Children of John Hardie and Isabel Cousin Hardie

James Hardie

[This table is based on the best information available to The Thornhill Foundation as of 10Feb08. Corrections or additions should be mailed to W. H. Hardie, P. O. Box 1988, Mobile, AL 36633 USA or e-mailed to comments@thornhill.org.]

9. James Hardie (a twin) was born 12 August 1800 in Saline, Fife, Scotland, the ninth child of John Hardie and Isabel Cousin Hardie. He was the youngest son in the family (his younger brother Alexander had died young). James Hardie is identified as a wine merchant of Edinburgh in some sources. James Hardie was married 10 December 1833 to Sarah Elizabeth Bladworth of Yorkshire, England. Sarah was born on 9 August 1812 in Edinburgh and was the daughter of William Bladworth, who died 18 March 1842, and Jane Bladworth, who died 28 February 1860. James and Sarah Hardie lived in Edinburgh and had eleven children, nine of whom, six sons and three daughters, lived to adulthood. James Hardie died 5 January 1866 in Edinburgh. Sarah died on 18 January 1891 in Edinburgh.

      9.1. John Hardie was born 14 December 1835 and died 6 December 1889 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was married 3 June 1862 in Edinburgh to Eliza Clark. She was born in 1842 and was the daughter of George Clark and Mary Wright .She died on 30 November 1930 at 15 Rothesay Place in Edinburgh.

            9.1.1. Mary Clark Hardie was born 20 May 1863 in Edinburgh. She was married in Edinburgh in 1902.

            9.1.2. James Hardie was born 25 September 1864 in Edinburgh.

            9.1.3. George Clark Hardie was born 5 October 1866 in Edinburgh. He died in Edinburgh at the age of two years.

      9.2. William Bladworth Hardie was born 19 November 1837 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was married in September 1871 in Goole, England, to Elizabeth Coulman and died 18 December 1910. Elizabeth was born about 1847 in England and died 13 September 1893 in Edinburgh. William and Elizabeth had one child, a daughter

            9.2.1 Beatrice Ann Hardie who was born in 1878. Beatrice was married to Thomas Frank Aitchison on 17 January 1906 at St Giles, Edinburgh, Scotland. Beatrice died on 11 January 1953 in Colinton, Edinburgh. Child:

                  9.2.1.1 W F Aitchison

      9.3. Joseph Hardie was born 22 February 1840 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died 19 March 1841.

      9.4. Jane Bladworth Hardie was born 14 November 1842 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Jane Bladworth Hardie was married 4 April 1876 in Edinburgh to Peter Lorimer Cattanach (born 4 November 1832 in Edinburgh, son of William Cattanach and Janet Lorimer, died 19 May 1908 Edinburgh). Peter Cattanach was an advocate in Edinburgh who practiced into his 70's. Jane Bladworth Hardie Cattanach died 18 January 1895. Children:

            9.4.1. Joseph Hardie Cattanach was born in 1877 in Edinburgh. He was a civil servant. Died 1937 Edinburgh.

            9.4.2. Janet Lorimer Cattanach was born 1878 in Edinburgh.

            9.4.3. Peter Lorimer Cattanach [II] was born 1879 in Edinburgh. He was apprenticed as a certified accountant in Edinburgh. He died 24 September 1905 in St. Louis, Missouri. Evidently he left property in Scotland because his estate was admitted to probate in Edinburgh. Apparently there was no marriage nor any children for he left his estate to his father.

            9.4.4. James Edwin Cattanach was born 17 May 1880 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He emigrated to Canada, and served in the Canadian Army in World War I. He died in Canada.

            9.4.5. John Alva Cattanach was born 1882 in Edinburgh. In the 1901 census he was listed as a clerk, living at his father’s home. He died in Johannesburg.

            9.4.6. David Lorimer Cattanach was born 1883 in Edinburgh. In the 1901 census he was listed as a scholar, living at his father’s home.

            9.4.7. Mary Elizabeth Cattanach was born 17 July 1889 in Edinburgh. In the 1901 census she was listed as a scholar, living at her father’s home. She died in March 1972 in Newbury, England.

      9.5. James Hardie [I] was born 10 June 1844 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died at age three months on 12 September 1844.

