William Frederick Hazard and Amanda (Dunbar) Hazard. At the time, Fred’s father was 53 years old and worked in the lumber industry. His mother Amanda was 32 years old and at home caring for the family’s six living children.

The 1920 census indicates that the family was struggling with hardship.  At age 11 and 13 respectively, both Frederick and Rachel Hazard were sent to live at the Vermont Industrial School in Vergennes City, Vermont, in 1919.  The Industrial School was established in 1874 to reform youth offenders, but quite quickly became a shelter for children of families facing extreme poverty.  

According to the Eugenics Survey of Vermont: 

“Throughout its history, Vermont Industrial School superintendents struggled with the challenges of meeting the needs of a mixed population. Not only did the severity of offenses committed by the inmates vary, but the school also served as a temporary shelter for children who were not delinquent, but were dependent or neglected children from poor families who could not care for them from towns that wished to be rid of them. 

During the progressive era, jurisdiction over juvenile cases broadened. Municipal and county courts and justices of the peace could have children committed to the reform school in Vergennes. In 1915 "juvenile delinquency" was legally defined to include such offenses as school truancy, associating with "disreputable persons," using vulgar language, and "wandering around the streets at night."

It is unclear how long the Hazard children remained in the industrial school.  As young adults, Frederick and Rachel moved into their older brother’s home in Winchester, New Hampshire, where their mother also resided.  In his early years in NH, Frederick found work doing general labor but soon found a permanent position with the NH State Highway Department. 

On February 27, 1936, at the age of 28, Frederick married Emily Marion Jocylin in Troy, New York.  The couple continued to live in Winchester, NH. Seven years later, in 1943, their daughter Marcia Jean Hazard was born in Winchester, NH.  

By the 1950s, Frederick, Emily, and Marcia Hazard had moved to Swanzey, NH, where they lived for sometime before moving, once again, to 12 Pinehurst Avenue in Keene, NH. In 1962, daughter Marcia “Mickey”  graduated from Keene High School.  Years later, she relocated to Washington state.  Marcia died September 10, 2005 in Snohomish, Snohomish County, Washington, and is buried in Winchester, NH, with her family.  

Frederick’s wife Emily H. (Bryant) Hazard died on April 13, 1968 at the age of 59.  Two years later, widower Frederick Hazard married Lucille (Hill) Beauregard on January 15, 1970.  He died in Keene in 1983 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Winchester with his family in Section Q, Lot 75.

SOURCE MATERIALS

Struthers. Evergreen Cemetery Index, Winchester, NH, 1739-2003. Historical Society of Cheshire County collections.

Find-A-Grave

Keene City Directory, 1941. Historical Society of Cheshire County collections.

New Hampshire, U.S., Vital Records, Deaths, 1968

New Hampshire, U.S., Vital Records, Marriage, 1970

Rutland Daily Herald newspaper, April 8, 1946, p.3

Rutland Daily Herald newspaper, March 22, 1958, p.2

University of Vermont. “Vermont Industrial School.” Vermont Eugenics: A Documentary History website. https://www.uvm.edu/~eugenics/vis.html

U.S. Federal Census, 1910, 1920, 1940, 1950- ancestry

Vermont Standard newspaper, February 1, 1945, p.8

Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, Births, 1908- ancestry

Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, Deaths, 1945- ancestry

World War II Draft Registration Card, 1940- ancestry

GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY

FREDERICK HENRY HAZARD, born in Woodstock, Vermont, on June 18, 1908, son of William F. and Amanda (Dunbar) Hazard. Died in Winchester, New Hampshire, in April 1983. Married in Troy, New York, on February 27, 1936 to EMILY MARION JOSELYN (white. 1909-1968). Married second in Keene, New Hampshire, on January 24, 1970 to LUCILLE R. (HILL) BEAUREGARD.  

MARCIA MARION JEAN, born in Winchester, New Hampshire, on February 7, 1943, daughter of Frederick H. and Emily (Joselyn) Hazard. Died in Snohomish, Washington on September 10, 2005.