Grantee: Hardy, Saml H
Acres: 12
Book: 40
Survey Date: 5- 6-1852
County: Hart
WaterCourse: None
Reference: THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
Volume 1
Part 2
CHAPTER X. GRANTS IN THE COUNTY COURT ORDERS (1836-1924)
THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
page 1323
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Kentucky Land Grants
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This wonderful database contains the records of the Kentucky Land Office from 1782 to 1924. The work is intended as a source book for historical workers, genealogists and others who need a complete and chronological index to the early documentary land records and history of Kentucky. Due to the large amount of early records contained in these two volumes, The Kentucky Land Grants has been termed "the rarest book of its size, covering early Kentucky history and genealogy, to be found anywhere."
Bibliography:
Jillson, Willard Rouse. The Kentucky Land Grants, - Vol. I-II (2). Louisville, KY: Filson Club Publications, 1925
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Obituary for Samuel Hardy and G. T. Tuder.
Died, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Robert Lewis, of near Waddill, Mo. April 18th, 1901 at about 6 P.M. Eld. Samuel H. Hardy. He was born in Barren county Kentucky, July 5th, 1828. Age at death 72 years 9 months 13 days. Converted at the age of fourteen uniting with the Baptist church. His wife died many years ago. Of the seven children born to him five are dead. One son, James Hardy, and one daughter, Mrs. Mattie Lewis survive him. He was ordained to the work of the Gospel ministry June 5th, 1858 in the state of Ky. He therefore was a preacher in active service about 43 years. His ministry seemed very fruitful, especially the early part of it. I heard him say that perhaps he had baptized as many as two thousand persons. He came to Missouri about 1884 and has been a zealous worker in the cause being pastor of many churches some of which were among the largest.
He was once Moderator of Shoal Creek Association and twice preached the Introductory sermon. He was of a very sociable disposition, hence had many friends. While he was an uncompromising Baptist he possessed the ability to so preach the doctrine as to not give offense to others of different faith. He will be greatly missed in many homes, but we sorrow not as those who have no hope. We shall meet him again. We are glad his suffering was so short. It is said he visited one of the neighbors in the morning coming home at noon ate his dinner as usual and was dead at 6 that evening.
He was buried in the Macedonia cemetery in the honors of Masonary. The writer preached his funeral an account which appears in connection with other things stated below.
Died, at his home in Neosho, Mo. April 18th, 1901, George T. Tuder after an illness of many months. He was born in Boone county, Ky. September 5th, 1828, age 72 years, 7 months 13 days. He professed faith in Christ and joined the Shawnee Run Baptist Church in Mercer county, Ky. at the age of 14 years. He was married to Martha Batterton Sept. 25th. 1851, in Tiptoa county, Indiana, of which marriage there were born ten children, three of whom have gone to their reward before him. In 1867 he removed to the state of Kansas where he was called upon to give up his beloved wife to death. He removed to Newton county, Mo in 1880 and united with the Indian Creek Baptist church in August 1881 where he remained a devoted member until his death. On the 28th day of November 1892 he was again united in marriage with Mrs. Mary J. Dotson, who survives him. He leaves a sorrowing wife, three sons, four daughters and twenty - five grand children. He was a man of good influence and will be greatly missed by the church and those who knew him best. He was also buried in Macedonia cemetery. Arrangements were made to have both funerals at Macedonia church at the same hour and both funerals to be preached by the same preacher which was done from the text, Deuteronomy 34:5 while both bodies were resting in front of the pulpit and the sorrowing relatives on each side with a part of the ministry and their wives immediately in front. There were at least one thousand persons who attended this service.
If you will notice closely you will observe a strange coincidence relative to these brethren. They were both born in Ky. the same year, the same day of the month, professed religion at the same age, died the same day in the same county and state and their funeral were preached at the same place at the same hour by the same man.
Surely "God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform" May God bless all the bereaved and prepare us all to meet these brethren in heaven, where we believe they have gone.
T. L. Largen
*Source: Newton County News, Thurs April 15, 1901, page 6, col. 1, Newton County, Missouri. Copy obtained through the Newton County Historical Society.
Rev. S. H. Hardy, a minister of the Baptist Church, died on the same day as Mr. Tuder, at his home near Waddill, and the funeral services were held at the same time at Macedonia church, Rev. T. L. Largen preaching the funeral discourse for both. Mr. Hardy was also a native of Kentucky and there was only a difference of two months between his age and that of Mr. Tuder. He had lived in the county about 16 years and was at one time pastor of the Second Baptist church of Neosho. He belonged to the Masonic lodge at Stella and the Masons took part in the funeral services. The funeral of the two old and well-known citizens drew a very large crowd from all parts of the county. It was one of the largest funerals probably ever held in the county.
*Source: Neosho Times, April 25, 1901, Newton County Missouri, copy obtained through the Newton County Historical Society.
Buried at Macedonia Cemetery, Newton County, Missouri, just outside of Stella, Missouri on "O" Highway.
Information below contributed by Anne Hardy Rohr,
a descendant of Samuel Hinds Hardy and Carrie Elizabeth Stamps.
Anne Rohr
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The following is a compilation of information of the churches
in which Samuel Henry Hardy served as pastor.
BEAVER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH
About the year 1847, Henry Miller, a Baptist with his family, moved from North Carolina and settled on Elk River, about three miles north of the present village of Saratoga. Brother Miller, being an active Christian, went to work to secure a church organization, and in 1848 the organization was effected in Brother Miller's dwelling house. The church consisted of nine members whose names are: Henry Miller, Nancy Mathews, Andrew Mathews, J. R. Davis, Nancy Davis, Isaac LaMance, Susan LaMance, Ben Mathews and M. U. Howard. The ministers assisting in this organization were Elders Abraham May, who then lived on Lost Creek in Newton county; Wm. Toliver, who lived near Rock Comfort, perhaps in the edge of Barry county, and T. J. Holman, who then lived on Lost Creek, Newton county. He became the first minister and Brother M. U. Howard the first clerk. This church attached herself to the Spring River Association. The church continued to meet in Brother Miller's house till 1851, and as the county was now becoming more extensively settled, quite a number having settled on Beaver branch, the meeting time was divided and they would meet at Brother Miller's on Elk River one month, and the next month on Beaver branch. About this time Hezekiah Dobbs and wife moved from Tennessee to Missouri and joined the church by letter, and soon after, Brother Dobbs was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry and became the pastor of the church, being the only minister living in McDonald county. In 1854, the church became permanently located at Beaver Springs. The first meeting house is worthy of note. It was built of round logs sixteen feet long, and covered with Clapboards four feet long. It had a puncheon floor and one door, no window, a fireplace at one end with a wooden chimney. Here some great meetings were held, many being converted, among them being Brother James Tatum in the year 1855, who joined the church in April, 1856. In 1858 the name of the church was changed from Elk River to the present name, Beaver Springs.
