Person:John Hardin (39)

Capt. John Hardin

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Name^[1]	Capt. John Hardin
Gender	Male
Marriage		to Unknown
Death^[1]		Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United Stateskilled in a charge against the Indians

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Greene County Biographical Sketches, in Goodspeed Publishing Company. Goodspeed's history of Tennessee: containing historical and biographical sketches of thirty east Tennessee counties: Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, Washington. (Nashville, Tennessee: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886-1887).

... The great-grandfather [John Hardin] was killed in a charge against the Indians near the site of Chattanooga. He was a captain, and made the charge against his own judgment, knowing it was certain death. His dying message to his wife was that their unborn child might be given his name, and that boy became one of the pioneers of Greene County, ...