Grandson of Gabriel Hardin (~1710-1801)

William Hardin, b. 1760-1770, settled in Carter County, Tennessee

Y-DNA shows this man to be an I-M253 (what I call a Norse) Hardin. A descendant of William Hardin has posted the line from William to himself here: www.hhhdna.com/hhh.htm. For that line please see test kit number B5353. I found William Hardin on the 1840 Carter County, Tenn. census where he was reported born 1760-1770. He married Mary Ann Nave in 1798 in Carter County's predecessor, Washington County, North Carolina. Her father was Detrich Nave as reported on findagrave.com. The Naves were settlers in Carter County.

Searching for clues, I came upon a death certificate in Carter County for a Chrisley M. Hardin. He died Dec. 16, 1935 and was born 1860. He was unmarried. His father's name was given by informant Jessie Nave of Elizabethtown as William Hardin, born Tennessee, and his mother Annie Jane Nave, born Tennessee. William, the father on the death certificate, born before 1840 by the age of his son, would have been a grandson or a late son of the settler William born ~1765 and married 1798. 

Origin of William Hardin

I've spoken with a researcher who has reason to believe the Carter County William Hardin is of the Moore County , North Carolina Hardins. Men of William's generation, born ~1770, are of the right age to be grandchildren of Gabriel Hardin of Moore County, or children or grandchildren of Gabriel Hardin's younger brother William Hardin of Moore County, or children or grandchildren of Gabriel Hardin's other young brother John Hardin of Chatham County, North Carolina. All three of these men I believe to be sons of Samuel Hardin of Brunswick County, Virginia along with Samuel Hardin, Jr. and Thomas Hardin, both of whom did not migrate past Granville County, N.C.

Few of those grandchildren have been located or even named. However you can find WILLIAM HARDIN, JR. in the records of Moore County, N.C. See Gabriel Hardin's page for those records. The William Hardin of this page may be the grandson of Gabriel's younger brother William. It seems to me it would be useful to consider that possibility. A theoretical son of William Hardin of Brunswick County (b. ~1727) and theoretical father of this William Hardin would have been born 1748-1758. We can also research whether he is a son of one of Gabriel Hardin's children. Many were born in that range.

Cemetery Records and Family Records

On 1796 Carter County was created from Washington.

From Findagrave.com: Carter County, Tn. Tombstone: William Hardin 1775-1845. Died 5 May 1845. Buried at Siam, Elizabethton, Carter County, Tenn. Tombstone: Mary Ann Nave 1776-1849, wife.

The couple was said to have married in 1798 in Washington County.

Carter County contains burial sites of many, many Hardins. An interested researcher in that family could start at findagrave looking at Carter and Washington Counties.
According to FAG, the children of William Hardin and Mary Ann Nave buried at Blevins and surrounding cemeteries are (entries in bold):

John Nave Hardin, b. 1808, Siam, Tenn. m. Mary Fletcher
Children include Jane Nave Hardin Rasor 1827-1885; Elijah D. Harden 1832-1877; Eli Harden 1836-1895; Isabella Hardin Cannon 1838-1883; Alvin P. Hardin 1840-1922; Delilah W. Hardin Nave 1846-1887; James Patton Taylor Carter Hardin 1853-1932

Additional children listed in the John Nave Hardin entry at Findagrave:

(1) Daniel Lawson Hardin, b abt 1829, Carter Co, TN; m. Martha Jane Ritchie (1862) & Mary Jane Collins (1869); d aft 1883, Carter Co, TN.
(2) Emeline Hardin, b Nov 1843, Carter Co, TN; m Samuel Campbell (1864) & Jacob Lentor Frasier (1899); d aft 1910 of Carter Co, TN.
(3) Andrew Jackson Fletcher Hardin, b abt 1849, Carter Co, TN; m Pheroby Lavilla Roberts (1868); d aft 1880, of Carter Co, TN.

Elijah D. Hardin, 1801-1882 (had 3 wives and many children)

Delilah Harden Ward, 1805-1883

Henry H. Hardin, 1812-1892, d. 14 Jun 1892 at Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois. m. Catherine Nave Hardin. Children: William Henry Harden 1845-1939 b. Athens, Menard County, Illinois

Tree of William Hardin  of Carter County from Pratt at Worldconnect -- Not researchered by this writer.

These trees are useful for seeing the descendants of William Hardin. For their proposed ancestors to be correct, William must connect with an I1-M253 "Norse" Hardin father.
Pratt Tree at Worldconnect
A Tree Showing son Elijah D. Hardin family at Worldconnect

Worldconnect: F. Pierce Pratt fppratt@aol.com updated 2015-02-14
ID: I9154
Name: William Hardin
Given Name: William
Surname: Hardin
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1778 in North Carolina
Death: 1845 in Carter County, Tennessee