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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ira Lee Hardin: Birth: 29 MAR 1903 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas. Death: 29 JUN 1946 in Staten Island, New York

  2. Aubrey Hardin: Birth: 18 JUL 1904 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas. Death: 14 JUN 1905 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas

  3. Floyd Abijah Hardin: Birth: 6 NOV 1906 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas. Death: 11 DEC 1996 in Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

  4. Orville William Hardin: Birth: 17 MAR 1909 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas. Death: 18 OCT 1965 in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas

  5. Inez Velma Hardin: Birth: 6 JUL 1911 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas. Death: 8 APR 1983 in Logan, California

  6. Paul Garner Hardin: Birth: 19 NOV 1914 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas. Death: 6 DEC 1983 in Dallas, Texas

  7. Wilson Hardin: Birth: 2 NOV 1916 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas. Death: 11 JAN 1917 in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas


Sources
1. Title:   Letter from son, Floyd Abijah Hardin, dtd 3/21/1979

Notes
a. Note:   Abijah Garner Hardin was raised most of his early life in and around Hunt, Kerr County, Texas on his father's ranch. He later moved to Rising Star, Texas and married Texas Viola Clark. Not a lot of information is known at this time about the Clark family, but it has been said that they were descended from the explorer, William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark fame.
  Abijah was known as "Judge Hardin", and was a Justice Court Judge. Apparently this did not pay much in those days, and so he had a second career as a newspaper owner and publisher. Between 1914 and 1916, Abijah ran the newspaper in Rising Star, Texas, which was called "The Rising Star Leader". In 1916, he moved his family to Tolar, Oklahoma, where again he was the Justice Cort Judge, and ran a newspaper called "The Tolar Messenger". In 1918, he moved his family again, to Ft. Towsen, Oklahoma, where he again was the Justice Court Judge. He started his third newspaper there, called "The Fort Towsen News". His sons all worked on his newspapers while they were growing up, and Orville William Hardin made "Printing" his career. Ira Lee Hardin also listed his civilian occupation as "Printer". According to Floyd Abijah Hardin, the boys also occasionally helped with his court work, by serving papers and the printing office served a duel purpose as a court room.
  Abijah Garner was described as a very "judicial, stern, and domineering, but fair man". Mamie (Hearn) Hardin tells a story of how shortly after her marriage to Paul, she had a "nose to nose" confrontation with her father-in-law, "Bige", and she ran him out of her kitchen with an iron skillet". After that they became the best of friends, and he had a deep respect for her. He became a loving grandfather to her children, and often boasted to his friends of his "nice" daughter-in-law. It appears that Grandpa "Bige" Hardin had to learn that a "Hearn" could be just as stubborn as a "Hardin", and that he couldn't buffalo his young daughter-in-law. Mamie was only sixteen years old at the time.
  The above information was furnished by Ira Wayne Hardin, grand son of Abijah Garner.


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