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Note: , and that his mother was his mistress with whom he had children. Interestingly enough, I notice on the Marriage application for HENRY and PEGGY, that he was clearly listed as "colored", while PEGGY was listed as "black", when usually, they would list the couple by either or one of those distinctions. As a matter of fact, too, HENRY was listed as mulatto, while PEGGY was black in the one census that they were in. The JACOB NELMS, listed as the one who applied for the 1873 Marriage license for HENRY HARDY & PEGGY NEWELL, is found in Palmyra Twp (Scotland Neck), Halifax County, at age 58 (born 1822) a black man with wife named FRANCES in 1880. JACOB NELMS married FRANCES KEESNER, on June 18, 1877 in Halifax Co, NC, by STEWARD HARDY, J.P, witnesses were ROBERT BOWERS, NAT CLARK & STEVE HARDY, most all were black men, who lived in Palmyra Township by 1880, all listed on the same page; additionally, STEWARD HARDY had been enlisted in the U.S.Colored Troops from Halifax County. There is a Marriage License issued the same date Dec. 24, 1873 in Warren County for a JACOB HARDY, b. 1852, black, son of HENRY and VINIE HARDY, both Living, River Township. Another Marriage License for SARAH HARDY and SIMON BOYD, for April 15, 1871, shows parents as HENRY and LUVENIA HARDY; that HENRY and LUVENIA HARDY are first found in 1870 Township No.1 in Warren County, which shows as Sixpound Twp. where the family was listed in 1880. I had considered that they may have been mistakenly listed as my HENRY HARDY's parents, but further research has found they were definitely a different family, former slaves whose children were living with them in 1870 and nearby afterwards. I have that there were a lot of HARDY and HARRIS families, both black and white, living next to one another in Halifax County, Etrusia Twp, Littleton, in 1870 and I believe this is where my HENRY HARDY came from I currently don't know if my HENRY's mother, listed as CINDY HARRIS, was actually a free woman of color, or if she was a slave, there were many HARRIS who were FPOC as a matter of fact and I do wonder if CINDY belonged to one of the local families.
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DEMOCRATS ELECT SCHOOL COMMITTEEMEN GALORE IN WARREN COUNTY.
I suspect this may have been my ancestor:
On August 11, 1879, the following named colored men were appointed as school committeemen in the school districts, as named, viz: No. 1, Jack Hicks; No. 2, William Russell; No. 3, W. P. Wright; No. 4, Henry Blanche; No. 5, Jerre R.
Wright; No. 6, Buckner Falkner; No. 7, Cyrus Hunt; No. 8, James Plummer; No. 9, Armistead Falkner; No. 10, John Shearin; No. 11, HENRY HARDY; No. 12, George Eaton; No. 13, George Vanlandingham; No. 14, Reuben Hawkins; No. 15, Dallas Williams; No. 16, Sprigg Brehon; No. 17, Richard Boyd; No. 18, L. C. Johnson; No. 19, Cambridge Hawkins; No. 20, Charles Watson; No. 21, C. C. Christmas; No. 22, H. W. Carter and Isaac Alston; No. 23, Ben Powell; No. 24, Alfred Taylor; No. 25, Ben Cheek; No. 26, Joe Southerland; No. 27, Gus Falkner; No. 28, Corbin Boyd; No. 29, James H. Alston; No. 30, Alfred Richardson; the other members being white men.
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Note: I have been told by a cousin from this side of the family that HENRY HARDY's father was white
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