The county was now becoming settled along creeks and valleys, and in many places revivals were held and many converted, but there was but one church, so the church passed an act that one ordained minister and two of the brethren could sit in church session and receive members into the church. The church increased in members and the congregations enlarged so that another house was a necessity, and in the year 1857 a house was built of hewed logs twenty-four feet long. A novel way of heating the house was resorted to. A large box, partly filled with dirt, was placed in the center, and on this dirt was laid charcoal which was burned as needed. During those days, ministers were scarce and they would travel long distances to preach, and that without pay. The church was visited and sermons preached by such ministers as May, Hollman, Givens, and Phil Anderson, a colored slave who afterward became the property of Elder Wm. Farmer, father of Dr. J.C. Farmer of Pineville. Elder Farmer gave Phil great liberty to preach and the last known of him was at Neosho preaching the gospel to the colored people. About 1860 a Sunday School was organized, consisting of two classes of girls and one of boys. They studied the Bible, having no other literature. This school was not continuous. The church has had many pastors, some of whom are Elders Dobbs, Walker Medlin, Hickston, Mosier, Stites, C. W. Chapman, Wm. Chapman, J. W. West, SAMUEL HENRY HARDY, M. G. Elliff and T. L. Largen.
The church having increased in members, the third house became a necessity. This time a neat frame house, 26 x 36 feet, was built and was thought to be large enough for all time. But, alas for the wisdom of men! The railroad penetrated the country, and with it came people; towns sprang up and with these the town of Anderson, and as the town grew, and as the county became more thickly settled, this house became too small; and in the year 1899 the house was enlarged to the present beautiful and commodious structure, being well seated and lighted and can seat nearly 400 persons. One thing worthy of note about the building of this addition is that it was built by raising money by subscription, and on the amount of nearly three hundred dollars used in this building, ever dollar, yes every cent, that was pledged was paid. The church now had twice-a-month preaching and a most excellent Sunday school with an enrollment of about 135. The church ended the year 1900 with a membership of 150. By 1906, the church had a membership of 230 and an average attendance in the Sunday School of about 100.
BETHPAGE
This is one of the oldest churches in the association, located in north-central part of McDonald county, some eight or nine miles southwest of Stella, Mo.; organized in 1850; the first meeting house was built of logs, and as the country (fifty-seven years ago) was thinly settled and the people lived at a great distance to go back and forth to every service, as people do now, they built log cabins on the ground near the meeting house, and there they would camp, and during a revival meeting would often stay most of the time for two or three weeks. The records do not show who was the first to organize this church, but one among the first members was Brother George Brock, who came to McDonald County in 1850. During the war, the log meeting house and most of the "Camp Cabins" were burnt, and after peace was declared, all meetings that were held were in brush arbors, or in the shady groves, or in school houses, or some dwelling house, for a number of years. In 1887 Elder W. J. Lett came into this community and held a revival meeting, assisted by Elder George Mosier. These meetings, with other services which followed, led to the organization of the church on June 16, 1889, by Elder G. W. Lett, who became the first pastor. SAMUEL H. HARDY was pastor of this church for seven months, and was pastor of this church at the time of his death and preached at Bethpage on Saturday and Sunday and went home and died the following Friday. The clerk writes of him that "he was old and feeble, but untiring his work." Brother Lett seems to have filled out Brother Hardy's year, and then, for some cause, the church was without a pastor for one year and eight months.
BELFAST
This church is located about six miles west of Neosho, near the Belfast Station, on the Frisco railroad, and from this station it takes its name. This church was organized May 19, 1887, by Elder Henry Stites and J. T. Winchester, Elder Stites becoming the first pastor. Among the other pastors of this church was SAMUEL HENRY HARDY. The church ownes their meeting house, which is a neat frame building 18 x 36 feet, and valued at $500, with a seating capacity of 200, which was built under the pastorate of ELDER S. H. HARDY in 1893. Their membership was twenty-five, but they had quite a good Sunday school with an average attendance of thirty. This church was surrounded by strong opposition, the Campbellite, or so-called Christian organization. This order had the balance of power in the community, perhaps having three or four times the number of Baptists.
BIG SPRINGS
Just on the south border of Oliver Prarie, about nine miles southeast of Newtonia, there is a large, beautiful spring which is really the head of one branch of Indian Creek. The spring, in the early days of Missouri, was called the Big Spring, and as the church is situated near this spring, it was named Big Springs. Thirty-four years ago when the country was new, this church was organized, in 1873, by Elder A. V. Greer, who became the first pastor, and the succeeding pastors have been, H. C. Howard, Joseph Walker, T. L. Largen, B. F. McCombs, SAMUEL H. HARDY, J. A. Swiger, J. M. Anderson, N. M. Whittington. They own their meeting house, a neat frame building 30 x 40 feet, valued at $600. It will seat about 150. Membership is sixty one, and they have a very good Sunday school, with an average attendance of forty. Although this church is located in a good community, it seems to have a hard struggle to succeed; it seems to make but little progress. Where the trouble is, it is hard to tell, unless there is a lack of consecration upon the part of the members.
*Source:
History of Shoal Creek Association", as found in the USGenWeb archives. CNIDR Isearch-cgi 1.20.06 (File: histchur.txt)
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Letter of Ordination for Samuel Henry Hardy, typed as written
from the original letter.
"The United Baptist Church at Rockspring in Barren County Ky having called for ministerial aid to asist in the ordination of Brother Samuel H. Hardy, to the Christian Ministry, On Saturday the 5th day of June 1858. Elders William Ridd, Gat C Rush and James Brooks met with said Church and after a sermon by Elder Kidd from the commision as ________ _______ by St. Mark, and a relation of his Christian experience and call to the Ministry by the candidate proceded to ordaine our beloved brother Samuel H. Hardy to the Gospel Ministry.
Given under our hands this 5th June 1858.
James Brook
Wm. Kidd
Gat. C. Rush (The "Gat" is almost unreadable)
(The original letter belongs to Thomas Hinds Wilson who was kind enough
to allow me to bring it home and copy it for my records.
Thomas Hinds Wilson is a great great grandson of the Rev. Samuel Henry Hardy.)
