HARDY, Edgard, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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EDGARD HARDY, ARNAUDVILLE.--Mr. Hardy was born in St. Martin parish January 4,
1845  He is the son of J. J. Hardy and Eliza Broussard, the former a native of
New Orleans and the latter of St. Martin parish.

Young Edgard Hardy attended school in St. Martin parish until seventeen years
of age, when he enlisted as a private in the Confederate service and served
for a period of one year.  Immediately upon his return home he married Miss
Erminie LeBlanc, daughter of J. B. LeBlanc and Adrienne Guilbeau, now of St.
Martin parish. Mr. Hardy is a planter and has always followed that vocation,
in which he is successful.  He and wife are the parents of nine children, four
sons and five daughters, six of whom are living.  Mrs. Hardy died July 29,
1890. 

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 334. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.