Carter Co., OK - OBIT:  Thomas Eleazar Hardeman

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Daily Ardomoreite, 28 May, 1928, page 1

AGED PIONEER OF ARDMORE PASSES

After an illness of several years, T. E. Hardeman died at 9:50 Tuesday 
night.  He was 88 years, eight months and 16 days of age.  Funeral services 
conducted by Dr. Lee Rector of the First Baptist Church will be held at 10 
o'clock Thursday morning at 1222 A Street northwest.  The music will be in 
charge of the Baptist choir and the pall bearers include, Ed Sanlin, 
E. B. Luke, F. D. Cornell, B. C. Forbes, Joe S. Berkshire and John F. Easley.  

Three children survive, they are Mrs. Georgia Hardeman [sic] and 
Mrs. S. W. Huey of Ardmore and J. L. Hardeman of Arizona.  Thirteen 
grandchildren and several great grandchildren survive.

Born in Tennessee
T. E. Hardeman was born in Tennessee in 1839.  His first move was to 
Texas and from that state he came to Ardmore in 1891.  He was proprietor 
of the Commercial Hotel near the Santa Fe Station until the explosion of 
1915.  The building was wrecked.  Thomas E. Hardeman was always a success 
in business.  He raised a fine family of children and gave them the best 
advantages.  He had that sense of honor which was the characteristic of 
the pioneer in this country."