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Eppes - Ballard - Hardyman - Burton - Binford, &c.

   Eliza B. Atkinson

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4.
   (Apr., 1897), pp. 272-273.

                   EPPES-BALLARD-HARDYMAN-BURTON-BINFORD, &c.

   "Family record of my mother, who was Elizabeth Eppes; she had one Sister and one Brother,
who were Anne & Peter Eppes.  These three were all the children of Peter & Annie, my Grand
Father and Grand Mother.

   Ann, the Eldest, married John Holt, of Charles city County, Va., & died leaving no Child.
Peter Eppes married Lucy Ballard, of Charles City, and lived and died in Richd, Va., leaving
several children.  Elizabeth, my mother, married Littlebury Hardyman at the "Indian Fields",
Charles City County, at the age of 19 years.  They had 3 children, one Son & two daughters,
Erasmus Hardyman, who died an Infant; Susan Hardyman, the eldest, married John Southall, of
Charles City, Va., by whom she had 3 sons, Norborne, Albert, & William.  Louisa, the 2nd,
married George Hairston, of Henry County, Va., by whom she had 8 children, 5 Sons & three
daughters, who married, and all have families of children.  She died at Hordsville, the
residence of her husband, in 1847, in the 60th year of her Age.  Littlebury Hardyman, her
Father, was an only Son; he had 3 sisters, Susan, Fannie, & Lucy.  Susan, the Eldest, married
Daniel Jones, of Nottoway, Va.,

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by whom she had 3 sons:  Colo Littlebury Jones, of Florida, Daniel Jones & Hardyman Jones;
this was all of her family.  Fannie, the second, married Colo John Binford, of Northampton,
N. Carolina, by whom she had Sons & daughters.  Lucy, the youngest, married Colo John Bradley,
of "Laurel Hill", Charles City, Va., by whom she had 4 children:  Maria, who married Philip
Southall, Son of Wm Southall, and had two children, John & Lutilda; Lucy Stith Bradley [who]
married Colo Thomas Burton, of Richd, Va., & had three daughters, Maria, Lucy, & Louisa; 
Littlebury Bradley, the Eldest Son, married his Cousin maria Bradley, and resided at Mount
Gallant, near his Father; he died leaving several children, Sons & daughters; John M. Bradley
[who] married his Cousin Elizabeth Eppes, daughter of John Eppes.  John M. Bradley resides at
his Father's Homestead at "Laurel Hill", Charles City Coty, Va.  My Grandmother, whose maiden
name was Anne Hardyman, had two Brothers only & no sister; her brothers were Stith Hardyman
& John Hardyman.  Stith Hardyman married Rachel Tyler, Sister of Judge Tyler, of "Greenway",
Charles City Co., Va., and Father of Ex-President Tyler.  She had only one child, a Son,
call'd Tyler.  John Hardyman was an Officer of the Revolution, and died an Old Bachelor in
the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City, Va.

   This family record is made from Memory by the last and Oldest member of the family now
living; it should be preserved as an interesting Relic at the request of the Author.
                                 ELIZA B. ATKINSON(1),
                                      Magna Vista, Va.

_________________________________________________
   (1) This lady, whose maiden name was Cocke, and was half-sister of Louisa Hardyman, who
married George Hairston, of Henry county, has been dead some time.  She died in Paducah,
Kentucky.