Elizabeth is certainly Hardy's wife, but the remaining details, including her maiden name, are based on an Ancestry tree (subsequently quoted in a Family search pedigree file) and must remain uncertain.
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDV-GXZ : 12 April 2016), Elizebeth Purcell in household of Denton More, Jackson county, Jackson, Tennessee, United States; citing family 60, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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