Thompson (Harden) Hardin (1802 - 1880)

Born 4 Apr 1802 in Caswell, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Margery Lackland (Harding) Hardin — married 19 Dec 1826 in Logan, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 14 Dec 1880 at age 78 in Corinth, Logan, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Thompson Harden (later "Hardin") was born 04 Apr 1802 in Caswell Co, North Carolina^[1] the son of Henry Harden of Caswell Co, North Carolina and Elizabeth Hornbuckle, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Hornbuckle of Virginia.^[1][2] HIs grandfather was Thomas Harden (1725-1809) of Westmoreland Co, Virginia and Rockingham Co, North Carolina, whose ancestry is not known. He is not connected to the Huguenot Hardins of Kentucky.

Thompson was part of a musical family and he played the violin. When his father died in 1814, his mother married her plantation overseer, Jeremiah Rice, an unforgivable condensation. Angered and humiliated, the nineteen-year-old Thompson, turning his back upon the scene of Jeremiah Rice as lord and master of Henry Harden's large estate-property that should rightfully have been his heritage- and came to Logan County, to earn his living teaching school.^[3]

All this, his letters to Margery Harding, dated from 1824 to 1826 reveal, and much more. During these years he signs himself as Thompson Harden, only in later life as "Thompson Hardin." With him to Kentucky, he brought his beloved violin, for the Hardens were a musical and an artistic family. And now with more than a century gone, for many, many years the beautiful old Hardin home has been considered haunted. A walking ghost; the wail of a violin at midnight ; Thompson' s spirit, 'tis said, returning for its nightly vigil.^[3]

On 19 Dec 1826 in Logan Co, Kentucky, Thompson married Margery Lackland Harding^[4] daughter of Elias Harding and Eleanor Harding. In 1850 Logan Co, Kentucky the Hardin household consisted of Thompson, Margery and their children William, Walter, John, George, Philip, Caroline and Mary.^[5] In 1860 Adairville, Logan Co, KY the Hardin household consisted of Thompson and his children Mary, John, George, Caroline and Philip. Thompson was a farmer with $25,200 in real estate and $24,543 in personal estate. John and George and Philip were farm laborers and Caroline was a seamstress.^[6]In 1870 Adairville, Logan Co, KY the Hardin household consisted of Thompson, his daughter Mary, his son Philip, domestic servants Ester and Amanda Winlock and farm laborers. Thompson was a farmer with $34,000 in real estate and $20,000 in personal estate.^[7] On 14 Jun 1880 Adairville, Logan Co, KY the Hardin household consisted of Thompson, single daughter Mary, son Philip, Philip's spouse Mary and their daughter Vanda and Virdie, and 4 servants. Thompson was farming and Philip was a medical school student.^[8]

Thompson died on 14 Dec 1880 in Corinth, Logan Co, Kentucky and buried in Hardin-Harding Graveyard, Corinth, Logan Co, Kentucky^[1] next to his spouse Margery.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Find a Grave", database and images (accessed 15 Jan 2022), memorial page for Thompson Hardin (4 Apr 1802–14 Dec 1880), Find A Grave: Memorial #127215383, citing Hardin-Harding Graveyard, Corinth, Logan County, Kentucky, USA.Find a Grave", database and images (accessed 15 Jan 2022), memorial page for Thompson Hardin (4 Apr 1802–14 Dec 1880), Find A Grave: Memorial #127215383, citing Hardin-Harding Graveyard, Corinth, Logan County, Kentucky, USA.
2. ↑ "Hornbuckles in America", Page 18 and 24, by Leland E. Pound and Murlen Hornbuckle published 2000
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "The Kentucky Harding-Drane Descendants of Samuel Magruder of Maryland", Mary Hardin Bernard, Kentucky, Year Book of the American Clan Gregor Society Containing the Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Annual Gathering, The American Clan Gregor Society, John Bowie Ferneyhough, Editor, 1938, Richmond Virginia, pp 78-87; accessed 23 Aug 2017 at [1]
4. ↑ "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW15-QXG : 11 May 2022), Thompson Hardin, 1826.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:M65D-D56 : Sat Mar 11 00:24:41 UTC 2023), Entry for William L Hardin and Mryeny L Hardin, 1850.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:MZBY-QFQ : Wed Apr 05 19:11:29 UTC 2023), Entry for Thompson Harding and Mary Harding, 1860.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXW2-3YR : 29 May 2021), Thompson Harding in entry for Benjamin F Gorham, 1870.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCZ8-M7P : 14 January 2022), Thomson Hardin, Schochoh, Logan, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
9. ↑ Margery Lackland Harding Hardin (24 Mar 1807–6 May 1855) (spouse) Find A Grave: Memorial #127212298