Nancy Hardwick

Brief Life History of Nancy

Nancy Hardwick was born about 1806, in Duck River, Hickman, Tennessee, United States. She married John Bacon Bourland about 1824, in Franklin, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Mulberry Township, Franklin, Arkansas, United States in 1850. She died about 1882, at the age of 78, and was buried in White Oak, Franklin, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Bacon Bourland
1805–1840
Nancy Hardwick
1806–1882
Marriage: about 1824
Dr. Addison McArthur Bourland
1825–1913
Allie F Bourland
1840–1850
Amity Abigail Bourland
1827–1898
William F Bourland
1829–1867
John Louis Bourland
1834–1905
Mary J Bourland
1835–1914
Jasper Hume Bourland
1839–1907

Sources (3)

  • Nancy Putman, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Texas. Biographies 1861–1865, Military Records 1861–1865 | West. Biographies 1861–1866 | West. Biographies 1861–1866
  • Nancy J. Hardwick Bourland, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

English (Yorkshire and Derbyshire): habitational name from Hardwick Hall in Ault Hucknall (Derbyshire) or any of numerous other places called with Old English heorde-wīc ‘herd farm’ (from heord ‘herd’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’), such as Hardwick in Yorkshire, Warwickshire, and Cambridgeshire, and Hardwicke in Gloucestershire and Shropshire.

Americanized form of German Hartwig .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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