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CHURCH MEMBERSHIP LETTER FOR SAMUEL HENRY HARDY:
(Copied from the original, which belongs to Thomas Hinds Hardy)
United Baptist Church at New Hope Laclede Ct. Mo
This is to certify that Eldcer S. H. Hardy is a member of our Church in good standing and full fellowship;
and at his request is hereby Dismissed from us when joined to another Church of same faith.
Done by order of the Church at its regular meeting October 1888.
Eld A. H. Hawkins, Mod
W. W. Edwards Clk
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Letter of Recommendation for Samuel Henry Hardy from 1884 from the New Hope Church, copied from the original, which is owned by Thomas Hinds Hardy. (Copy of said letter in my files.)
Whereas our beloved Pastor S. H. Hardy having the this day tendered his resignation as Pastor of our church New Hope; in Lacled county, Mo: and is going into another field of labor; we the Church assembled feel it our duty as well as pleasure to recommend Bro. Hardy to any and all of our Brethren & Sisters of our Denomination; And to all whom it may concern; We esteem Bro. Hardy as a faithful & worthy minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and an earnest Defender of the faith once delivered to the saints. Done by order of the church at the regular August meeting 1884.
G. W. Fulford and
J. A. Edwards
Committee
W. W. Edwards
Clk.
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(Letter of Recommendation for Samuel Henry Hardy...date missing from
the top. This was typed word for word from the original which belongs
to Thomas Hinds Wilson, great great grandson of Samuel Henry Hardy.
Copy of said letter in my files. The date is contained in the body of the letter
even though it is missing from the top portion.)
Green County Ky Sept the 3rd Sunday 1882
The United Baptist Church of Christ at New Salem hereby certify that Brother Samuel H. Hardy is a member of our Church in full fellowship and in good standing with us and is hereby dismissed when joined to another church of the same faith and order.
Done by Order of this Church.
Rev. S. H. Hardy, Minister
J. B. Montgomery, Church Clk
We take pleasure in recommending ur mutch easteemed Brother S. H. Hard from our long aquantance and bin Pastor of our church for near aleven years we belieave him to be a gentalman and a Christan and a Sound Minister of the Gospel.
Done by Order of the Church this day and date above stated.
J. B. Montgomery, Church Clk
Information below contributed by Rev. Dean H. Lewis, great-grandson of Samuel Henry Hardy and Priscilla Tribble Owen, grandson of Mattie Lee Hardy and Robert Lee Lewis.
August 15, 2004
Rev. Dean H. Lewis
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A CHRONICLE OF THE LIFE OF ELDER (REV.) SAMUEL HENRY HARDY
Samuel Henry (S.H.) Hardy was born in Barren County, Kentucky in 1828, the son of James Greene Hardy and Elizabeth Edwards. He was married in 1846 or 1847 to Priscilla Tribble Owen of Hart County, Kentucky. She and five of their seven children died prior to his own death. S. H. Hardy was ordained to the Gospel Ministry in the Baptist Church in 1858 and served churches in Hart, Barren and Green counties in Kentucky until 1882, when he moved to Southwest Missouri, first to LaClede County and then to Newton County. After almost twenty years of faithful service to many churches in the Shoal Creek Baptist Association, he died at the home of his daughter Mattie Lee Hardy Lewis in 1901. He was a noted evangelist and much-loved preacher. It was said that he baptized 2000 souls in his ministry, notably including Robert Lee Lewis, the adult husband of his daughter, Mattie Lee. He was a Mason and was described as “of a very sociable disposition….a large man who wore a beard.” Elder Samuel H. Hardy is buried in the Macedonia Cemetery outside Stella, Missouri.
Birth and Early Life of Samuel Henry Hardy
Samuel Henry Hardy was born on July 5, 1828 in Barren County, Kentucky, the eighth child and third son of James Greene Hardy and Elizabeth Edwards. He was thus surrounded by seven older siblings in what must have been a lively household: Henrietta, 14 years old; Hester Ann, 12 years old; Rebecca, 11 years old; Elizabeth Amelia, 10 years old; James Lawrence, 8 years old; Mary Snead, 6 years old; and Jasper Newton, 4 years old.
He was born into families with several generations of life in America, at least three generations in Kentucky after pioneering westward from Virginia through North Carolina into Kentucky. Both his Hardy and Edwards ancestors were devoted adherents to the Baptist faith and the men were very active in the leadership and governance of the congregations to which they belonged. His great-grandfather Thomas Hardy had come into the Blue Spring Grove from Virginia in the late 1790’s with his wife Mary Isham. (Some reports claim Thomas as a Revolutionary War veteran, but I am unsure of this). Their son and Samuel Henry’s grandfather, Isham Hardy and his wife Polly Snead, had followed them from Pittsylvania County, Virginia a few years later. Isham Hardy was one of the first Magistrates of Hart County and kept the first school in the area at Rock Spring, the famous “Hardy School.” (The Hardy land holdings in the Blue Spring Grove straddled the boundary between Hart County and Barren County.) Their son and Samuel Henry’s father, James Greene Hardy, born in Virginia in 1795, came with them as a young boy. James Greene Hardy was farming about 300 acres when S. H. was born, mostly bought from his father Isham shortly after James G.’s marriage to Elizabeth Edwards in 1814. He later took over the Hardy School from his father and was widely known both as a political orator and Baptist leader. He was a Colonel in the Kentucky State Militia and had been a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives since election in 1827 at the age of 32. It was written of James G. Hardy that “he had no superior in the state as a debater.”
Elizabeth Edwards, the mother of Samuel Henry, was the granddaughter of Captain Cader Edwards, who had settled in Baltimore in 1750 after a career as a sea captain. There he married Mary (Elizabeth?) Gordon and shortly after moved to the frontier, first to the headwaters of the James River and then to the Holston settlements in Tennessee. Cader in his seventies attempted unsuccessfully to enlist in the Continental Army and, according to family narratives, went some years later with his son Alexander and the Tennessee Militia under the command of Isaac Shelby to the Battle of Kings Mountain. (I have not found documentary evidence of this Revolutionary War service.) After Cader died in Tennessee, his widow and children went to Kentucky with Henry Skeggs, one of the Long Hunters who had been a friend of Cader Edwards. Alexander Edwards, the son of Captain Cader Edwards and the father of Elizabeth, had married Rebecca Noblett of French Huguenot descent through Ireland and Pennsylvania to North Carolina. In June of 1799, Alexander moved with his family, including six-year old Elizabeth, to 200 acres on Bear Creek in Barren County. Thomas Hardy, Alexander Edwards and Isham Hardy were prominent in the leadership of neighboring Baptist congregations in Kentucky and it is therefore quite probable that James G. Hardy and Elizabeth Edwards had come to marriage after having grown up together in that Baptist fellowship environment.
