General Notes

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It is said that Lewis G. Harding was riding horseback through Taylor, MS
when he saw Eliza Yancy in her yard. He was so taken with her beauty that
he stayed and spent the night. He lingered there and married her. They
inherited the Yancy homestead and had 11 or 12 children. The Yancy
property is located about 5 miles west of Taylor. Later it was known as
the Browning place. The Harding family cemetery is located there and
there are no markers.
1830 FEDERAL CENSUS--STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA (page 64, no township
listed): LEWIS HARDIN was listed in the census, here. (See family group
record for MARK HARDING.)
1830/1837: Sometime during this period, LEWIS G. HARDING moved to
Tennessee from Virginia (per Joan Goar Bratton). (He was listed in the
1830 Federal Census for Stafford Co., VA.)  He met and married ELIZABETH
JANE YANCEY, probably about 1837, in Tennessee. By 1839, they had already
made the move to north Mississippi (see 1839 note, below), where their
second child was born, in December of that year. After ELIZA JANE YANCEY
died (in 1858), LEWIS HARDING later married JANE HESTER, who was ELIZA
Jane’s sister, on 2 Apr 1860 @@Lafayette Co., MS. (No children by this
marriage.) (Note: I have also heard that LEWIS G. HARDING mar 2 REBECCA
JOHNSON, and there were no children by this marriage. Need to prove.)
1843: LEWIS HARDING gave his father MARK HARDING power of attorney for
managing his share of his grandmother CLARKY HARDING's estate, including
his share of the slaves inherited from her.
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS--LAFAYETTE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI (page 261-262, no
township listed, taken 7 Oct 1850, by JOSH McKAY):
Living in Dwelling 510 was the family of LOUIS HARDING, age 28, a farmer,
b. @@VA. His wife was ELIZA J. HARDING, age 30, also b. @@VA. They listed 5
children, all b. @@MS--(1) FERDINAND HARDING (age 12), (2) ALONZO B.
HARDING (age 10), (3) PARMENCO C. HARDING (age 7, mistakenly noted as a
female by the census taker), (4) PHILIP HARDING (age 3), and (5) LOUIS P.
HARDING (age 1). Also listed in their household were MARTHA NICHOLAS (age
18, b. @@TN) and ELIJAH P. HARDING (age 35, b. @@VA). (Do not know the
relationship of MARTHA NICHOLAS to the family, but ELIJAH HARDING was the
brother of LEWIS G. HARDING (see family group record for their father
MARK HARDING.)
1850 Lafayette Co., MS census, pages 74 & 75
Louis Harding 38 VA Farmer
Eliza J. 30 NC
Ferdinand 12 MS
Alonzo B. 10 MS
Parmeno C. 07 MS
Mary H. 04 MS
Phillip 03 MS
Louis P. 01 MS
Martha Nicholas 18 TN
Elijah P. Harding 35 VA [brother to Lewis?)
1860 FEDERAL CENSUS--PARIS (LAFAYETTE), MISSISSIPPI (taken by G. W.
PARIS, 8 Sep 1860, page 98):
Living in Dwelling 642 (Family 642) was the household of LEWIS G.
HARDING. He was reported as age 48, a carpenter by occupation, owning
real estate valued at $1800 and personal estate valued at $1200, b. @@VA.
Living in his household were (1) LOUISA HARDING (age 25, b. @@SC), (2)
PHILLIP HARDING (age 12, b. @@MS), (3) LEWIS HARDING (age 10, b.@@MS),
(4)WILLIAM HARDING (age 9, b. @@MS), (5) JOHN HARDING (age 6, b. @@MS), (6)
ARABELLA HARDING (age 3, b. @@MS, noted as a twin on the report), and (7)
DUL HARDING (age 3, b. @@MS, noted as twin on the report).
1870 Feb 26: L. G. HARDING was indebted to J. S. TAYLOR AND CO. for $32
worth of supplies furnished to help make his crop of 1870. In return for
his entire cotton and corn crop that year, plus one bay horse about 12
years old, the company furnished the supplies. Filed 28 Mar 1870.
(Lafayette County Mississippi Deed Records, Book M, pages 326-327.
1871 Dec 19: LEWIS J. HARDING (middle initial should be “G.”) deeded to
his stepson ANDREW A. JOHNSTON, one yoke of oxen (5 years old), one yoke
of oxen (two years old), 2 milk cows (one 10 years old, the other 6 years
old), one heifer (3 years old), 2 yearlings (one year old), and one
sorrel horse (5 years old). Filed 23 Jan 1872.