      9.6. Joseph Robert Hardie was born 28 November 1845 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died 11 February 1876. Joseph qualified as a doctor and specialized in surgery.

      9.7. James Hardie, the second child to bear the name, was born 24 December 1846 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died on 2 March 1899 in Aberdeen where he was a tea merchant. James Hardie was married on 20 December 1893 to Margaret Whyte, daughter of David Whyte and Elizabeth Tulloch. Child.

            9.7.1. Margaret Sarah Hardie born 20 July 1896 in Aberdeen. Margaret Hardie is said to have been married in France to Dr. Corwin Shaffner Cornell, of Knoxville, Marion County Iowa, but it is not confirmed. She is shown in the Iowa State Census for 1925. At the time of the census they had one Child.

                  9.7.1.1 Corwin David Cornell born 5 February 1924 in Des Moines, Iowa and died 27 April 2001 Chapel Hill Orange County, North Carolina. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery.

They are said to have also had a daughter but this is not confirmed:

                  9.7.1.2 Margaret Hardie Cornell

      9.8. Richard Bladworth Hardie was born 16 July 1848 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to the United States in 1869 and worked for his cousin, John Timmons Hardie, in New Orleans. He returned to England where he was married 6 August 1879 at Christ's Church, Chiswick, London, to Annie Elizabeth Ireland, the daughter of William Ireland of Reedness, Yorkshire. According to family lore, Annie was left out of her father’s will because she married a Scotsman, but it may simply have been the traditional practice of leaving property to the male child. In any event, Richard brought his wife Annie back to the United States in 1879 through New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic forced them to continue on to Texas where they stopped first in Dallas. They moved to a ranch in Slidell, Texas, where two of their children were born. From there they moved in 1886 to Arkansas where he managed a plantation called Red Leaf near Lake Village, Arkansas. According to family tradition, Red Leaf had been owned by Wade Hampton and a grandson of John C. Calhoun, but it was sold to a New York banker who hired Richard to manage it. When Richard left Arkansas in 1899, he went to Dallas, Texas, where he and his brother David opened the Hardie Seed Company which continued to be run by Richard's son after the deaths of the brothers.

      Richard Bladworth Hardie died at his home at 2709 Howell Streets, Dallas, Texas, on 14 July 1917. Annie Eliza died 26 October 1936 in Dallas, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annie H. Greenwood. Richard and Annie Eliza Hardie had five children:

            9.8.1. Annie Ireland Hardie (Nana) Nana Hardie married Hardy Greenwood of Dallas, Texas. She died in 1952, and she is buried in Dallas. Children:

                  9.8.1.1. Anne Greenwood was born in Dallas, Texas. She moved to Leland, Mississippi, in 1934 after finishing college, and she lived with her uncle Will Hardie. Anne Greenwood was married in 1935 in Leland, Mississippi, to Joseph Cecil Noble (died November 1973 in Leland, Mississippi). They lived in Leland, Mississippi. Anne Greenwood died in 1987. One adopted child:

                        9.8.1.1.1. Anne Elizabeth Noble was born 2 February 1945 in Leland, Mississippi. Anne Noble was married in Leland, Mississippi, to Carroll Dennis Elmore. Children.

                              9.8.1.1.1.1. Anne Hardie Elmore, a twin, was born 5 December 1979.

                              9.8.1.1.1.2. Elizabeth Aline Elmore, a twin, was born 5 December 1979.

                              9.8.1.1.1.3. Lisa Harriett Elmore was born 11 January 1981.

                  9.8.1.2. Hardy Greenwood, Jr. was born 16 September 1915 in Dallas, Texas. He served in World War II, and he ran a par three golf course and driving range. He was married to Gray Dotson of Texarkana, Texas. Hardy Greenwood, Jr. died 18 December 1990 in Dallas, and he is buried in the family plot in Dallas. Two adopted children:

                        9.8.1.2.1. Hardy Greenwood III, an adopted boy, was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He was married first in 1976 in Dallas, Texas, to Lynda. Child.

                              9.8.1.2.1.1. Ryan Greenwood was born in 1977 in Dallas, Texas.

Hardy Greenwood III (9.8.1.2.1.) was married second and had one child.

                              9.8.1.2.1.2. Dallas James Greenwood was born in 1980 in Dallas, Texas

Hardy Greenwood III died before 1990.