Samuel Henry Hardy thus grew up in a household steeped in frontier Baptist faith and the example of constant civic involvement. His father was a Democrat in a Whig District and his elections to the State Legislature year after year were attributed to his oratorical skill and strategic political instincts. His wide involvement in Baptist matters in the region undoubtedly widened his political base when election time came around. It was said of James G. that he was an honest man and always conducted his campaigns like a gentleman. A political opponent and neighbor wrote that he “was generally conceded to be the best off hand public speaker in the Green River country.” The home must have been a crossroads of lively political conversation and planning as well as theological talk and church politics conversation among visiting pastors and lay leaders. Added to the spillover from James G.’s life as an educator, it would have been a stimulating environment for a young boy.
A baby sister joined the family on May 6, 1830 when Lucetta Perrin Hardy was born. Not long after that birth, Samuel H. and his brothers and sisters lost their mother. Elizabeth Edwards Hardy died sometime after the 1830 Census and before October 14, 1833 when James G. Hardy married Eliza Jennings Smith, the widow of William Smith. Her death would have come almost certainly by 1832 or very early in 1833 since there would have been an interval of several months or a year or more before James. G. married again. At any rate, scarcely five years old, Samuel Henry not only had to deal with the death of his mother but also the arrival of a step-mother accompanied by four children of her own. The already bustling household now contained an even dozen children ranging from age 18 down to age two. However, two more were to be added. Thomas J. Hardy was born to James G. and Eliza in September 1834 when Samuel H. was six years old; Martha Ann Hardy in March of 1838 when S. H. was nearly ten. This “baby sister” became known as Miss Matt and must have been a favorite of S. H. The daughter in whose home he died in 1901 was named Mattie Lee.
Though there are no confirming records, we can assume that Samuel H. attended the Hardy School, taught by his father, for his elementary education. James G. was one of the organizing trustees of the Blue Spring Seminary near nearby Hiseville when it was chartered in 1834, but there is no indication that Samuel H. attended that seminary or any other “high school” in the area. His later reputation for persuasive preaching indicates that he must have absorbed a certain kind of rhetorical education from his father. We can imagine that as Samuel H. grew into his teens, he would have accompanied his father to campaign rallies and political debates as well as to the visits James G. is reported to have made from time to time to several Baptist churches in the area to help settle disputes over doctrine or morals. He would, of course, also have worked on the farm, with the family labor force augmented by the five slaves that Eliza Smith brought to the marriage in 1833.
On March 6, 1845, at the age of 16, Samuel Henry Hardy joined the Rock Spring Baptist Church “by experience.” Today we would say that he had a “born again conversion experience.” That must have pleased his father and his grandfather, Isham Hardy, very much. His younger sister Lucetta joined a few days later, on March 14, 1845, also “by experience.” This would indicate that the context of their conversions was probably a revival meeting.
The houses of Isham Hardy and his son James G. Hardy were adjacent, though Isham lived in Hart County and James G. in Barren County. The Rock Spring Baptist Church was just across the road, built on land given by James G. In the next three years, Samuel H. lost his older brother Jasper Newton in 1846 and his grandfather Isham in 1848. The death of his “big brother” Jasper Newton, four years older, must also have been a deeply felt loss. S. H. named his first son after him.
Samuel Henry Hardy and Priscilla Tribble Owen in Kentucky
There are very few documentary records of the early years of Samuel H. Hardy’s adult life in Kentucky. In the first years after his marriage he may have farmed land owned by his father. The 1850 Census, taken two or three years after his marriage, records him and his family in Barren County, but the obituary for his son James Green Hardy states that he was born in Hart County in 1856. The record of Kentucky Land Grants indeed shows that Samuel H. Hardy was granted 12 acres of land in Hart County, not on a watercourse, surveyed on May 6, 1852. That presumably became the family home place.
Samuel Henry Hardy and Priscilla Tribble Owen were married in 1846 or 1847, most probably in Hart County. Ramona Burr, a great-great granddaughter of Samuel H. and Priscilla, has the date of June 5 for their wedding, with the year 1847 noted with a question mark. The June 5 date may be confused with the June 5 date of Samuel H. Hardy’s ordination some ten years later.
Priscilla was descended from Joseph Owen and Priscilla Tribble, who were married in Halifax County, Virginia on November 22, 1790. Joseph Owen was the son of David Owen and Sarah Wilkins; Priscilla Tribble was born in Virginia about 1768 to Peter Tribble and his wife Esther. Priscilla Tribble Owen was the daughter of Joseph Owen and Priscilla Tribble’s son, William Peter Owen, and Tabitha Leach whose farm was in Hart County. Priscilla was born January 28, 1827 with a twin sister Sarah Jane Owen. Peter Owen was born in Virginia on September 9, 1794 and died September 2, 1857. Tabitha Leach Owen was born in Virginia on June 28, 1795 and died August 28, 1843. They were married on December 19, 1816. They are buried in a family plot known as the Leach Burying Ground in the Hardy Valley near Munfordville.
Samuel H. and Priscilla’s first child, a daughter named Tabitha, was born on September 30, 1847. If their marriage date was indeed June 5, that would indicate that the year may have been 1846. If the wedding had been a matter of “necessity” in 1847, it would seem that they would have married before the sixth month of Tabitha’s pregnancy. A second daughter, Jane M., was born in 1849. A third daughter, Armilda Susan, joined the family in 1852. Their first son, Jasper Newton was born on March 20,1853.
The 1850 Census for Barren County, Kentucky records Samuel H. Hardy as a 21 year-old farmer born in Kentucky. Priscilla is recorded as being 23 years old, also born in Kentucky. Their first-born child, daughter Tabitha, born on September 30, 1847, was 2 years old; and baby Jane M. Hardy is recorded as being eleven months of age.
Samuel H. Hardy’s father, James Greene Hardy, died on July 16, 1856, while serving as the Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky. Samuel H. was 28 years old and James G. was only 61 years of age. The cause of death was noted in his obituary in these words: “Soon after the beginning of the session of the last Legislature, he was attacked with an affection of the brain from which he never recovered and of which he died.” In the record of the sale of James G. Hardy’s estate, Samuel H. is listed as having bought a cotton wheel, a syringe, and a walnut bureau. (I presume the walnut bureau went to Missouri with the family in 1882 but was lost in the fire that destroyed the home of Robert Lee Lewis and Mattie Lee Hardy Lewis in the middle of the 1910-1920 decade.)
A second son was born to Samuel H. and Priscilla on August 1, 1856, barely two weeks after James G.’s death. They named him James Greene Hardy. A third son, John L. was born on November 15, 1858 but died on September 25, 1861 before his third birthday.
On September 8, 1856, James G. Hardy’s widow, Minerva, “In consideration of…..certain personal property belonging to said James G. Hardy” which had been surrendered to her, relinquished “all claim of every kind upon the estate either real or personal of the said James G. Hardy decd.” in favor of his ten children, named in the instrument. (James G. Hardy had married Minerva K. Guffy on September 27, 1848 after the death of his second wife, Eliza Jennings Smith on January 11, 1848.) Thus, S. H. inherited a share in the land that had belonged to his father.
A momentous turn in the life of Samuel Henry Hardy was just around the corner. On June 5, 1858, he was ordained to the gospel ministry in the United Baptist Church at Rock Spring. He was 30 years old. I have not discovered any information about the motivation for this vocational decision. His father, a Baptist leader so widely acclaimed that he is one of the few laymen included in The History of Kentucky Baptists, had been dead for two years. Who knows how often James G. may have mentioned the possibility of ordination to his son? It is quite possible that Samuel H. had already been preaching here and there as a layman when it seemed to him there was a call to “full-time Christian service.” I cannot help but believe that those three generations of fierce Baptist Hardy genes must have had something to do with it. The event of his ordination is recorded thusly:
The United Baptist Church at Rockspring in Barren County Ky having called for ministerial aid to assist in the ordination of Brother Samuel H. Hardy to the Christian Ministry, On Saturday the 5th day of June 1858. Elders William Kidd, Gat. C. Rush, and James Brooks met with said Church and after a sermon by Elder Kidd from the commission as ______ by St. Mark and a relation of his Christian experience and call to the Ministry by the candidate proceded to ordaine our beloved brother Samuel H. Hardy to the Gospel Ministry
Given under our hands this 5th June 1858
James Brooks Wm Kidd Gat. C. Rush
The only records I have found of his ministerial service in Hart County or Barren County would seem to indicate that he may have served as an itinerant evangelist in addition to being a settled pastor of a congregation. Both these records are in fact of service in those counties after Samuel H. and the family moved to Green County in 1865. First, the history of the Knox Creek Baptist Church in Hart County shows S. H. Hardy as one of the Messengers to the associational meeting in 1867. He is identified as the pastor. I have a copy of a photograph of an associational meeting at the Knox Creek Church but it is not dated so I do not know if S. H. may be among the large number gathered. It may well have been taken in 1867. The Knox Creek records show seven Messengers in that year rather than the two or three that are usual. That could be because Knox Creek was the host church for the meeting.
The second record relates to service to the Three Springs Baptist Church in Barren County. The Three Springs Baptist Church had been constituted in 1823 with 12 members when Isham Hardy and his family, along with others, withdrew from the Green River Baptist Church. (The Three Springs Church was a “Hardy Church.” Isham Hardy represented the congregation in Association meetings in fifteen of the years between 1824 and 1841.) The History of Three Springs Baptist Church notes:
This church has been useful in contending for the faith once delivered to the saints. Though at times it has been the scene of some very distressing trials within and without. At the rise of Campbellism the members were somewhat divided, some going off with the new order. Thus battling along for truth, some time enjoying the evidence of Divine favor, at other times groping along in gloom until the war, at which time the organization went down. No regular meetings for four or five years. Bros. J. H. Hardy and Samuel H. Hardy conducted a meeting for several days which was blessed of the Lord in the conversion of many souls. The old church was re-organized and the new converts joining gave renewed hopes. The number of her members has more than doubled since the reorganization.” (Emphasis added.)
Since this revival meeting took place after the Civil War, it would have been after Samuel H. and Priscilla had moved to Green County in 1865.
The seventh and final child born to Samuel H. and Priscilla arrived on December 28, 1862. They named her Mattie Lee Hardy. I have noted that I think she may have been named for S.H.’s little half-sister who had been named Martha but was known as “Miss Matt.” There is no indication that Mattie Lee was named anything but Mattie – no Martha appears anywhere. Mattie Lee Hardy married Robert Lee Lewis in 1885 in Missouri and is my grandmother.
On December 3, 1865, Samuel H. and Priscilla T. Hardy sold their share of the land inherited from James Greene Hardy to S. H.’s younger sister Lucetta and her husband Edward Steele Edwards for $200 in cash and a promissory note for $100. S. H. and Priscilla were recorded as living in Hart County. Lucetta and E. S. Edwards bought out the other heirs and built their own fine home on the land. (I have a picture of it shortly after it was built, but it is now sadly fallen into ruins.)
Probably because of a Call to a new pastorate, he had decided to move the family to Green County. There are fortunately more records of their life there in the years before he moved to Missouri in 1882.
Samuel H. Hardy and Priscilla Owen Hardy and Family in Green County, Kentucky
On January 30, 1865, Samuel H. Hardy bought a tract of land in Green County, Kentucky from R. V. Vaughn and his wife Martha. It is recorded that they were “all of the County of Green and the State of Kentucky.” The land was “on the waters of the Green River…part of the tract that Charles Martin lived and died on, that part of said land that was allotted to Lucinda Martin, Charles Martin’s widow.” The tract contained 62 ¼ acres and is described as beginning on the south side of the Greensburg road and was bordered by land held by R. V. Vaughn and J. B. Montgomery.
Though S. H. was said to be in Green County, it is probable that he and the family were in fact just moving there from their home in Hart County. The price for the Vaughn tract was “three hundred dollars in hand paid and secured to be paid, two hundred dollars cash in hand paid the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged; also one note on E. S. Edwards for one hundred dollars which note is assigned to the said R. V., Vaughn.” This of course matches precisely the price he had received from E. S. Edwards the preceding month for the land in the Blue Spring Grove in Barren County. There is no mention of S.H.’s wife Priscilla in the deed.
On that new home place, on March 12, 1868, S. H. and Priscilla’s daughter Mary J. (Janie) was married to William D. Montgomery, the next-door neighbor son of J. B. Montgomery. It was the first marriage for both; she was eighteen and he was twenty-two. The record says that she was born in Barren County and that her father and mother were also. (This is in error – Priscilla was born in Hart County.)
