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January 2004

JOHN HARDY
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BORN: 1809 in Henry County, Virginia 1 8 28
DIED: 1889 in Georgia 1
BURIED: New Hope, Georgia 1
PARENTS: Both born in Virginia. His father may have been Joseph or Charles Hardy. 8 28
OCCUPATION: Farmer 1 8
MARRIAGE: Sarah S. Pedigo (1810 or 1815 Virginia-1899) on May 24, 1827 in Henry County, Virginia, by Othniel Minter. 1 8 15 26 28

CHILDREN
NAME BORN DIED SPOUSE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTES
Martha Jane HARDY 26 1828
Nancy E. HARDY 1 26 1829 or 1839 A. J. Hill about 1859
Elijah Pedigo HARDY 1 26 1832 Clarissa Stultz 3 Served in Confederacy. Moved to Utah. 1
Joseph F. HARDY 1 26 1836 Mary Jane Tench Served in the Confederacy. Moved to Utah. Came back to Georgia in 1905. He would play the fiddle in the railroad station as the trains came and went. 1
William Henry HARDY Sep. 15, 1841 Jan. 28, 1900 Mary Ann Ivie
Sarah HARDY (Sally) 1 26 1843 or 1844 William Hill 6
John D. or P. HARDY 1 26 1846 1869 Mary E. King 1 - John N. HARDY (1868)
Eliza Susan HARDY 1 26 Apr. 14, 1849 Wiley F. King
James Owen HARDY 1 26 1851 or 1853 1) Onna Tomlin (1844-?) Feb. 1870
2) Rebecca Dillashaw
1 - Mary J. Hardy in 1871
5
Thomas Jefferson HARDY 1 26 1852 or 1854 Lillian Isabell 2 (Roxie and Clarkie)

RESIDENCES: Henry County, Virginia in 1830, 1850, until 1858 28 30
Franklin County, Virginia in 1840 28 30
Habersham County, Georgia in 1858. 1 8 28

NOTES: His grandson, Joe Fred Jones, remembered a Hardy family band. 1

SOURCES: 1 Joe Jones
2 Joanne Thornton
3 Jones Family Bible
4 Level Grove Cemetery in Cornelia, Habersham County, Georgia
30 1830 Census - Henry County, Virginia
31 1840 Census - Franklin County, Virginia
5 1850 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
6 1860 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
7 1870 Census - Habersham County, Georgia
8 1880 Census - Habersham County, Georgia
9 1900 Census - Habersham County, Georgia
15 Henry County, Virginia, Marriage Bonds, 1778-1849
26 Family Data Collection from Ancestry.com
28 Story of the Hardy Family: The Story of John and Sarah Pedigo Hardy of Henry County, Virginia and Habersham County, Georgia Their Family and Descendnts by Barbara L. Hardy, 1984