                        9.8.1.2.2. Nettie Anne Greenwood was born 22 May 1958 in Fort Worth, Texas. Nettie Greenwood was married in Dallas, Texas, to David Rush. They lived in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Children.

                              9.8.1.2.2.1. Christie Gray Rush

                              9.8.1.2.2.2 Angela Rene Rush

                              9.8.1.2.2.3. Kelly Lynn Rush

                  9.8.1.3. Aline Greenwood died young in an automobile accident.

            9.8.2. William Howat Hardie was born in 1882 on the ranch in Slidell, Texas. Will Hardie died in Leland, Mississippi, and was buried in the Stoneville Cemetery. Will Hardie was married first to Nina Partee. They had two children.

                  9.8.2.1.

                  9.8.2.2. Nina Mai Hardie. Nina Mai Hardie was married first to Robert Holmes. They were divorced, and she was married second 20 November 1951 to Louis Furbringer. They lived in Memphis, Tennessee. He died 6 April 1985 in Memphis, and she died in June 1997 in Memphis. They had no children.

Will Hardie (9.8.2.) was divorced from Nina Partee in 1931 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was married second to Aimee Feltus Aldridge. Aimee had three children from an earlier marriage, Aimee Aldridge, Billy Aldridge, and Hannah Aldridge. Will and Aimee Hardie had one child.

                  9.8.2.3. Camille Percy Hardie was born 20 July 1930 in Greenville, Mississippi. She was married to Tom Owens Massey. They had two children.

                        9.8.2.3.1. Aimee Elizabeth Massey (Beth) was born 1 June 1952 in Greenwood, Mississippi. Beth Massey was married 14 July 1973 in Greenwood, Mississippi, to Harold Ware Bridges. They lived in Silver City, Mississippi. Children.

                              9.8.2.3.1.1. Lauren Camille Bridges, a girl, was born 26 July 1976 in Greenville, Mississippi.

                              9.8.2.3.1.2. Aimee Reed Bridges (Reed), a girl, was born 13 July 1980 in Greenville, Mississippi.

                        9.8.2.3.2. Tom Owens Massey, Jr. was born 3 December 1953 in Leland, Mississippi. He was married 22 December 1984 in Edwards, Mississippi, to Kimberly Lynn Daniel (born Jackson, Mississippi). Tom and Kimberly lived in Jackson, Mississippi.

Camille Hardie (9.8.2.3.) was married second 15 December 1973 to Sam Buck (born April 1922) of Lexington, Mississippi. They had no children.

            9.8.3. James Hardie was born in 1884 in Slidell, Texas. He lived in Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois. He was active in banking and politics. He served as a delegate from Illinois to the Democratic National Convention in each of the presidential election years of 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940. He was married to Lucille Anderson. They had three children.

                  9.8.3.1. James Hardie, Jr.

                  9.8.3.2. Margaret Hardie She lived in Kansas City, Missouri, and she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

                  9.8.3.3. Dorothy Hardie

            9.8.4. John Timmons Hardie was born 1 December 1887 in Lake Village, Arkansas. He lived in Dallas, Texas. He was married to Harriet Burd Goodman (born 23 December 1888 in Kansas City, Missouri; died 9 May 1978). John Timmons Hardie was in the wholesale grocery business. He died 14 November 1975 in Dallas. They had three children.

                  9.8.4.1. Harriet Elizabeth Hardie (Elizabeth). Elizabeth Hardie was married 27 November 1938 to Norwood Ledford Garrett born 1 November 1915 in Oklahoma). They lived in Farmington, New Mexico. She died in Farmington 30 October 1982. Children.

                        9.8.4.1.1. Norman Ledford Garrett, Jr. was born 14 July 1947 in Dallas, Texas. He was married first to Elizabeth Rowe. Children.

