1795, moved to Seymour, Barren County, Kentucky via a wagon train led by Daniel Boone.
Reyma Hardy Dirks, granddaughter of Collen Hardy, tells a "Daniel Boone" story in connection with the Hardys as follows:
In 1765, when Kentucky was still a county of Virginia, and before the Revolutionary War, Daniel Boone cut "The Wilderness Road" across the Appapachians. Ten years later, in 1775, he led a large group of pioneers into Kentucky, traveling over this road and going through the Cumberland Gap. By the end of George Washington's administration (1797), Kentucky had been admitted as a state (1792). Taking these facts and dates into consideration along with the statistics we have on our ancestors, we come up with the fact that this Boone-led migration occured before George was born. I expect Boone led other migrations, but George was born seven years after the 1775 one we hear about. The birth places indicate my conclusion is correct (Thomas in Lunenburg County, Virginia--which is still Lunenburg County, Virginia, today--and George in "Virginia" which is what Kentucky was still called at the time of George's birth.) It's the oft-told story--my cousins who would remember Grandpa's story concerning Daniel Boone are no longer living and to the remaining cousins, the story is very hazy--just "something about the family coming into Kentucky with Daniel Boone."
Source: Donald Hardy reseacher in California
... Jas Handy, Jesse Handy, Cuthebert Hardan, William Hardridge David Hardus, Benjamin Hardy, Isham Hardy, Thos Hardy, ...
Source: 1810 Barren County, Kentucky Census. Abstracted from "Barren County, Kentucky Census 1810 through 1840,© Sandra K. Gorin, Gorin Genealogical Publishing, 205 Clements Avenue, Glasgow, KY 42141-3409
Will Records of Barren County, Kentucky 1800-1824
Barren County Wills Book 1
OSPage: 198
Name: Thomas Hardy
Written: 10 Aug. 1811
My wife, Mary My two sons: George and Judutran? My children: Rhoda Trump, Thomas, Isham, Moses, and Nancy Burks My wife, Mary and son, George, Exe. Witnesses: Isham Hardy, Polly Hardy, and Nancy Birks
Probated: May 1812
Will Records of Barren County, Kentucky 1800-1824
Barren County Wills Book 1
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Description:
This collection of wills adds to the growing number of databases in the ""Ellsberry Collection."" The database was compiled by long-time researcher, school teacher, and professional genealogist Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. These will records contain the names of people involved in Barren County wills between 1800 and 1824 and the dates of their proceedings. The records also often include comments about family relationships.
Extended Description:
Ms. Ellsberry began genealogical publication in 1958, when she published her own family history, The Warrens and You. In researching her own family, she found that libraries needed additional information from cemetery records, wills, land records, probate records, census records, etc., to help people with their family history. Ellsberry decided that she wanted to help by publishing books that contained solid genealogical data. She taught school for 34 years, but on weekends and summer vacation, she would travel around to different courthouses and cemeteries, recording the information she found. She also corresponded with several researchers and helped them in their research. Ellsberry self-published more than 300 books, and most of them are available for sale. Most of the compilation of these books took place between 1958 and into the 1970s, so the recorded information should include the cemetery and/or courthouse records of that time period.
Address:
Ms. Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
P.O. Box 206
Chillicothe, MO 64601
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Barren County, Kentucky Wills, 1800-24. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Will Records of Barren County, Kentucky 1800-24. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965.
This information obtained from AncestryPlus
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