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Last Modified: May 2013
Created: January 2004

*JOHN HARDY
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BORN: 1809 in Henry County, Virginia 1 6 8 28 31
DIED: 1889 in Georgia 1 31
BURIED: New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia 1 31
PARENTS: Both born in Virginia. His father may have been Joseph or Charles Hardy. 8 28
MILITARY SERVICE: He was a veteran of the war between the state. 1
OCCUPATION: Farmer 1 6 8
MARRIAGE: Sarah S. Pedigo (1810 or 1815 Virginia-1899) "Sally" on May 24, 1827 in Henry County, Virginia, by Othniel Minter. 1 6 8 15 26 28 31

CHILDREN
NAME BORN DIED SPOUSE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTES
Martha Jane HARDY 26 1828 Henry County, VA
Nancy E. HARDY 1 26 1829 Henry County, VA 1 A. J. Hill about 1859 1
Elijah Pedigo HARDY Jan. 16, 1831 Henry County, VA May 14, 1903 Carter Co., OK Clarissa Stultz 3 Served in Confederacy. Moved to Utah. Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma 31
Joseph F. HARDY 1836 Henry County, VA Mary Jane Tench 1+ 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 Henry County, VA Jan. 28, 1900 Mary Ann Ivie 5 Buried: Level Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Cornelia, Georgia 31
Sarah P. HARDY (Sally) 1843 or 1844 Henry County, VA William Hill 6
John D. or P. HARDY 1846 Henry County, VA 1869 Mary E. King 1
Eliza Susan HARDY 1 6 26 Apr. 14, 1849 Henry County, VA 1 6 Apr. 22, 1922 in Alamosa Co., CO 31 Wiley Foster King 1 31 Wiley is the son of Nancy Avaline Ivie and William Curry King.
Buried in Alamosa Municipal Cemetery, Alamosa, Alamosa Co., Colorado.
Find-A-Grave 31
James Owen HARDY 1851 or 1853 Henry County, VA 1) Onna Tomlin
2) Rebecca Dillashaw
1
5
Thomas Jefferson HARDY 1852 or 1854 Henry County, VA Lillian Isabell 2

RESIDENCES: Henry County, Virginia in 1830, 1850, until 1858. All the children were born there. 1 28 30
Franklin County, Virginia in 1840 28 30
Habersham County, Georgia in 1858. 1 6 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
6 1860 Census - Habersham 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
31 Find-a-Grave -John Hardy, New Hope Cemetery, Cornelia, Habersham County, GA