                              9.8.4.1.1.1. Christopher Garrett was born 4 April 1972 in Farmington, New Mexico.

                              9.8.4.1.1.2. Amy Garrett was born 16 July 1974 in Farmington, New Mexico.

Norman Garrett, Jr. (9.8.4.1.1.) was divorced from Elizabeth Rowe. He was married second to Cris in 1975. Children:

                              9.8.4.1.1.3. Heather Garrett was born in 1976 in Farmington, New Mexico.

                              9.8.4.1.1.4. Michael Garrett was born in 1981 in Farmington, New Mexico.

                  9.8.4.2. John Timmons Hardie, Jr. He died 14 June 1994.

                        9.8.4.2.1. John David Hardie (David) was born 15 September 1938 in Dallas, Texas. He was married 20 December 1963 in Irving, Texas, to Sandra Sue Hamilton (born 9 April 1939 in Irving, Texas). Children:

                              9.8.4.2.1.1. Carol Suzanne Hardie, an adopted girl, was born 3 July 1969 in Irving, Texas. Carol was married to Randy William Lander on 22 May 1999 in Austin, Texas. Child:

                                    9.8.4.2.1.1.1 Kaitlin Olivia Lander born 27 March 2003 in Austin, Texas.

                              9.8.4.2.1.2. Jennifer Catherine Hardie, an adopted girl, was born 16 June 1971 in Irving, Texas. She was married to Mark Douglas Austin on 15 March 1997 in Dallas, Texas. Children:

                                    9.8.4.2.1.2.1 John Douglas Austin was born 10 January 2001 in Dallas, Texas.

                                    9.8.4.2.1.2.2 David James Austin was born 9 October 2003 in Dallas, Texas.

                              9.8.4.2.1.3. Amy Patterson Hardie, a twin, was born 7 June 1974 in Irving, Texas.

                              9.8.4.2.1.4. Anna Elizabeth Hardie, a twin, was born 7 June 1974 in Irving, Texas. She was married to Jason Theodore Pounds on 14 November 1998 in Dallas, Texas.

                        9.8.4.2.2. Barbara Anne Hardie (Anne) was born 27 December 1939 in Dallas, Texas. She was married 6 June 1958 in Rockwell, Texas, to Philip Eugene Grubbs. Anne Hardie and Philip Grubbs were divorced. Children.

                              9.8.4.2.2.1. Philip Eugene Grubbs, Jr. was born 27 March 1959 in Dallas, Texas. Philip Grubs Jr. is a physician, and he worked in New York City, New York.

                              9.8.4.2.2.2. Dee Anne Grubbs was born 14 June 1960 in Plano, Texas. She was married 28 January 1984 in Plano, Texas, to David Givin Lane. Child.

                                    9.8.4.2.2.2.1. Shirey Kynthia Lane was born 11 October 1986 in Dallas, Texas.

                              9.8.4.2.2.3. Kelly Grubbs, a girl, was born 16 August 1962 in Dallas, Texas. She was married 23 June 1982 in Plano, Texas, to Christopher McClintock. Child.

                                    9.8.4.2.2.3.1. Christopher Robert McClintock was born 19 January 1983.

                        9.8.4.2.3. Marilyn Norwood Hardie (Susie) was born 4 May 1943 in Dallas, Texas. She was married 22 June 1963 in Dallas, Texas, to Thomas Fitzgerald Stone.

                  9.8.4.3. Evelyn Ruth Hardie (Ruth) was born in Dallas, Texas. She was married in Dallas to Gerald Winfred Tankersley (died 6 September 1976 in McAllen, Texas). Child.

                        9.8.4.3.1. Gerald Hardie Tankersley was born 5 March 1938 in Dallas, Texas. Gerald Tankersley was married first 8 June 1963 to Carolyn Alexander Kern. Child.

                              9.8.4.3.1.1. Robert Hardie Tankersley was born 25 July 1967 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Gerald Tankersley (9.8.4.3.1.) and Carolyn Kern were divorced. He was married second 15 September 1978 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Jane Ellen McWilliams. No children.

Ruth Hardie (9.8.4.3.) was married second 30 April 1982 to Ernest John Stevens. No children. Ruth Hardie Tankersley died 18 December 2003 in Jupiter, Florida, following a brief illness.

            9.8.5. Richard Bladworth Hardie, Jr. was born 31 August 1890 in Lake Village, Arkansas, and he continued the family seed business in Dallas. Richard was married in Dallas, Texas, 14 August 1916 to Mary Belle Rice (born 31 August 1893 in Tennessee; died 1986 in San Antonio, Texas). He died in 1974.

