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Plumnelly Hardin Genealogy Page"Plum out of Georgia and nelly out of Alabama"(Revised April 10, 2007) If you have Hardin ancestors in Cherokee, Etowah, or southern Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama or in Floyd County, Georgia, you may be at the right page. Please click on the genealogy chart from Genealogy Home to look for your ancestors. This group of Hardin brothers came into Alabama in the 1830's and 1840's from Anderson, South Carolina, where their father, Aaron Hardin, Sr., owned land on Twenty-Six Mile Creek between Anderson and Pendleton. The senior Hardin, born in Virginia about 1774, had come into the Pendleton District (later Anderson County) before 1797 (He witnessed a deed there on 2 Jan 1797), and in 1805 bought 195 acres. He made fur hats for a living, likely trapping the animals himself. While living there, he and his wife (name possibly Rhonda, b. ca. 1775) had nine males and four females who lived past infancy. It has been hard to find any hints of imformation on the females. Of the males that I shall tell about, Eli, Joseph J., and Milton R. have the most tenuous connection as brothers to the rest. Nevertheless, the Hardins named below, except William, ended up in Cherokee or Calhoun counties in Alabama or adjacent Floyd County in Georgia. They all lived just about on the state line, making them all roughly contiguous.
The Cherokee County Brothers: My ancestor Aaron Hardin,(Jr.) appeared to be living with older brother William in Anderson County, South Carolina in 1830. In 1833 or 1834 that household migrated to southern Tuscaloosa County, Alabama with younger brother Asa. Asa and Aaron received land patents of 40 acres each and farmed adjacent to each other. Aaron married Adeline Alexander Holmes, quite likely a sister of Asa's wife Annis Ann Holmes. Brother William T. Hardin had married Katherine Smith back in South Carolina. He didn't receive a land patent and didn't leave much of a trail. Maybe he felt left out because his name didn't start with an "A." {grin} Times were especially hard in those years. A worldwide depression known as the Panic of 1837 was felt with unusual severity in Alabama. And there was a drought. Aaron received his patent at Hickman's on 7 November 1837 (Recorded 30 Dec 1843). Three years later he gave up, selling the mortgaged land on 12 December 1840 to go to southern Cherokee County. (He had mortgaged his crops and livestock and had nothing.) William T. and wife Catherine Smith stayed and their descendants lived at the town of Ralph many years, the area formerly called Hickman's. Going to Cherokee County around Christmas 1840, Aaron joined older brother John. John Hardin (b. 1806/5) came with his wife Sarah to the area later known as Bluffton, southern Cherokee County between 1833 and 1835. In 1830, John had been living beside his father on Twenty-Six Mile Creek in South Carolina. Asa A. Hardin sold his Tuscaloosa land to nephew Warren J., son of William T. Hardin (which see) sometime before 1850. By 1850 brothers John, Aaron, and Asa had been joined in southern Cherokee County by little brother Avery Abraham Hardin and his wife Amanda Kennedy, who were both hatters, like his father. All the others were farmers. In 1850, three brothers lived adjacent at Bluffton, with the fourth, John, being set apart about a mile east of the rest nearly on the Georgia line. Although two teen-age boys lived in Aaron's household in Tuscaloosa, neither was the right age to be Avery. Avery may have come directly from Anderson to Cherokee County. In 1859, on January 1, Avery under the name "Abraham A. Hardin" received a land patent of 40 acres at Peaks Hill, near present day Ohatchee, in what is now Calhoun County. It is there he raised his family. At least one son moved to Rome, Georgia, and Avery spent his declining days with that son. Some of Avery's descendants still live on Avery Road in Rome. Asa A. Hardin (b. 14 Mar 1814) followed a similar path to Aaron, going to Tuscaloosa and there marrying Annis Ann Holmes of Hickory Grove, SC on 6 Sep 1836. He received two land patents of forty acres each adjacent to Aaron, one on 7 Nov 1837 and the other on 20 Sep 1839. (Other researchers report the first patent was recorded on 10 Nov 1835, making Asa the first to settle in Tuscaloosa County.) Asa held on in Tuscaloosa past 1840, and is found in Cherokee County's 1850 census. Eli Hardin was the first of the group to settle at Coosa, Georgia -- between 1838 and 1839. In 1840 he lived at Coosa. He married Jane Bolt on 2 Feb 1832 in South Carolina. Slightly younger than Eli, a mystery T. Hardin lived 6 houses away from Eli Hardin in 1840. The family was made up of a woman 20-30, a young man 15-20, a girl 5-10, and a boy under 5. The young man is too young to be the merchant A. Tabor Hardin. Joseph J. Hardin came directly to Coosa, Georgia between 1842 and 1844. In 1840 he lived in Laurens County, SC among three Bolt families. He married the sister of Jane--Amy Bolt, b. 1814 in South Carolina. In 1850 he was at Coosa, Floyd County, Georgia. Joseph, Eli, and Milton, the three supposed brother living in Coosa, were joined by Aaron Hardin relocating across the Coosa River sometime before September 1847. On that date Aaron married Mary Ann Calhoun, whose family lived at Coosa, after his first wife Adeline Holmes died in July 1845. It is not proven that Joseph, Eli, and Milton are brothers, or that the other more likely brother are brothers to them. According to a 2005 DNA test comparing a descendant of Eli Hardin to a descendant of Aaron Hardin (Jr.), there is a 55% chance Eli and Aaron are brothers. There is also a 55% chance they are first cousins. Tuscaloosa County Hardins: Case for William T. Hardin (b. ca. 1800, Pendleton District, S.C.) as brother #1: He has all the qualifications above stated -- he lived in the same township and beat as Aaron and Asa; his son Warren J. bought the land Asa had settled at Hickmans, as the area was known in the 1800's. Of course his age fits son #1 of Aaron Hardin, Sr. William T. Hardin was a veteran of the War of 1812. He owned land in Pendleton District from December 1826 to January 1831, he had an unmarried man living with him of Aaron, Jr's age, and he is believed to have lived for awhile in Franklin County, Georgia before going to Tuscaloosa. The first record of his appearance in Tuscaloosa was July 29, 1834. Children of Aaron Hardin, Sr. by circumstantial evidence. (Revised 2 Dec 2003) Brother 1: William T. b. abt. 1800, settled in Tuscaloosa, m. Catherine Smith. Sister 2: Unknown, b. (1804-10) Sister 3: Unknown, b. (1817-20) Sister 4: Unknown, b. (1815-20) |
William Franklin Hardin and Z. Lizzie Howard. Children L. to R., Julia, Emma, Lauson, about 1894.
