Hardesty Genealogy

(Obediah Hardesty)

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2009 HARDESTY/WARREN Reunion Annoucement

A WARREN & HARDESTY Family Reunion was held Fri/Sat., Oct. 16 & 17 in Belmont County, Ohio. All descendants of Haddock WARREN & Obediah HARDESTY were invited to attend, as well as, descendants of all related families!

This reunion was dedicated to the memory of James Ross Wiley, our cousin, friend & organizer for past WILEY-WARREN-HARDESTY Reunions!

If you need lodging, the Hampton Inn is ideal. Not only does it offer wireless high/speed internet service, but it also offers a view of Haddock & Nancy WARREN's farm! I booked a room on Yahoo's Travelocity. Their discount rate was $60 for a single, so that's not bad! (About $35 cheaper than other sights claiming to offer discounts.)

For directions from your home, simply go to the following page, & it you'll see a map. Then click "to here", type in your home address, & you'll have directions!

Activities will begin on Friday, October 16th at 5:00 pm, with a reception at Undo's Restaurant, which is located above the Hampton. Gregg Warren has reserved a meeting room, so that we'll all have an opportunity to "meet/greet & mingle". Light snacks will be served & drinks may be purchased. (A $10 donation is suggested to help us cover room & snack expenses.)

On Saturday, October 17th at 10:00 am, a car caravan tour of WARREN & HARDESTY sites will leave from the Hampton. Tour stops will include: Haddock & Nancy's farm & graves, Shiloh Cemetery, Daniel & Sarah WARREN's farm & the foundations of two homes on the property (Gregg still owns this farm & has made several very interesting discoveries). We'll also visit the Pleasant Ridge Church & Cemetery, and Obediah's farm & grave. If time permits, we'll then view the farms of Obediah's possible brothers-- Francis, John and Richard Hardesty. As you may know, these 4 Hardesty's appeared together before the President of Congress on April 11, 1785, representing the Inhabitants of the Old Northwest?

Our grand finale will begin at 6:00 pm Saturday evening - We've reserved the main shelter house at Memorial Park for a "potluck" picnic!

For those of you who are planning to do individual research, the Belmont County Courthouse in St. Clairsville is a wonderful research, as well as, the library across the street. You might also want to check-out the library in Barnesville. A more complete listing of resources may be found here.

Hardesty and Warren descendants at 2005 reunion in St. Clairsville, Ohio

For more information, click here.

Hardesty Cemetery Locations & Maps

Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File

Find index cards for Obediah in Pennsylvania

Earliest Known History:

Obediah Hardesty was born on Jan/July 26, 1758 in either England or Virginia.  Nothing is known about his parents at this time.  Obed was a Revolutionary War soldier, one of George Washington's soldiers who spent the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge.  He was a Private in Captain Finley's First Pennsylvania Regiment.  He also served under Captain Swearingen in Col. Daniel Morgan's Rifle Regiment from June 1777 to March 1778.  After the war, Obediah became a farmer and married "Polly from Paris" Mary Hilliard D'Aubelieul about 1783.  Mary came to the states with her father, who was likely a French "sutler" associated with Lafayette and the French Troops.

For more details on Obediah from 1776-1800, go to Very Early Information on Obediah.

We believe that Obediah came to Ohio in 1794, from Washington County, Pennsylvania, having purchased land in Jefferson County, Ohio and then sold that land when they moved in 1796 to Belmont County.  The earliest proof of residency is given by:  "Obediah Hardesty: - Jacob Colemand of Belmont County, O. sells to Obediah. Wit: Elijah Dyson and Ralph Hardesty."

The List of Lands Belonging to Residents in Belmont County for Taxation in 1802 lists "Obediah Hardesty 2 July 1800 on McMahon's (creek)...32"  The 1805 Richland Twp Residents Tax List shows Obediah Hardesty with 280 acres at R3T5S35.  Obediah also shows up in the 1806, 1807, 1809, 1820, and 1830 Federal Census' in Richland Twp., Belmont County, Ohio.

For more detailed information on Obediah Hardesty go to More Obed.

The Children of Obediah and Mary

Child	Born	Location	Married	Spouse	Died	Location
Rebecca	1783	Virginia*		Ralph Hardesty	abt 1850	Ohio
Urias	1784	Virginia*	abt 1806	Elizabeth Clark	29 Jan 1848	Indiana
Keziah	1786	Virginia*	1804	John Hatcher	1852	Ohio
John	1792	Virginia**	1811	Elizabeth Percel	abt 1818	Ohio
Lewis	1794	Virginia**	1814	Sarah Warren +	abt 1880	Illinois
Solomon	1795	Virginia**	1815	Catherine Warren	14 Aug 1841	Indiana
Sarah	1796	Ohio	1815	Daniel Warren	16 Nov 1873	Ohio
Catharine	1798	Ohio	1822	Jesse Campbell
Mary	1805	Ohio	1823	Thomas Iiams	1908	Ohio

* Note: From 1752-1786 Virginia claimed part of modern-day Pennsylvania

** Note: Up to 1863 Virginia also included all of modern-day West Virginia

Urias moved to central Indiana after 1830 with his wife, Elizabeth, and their children, Eliza, Jesse, John, Noah, Uriah, Obediah, Solomon, Nancy, Lucinda and Amanda Jane.  They settled in Clinton, Boone, and Montgomery counties of Indiana.  Urias died in 1848.

