History:  Columbia County.  Mary Hardin & Thomas Hardin, Reminisces of 
Dr. H. R. Casey
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Articles written for the Columbia Sentinel in 1883.

Permission granted by the Columbia County News and transcribed by 
Stephanie Harrison.

The articles were written in 1883 by Dr H. R. Casey for the Columbia 
Sentinel. He writes about many of the early pioneers of Columbia County 
who arrived in Georgia in the late 1700's and early 1800's.

Names mentioned in this article:
Mary Hardin, Tom Hardin, Ramsey brothers--Dick and Cabe, Gracy Reid,
Michael Reid, Tom Wheat, Lamkin Eubanks, C.R. Ramsey, Sr. (Tip Ramsey),
Jackson Eubanks.

May 3, 1883

MARY HARDIIN
lived a widow some years, near the beautiful and historic Potomac. The
American Revolution had ended and peace declared from allegiance to the
British crown. Mrs Hardin was making but the scanty support from the
soil of the Old Dominion, and hearing goodly reports of the fertility 
of the South, she and her five sons immigrated to Georgia and settled 
in Columbia in 1789 on Big Kiokee creek near the ford on the Petersburg 
road. Here the mother and boys went to work to make a good honest
living. About the time the youngest son became of age the war of 1812
broke out, when all five of the Hardin boys bade adieu to their lonely
mother and marched to Florida to meet the invading army. They landed at
Pensacola with New Orleans as the objective point. When the war ended
the soldier boys returned to Columbia.

Of Thomas Hardin, the youngest son, it is my purpose now to write. On
his return from the war he bought and settled what is known as the 
Jones place now owned by the Ramsey brothers--Dick and Cabe--grandsons 
of Thomas Hardin. He made money rapidly and afterwards bought the farm
upon which his daughter, Mrs Jackson Eubanks, now lives.  Just as I 
must speak a word in commendation of this stirring, industrious woman. 
Jackson Eubanks lost his life in the late war. They had 10 children. 
She had a good plantation and a number of slaves, but they were freed 
and she soon found she couldn't depend on the labor of the "National 
Wards". As soon as her children were large enough to work in the field 
she had them between plow handles and moving the hoe and today her 
credit is as good or better than that of many of her neighbors. This 
should be remembered to her children's credit, and I commend her life 
and example to the consideration of those of the stronger sex who are 
always crying " Hard times! Farming don't pay! etc." I will further 
state that 9 of these children are daughters, 4 or 5 of whom I have 
seen in the field hoeing the cotton and corn and on the Sabbath these 
same girls were at church, dressed as handsome as the finest lady in 
the house with fine rosy complexions and nothing of melancholy or ennui 
in their composition but bright as sunbeams and merry as larks.

In 1833 Thomas Hardin bought and moved to the Griffin place and
subsequently bought a farm on the opposite side of Little River in
Lincoln county. His wife was Gracy Reid, sister of Michael Reid whom he
married in 1816. They raised 5 children - 2 sons and 3 daughters. As
his children grew up to manhood or married he settled them off on farms
with comfortable outfits to commence life. Before the distribution of
his lands among his children he owned 6,000 acres. His oldest daughter
married Tom Wheat and being left a widow with two children she married
Lamkin Eubanks.  His second daughter married C.R. Ramsey, Sr., of
Lincoln or as she familiarly called him, Tip Ramsey, a prominent
democrat, a true and trusty friend of one of Lincoln's most prosperous
farmers. His third daughter married Jackson Eubanks of whom I have
already spoken.

Tom Hardin's oldest son was killed above Atlanta, I think in the battle
of Marrietta. His remains were brought home and buried in the old
family burial ground at the Griffin place.