The 1870 Census for Green County has the family name spelled Hardie, with Priscilla’s name spelled Precilla. Samuel H. is shown to be a minister by profession, with property holding of $1000 in real estate and $800 in personal belongings, respectable amounts in comparison with others nearby. The children were listed as follows: Tabitha, 22; Armilda S., 18; Jasper, 17; James G., 13; and Mattie L., 7. (Janie, of course, was married.) The occupational status of both Jasper and James G. was noted as “works on farm,” so it is clear that Samuel H. continued to farm as well as preach.
S. H. and Priscilla’s oldest daughter, Tabitha E., married William Henry Embry on January 8, 1871. The wedding undoubtedly took place in Hart County; there is no record in Green and their daughter, Valeria Alma, was born in Horsecave, Hart County, on December 26, 1872. Tabitha died on April 20, 1877. (This information is from Tabitha’s great-granddaughter Ramona Roberts Burr.)
Four years after Janie’s marriage to William D. Montgomery, her sister Armilda was married at home to Will’s brother Joshua T. Montgomery on May 2, 1872. The records are again confusing; it is recorded that William D.’s mother and father were both born in Green County, while it is recorded that Joshua T.’s father was born in Taylor and his mother in Green. However, the two Montgomery boys were identified as brothers in 1964 by Mattie Lee Hardy Lewis’s daughter Tribbie who wrote in a letter: “Tabitha Hardy and my mother were sisters. Mother was the youngest of Samuel Hardy’s children. She had two more sisters, Janie and Armilda. Both married Montgomery brothers; only know their names, Will and Tom. Both girls died in Kentucky before mother came to Missouri…Do not know which married Will or which Tom.”
Tom was obviously Joshua T. He was twenty-two and Armilda (A. S. on the license) was twenty. It was the first marriage for both. In another example of the casual approach to records, both Armilda’s mother and father (S. H. and Priscilla Hardy) were said to have been born in Hart County!
The next year, 1873, was a big year for weddings in the family. On January 5, S. H. and Priscilla’s son Jasper Newton (the record looks more like Jasper A.) married Lucinda Hines. It was the first marriage for both; each was nineteen. They were married at the home of Thomas Hines, undoubtedly the father of the bride. Jasper’s birthplace is listed as Barren County as is his father’s; his mother’s place of birth is correctly identified as Hart County. Jasper signed his bond with an “X”.
Then on December 11, 1873, son James G. Hardy married Martha S. Strader, also at the home of Thomas Hines. (Other records identify Martha Strader as an orphan. She was probably adopted or cared for by the Hines family.) Both Martha and James G. were seventeen, and it was the first marriage for both. James G. and his father are shown as having been born in Barren County; his mother is Hart County. “Saml H. Hardy” is recorded as surety for the marriage bond, and I believe the signatures of both are autographs.
In 1875, “S. H. Hardy & wife Priscilla T.” sold 135 ¾ acres by survey to Edna V. McGlasson, John A. Warren and Daniel W. McGlasson. (At this time, I do not know how or when S. H. came into possession of the other 73 ½ acres.) The land was sold for $1300, $600 in cash and the balance in two equal installments without interest. The tract is described as “on the waters of the Green River, it being a part of the original survey known as the Horseley survey; beginning at a stone on the south side of the old Greensburg Road corner” and getting in several states “to a stake in the Lexington Road near New Salem meeting house, thence along said Road as it meanders….” P. T. Hardy’s name is signed with “her mark,” indicating apparently that she did not know how to write.
Without benefit of a surveyor’s counsel, I assume that this incorporates the place bought in 1865 and that it had been the home place. Son James G. was converted at age 14, around 1870, at a meeting in the New Salem Church. (The Minutes of the church are said to exist, but when I visited in 1989 no one could find them.) Why S. H. decided to move is unknown though economic need may have been a factor. At any rate, soon after, on February 24, 1875, he bought 22 acres from B. W. Ingram and his wife Elizabeth Jane for $129.50. The land appears to have been in the same general area: “on the waters the Green River; chiefly between the forks of the Lexington and the old Greensburg Roads, it being a part of Horseley’s old survey.”
One might think that S. H. had decided to devote full-time to his ministry and thus wanted less land. However, on August 17, 1875, not quite six months later, he bought 68 ½ acres “on the waters of Little Barren River…except land enough for a family graveyard for the said Davis’ from Wm. J. and Margaret A. Davis (she also signed with an X.) S. H. paid $650 in a complex transaction: $384.12 in cash; $132.94 payable to Pleasant Chadoin by August 17, 1876 with interest at 8%; and the remaining $132.94 payable to the same Mr. Chadoin with the same interest rate by August 17, 1877. Again, without a surveyor’s counsel, it would seem that this land was somewhat distant from the land purchased earlier. At any rate, the $600 cash from the McGlassons was no reinvested in land. If all the terms of these contracts were satisfied, S. H. was over $500 better off in money but over 40 acres poorer in land – land that had presumably been worked and developed during the ten years it was the family’s home. (Until these tracts are located and the way they lie can be checked out, there is no way to know if there was a farming rationale for the transactions, or if S. H. needed cash, or if old Isham’s “poor and hard run” genes just got the better of him.)
We do know that S. H. was active in his ministry. I have copies of the bonds for some two dozen marriages he performed in a two-year period in 1877-79. That was the first period in which the bond also contained a “Marriage Certificate” to be completed by the minister, so each of them contains his signature. Unfortunately, I have not yet discovered any source of church records like The History of the Shoal Creek Association that recounts his later work among Missouri Baptists, so we do not know all the details of his ministry in those years.
When the 1880 Census was taken, the Hardy household was composed of S. H., his wife Priscilla, their daughter Mattie Lee who was then eighteen years old, an eight year old grandson named S. A. Montgomery, and a laborer named Ray Honrow (Harrow?). S. A. Montgomery was the son of William D. Montgomery and Mary J. (Janie) Hardy, living with his grandparents after his mother’s death. Janie must have died in the early 1870’s, perhaps related to the birth of S. A.; William D. married his second wife, Cynthia McGlasson, on October 24, 1874. I do not know when Armilda Hardy Montgomery died. Her husband, Joshua T. Montgomery, married the second time on December 15, 1887, about five years after S. H. sent to Missouri. As noted earlier, we have Tribbie Lewis Campbells’s statement that Armilda died in Kentucky before her sister Mattie Lee went to Missouri with her father. Tribbie was writing more than sixty years after her own mother, Mattie Lee, had left Kentucky, and almost 20 years after Mattie Lee’s own death, so her recollection of the timing of Armilda’s death could well have been mistaken.