Keziah (Cassander Elizabeth) Hardesty and John Hatcher lived in Belmont County, Ohio all their lives.  They are buried in Lloydsville Cemetery, Belmont County.

Lewis Hardesty and Sarah Warren moved to Hocking County, Ohio by 1839.  Sarah died in 1847.  Lewis remarried Lavina Dodd in 1847, then moved to Ross County, Ohio.

Solomon Hardesty and Catherine Warren moved to Guernsey County, Ohio by 1831, then to Spencer County, Indiana by 1838.  After Solomon died in 1841, Catherine and most of her family moved to Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa.  Catherine died there in 1863.

Sarah and Daniel Warren both lived in Belmont County all their lives.  Sarah died in 1873.

Mary and Thomas Iiams moved to Morrow County, Ohio in 1833.  She celebrated her 100th birthday in 1905, and died 2 years later.  Mary stated that her father, Obediah, was born in England and that her mother, Mary, was from France.   Their children: Catherine, Lydia, Martha, Matilda, Nancy, Rebecca, Samuel, Sarah, Franklin, Elizabeth, Violet, Mary, and Thomas Iiams.

John Hardesty and his family were all killed in a flood in Belmont County.

Not much is known about Rebecca Hardesty and Catharine Hardesty.

Haddock WARREN, Born on Apr 17, 1765 in Murderkill Hundred, Kent Co., Delaware. Haddock died in Richland Twp., Belmont Co., Ohio, on Mar 17, 1830; he was 64. Buried aft Mar 17, 1830 in William Kurth Farm, Richland Twp., Belmont Co., Ohio. Occupation: Farmer. In 1789 when Haddock was 23, he married Nancy Ann HILLYARD, in Delaware.

Haddock Warren website

References:

• PA Archives: DAR magazine Apr. 1953, p 567
• DAR #221443 Ada Hardesty Edwards, 1925
• DAR #452732 Larena Baumberger, 1957
• DAR #452733 Virginia Carrie Cecil, 1957
• DAR #619385 Fern Walton Harless, 1976
• Other DAR #'s: 209680,222385,225380,228521,293568,675560,686760
• Pa PNSR - DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition Part II, page 1305
• Pension No. 8-16-1828,  National Archives File S-46362
• PA Archives: 5th series, p. 721, v. 2. "Officers and Privates in 1st Continental PA Reg."
• Ohio Records and Pioneer Families", V. 3, po. 82-83.
• Belmont County, Ohio  Will of Obediah Hardesty 1830, Will Book E, p.2
• Belmont County, Ohio  Will of Mary Hardesty 1832, Will Book E, p. 428
• Belmont County, Ohio  Estate of Mary Hardesty, Case No. 914, Court of Common Pleas (Feb 2, 1833)
• Wills and Estates available from Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division, Courthouse, St. Clairsville, OH 43950  AND from "Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850" by C. Bell
• Genealogy & History Magazine, No. 3574, July 15, 1941, Vol. 2, no. 6, whole no. 23 p. 44 (Polly Paris) (Query no. 3574)
• Genealogy & History Magazine, No. 39_7, Sept. 15, 1941, vol. 2, no. 8, whole no. 25, p. 60 (Haddock Warren) (Query no. 3907)
• "History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio", by Caldwell 1880  

Family Tree Maker - World Family Tree files:

World Family Trees containing our Hardestys:

• Vol. 1     Tree 5938     Frank Betz - New Jersey - ?

• Vol. 4     Tree 3608     Barbara Lancaster  - no reply

• Vol. 4     Tree 3618     David Osborne - Colorado

• Vol. 5     Tree 0313     Gwen Wall  -  no reply

• Vol. 5     Tree 0364     Dorothy Tatman - Illinois

• Vol. 8     Tree 2352     Peter Higgins  -  Canada

• Vol. 8     Tree 2694     Harry Penland - Shawnee, KS

• Vol. 9     Tree 1867/8  Sharla Matthews-Jensen

• Vol. 10   Tree 1731     Roger Cox - Lincoln, NE

• Vol. 10   Tree 2712     Jim Wiley - Ohio

• Vol. 11   Tree 1759     Terry Headley - Colorado

• Vol. 14   Tree 681       ?

