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  1. Abel Harding: Birth: 1798 in Adair County, Kentucky. Death: ABT 1861 in Hancock County, Illinois

  2. Robert V. Harding: Birth: ABT 1807 in Kentucky.

  3. Felix Harding: Birth: 11 JUL 1809 in Kentucky. Death: 5 APR 1875 in Hancock County, Illinois

  4. Abijah Harding ??: Birth: 1815.

  5. Silas Harding: Birth: 1817 in Adair County, Kentucky. Death: UNKNOWN

  6. John Marion Harding: Birth: 15 JUL 1819 in Adair County, Kentucky. Death: 7 APR 1894 in Goliad County, Texas

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  8. Dwight Harding


Notes
a. Note:   Harding's-From a book, "Early Pioneers and Pioneer Events of the state of Illinois".
 John J. Hardin- one of the most influential men of the state of Illinois. Stopped a duel between Abe Lincoln and a man named Shields.
 Hon. John J. Hardin-Legistature in 1840-1841. Illinois 29th Congress.
  John Harding-Resided in the Bear Creek region, not far from the present village of Chili. The three Hardings named in these lists must have been among the earliest, it not the very first, settlers in the South part of the county. The name of John Harding appears as one of the jurors while the county was attached to Adams, in 1827. He sold the farm on which he resided, adjoining the town of Chili, to Elisha Worrell, Esq., in 1835, and removed to parts unknown.
 Robert Harding-A relative, as supposed of John Harding, one of the grand jurors. As was also Aaron Harding-and all resided in the same vicinity. Green Harding, a present resident there, is a relative of the family, to whom we made application for information, but without success. By 1830, there was sufficient population in the eastern portions of the county to justify two new election districts; first one called Crooked Creek, and the other Bear Creek. Bear Creek elections were at the house of John Harding. Robert Harding voted here. John Harding was on the Grand Jury which was selected June 1830-22 jurors were on this list.
 St. Alban's township-Two towns; Westpoint, laidout in March, 1856, by David Wigle. Stillwell; laidout in December, 1870, by William H. Zinn, and Arthur Stillwell.
 Among the early setters of the county, and who were here precedent to organization, we have the names of John Harding, and Robert and Aaron (Abel) Harding, who are supposed to have been his brothers or more distant relatives. John Harding transferred his claim, lying due west of and adjoining the villiage of Chili, to Elisha Worrell, Esq., in 1835, having occupied it for seven years.
 Green Harding, farmer; P.O., Stillwell; was born in 1820, in Adair County, Kentucky. He is a son of Abel and Julia (Bettisworth) Harding; his father was a native of Kentucky, and was born in 1798. His mother was born in Virginia in 1791. The subject of this sketch is the eldest of 12 children. He came to Hancock County, Illinois, with his parents, in 1831, which makes him one of the earliest settlers in this county. When his father settled here, there were only four families in St. Alban's township. His father lived the rest of his long and useful life in the county. He died in 1861. At the age of 17, Mr. Green Harding left home and lived with an uncle for three years, giving most of his time to hunting. He was united in marriage in 1842, with Miss Sarah A. Stokes, who bore him 9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls. She died in October, 1862. He married his present wife, Elizabeth Bucklew, of Hancock County, Illinois in 1871, who was a native of Ohio and born in 1840. Julia R., Weslian G., and Edwin Irving G., have been born to them. Mr. Harding first located on land on which a part of the town of Stillwell now stands. He lived there 20 years, when, in 1863, he sold out and purchased the farm on which he now lives. Mr. Harding owns 166 acres of improved land. His home surrounding are such as will make his old age a pleasant one. He has been school trustee for 20 years and Justice of the Peace 10 years. He began his Christian life with the M.E. Church, but now he is a believer in the Universalist doctrine.


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