William Walker Hardy (1872 - 1951)

Born 22 Mar 1872 in Jasper County, Georgia

Ancestors

Husband of Dilcie Texana Burgan — married 5 Dec 1894 in Bosque County, Texas

Descendants

Died 27 Jan 1951 at age 78 in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma

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Biography

William Walker Hardy was born 22 March 1872 in Jasper County, Georgia to Cornelius M. Hardy and Louisa Jane Lane.^[1] When he was about five years old his parents moved their family to Bosque County, Texas, near other relatives who had moved there earlier.

On 5 Dec 1894 Walker married Dilcie Texana Burgan in Bosque County, TX.^[2] They had ten known children together, though two of them died in infancy. Their children were:

• Infant Hardy (b. and d. about 1895)
• William Athal Hardy (1897-1925)
• Cora Lee (Hardy) Pace (1898-1987)
• Infant Hardy (b. and d. about 1899)
• Estelle Elois (Hardy) Adams (1900-1989)
• Elmer Rufus Hardy (1904-1998)
• Lucian Cornelius Hardy (1906-1974)
• Leon Sidney Hardy (1908-1983)
• Lucille R. (Hardy) Lowery (1911-1996)
• Wynona May (Hardy) Lind (1913-1990)

By 1918 Walker had moved his family to Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma. He registered for the WWI draft there.^[3] Walker stayed in that area for most of his life, except for a few years between 1930 and 1940 when he lived in Ozark, Polk County, Arkansas. He is found there on the 1940 U.S. census.^[4] It isn't known why or exactly when he moved to Arkansas, but he returned to Lawton, OK after 1940.

Walker died in Lawton, OK on 27 Jan 1951^[5] and was buried at Highland Cemetery in Lawton in the Hardy plot.^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ Hardy Bible Record in the possession of a living descendant.
2. ↑ "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLCH-R5Y), Walker Hardy and Dilcie Burgan, 05 Dec 1894; citing Bosque, Texas, United States, county courthouses, Texas; FHL microfilm 989,187.
3. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZD7-G53 : William Walker Hardy, 1917-1918; citing Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,851,698.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQKT-ZYX), W W Hardy, Ozark Township, Polk, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 57-20, sheet 14A, line 1, family 260, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 163.
5. ↑ The online death index for William W. Hardy incorrectly shows that he died in Woodward County, OK. He died in Comanche County, OK. https://ok2explore.health.ok.gov/
6. ↑ Find-A-Grave memorial # 43703212. Link: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=735472&GRid=43703212&
7. ↑ Hardy Bible Record in the possession of a living descendant.