Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hardy, Jane L. Mahood, 1950 

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Mrs. Jane L. Hardy Buried Saturday in Petersburg, Va. 

  Mrs. Jane L. Mahood Hardy, 82, mother of Representative Porter Hardy, Jr., 
of the Second Congressional District, died Thursday, April 13th, at the home 
of her daughter, Mrs. J.M. Batten, at Smithfield. 

  Mrs. Hardy was born and reared in Petersburg, later moving to Lynchburg, 
where she taught school.  She was the widow of the Rev. Porter Hardy, 
Methodist minister, the daughter of the late Alexander Benjamin Mahood and 
Helen W. Phillips Mahood. 

  She is survived by five children, Mahood P. Hardy of Churchland; Mrs. J. 
Earl Moreland of Ashland; Miss Francis Hardy of Norfolk; Mrs. Batten, and 
Representative Hardy of Churchland.  Other survivors include a sister, Mrs. 
L.D. Horner, of Lynchburg; seven grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. 

  Funeral services were conducted Saturday, April 15th at 11 A.M. at the 
Batten home at Smithfield by the Rev. Herbert Southgate, pastor of Trinity 
Methodist Church, Alexandria.  Burial was in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg. 


Jane Long (MAHOOD; Mrs. Porter) HARDY, former teacher, 
b. 10 Feb 1869, Petersburg, d. 13 Apr 1950, at daughter's home, Smithfield, 
interred in Blandford Cemetery*, Petersburg, 15 Apr 1950, 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 32, No. 47, Apr. 19, 1950, p. 1, col. 5 

*Find a Grave Mem. #38759477 

Her parents are also buried there. (Find a Grave Mems. #28285927 & #28285853) 

Her brother-in-law Samuel HARDY was convicted of murdering Tiberius Gracchus 
   JONES, 26 Oct 1908, in Holland.  Aided by his brother and other prominent 
   supporters, he was pardoned Xmas 1920.  Coverage and notes at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/newspapers/19080208td.txt 


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