Photo supplied by grandson of Emma, J.T. Bishop of Rome, Ga.
George Washington Hardin 1853-1922
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Tallapoosa County, Ala. (seat Alexander City)
Rafe Hardin, b. about 1800, and his wife Mary, b. about 1810 were both born in N. Carolina. In 1860 they were living in the Western Division (Beat B) of the county. They migrated to Alabama before 1833, because son William N. (according to Civil war record)(or William M., 1860 census) was b. in Alabama that year. William married Harriet L., b. about 1836 in Ala. William joined the Confederate 47th Infantry, Company C, which mustered at Loachapoka, Ala. on Apr. 30, 1862, and was killed before Oct. 20, 1863. On that date his widow Harriet L. filed for death benefits. She lived at the time c/o A. D. Sturdivant in Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., Ala. W. L. Hardin from Tallapoosa Co. also joined Co. C, enlisting Apr. 9, 1862. (Possibly the son William and Sarah Hardin, below.)
Allen Hardin, was also in Tallapoosa County, this one in Beat 4 in the year 1860. (Twp. 20 in 1850.) He was born in S. Carolina about 1800. His wife Martha was b. about 1810 in Georgia. They gave their children colorful names like Napoleon, Missouri, and America. Their children were being schooled.
David Hardin b. 1800 and wife Elizabeth b. 1804, both in S. Carolina. In 1850 they lived in Twp. 20. They came to Alabama between 1843 and 1846 according to their children's birthplaces. In 1850 a farmer names William Goldsmith, 20, lived with them.
Elijah Hardin, b. 1775 in S. Carolina and wife Sarah, b. 1785 in S. Carolina, lived in twp. 21 in 1850 with Elizabeth, 48 and Caroline, 21. Beside them lived another Elijah Hardin (probably a son) and wife Elizabeth, both b. 1820 in S. Carolina.
Livy Hardin, b. 1803 in S. Carolina and wife Mary, b. 1802 in Scotland lived some years in Georgia before moving to twp. 21 of Tallapoosa County. Their oldest child at home, William, was b. 1827 in Georgia. They moved to Alabama between 1835 and 1840, according to their children's birthplaces.
William Harden and wife Sarah, both were b. 1811 in S. Carolina. They lived in twp. 20 in 1850. They moved from S.C. to Ala. between 1836 and 1838, according to their children's birthplaces. Their son William, b. 1840, may have joined the Confederate army's 47th Infantry, Co. C.
Martin and Prella Hardon, were both born 1817 - he in S. Carolina and she in Georgia. Their children were b. in Alabama. They lived in twp. 20 in 1850. Son Alexander Hardin (1848-1916) migrated in 1859 to Union Parish, La. A.H., as he was known, son of Martin Harden and Arcy Parilla Hart, married Ella Jane Cogburn, El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas. His death notice in the Groesbeck Journal, Texas, said he had 9 children of which 4 were still living at the time, and 2 brothers surviving him. His parents apparently died in Union Parish, Louisianna. Researcher Sue Hughs finds the Martin Harden family in the 1860 Census of Union Parish, the AH Hardin family in the 1880 Limestone County, Texas census, the Marriage of AH and Ella Cogburn in Union Co., Ark. (Partial Marriage Listing - "H-I" / Union County Marriage Records - Grooms.) He moved to Limestone County, Texas in 1876.
Hall County, Georgia
Aaron B. Hardin (b. 1808/7) is found in Hall County, Georgia on the 1830 census. That one is not my ancestor, as I previously thought. As a side note, however, here are some facts I discovered about the Hall County Hardins: Though I have established no kinship to them, David Harden, b. on or before 1775, and John Harden, b. 1775-1794, lived in Hall County with their families in 1820. As early as July 1817, a William Harden squatted in Indian territory between Stone Mounain and the Chattahoochee River (present day Atlanta), according to an informal census by H. Montgomery in a report to the governor of Georgia. The Hall County Aaron B. Hardin is found at age 19 teaching poor school children in that county, a job he did for seven years. At age 20 he was also a major in the militia, and at age 21 was the sheriff of Hall County. He married Mary Ann Barnwell on 19 October 1830 at age 22, and was discharged from the militia on June 15, 1836. He is found teaching school in Calhoun County, Alabama in 1850.
Ashe County, NC
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