Brief Life History of Granville Taylor
When Granville Taylor Hardwick was born on 5 May 1846, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Quincy Adams Hardwick, Jr., was 17 and his mother, Alice Gennetta Pendley, was 20. He married Sarah Polk Hansford on 15 September 1864.
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- Granville T Hardwick in household of John Q A Hardwick, "United States Census, 1860"
- Taylor Hardwick, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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