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1899
Thomas and Josie (Josephine) Whitten McEntire built this large white frame house in 1899. They acquired the lumber from one of the local sawmills in a nearby canyon. They seasoned the lumber in the Great Salt Lake (settlers thought that seasoning lumber in this way would make it stronger). Additions or changes were made to the home in 1918.
The home is two-story frame construction, and the white exterior has since been sided over with tan vinyl veneer. Jick and Ruby Birch Hall and their family were living here in the 1950s. His son, Keith, and wife June Quigley Hall lived here for a while. Other owners include Robert R. and Glenda Smith, and Carol May.
Left: Jick and Ruby Hall in back of their Harrisville, Utah, home, ca. 1957.
Right: A 1971 photo of Jick and Ruby Hall’s home in Harrisville, Utah. They lived here together from Dec. 1947 until Jick’s death (at age 76) in Dec. 1958. Ruby stayed in the home for another 15 years, until she developed dementia and moved to Logan, Utah, 40 miles north of Ogden to live with her oldest daughter and her family.
“Before her move to Logan, Ruby’s son and daughter-in-law, Keith and June Hall, moved into the Harrisville home to help care for her as she grew older and to manage the apartments Jick had built next door (467 North Harrisville Road). After Ruby left, [Keith and June] stayed a while longer, but apparently June never really liked living there. Reflecting what June had told her, [her niece] Thelma wrote in a letter to her children, dated 16 Dec. 1974: “Uncle Keith and Aunt June have sold the 4-plex apartment on their south side and will probably sell out totally by spring. They were having lots of trouble with their tenants (3 drug raids this fall, even hitting the newspapers twice) and having such move-in, move-out problems. June has never liked the big old home. Once she told me it is considered ‘the Haunted House of Harrisville.’ She’ll never be comfortable in it.”