Biography of John Hardin, Clay Co, AR

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From: 
The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

John H. Hardin deserves to be classed among the prosperous farmers and stockmen
of Clay County, Ark. He was born in McNairy County. Tenn., January 26, 1853, and
is a son of B. J. Hardin and Nancy Bennet, who were also born in that-State.
After their marriage they settled in McNairy County, where the father was
engaged in husbandry until the opening of the late Civil War, when he joined the
Federal army and served four years, contructing in his service chronic diarrhea,
which afterward caused his death, in October, 1881. His wife died here in
September, 1884. In the summer of 1865 he moved to Clay County, Ark., and
engaged in farming. John H. Hardin remained with his father until he attained
mature years, and was married here, December 25, 1873, to Miss Sarah I. Mayes,
who was born in Tennessee August 25, 1854, though reared in Clay County, Ark.
After their marriage they rented land one year, when Mr. Hardin purchased a
tract, which he began clearing and improving. He has opened up about eighty
acres, and has 100 acres under cultivation, besides twenty acres of timber land.
He has a comfortable frame residence, two fair barns, and an apple and peach
orchard consisting of three acres. He is a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and
he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are the parents
of five children: Lucy Ann, born September 9, 1876; Dury J., born November 4,
1878; Owen D., born August 4, 1881, and died February 4, 1888; Henry L., born
April 18, 1884, and an infant, born and died December 12, 1887.