Brief Life History of Robert C.
When Robert C. Harder was born on 3 August 1856, his father, George Madison Harder, was 36 and his mother, Mildred Johnson Hoskins, was 31. He married Mary Anna Huddleston on 14 June 1888, in Jackson, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Newport, Jackson, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years and Jackson Township, Union, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 30 June 1939, at the age of 82, and was buried in Newport, Jackson, Arkansas, United States.
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- Robert C. Harder, "United States Census, 1880"
- Robt C Harder, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Robert C Harder, "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950"
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World Events (8)
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
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: occupational name from an agent noun derived from Middle English hardenen ‘to make hard’ (Old English heardian), denoting a hardener of metals (used by Chaucer) and elsewhere a baker who hardened dough with heat.
North German and Danish: from the ancient Germanic personal name Harther, composed of the elements hard ‘strong, hard’+ heri ‘army’.
South German: topographic name from Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’, or a habitational name for someone from any of the places called with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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