HARDY FAMILY PAPERS
Manuscript MS-069
1871-1937
SOURCE: Margaret Stovall estate, Atlanta, GA, 1986
SIZE: 1 linear foot
SHELVING UNITS: 1 Manuscript box 1 Volume, RB-28.08
2 Photographs folders
PROCESSING: RAA, September 1986
SOURCE NOTE
These records were compiled by Carrie Lee Hardy (Mrs. William Russell Stovall)(1879-1935), and her daughter, Margaret (1905-1985). Carrie Stovall was the daughter of Otis Dallis Hardy (1846-1922) and Emily Baba McGee (1847-1881). She was born in Troup County, but following her marriage she moved to Atlanta, where she lived the remainder of her live. Margaret Stovall was a lifetime resident of Atlanta. The records came to the Troup County Archives from the estate of Miss Margaret Stovall.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
Mrs. Stovall's ancestors, the Hardys and McGees, were pioneer Troup County farmers, settling in the southeastern corner of the county adjacent to the Meriwether County line. This collection includes Mrs. Stovall's research notes on Hardy and McGee genealogy. The notes deal mostly with the family of otis D. Hardy, his father, Josiah, and grandfather, Thomas, who came to Troup County from Edgefield County, South Carolina, about 1830. McGee information consists of notes on the family of John Wesley McGee (1803-1867) and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Stinson (1810-1883).
Family photographs, cat 1870-1922, and a collection of newspaper clippings about family members are included. Otis D. Hardy's Bible and his Masonic Lodge manual and law digest are also part of the collection. Photocopies of genealogical data from the Bible are included in the Archives' Vertical File under HARDY FAMILY. A separate collection of Hardy family photographs, TRP-33, are also available.
CONTAINER LIST
Folder 1 Genealogical research notes: Hardy
2 Genealogical research notes: McGee
3 Georgia land grant records: Hardy and McGee
4 Newspaper clippings, includes some obituaries
5 Memorabilia
Family record of William Russell Stovall
Stovall Baptist Church Bulletin, 30 April 1911
Post Card, Stovall Baptist Church, c 1911
Receipt for taxes, O.D. Hardy, 1891,1904
Receipt for milling wheat, Troup Factory Mills, 1871
6 Aiken's Lodqe Manual and Masonic Law Digest, O.D Hardy
7 LaGrange Reporter, 3 May 1867, features articles on Reconstruction
PHOTOGRAPH INVENTORY
1 unknown infant
2 Mrs. Thomas Hardy?
3 Thomas Hardy
4-6 Emily Baba McGee Hardy 7-9 Carrie Lee Hardy
10 Willie and Carrie Hardy
11 Carrie Hardy Stovall and Margaret Stovall
12 John W. McGee, Jr.
13 Mrs. Geroge W. McGee
14 Stovall Baptist Church, Stovall, GA, c. 1911
ITEMS SEPARATED
Hardy Family Bible, RB-28.08
RELATED PAPERS AT TROUP COUNTY ARCHIVES
TRP-33 Hardy Family Photographs
MS-70 County Line Baptist Church Records
OBITUARIES
Dix, James T., n.d. Beall, James M., 1886 Dallis, H.W., 1886
Boyd, A.E., 15 June 1870
McGee, John Wesley, 3 May 1867, LaGrange Reporter Hardy, Joseph, 9 June 1922
Hardy, O.D., 10 February 1922
Hardy, Thomas, 14 November 1870
Gay, Caroline, 25 January 1922
Hardy, Laura A., 2 Febraury
Hardy, L.L., 18 June 1902
Moncrief, Sallie, 21 September 1902, LaGrange Reporter Hardy, John T., 8 February 1930
Hardy, Ann, 31 January 1891
Hardy, Richard D., 30 October 1892
Hardy, Thomas, Mrs., 17 October 1937
Hardy, Naomi, 3 February 1893
Cameron, Gabliella, 1886
TRACINGS
Hardy family McGee family Stinson family Hardy, Thomas M.
Stovall Baptist Church Troup Factory
Freemasons Reconstruction - Georgia
