JONES COUNTY, GA - BIOS Hardeman, Robert Vines ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Meredith Clapper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002801 Robert Vines Hardeman m. Elizabeth Clark Henderson 1 Mar 1826 Putnam Co., GA. He was b. Oglethorpe Co., GA 26 Apr 1800 d. 18 May 1871 Sleepy Hollow near Clinton, Jones Co., GA. Elizabeth 3 Mar 1804-16 June 1892 both buried Clinton cemetery. He served as a Col. and Capt in the Cherokee Indian War Brewer's Company 1836 ( Jones Co. GA history p 406.) He was a member of the State Legislature c. 1840 and State Senator c. 1845 for Jones Co. He was a lawyer. 1840 Jones Co., GA p142 Robert Hardeman 1m <5 John 1m 5-10 Isaac 1m 30-40 Robt 1f 15-20 Matilda 1f 30-40 Elizabeth Macon Telegraph: 22 Oct 1846 Jones Co. Estate Sale Property of Solomon Baker....signed Robert V.Hardeman History of Jones County, Georgia 1807-1907, by Carolyn White Williams Lawyers: Robert V. Hardeman, 1830-1836 Isaac Hardeman, 1845-1863 Georgia: Coweta County: Deed Index, Grantors, Surname H 1827-1886 Book Page Grantor Grantee K 602 Hardeman, Thos Parks, Elizabeth K 604 Hardeman, Thos Parks, Elizabeth K 603 Hardeman, B F Parks, Elizabeth K 605 Hardeman, R V Parks, Elizabeth M 588 Hardeman, J E SG & NA RR Co JUDGES OF SUPERIOR COURT OCMULGEE CIRCUIT (JONES COUNTY) R. V. Hardeman, 1853-1855 (Oct.) 1854-1856-1857-1858-59 See History of Jones Co., GA. p 404-408. "Judge R. V. Hardeman lived at Sleepy Hollow where Mr. Abe James now lives. He had been paralyzed some time and spent most of the time sitting on his front veranda. He was in his usual seat when Sherman's Yankees came rushing through. They soon had his horses and mules, and there was one mule which was a mule sure enough, and no one on the place could ride him. A Yankee had him bridled and was informed by some of the negroes on the place that no one could ride him; that he had never been ridden. "Oh", said the Yankee, "I'll ride him he has never had a real live Yankee on him before." He saddled him, hung his accoutrements upon the saddle, mounted and attempted to ride him, when lo, the mule jumped, crop-hopped, doubled up, bucked & threw Yankee, saddle and all head foremost over his head. "oh, oh," laughed Judge Hardeman, who had witnessed the performance from his seat on the porch, "he never rode a real live Georgia mule before." (copied from an old edition The Jones County News-1908) p. 406 from Ruth Hardeman Schubring: Robert Vines Hardeman was born April 26, 1800 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and was the son of John Hardeman, Jr. and Nancy Anne Collier. He was educated at Lexington, Georgia at one of the first endowed schools of the State. He studied law under Stephen Upson. He married Elizabeth Clark Henderson, daughter of James and Betsy Carter Henderson, on March 1, 1826. Elizabeth was born March 3, 1804 in Warren Co., Georgia and died June 16, 1892. Their children were: Upson, Matilda, Ann Collier, Isaac (who married first Marietta Pitts and second Lucia Griswold), John (who married Dorothy Whitaker), Charles Smith, Thomas (the father of William Gardiner Hardeman Sr.), Robert (who married Ellen Smith), Frank (who was killed in the war in 1864) and Mary Dorothy. They lived in Clinton, Georgia where Robert Vines had his law practice. Robert Vines, as he was called, served as State Senator from Jones County in 1845 and twice as Judge of the Superior Court of Ocmulgee Circuit. He served as a Colonel in the Cherokee Indian War. His belief was to educate children so one of his sons became a doctor, two became lawyers and one a planter. He died in Clinton, Ga. May 18, 1871 and is buried beside his wife Elizabeth in their church cemetery behind the United Methodist Church in Clinton, Ga..