Brief Life History of Collin Buchanan
When Collin Buchanan Hardy was born on 3 June 1838, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, his father, George Thomas Hardy, was 55 and his mother, Rachel C. Burks, was 44. He married Mary Elizabeth Thompson on 4 February 1866, in Hart, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States in 1920. He died on 16 January 1934, in Farmington, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Weingarten, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States.
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- Collin Hardy, "United States Census, 1870"
- Collin B. Hardy, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ollie Wells in entry for Nellie Viola Winch, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
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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