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| Birth |
est Aft 1890 |
| Sex |
Male |
| Died |
Y |
| Person ID |
I386 |
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| Last Modified |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Father |
Oliver Waitman Orr HARDMAN, b. est Bef 1870 |
| Mother |
Lydia Ann PETERSON, b. est Bef 1870 |
| Group Sheet |
F195 |
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| Family 1 |
Mabel HOWARD, b. est Aft 1893 |
| Married |
Y [2] |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
09 Dec 2008 |
| Group Sheet |
F155 |
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| Notes |
- The Hardman family is old and prominent in the Virginias. Joseph Hardman, founder of the family in America, came from Germany via England about 1750. He was neighbor and associate of George Washington and a soldier of the Revolution. Joseph Hardman married Dorcas Riddel. Ha died at Reedy, Roane County, age 96. His daughter Nancy married first a Parsons and second a Kearn. His son James married Phoebe Cunhingham, his son Thomas married Rebecca Goff and his son George Washington married Rachel Goff, His son Benjamin once lived at Smithville, but died at Reedy, He married Sara Leah Cunningham. James Hardman, son of Joseph, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and George Washington Hardman, son of Joseph, was a major in the Mexican War of 1847. M. L. Hardman lived on the old Hardman homestead of 600 acres on Skin Creek in Lewis County. He was the son of Marcillus, the son of H.D. and Mary West Hardman, born on Hacker's Creek in 1803. Sophia Hardman married Robert C. Orr and theiir children were Harriet Ann who married Hiram Underwood, Amanda who married Richard Williams, Alstorpheus and William Harrison. Lewis county was formed out of Harrison in 1816, and Ritchie from Wood, Harrison and Lewis in 1843. Doddridge was created from Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie and Lewis in 1845.
The Hardmans are now rather numerous in Harrison, Lewis, Gilmer, Clay, Calhoun and Roane Counties. Among the more prominent is Thomas Porter Hardman, Dean of the College of Law of West Virginia University. [Conaway FH]
In 1826, Jacob Cornell sold 28 acres purchased by him from William Wells to Joseph Ankrom of said Greene County and in 1830, he sold to Hiram Sweeney, also of Greene County, and in 1843, Waitman Furbee, of the Delaware Furbees, sold him 3-1/2 acres. Lots 7 and 8 in McDonaldsville, sold to 0. C. Sweeney in 1896, eventually passed to said 0. W. 0. Hardman by tax deed. On this land stood the old Sweeney and Hardman grist mill, so long operated by Jacob Cornell, Hiram Sweeney and 0. W. O. Hardman. There in my youth lived Harrison H. Hardman, man of genius, and his mother, Amanda, and Rachel Riddle, colored, and Sallie her mother before her. The Sweeney distillery stood near the present Yoho Garage. The Grove grist mill stood on Indian Creek, on the farm now owned by Palmer 0. Nichols. The Hardman mill, the old Sweeney home, the Smith home and the Furbee and Conaway stores were all destroyed by fire. The Hardman tract is now owned by Martins who tore down the house and built again a little above the old
Home site.
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1. [S325] Conaway Family History, Conaway, Orrin Bryte, (Boston Univ Press, 1951
Xerox Copy reproduced by the library for Patty Cox and mailed to me)
2. [S325] Conaway Family History, Conaway, Orrin Bryte, (Boston Univ Press, 1951
Xerox Copy reproduced by the library for Patty Cox and mailed to me)
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