Brief Life History of James Abner
When James Abner Hardy was born on 19 November 1834, in Georgia, United States, his father, James Richard Hardy, was 36 and his mother, Ann Emily Glanton, was 25. He lived in Troup, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Randolph, Alabama, United States in 1870. He died on 19 January 1909, in Roanoke, Randolph, Alabama, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Cedarwood Cemetery, Roanoke, Randolph, Alabama, United States.
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- James A Hardy, "Alabama, Census of Confederate Veterans, 1907, 1921, 1927"
- [James Abner] Hardy, "Alabama Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952"
- James A Hardy in household of Tyse Manley, "United States Census, 1880"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1851
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1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
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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