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Hardin Source Document Repository
Established by Bill Hardin
Maintained by Travis Hardin

North Carolina Tips:
       ♦1790-1800 Superdistricts and why you should ignore them
       ♦Early Orange County Districts    

♦Down Home in Cherokee and Etowah Counties, Alabama, and Floyd County, Georgia

♦Coosa, Georgia in the 1860s

♦Muster Roll of Company B, 31st Alabama Infantry (Confederate)

♦Letters from Confederate soldier Milton A. Hardin 1862-1863

♦Survey of Hardman Cemetery, Farill

♦Cherokee County precincts and georgaphical names

♦Floyd County militia districts

♦The George W. and Clementine Hardin Bible records

♦The Eli H. Hardin Bible records

♦The Aaron Hardin Bible records

Descendants of William T. Hardin of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

♦Bluffton? Where is Bluffton?

♦Hardin Reunion 2005, Little Rock
and stories from J. Oran Hardin about the Mark Hardin family

Alabama Territory post-road situation 1819

A Southeastern Family

My early ancestors were pioneers -- and what pioneers! -- leaving their parents and going to distant states, sometimes with brothers. They settled on creeks and farmed. They were always farmers. Three of my distant Hardin cousins were Confederate privates. Two of them died, while the family they left behind lost a father and two children in 1863, probably to an epidemic. My ancestor Samuel Story was conscripted in south Georgia as a private and was injured. He moved to Cherokee County, Alabama afterward.

During Korea, two Hardin uncles of mine were killed -- one in battle in Korea and another in training by accidental live rounds. A distant uncle, James Asa Hardin, was particularly active in securing the consolidated school near Key and Forney, on the Centre-Cave Spring highway in Cherokee County, Alabama. The school, a junior high school, bore his name until it was abandoned, in the 1960's, I believe.

There's the tenuous Emma Sansom connection, Emma Samsom being a young woman from Gadsden, Alabama made into a Civil War heroine. "We're somehow kin to her," my mother used to say. Just a little, it turns out. She married Christopher Bullard Johnson, who was the great-grand uncle of my mother. Emma and Christopher Johnson moved to Texas.

My ancestors achieved another kind of fame  by having lots of children.

English Naming Customs used by the Hardins and others. View and download my four-finger method.

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MY DNA TYPES

Minnie Mae Story: MTDNA Haplogroup H (from Jeana Dickerson)
George Frank Hardin: YDNA Haplogroup I-M253 (from Travis Hardin)
Lovia Lane: MTDNA Haplogroup K1c1b (from Travis Hardin)
William Ausie White through to Yancey White, father of James White: YDNA group R-M269, formerly known as r1b1b2 (from J.W. White)

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2025 GED of Travis Hardin to 1692

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This GEDCOM dated June 2025 omits living people. It is from my main home program Family Tree Maker and resides on this web site.

My tree at Ancestry.com has some differences with the above. This Ancestry.com link opens my tree for me. Sometimes, to find the right tree, it helps to look for a person that exists on my Ancestry tree by an exact search -- for example, Aaron Hardin, born 21 Apr 1810 in Pendleton District, South Carolina, died 10 Nov 1861 in Coosa, Georgia.

Hardin YDNA results and matching Hardin relative information is maintained at hhhdna.com by relative William Clark Hardin. For another source of DNA matches look up Hardin or Harden or any surname of interest at FamilyTreeDNA.com

Pictures of Grandfather George Frank Hardin and families from Farill, Cherokee County, Alabama

Mystery 1917 and Other Photos from Farill, Cherokee County, Alabama

This mystery picture was made about 1917, likely at the Farill, Alabama Baptist church. Farill is in Cherokee County, Alabama, near the Georgia line. Many of my ancestors lived there from the 1860's. The girl at far left in the middle row with her head turned was identified by my aunt Katherine as Bertha May Hardin (1902-1987), who married Ed Smith in Birmingham. In the row in front of her, second person from the left, is Bertha's cousin Nessie LaVada Hardin (1907-1971), never married. The picture was in the possession of my grandfather Frank Hardin at his death. If you can identify anyone else, please contact me and I will caption the picture. Among the names in the area were: Hardin, Chandler, Bouchellon, Barkley, Story, Ingram, Smith, Isbel, Roe, Kirby,and Mormon.

Hi Travis, once again I am so impressed the way you decipher materials and always make it a history lesson for me --Phyllis Hardin, High Point, NC (Jan. 2024)

Wonderful research! Your Hardin website is just so helpful and your research is very informative. --Susan Holman, Dallas, Tx. (March 2023, Hardin and Butler of McMinn County, Tenn.)

Very interesting reading. Intriguing and so well presented! Thank you so much for sharing your great HARDIN research and knowledge in such a practical informative way Travis! -- Laura Cram, 4 May 2020

"I have to say how impressive your research is. It answered a lot of questions for me." -- Suzanne Howe, 2019.

"You are one of the torchbearers in Hardin research now that Oran has passed." -- Ron Hardin, 11 Feb 2018.

"I do  keep tabs on your site postings and admire you for the consummate researcher that you are. You are very much aware of the need  to document your research and do a  most thorough job in doing so." -- Carl (Jim) Roache, 3 Jan 2018. (Yancey White research)

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My father's ancestors are Hardin. The original immigrant, Samuel Harding, arrived with his young wife Elizabeth Moore shortly after their 1721 marriage in London. From a beachhead in Brunswick County, Virginia they became known as Hardins. They  drifted south over several generations by way of Virginia and central North Carolina, thence into Pendleton District, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. A few went onward to Texas and points west.In the short term the I-M253 Samuel Hardin was English -- a native Londoner -- who was in service as a pastry cook before migrating to tidewater Virginia. In the long term the haplotype I-M253 Hardin group came from the Scandanavian Vikings, according to the haplogroup maps at Europedia and at FamilytreeDNA.com.

My Hardin branch -- first found in Brunswick County, Virginia -- drifted through North Carolina. Gabriel the younger settled in Pendleton District, South Carolina and a set of his grandchildren through Aaron Hardin settled on the Georgia-Alabama line in Cherokee County, Alabama, and in Floyd County, Georgia in the late 1830s, just after the Cherokees were expelled. My mother's  White family ancestors went to Hokes Bluff, Alabama from Paulding County, Georgia after arriving from Pendleton District, South Carolina. The Lanes were from Piedmont, Alabama. The family of Hardins living astraddle the state line was given the shortcut name "Plumnelly Hardins" by Hardin Family Association founder Oran Hardin, because they were said to be "plum out of Alabama and nea'ly out of Georgia," in the old-fashioned manner of speaking. Oran Hardin called himself a Plumnelly, though his family came not to Cherokee County but to Marshall County, Alabama -- near the Tennessee River -- by way of Tennessee. The pertinent DNA of Oran Hardin and of the Plumnellies is identical. (See  the light green group at hhhdna.com for DNA testing results.)