• Vol. 17   Tree 2274     Greg Truckenmiller

• Vol. 18   Tree 888       Mary Pack  

• Vol. 19   Tree 789       Anna Lee Clark

• Vol. 22   Tree 1460     Anna Lee Clark

• Vol. 23   Tree 1347    Anna Lee Clark

• Vol. 23   Tree  1351   Anna Lee Clark

• Vol. 23   Tree 3376    Jeanette Frahm - Arkansas

Hardesty/Warren Researchers :

KEZIAH  HARDESTY (1786-1852) & JOHN HATCHER:

• OBEDIAH        John Tipps     jmtipps@juno.com    Bonney Lake, WA
• unknown           Shirley Armstrong  LUVHFA@prodigy.net
• JOHN               Laura Becky McPeak (deceased)   RR4,Box 304, Louisville, Illinois  62858

SOLOMON  HARDESTY (1795-1841) & CATHERINE WARREN:    

• SAMUEL         Roger Cox    18003 Cherokee Dr., Spring Lake, MI 49456 (updated 2017)
• SAMUEL         Marcy Rose     MarcyRose@aol.com  California
• SAMUEL         Jan Cozad       jancozad@earthlink.net    California
• SAMUEL         Laura Cozad   lcozad@toledotel.com
• SAMUEL         Virginia Foust    RR3, Box 209, Newberg, OR  97132 ??
• SAMUEL         Lorraine Kile     Box 47, 520 W. Benton, Winterset, IA 50273-0047
• SAMUEL        Yvonne Ellwood  Monticello, Iowa  New EMAIL address:YVONNEELLWOOD (at) peoplepc.com
• SAMUEL         Marie Roach    875 Morgan Drive, Boulder, CO  80303-2612
• SAMUEL         Anna Ruth Hardisty  1817 Orange Ave., Prescott, IA  50859
• MARY ANN    Linda Rock     1728 East Rockwell, Spokane, WA  99207
• MARY ANN    Dottie Yockey    150 Patrick Lane, Ashland, OR  97520
• HADDOCK     Susan Morrison  (susanjef@flash.net??)   Georgia? (email address unknown)
• HADDOCK     Jill Pipkin  c/o  Jan Cozad
• NANCY          Nancy Truax   (email address unknown)  Rochester, MN

URIAS   HARDESTY (1785-1848) & ELIZABETH CLARK:

• JESSE                    Linda Hardesty  lhard@hotmail.com    California
• NOAH                   Deb Johns  debjohns@orednet.org    Oregon
• NOAH                   Jeffrey Bryant  bryajw@srv.net     Idaho
• SOLOMON          Dave Osborne  DP6195@aol.com
•                               790 Skyline Drive, Woodland Park, CO 80863  NEW address
• SOLOMON          Glenn Hardesty,  840 Colusa St., Chico, CA 95928-4117
• SOLOMON          Barbara Pinkston  (email address unknown)
• LUCINDA            Rita Crane  indiana@in-motion.net 

LEWIS HARDESTY (1794-abt 1880) & SARAH WARREN:

• POLLY                   Tacy Arledge Lewis    TAArledge@aol.com     Peyton, CO ??
• NANCY                 Dorothy Tatman  LTatman744@aol.com   Urbana, IL
• WARREN               Gordon Albert Magill  genealogy@dovelion.org ??   Ohio  email address unknown
• WARREN               Janice Hardesty  jmh@wcoil.com     Ohio
• WARREN               Marilyn Hofacre  mhofacre@neo.rr.com  NEW email address
• WARREN               Walter Pool,  6845 Marietta Rd., SE, Lancaster, OH 43130

SARAH HARDESTY & DANIEL WARREN:  

• DANIEL MORGAN:  Jeanette Frahm   J44F65 (at) yahoo.com  Hot Springs Village, AR (new email)
• RHODA:                    Mary (Green) Fowler     marynellf (at) gmail.com    Lenexa, KS
• REBECCA JANE:     John Kieffer     jvmusik@sbcglobal.net     Olathe, KS
• REBECCA JANE     James Wiley (deceased)    of  Akron, OH
• HADDOCK L.         Ron Osborne    email unknown  Lexington, SC
• HADDOCK L.         Jeanine Hall    McKinney, TX

            ??          Rick Sowinski     rsowin@juno.com     St. Clairsville, OH

MARY HARDESTY & THOMAS IIAMS:

•  Ross King  rking@inovian.com
•  SAMUEL: Sharla Matthews-Jensen  mjs@whidbey.com
•  SAMUEL:  Terri Inloes  (I need new email address !)
•  SAMUEL: Carin Misseldine misseldine@aol.com
•  THOMAS HARDESTY:    Bill Imes (I need new email address!) 

Will of William Iiams (1734)

ALL HARDESTY'S:

           Kairlee Graham     kairlee@juno.com   (has 40,000 Hardesty's in her file)

          Anna Lee Clark  a0000349@airmail.net - Anna Lee Clark Genealogy Page (link broken)

          Gwendolyn Hardesty Oliver     seeker@netwalk.com

          Richard L. Hardesty  James Hardesty (b: 1817 Ohio) and descendants

          CousinConnect.Com - HARDESTY

          The Hardesty History - Jack Hardesty

Associated Families

(these links have not been checked since 2005)   

HEADLEY:      Terry Headley    TJHEAD83@worldnet.att.net   Thornton, CO

                        Donald Long    NightOwl@GenRef.com  Utah               

IIAMS:          Roberta Iiames   Guyrossjr@aol.com      Springboro, OH

                      Descendants of Catherine Hampton and Thomas Iiams by Barb Locker

HATCHER:    Hatcher Family Resource Center - Nel Hatcher

WALTON:    Thomas Risinger