Johnston County NcArchives Bible Records.....Parrott Hardee ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Martha M. Marble http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00022.html#0005285 March 12, 2018, 7:56 pm Information from: State Library of NC - digital.ncdcr.gov THE FAMILY BIBLE OF PARROTT HARDEE An explanatory statement made on January 11, 1963 by Colonel David L. Hardee, USA. Retired, who is a son of Dr. Parrott R. Hardee mentioned herein. "Parrott Hardee was a son of Major Hardee, who died in 1869 and his wife Elizabeth Mewborn Hardee, born in 1801. Major Hardee was the son of Joseph Hardee and his wife Sarrah Bright Hardee, who in turn was the son of Joseph Hardee and his wife Sarrah Croom Hardee. They lived in the Falling Creek section of Dobbs County, were large land owners and a part of the Caswell Training School lands near Kinston, N.C., was in their possession. The old Joseph Hardee-Sarah Croom home place was torn down by the Caswell School people about 25 years ago. Major Hardee and his wife Elizabeth Mewborn moved to what is now Hardy Cross Roads (erroniously [sic] spelled) in Johnston County, some 7 miles from Benson, about 1828 and purchased 1360 acres of land. These families were the progenitors of the present Lenoir and Johnston County Hardees." Major Hardee and his wife Elizabeth Mewborn Hardee had children as follows: John Hardee married Martha Crosby and died in Arkansas Parrott Hardee married Civil Ann Barnes and settled on the home place Patsy Hardee married Theodore Lassiter Harriett Hardee died unmarried Sarrah Hardee married David Bell Lemuel Hardee married 1st Ophia Utterly, 2nd Adalaide Winston and settled in Denmark, Tenn. Bright Hardee married 1st Miss Morgan, 2nd Mary J. Johnson, 3rd Louise Jones and lived near Clayton, N.C. Major Hardee married 2nd Elizabeth Bell and to them were born: Temesia Hardee married John Babbit, no issue Major Benjamin Hardee married Christine Virginia Foster The second wife and all of her family migrated to Mississippi and settled in Alvarado, Texas File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/johnston/bibles/parrotth87gbb.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb