BIO: Robert Hardesty, Breckinridge/Bullitt Co., KY

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Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.

ROBERT HARDESTY was born August 29, 1824, in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and is a son of 
Richard and Anna B. (Lyon) Hardesty.  Richard Hardesty immigrated to Kentucky in about 1818, 
and died in Bullitt County in 1854. He had two sons who served in the Union army; Henry as a 
private in the Twenty-first Kentucky Volunteers, and Charles as a surgeon--both dying
while out.  Henry was born April 15, 1821, enlisted in 1864, and died in Nashville, Tenn., 
in 1865.  Charles was born April 10, 1831.  He entered the army in 1862, and died in the 
Nashville hospital in July, 1863. Robert Hardesty, the subject of this sketch, was married 
to Miss Isabella Chambers, February 2, 1860.  She came with her family from Ireland in
1855.  They have four children: Hugh, born November 27, 1860; Robert C., born May 8, 1864; 
Anna, born November 25, 1871; Letitia P., born September 22, 1880.  Mr. Hardesty holds the 
office of justice of the peace.

Hardesty Lyon Chambers
Breckinridge-KY Bullitt-KY Nashville-Davidson-TN Ireland