Priscilla Tribble Owen Hardy died not too long after the 1880 Census was recorded. I have not found any record of the date of her death, its cause, or the place where she is buried. There is a rough field rock in the Barren County graveyard where James G. Hardy is buried, in the line with his and other family markers, that has P. H. inscribed on it. I surmise that that this may well mark her final resting place. Priscilla’s younger sister, Susan Leach Owen who had married Burks Hardy, a cousin of Samuel Henry’s, died in October 1881 of typhoid fever; three of Susan’s children died of typhoid within a month of that date. It is apparent that an epidemic was raging and it seems probable that Priscilla died at the same time, perhaps contracting the disease while caring for her sister and the children.
All we know for certain is that Priscilla died before Samuel H. and twenty year old Mattie Lee left for Missouri in the Fall of 1882. The last record of a marriage performed by S. H. Hardy in Green County, Kentucky is September 14, 1882. The church which he had been serving as pastor for “near aleven years”, apparently since its founding in 1872, granted him a Letter on the third Sunday of September of that year:
Green County Ky Sept the 3rd Sunday 1882:
The United Baptist Church of Christ at New Salem hereby certify that Brother Samuel H. Hardy is a
member of our Church in full fellowship and in good standing with us and is hereby dismissed when joined
to another Church of the same faith and order.
Done by Order of the Church
Rev. S. H. Hardy, Minister
J. B. Montgomery, Church Clk.
We take pleasure in recommending our mutch easteemed Brother S. H. Hardy from our long aquantance and bin Pastor of our Church for near aleven years we belieave him to be a gentalman and a Christian and a Sound Minister of the Gospel.
Done by Order of the Church this day and date above stated.
On October 19, 1882, in three separate transactions, he sold out at a loss: $225 for 28 acres ($65 in cash, $80 in one year and another $80 in two years); $225 for 40 ½ acres ($65 in cash, $80 in one year and another $80 in two years ; and $70 in cash for the 22 acres on the Little Barren River. We can hope that the notes were paid as they came due.
We can assume that Samuel H., not yet 55 years old, and Mattie Lee left for Missouri shortly thereafter, saddened by their most recent loss of wife and mother, not very well off financially and hoping for better times. They must have thought also of Tabitha and Armilda and Janie and Johnny remaining in the Kentucky soil they were leaving behind them. S. H. must also have felt a wrenching sense of loss in leaving the Kentucky hills and streams where three generations of Hardy men had walked before him: his father, James Greene; his grandfather Isham whom he had know into manhood; and his great-grandfather Thomas who had come from Virginia into the Blue Spring Grove as the 1800’s arrived. It is said in the family that Mattie Lee spoke wistfully of the gentle beauty of Kentucky as long as she lived, and indeed I heard such reminiscences from my grandmother on the too few occasions I was with her as a boy.
Elder Samuel Henry Hardy in Missouri – LaClede and Newton counties
LaClede County – 1882-1884
For whatever reasons Samuel H. Hardy decided to leave Kentucky, he and his daughter Mattie Lee settled first in LaClede County, Missouri. Young S. A. Montgomery remained in Kentucky, probably with his father or another of the numerous Montgomery clan. S. A. also became a Baptist minister and shows up in many Kentucky church records.
S. H. and Priscilla’s son and Mattie Lee’s brother, James Greene Hardy and his family, must have come with them from Kentucky to Missouri. James G.’s obituary in 1923 notes that “Mr. Hardy and wife came to Missouri in 1882 and lived in LaClede County one year, coming then to Newton County and settling on a farm near Stella, where they lived until 1892. They moved to Elm Springs at that time and lived there until the time of his death.” (The obituary goes on to note that “Deacon Hardy, as he was so often called, was a devout Christian and was always at his post of duty in his church work until illness prevented his going.”)
Although we do not know for certain why Samuel H. and Mattie went to LaClede County, we do know that his cousin Zechariah Hardy had moved to a nearby county with his family some years before. Zechariah was married to Sarah Jane Owen, who was the twin sister of the recently deceased wife and mother of S. H. and Mattie Lee. Other Hardy and Owen and Edwards families had also moved from Kentucky to that area of Missouri.
The family tradition is that Mattie Lee taught school there before they moved on farther west in 1884. We do know from the following record that S. H. became pastor of a church in LaClede County, and it could well be that he migrated because his family connections let him know of a ministerial opportunity there:
Whereas our beloved Pastor S. H. Hardy having this day tendered his resignation as Pastor of our church, New Hope, in LaClede county Mo; and is going into another field of labor; we the church assembled feel it our duty as well as pleasure to recommend Bro. Hardy to any and all of our Brethern and Sisters of our Denomination; and to all whom it may concern; we esteem Brother Hardy as a faithful & worthy minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and an earnest defender of the faith once delivered to the saints.
Done by order of the Church at the regular August meeting 1884.
G. W. Fulford and
J. A. Edwards
Committee
W. W. Edwards, Clk
There is another somewhat curious record from the United Baptist Church at New Hope in LaClede County, dated four years later in October 1888: “This is to certify that Elder S. H. Hardy is a member of our Church in good standing and full fellowship, and at his request is hereby dismissed from us when joined to another Church of same faith.” It is signed by Elder A. H. Hawkins, Moderator and the same W. W. Edwards, Clerk. I cannot account for this, since other well-documented records place S. H. and Mattie in Newton County some years before that. Perhaps the person who copied the record from New Hope Church made a mistake in the transcription – maybe the Letter was issued in October 1884. Maybe for some reason, S. H. needed in 1888 to certify to a Church in Newton County that he was in good standing.
The records indicate that Samuel H. and Mattie moved on to Newton County, Missouri in the Fall of 1884. I do not know at this time if Samuel H. bought a place of his own or if they lived with son James G. at their “farm near Stella.”
Newton County – 1884-1901
Only a few months later, on January 14, 1885, Samuel H.’s daughter Mattie Lee married Robert Lee Lewis. Mattie Lee was 22 years old and Robert Lee was 29. Robert Lee Lewis came to Missouri from Grainger County, Tennessee in 1871 with his father and mother, George Washington Lewis and Cynthia Fulp Lewis. The family tradition is that he had gone to Texas as a young man and stayed several years – it is said that he never talked about it after his return! How did they become acquainted, court, and decide to marry in such a short time? Perhaps her brother James Greene had come to know the Lewis family and made an introduction of the two.
