When Sallie Ann Hardy was born on 15 January 1842, in Henry, Virginia, United States, her father, John Hardy Jr., was 33 and her mother, Martha Sarah Peddigo, was 33. She married William Daniel Hill on 23 May 1865, in Habersham, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in District 409, Habersham, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Clarkesville, Habersham, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 October 1925, in Habersham, Georgia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Clarkesville, Habersham, Georgia, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.
Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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