Caldwell County MO Archives History .....HARDMAN FAMILY IN HAMILTON TOWNSHIP 1866 
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THE HARDMAN FAMILY IN HAMILTON TOWNSHIP 1866
	Narrators:  John Hardman and Mrs. Geo. Simpson

     Mrs. Simpson and Mr. Hardman are brother and sister and are children of 
the pioneer David C. Hardman who came into Caldwell county 1866.  David C. 
Hardman was born 1827 in Ohio and died 1899 in his farm home near Polo.  When 
he came to Caldwell co. he bought of the railroad his farm southwest of 
Hamilton, now the George Simpson farm (his daughter married Geo. Simpson).  
Then he sold to Geo. Simpson and moved to a farm west of Polo.
     He was a leading Dunkard (or Church of the Brethren as now called).  
Several of his children adhered to this religion but not all.  He is buried in 
the Kingston cemetery.
     His children were John, Fanny (Mrs. Frank Shutt), David, Laura (Mrs. Joe 
Davis), Charlotte (Mrs. Geo. Simpson).  These children are now in their old 
age, or dead.
     David died 1934 aged 69, 68 of which he lived in Caldwell county.  His 
father married Hettie Bosserman of Dark Co Ohio who had come from Pennsylvania 
to Ohio and were of German descent.  The Bossermans also came to Caldwell 
county with the Hardmans and were prominent in the old Dunkard church near 
Polo, in fact the name Bosserman is found in the old Dunkard graveyard.  The 
older David Hardman was a preacher there.  This old church called German 
Baptists in the county history, is one of the oldest in the county going back 
to 1866.  At this time, the Dunkards around Hamilton are very few, although 
while the Hardmans were here, there was some organization, and later one at 
Kidder, now dead.
     The younger David liked other churches, however, he never joined any.  
They had begun to have Sunday schools in his youth; in the 70s, and every 
Sunday he used to saddle his horse and ride in to go to the Methodist Sunday 
school.  The other country youths did the same, if they wanted to go to Sunday 
school, for that was the only one in reach.  The horses were hitched to the 
numerous hitchracks around the little church.  You can not imagine it, 
perhaps, but the novelty of Sunday school was quite an attraction to people 
then.
     David went to school in district schools where they had home made wooden 
benches and scant equipment, in a comparatively new country, and yet he 
developed his mind wonderfully by his own study.  He loved hunting and 
followed after the foxes.  What is said of him is perhaps typical of the other 
Hardman children, but he was the one who loved sports which the rest seemed to 
disdain as too worldly.
     Interviews  1933-4.


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