When Dennis Lunt Hardy was born on 9 January 1883, in Dyer, Tennessee, United States, his father, Henry Hardy, was 34 and his mother, Winnie Ann Sharp, was 28. He married Lulu Overall on 5 October 1903, in Dyer, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Civil District 4, Dyer, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Civil District 5, Dyer, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He died on 27 October 1950, at the age of 67, and was buried in Dyersburg, Dyer, Tennessee, United States.
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’.
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