                  9.8.5.1. Richard Bladworth Hardie (called Jr., but actually III) was born 22 September 1922 in Dallas, Texas. Richard B. Hardie lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, and for 35 years he was the minister of the Westover Hills Presbyterian Church in Little Rock. Dick Hardie was married first 2 September 1948 in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Mary Katherine (Kaky) Johnson (born 1925 in Shreveport, Louisiana; died 10 March 1984). Children:

                        9.8.5.1.1. Richard Bladworth Hardie III (actually IV) was born 18 February 1950 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Richard Hardie III was married 15 June 1974 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Emily Celeste White (born 15 December 1952 in Kansas City, Missouri). They lived in Redding, California.

                        9.8.5.1.2. Kathleen Hardie was born 26 November 1952 in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was married 26 June 1976 in Mt. Washington, Massachusetts, to Joseph Richard Stenger (born 25 July 1953 in Stockholm, Sweden). Children:

                              9.8.5.1.2.1. Patrick Hardie Stenger was born 14 June 1984 in Redding, California.

                              9.8.5.1.2.2. Bret Hardie Stenger was born 25 August 1987 in Redding, California.

                        9.8.5.1.3. Elizabeth Hardie was born 27 October 1958 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Elizabeth Hardie was married 20 August 1982 in Grand Lake, Colorado, to Theodore Lawrence James III (born 13 December 1957 in Denver, Colorado). Children.

                              9.8.5.1.3.1 William Hardie James was born 21 March 1988 in Grand Lake, Colorado.

                              9.8.5.1.3.2 Katherine Hardie James was born 15 April 1992 in Grand Lake, Colorado.

Richard Bladworth Hardie (9.8.5.1) was married second 16 December 1985 in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Carolyn Cole McEwen (born 25 November 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska). They had no children.

                  9.8.5.2. Mary Frances Hardie was born 13 November 1927 in Dallas, Texas. She was married 14 August 1948 in Dallas, Texas, to William Earle Martin. Children.

                        9.8.5.2.1. William Earle Martin, Jr. was born 24 November 1950 in Dallas, Texas. William Earle Martin, Jr. was married first in 1974 to Deborah Ireland. They were divorced in 1976. There were no children of his first marriage. William Earle Matin, Jr. was married second 20 November 1976 in Dallas, Texas, to Terry Lynn Elliott (born 25 December 1955 in Lubbock, Texas). They adopted two children.

                              9.8.5.2.1.1. William Elliott Martin was born 4 July 1985 in Los Angeles, California.

                              9.8.5.2.1.2. Mathew Jonathan Martin was born 21 April 1987 in San Antonio, Texas.

                        9.8.5.2.2. Gary Richard Martin was born 19 August 1954 in Fort Worth, Texas. Gary Martin was married first in 1979 in Waco, Texas, to Lisa Berma Griffin. They were divorced in 1984. One child:

                              9.8.5.2.2.1. Jason William Martin was born 13 April 1981.

Gary Martin (9.8.5.2.2) was married second 10 November 1985 in Dallas, Texas, to Joyce Ann McWilliams (born 16 September 1953 in Tyler, Texas). Children.

                              9.8.5.2.2.2. Jesse Tyler Martin was born 13 January 1988 in Dallas, Texas.

                              9.8.5.2.2.3. Evan Alexander Martin was born 10 February 1990 in Tyler, Texas.

      9.9. David Hardie was born 20 April 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He went to America in 1882 or 1883, and with his brother Richard opened the Hardie Seed Company which they founded in 1899 in Dallas. David Hardie never married. David Hardie died in Dallas, Texas, 22 March 1934, shortly before his 84th birthday.

      9.10. Sarah Elizabeth Hardie was born 8 April 1852 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Apparently she never married, as a “sister, Miss Sarah E Hardie of Edinburgh, Scotland” is mentioned in Richard Bladworth Hardie's obituary notice in 1917. Sarah Elizabeth Hardie died 22 March 1934.

      9.11. Isabella Hardie (Bella) was born 20 February 1855 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She died 4 February 1930. She married Edward McArthur Moir on 27 December 1886 in Edinburgh. Richard Bladworth Hardie's obituary notice in 1917 mentions a sister, “Mrs. I. McArthur Moir, of Colchester, England.” McArthur, as he preferred to be called according to directories, was born about 1848 and died in 1938 in Colchester. No known children.