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John Dexter Hardman (1770 - 1864)

Rev John Dexter Hardman
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Husband of — married 25 Nov 1791 (to 1798) in Lewis County, WVmap
Husband of — married 21 Nov 1798 in Lewis County, (West) Virginiamap
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Died at age 93 in Lewis, West Virginia, United Statesmap
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John Dexter Hardman, son of Peterman and Charlotte Lazier Hardman, was born October 7 1770 in Big Youghigany, Pennsylvania and died May 9 1864 in Lewis County, West Virginia. He married (1) Elizabeth Jane Lockhart November 25 1791 and (2) Elizabeth Waggoner, daughter of John and Margaret Bonnett Waggoner, November 21 1798. [1]

He settled near the mouth of Curtis Run in Lewis County soon after his marriage to Elizabeth Waggoner which he bought of John Hacker. He was thought of as the mechanical genius of the settlement and established a small mill which replaced and was superior to the tin grater that was there. He became impatient with the mill, sold it to Rev. Anthony Spaur and moved two mills farther up the creek. [2]

After his children were grown he became an itinerant preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the 1830's the church split over the issue of slavery which the church condoned at the time [3] and John Hardman and his wife joined others in the establishment of the Methodist Protestant Church which became the Mt. Gilead Church, Georgetown, Lewis County, (West) Virginia. [4] Following are two marriages he officiated Hannah Fornash and James McCarden, Isaac Linger and Katherine May [5]


In his will he leaves his bed, spelled bead in the will, house property and his trunk to his granddaughter, Martha Morrison, his bridle, saddle pockets and wearing apparel, pocket book and all the money found in it, to his son, John G Hardman, his Bible to his 'beloved son,' Samuel B Hardman living in Illinois which was proved November 13 1865. The will is in Will Book B. p. 164 in the Lewis County Courthouse, Weston, West Virginia. [6]

John Dexter and Elizabeth Waggoner Hardman were the parents of:[7]

  1. Unnamed infant about 1798
  2. Jacob Wolf m. Marion Rodman
  3. Henry Dexter m. Mary West[8]
  4. Unnamed infant b. 1804
  5. Samuel Baxter m. (1) Margaret Bonnett, (2) Mary Francis Berry,
  6. Thomas m. (1) Rebecca Clark[9] (2) Tamzen Patten
  7. William b. 1809 d. 1840
  8. Joshua W m. Susan(ah) Mary Fultz, daughter of William and Barbara Fultz[10]
  9. Elizabeth m. Jacob W Hutson[11]
  10. John G. m. Malinda Forinash, [12]
  11. Peter Jamison m. Hannah Finley
  12. Daniel b. 1822 d. about 1826.


Sources

  1. ↑ Hacker's Creek Journal, Joy Gilchrist, Ed, Vol 12, Iss 1 page 49 file:///D:/all%20genealogy/my%20books/HCJ_Vol._12-Issue_1.pdf
  2. ↑ A history of Lewis County, West Virginia, Edward Conrad Smith, 1920, page 132 https://archive.org/stream/historyoflewisco00smit#page/132/mode/2up
  3. ↑ "A Concise History of the Methodist Protestant Church", Ancel H Bassett, 1887, page 377 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2AlOAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA377
  4. ↑ "A Concise History of the Methodist Protestant Church", Ancel H Bassett, 1887, pages 101-106 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2AlOAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA105
  5. ↑ West Virginia Archives and History http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=10708420&Type=Marriage
  6. ↑ Hacker's Creek Journal, Joy Gilchrist, Ec, Vol 12, Iss 1, page 50 file:///D:/Hackeerscreek%20journals/12-Issue%201%20(1).pdf
  7. ↑ Hacker's Creek Journal, Joy Gilchrist, Ed., Vol 12, Iss 1 pages 47-67 file:///D:/Hackeerscreek%20journals/12-Issue%201%20(1).pdf
  8. ↑ West Virginia Archives and History http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=10709700&Type=Marriage
  9. ↑ West Virginia Archives and History http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=10710397&Type=Marriage
  10. ↑ West Virginia Archives and History http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=2917013&Type=Death
  11. ↑ West Virginia Archives and History http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=10707930&Type=Marriage
  12. ↑ West Virginia Archives and History http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=10707691&Type=Marriage




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Hardman-759 Edith Sharon (Hardman) West (1937-2024)
As I edit Rev John Hardman's profile on this October 7 2016 for sure history repeats itself. He is my great (3) grandfather his birth day was Oct 7--mine Oct 7 167 years later, he went into clergy ministry after his children were raised, at age 58 and my children grown I began seminary and clergy ministry and both of us quit about the same age 73. He stood up for a principal that split the Methodist Church in the 1830's and my stand with the Methodist Church today may very well split it again 186 years later. No coincidences here just facts.
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