Elder Hardy wasted no time in becoming engaged in ministerial work. The wording of the letter of commendation from the New Hope Church in LaClede County seems to indicate that he already had a Call in Newton County. His talents were recognized from the first. Perhaps his reputation had preceded him, advertised not only by his son but by other Kentuckians who had migrated to that part of Missouri. He was the son a rather famous man, after all, a political leader and indefatigable Baptist. He was apparently an eloquent evangelist and preacher in his own right. At any rate, hardly a year after coming to Newton County, Samuel H. Hardy was elected Moderator of the Shoal Creek Baptist Association, meeting at Pleasant Grove on September 2, 1885. And on September 1, 1887, he was honored by being chosen to preach the Introductory Sermon at the Associational Meeting in Prosperity; he chose Philippians 2:16 as his text. The records show that he was again chosen to preach the Introductory Sermon at the August 30, 1894 Associational Meeting held at Neosho. His text on that occasion was Mark 5:1-16.
In the sixteen years of his ministry in Newton County, he was pastor of fourteen churches, in addition to serving on at least two occasions as District Missionary. He founded the Baptist Church of Pineville and was pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Neosho, one of the larger congregations in the Association: Pool’s Prairie; Beaver Springs; Bethpage; Belfast; Big Springs; Clear Creek; Elm Spring; Liberty; Macedonia; Mt. Zion; Neosho Second; Pleasant Hill; Pineville; Ritchey.
In the midst of this extensive record of ministerial service, tragedy again visited S. H. His son, Jasper Newton, who had also come to Missouri, died on October 7, 1892. He is buried in the Macedonia Cemetery near Stella, Missouri.
Elder Samuel Henry Hardy was pastor of the Bethpage Church when he died on April 18, 1901. He preached at Bethpage on Saturday and Sunday before his death on the following Friday. The Clerk wrote of him: “he was old and feeble, but untiring in his work.” The following obituary and account of his funeral appeared in the Newton County News of April 25, 1901, written by his friend Rev. T. L. Largen who preached the funeral service. Another well-known Kentuckian of almost the same age, G. T. Tuder, died the same day and a joint funeral service was held.
Samuel H. Hardy died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Robert Lewis of near Waddill, Mo. April 18, 1901.
He was born in Barren Co., Ky July 5, 1828. His age at death was 72 years 9 mos. And 13 days. Converted at age 14, he united with the Baptist Church. His wife died many years ago. Of the seven children born to
him, five are dead. One son, James Hardy, and one daughter, Mrs. Mattie Lewis, survive him. He was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry June 5, 1858 in the State of Kentucky. He therefore was a preacher in active service about forty-three years. His ministry seemed very fruitful, especially the early part of it. I heard him say that perhaps he had baptized as many as two thousand persons. He came to Missouri about 1884, and was a zealous worker in the cause, having been pastor of many churches, some of which were among the largest. He was an able interpreter and expounder of God’s Word. He was once a Moderator of Shoal Creek Association, and twice preached the Introductory Sermon. He was of a very sociable disposition, hence had many friends. While he was an uncompromising Baptist, he possessed the ability so to preach the doctrine as not to give offense to others of different faith. He will be greatly missed in many of our homes, but we sorrow not as those who have no hope. We shall meet him again. We are glad his suffering was so short. It is said he visited one of the neighbors in the morning, coming home at noon ate his dinner and was dead at 6 that evening.
He was buried in the Macedonia cemetery in the honors of Masonry. The writer preached his funeral, an account of which appears in connection with other things stated below.
(There follows a section on G. T. Tuder, after which the following)
He was also buried in Madeconia cemetery. Arrangements were made to have both funerals at Macedonia Church at the same hour and both funerals to be preached by the same preacher which was done from the text Deuteronomy 34:5 while both bodies were resting in front of the pulpit and the sorrowing relatives on each side with a part of the ministry and their wives immediately in front. There were at least one thousand persons who attended this service.
Sameul Hinds Hardy,, son of S. H. and Priscilla’s son Jasper Newton, carried on the tradition of his grandfather. He was ordained to the ministry in the Macedonia Baptist Church and later served as its pastor. S.H. was remembered: When Henry Hardy, a son of James Greene Hardy II died in 1904, his obituary in the Neosho Times read: “Henry was a grandson of old father Hardy, whom we all remember hearing preach the Word of God in times past.”
James Greene Hardy II, the son who survived his father, died on April 12, 1933. Mattie Lee Hardy Lewis celebrated her Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1935, an occasion I well remember. Robert Lee died that Fall; Mattie Lee lived until April 4, 1947.
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APPENDIX A
The Family of the Rev. Samuel Henry Hardy and Priscilla Tribble Owen Hardy
SAMUEL HENRY HARDY b. July 5, 1828; d. April 18, 1901
Married ca. 1846
PRISCILLA TRIBBLE OWEN b. August 28, 1827; d. ca. October 1881
Children:
Tabitha E. b. September 30, 1847; d. April 20, 1877
Janie M. b. 1849; d. ca. 1873
Armilda Susan b. October 9, 1851; d. ca. 1880
Jasper Newton b. March 20, 1853; d. October 7, 1892
James Greene b. August 1, 1856; d. April 12, 1932
John L. b. November 15, 1858; d. September 25, 1861
Mattie Lee b. December 28, 1862; d. April 4, 1947
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APPENDIX B
The Family of Mattie Lee Hardy (Lewis), Youngest Child of Samuel Henry Hardy
MATTIE LEE HARDY b. December 28, 1862; d. April 4, 1947
Married January 14, 1885
ROBERT LEE LEWIS b. January 9, 1856; d. September 13, 1935
Children:
George Hardy Lewis b. December 26, 1885; d. June 6, 1904
Cynthia Tribble Lewis b. February 11, 1887; d. July 25, 1966
Claudia Almeda Lewis b. November 21, 1888; d. 1958
Lannis Melvie Lewis b. November 18, 1890; d. June 24, 1973
Jasper Lee Lewis b. August 5, 1892; d. September 28, 1892
Willis Ivan Lewis b. September 20, 1893; d. July 17, 1980
Robert Herbert Lewis b. February 16, 1895; d. April 1975
Orrin D. Lewis b. March 13, 1897; d. December 2, 1903
Virgil Omer Lewis b. July 25, 1898; d. April 22, 1964
William Audrey Lewis b. August 25, 1900; d. November 23, 1988
Samuel Theron Lewis b. June 8, 1902; d. January 19, 1990
Justin Owen Lewis b. December 12, 1904; d. May 27, 1988
Ruth Winnonah Lewis b. January 15, 1907; d. September 27, 1995
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