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Calhoun • Rains • Anthony • • Lotus FastSite Speculation of the I1 Hardins in America in the 1700s (old) • Omeka content management system, Facts and Speculations on the I1 "Norse" Hardins in America has been accidently deleted and I don't have a copy. • My Old Hardin Page • Hardin Summary with Ancestral Maps by DNA |
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North Carolina Tips:
♦1790
Superdistricts
♦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
♦Bluffton? Where is Bluffton?
♦Hardin Reunion 2005, Little Rock
and stories from J. Oran Hardin about the Mark Hardin family
"Personally appeared before me Harry Alston and Morina Alston
Freedmen and acknowledge that they have been cohabitating together as
man and wife since 1837 and agree to continue as man and wife."
April 24th, 1866. T.G. Horton CCC
(ancestry.com, viewed 12 July 2020)
After drifting south, perhaps from the Virginia coast or heartland, over several generations, my branch of the Hardins settled on the Georgia-Alabama line in Cherokee County, Alabama, and Floyd County, Georgia just after the Cherokees were expelled.
My ancestors were the salt-of-the-earth types, the "backbone of America," and cannon fodder whenever they could not escape that fate. 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 some epidemic. My ancestor Samuel Story was conscripted in Georgia as a private and was only injured. During Korea, two Hardin uncles of mine were killed. Beyond tragedy, the only fame I have so far encountered is that 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 Civil War heroine from Gadsden, Alabama. "We're somehow kin to her," my mother would 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 multiplying, by having lots of children. Until the end of my grandfather's generation -- he had nine children and his wife Minnie died with number 10 -- families of 10 and 12 were the norm for my ancestors. The generation born after 1920 had far smaller families.
This is a searchable and downloadable GEDCOM with footnotes, but note: No living people are listed.
Here is the tree that resided at a 2016 snapshot on the Wayback Machine.
In the old-style worldconnect my tree resided at https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=travhard. In the year 2020 WorldConnect the address takes you to a common entry point https://wc.rootsweb.com/ where you may input a Gedcom name, a Gedcom number, or a name which is then searched over thousands of like names in the entire WorldConnect project. Clicking on any of that will take you to a tree resembling the old WC site, showing about three generations per page. Links under names will allow you to jump to other names. While you can work out a way to copy what you see on the screen, I don't see a way to download a GEDCOM.
A differently-formatted tree
is at Ancestry.com.
Hardin YDNA results and matching Hardin relative information is
maintained at hhhdna.com,
maintained by relative William Clark Hardin. For
another source of DNA matches look up Hardin or Harden or any surname
of interest at FamilyTreeDNA.com
The Hardins Oran and I come from are found by DNA testing to be of genotype I1, later called I-M253. Though I have not learned their British Isles ethnic group, the paternal line reaches back to Norse ancestors. I've taken the liberty of calling this related group of which I am a member "Norse Hardins" since nearly all I1 Hardins so far tested are related in recent times. That sounds unusual. It suggests that only one man or only the closely-related descendants of one man were the only immigrant of this line to have come to North America from the British Isles. There are a few men with other surnames whose DNA is nearly identical to the Pendleton Hardins. Each of those cases will have an individual explanation: Adoption, extramarital event, and the like. Either that, or the DNA has been passed down nearly unchanged from generations that lived before the adoption of surnames -- an unlikely explanation since change happen more rapidly than that. For example, two living Plumnellies, second cousins with each other, have discovered that one has an SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) that the other does not.
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: YDNA group R-M269, formerly known as
r1b1b2 (from J.W. White)
Please read the notes and sources in my GEDCOM and the narratives here to determine what is proven and what is supposed. Some people and companies harvest any material that looks like a tree. The tree, accurate or not, becomes indisputable once it enters the collective. That is unfortunate, because I put on the Web trees I am working on. I intend to collaborate with other researchers especially where there are doubts and unknowns -- as there will be with non-remarkable families. I know of no other way to show proposed names and relationships for discussions than to put them on a Web site and invite others to discuss via Web forums, mail lists, e-mail, and telephone whether they approve of my constructions, or if they have corrections for me.
This mystery picture was made awbout 1917, perhaps 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.
"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.
My Hardin branch, first found in Brunswick County, Virginia, drifted through North Carolina. Some settled in Pendleton District, South Carolina and their children 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. The White family ancestors lived in the same area after arriving in Paulding County, Georgia 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 HFA 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.)
AlGenWeb site, Cherokee County, Alabama
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Last updated 12 July 2020
Travis Hardin
Contact information as of May 2020:
1000 Airport Rd.
SW, Apt. 12, Huntsville, AL 35802. Email: ke3y@comcast.net and
t.hard@intelec.us