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Benjamin Watson Hardin[1, 2, 3, 4]

Male 1796 - 1850  (53 years)


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  • Name Benjamin Watson Hardin 
    Born Mar 25, 1796  Franklin county, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Buried Jan 1850  Hardin Family Cemetery, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died Jan 02, 1850  Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Hardin County and Hardin, Texas (Liberty County), were named in honor of the Hardin family.
          Texas Handbook OnLine gives this accounty of him:
        "Benjamin Watson Hardin, early settler and political figure ... was born in Franklin County, Georgia, on March 25, 1796. By 1807 he was living in Maury County, Tennessee, with other family members and managing the family farm. Because of an affair between his brother's wife, Mrs. A. B. Hardin, and Isaac Newton Porter, of which Porter bragged about publicly, Benjamin accompanied his brothers to a meeting with Porter and William Williamson in Columbia, Tennessee, on October 1, 1825. During the ensuing confrontation Hardin's brothers Augustine and Benjamin Franklin Hardin fatally shot Porter and Williamson. After being indicted with his brothers, including William Hardin, in December 1825, Hardin fled to what is now Liberty County, Texas, in 1827 in order to avoid a possible conviction for murder and to join other family members who had similarly made themselves scarce in Tennessee."
          He received a league of land in 1831 North of what is now Liberty, Texas and served as sheriff of the Liberty District. He served as sheriff of Liberty county from 1839 to 1845.  He also served as the Liberty County representative to the Ninth Congress (1844-45) of the Republic of Texas.
          He married a first cousin to Melina Dalton Whittington, who received a land grant for what is now much of Liberty county, Texas, just South of the grant he received.  The Devers, Hardin, Whittington and Yocum families of that area were all related by marriage.  It is not known what their actual interrelationships were.
    Person ID I25950  mykindred
    Last Modified Jun 24, 2005 

    Father Swan Hardin,   b. Mar 10, 1773, Johnston county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jul 27, 1829, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Jerusha Blackburn,   b. Dec 07, 1773, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dec 28, 1840, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Married Jan 27, 1795  Franklin county, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F9462  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth Hearne,   d. Y 
    Married circa 1823 
    Family ID F20511  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Adelia Coleman,   b. circa 1807, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 16, 1843, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years) 
    Married Jan 08, 1828  Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary Ann Hardin,   b. Jan 05, 1829, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 25, 1882, Galveston, Galveston county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years)
     2. Sarah Anne Hardin,   b. Jan 07, 1831, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 12, 1869, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
     3. Elizabeth Hardin,   b. Sep 30, 1833, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jul 22, 1838, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 4 years)
     4. Swan Hardin,   b. Sep 06, 1837, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 01, 1841, Liberty, Liberty county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 3 years)
    Family ID F9448  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S575] Gedcom - Jackson-Henkle, Barbara.

    2. [S577] Handbook of Texas OnLine.
      http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/

    3. [S927] Quick, Patsy.
      post to Hardin surname bulletin board of 4-5-2003:
      http://genforum.genealogy.com/hardin/messages/3844.html

    4. [S1071] Gedcom - Fulwiler Clark, Claudia.