John Cole's wife was Nancy
HARDIN (
Harden). He was the son of Nathan
Cole and Mary Daufet
Jett. I believe that she could of been the brother of my Samuel
Harden that married Harret
Greene. HarrieT's mother was Elizabeth
Cole. Elizabeth
Cole was Nathan's 1/2 sister.
And yes......The
Cole,
HARDIN (
Harden),
Patten (
Patton), and Friend Families in
Washington and Delaware counties all inter-married each other.
Are you descended from the Richard
Patten (
Patton) that was the son of William & Mary (
Harden)
Patton? Richard's sister was Ruth
Patton?
Click the link below, and you will see how this all comes together. By starting with John
Cole, and Nancy
HARDIN(
Harden).
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&...DON'T FORGET TO SEE THE 'INDEX' OF MY
SITE. THERE YOU CAN SEEN ALL THE
Harden,
Patton,
Cole NAMES IN MY DATABASE.
I have a copy of the below "originial" 1839 letter that was written by
Harriet Greene Harden to her sister Sylvina & her husband, Joel
Dodge (My 4th Gr. Grandparents). It it she mentions, Ruth
Patton, John
Harden, Sally & George Friend. Sally's maiden name was
Harden. She was the sister of Samuel
Harden, and Mary
Harden, who married William
Patton.
Below is a transcribed version of a copy of a letter written by
Harriet (
Greene)
Harden to her sister, Sylvinia (
Greene)
Dodge on May 13, 1839. (Found the copy of the 'orginial' letter' in the
Dodge family file at the
Washington Co., Ohio Historical & Genealogy Library.) I believe that
Harriet (
Greene)
Harden was living in
Liberty Twp,
Delaware County,
Ohio (census 1830 & '40) at the time she wrote this letter. In 1849 they were living somewhere in Iowa (fr. Julia Cutler's Diary), but by 1850 they were in La Salle Co., Illinois. Samuel
Harden died in LaSalle Co., 1856. Harriet died ??? in Sheldon, Iroquios Co., Illinois according to the 1882 book "Counties of
Porter and Lake
Indiana." The book does not give the state or county she died. Thanks to Teri
Gregg, she sent me the death record for
Harriet.
This letter was hard to read at times, and took some time decipering the old handwriting styles when transcribing it, with sometimes I had to use a magnifying glass.
(The ____ (spaces indicate that it was unreadable) The ?'s indicate that the word was questionable. There were no periods or captial letters to indicate the beginning and ending of a sentence. Only the "I"s and names were captialized. This is typed just as it was written with leaving 3 spaces to seperate sentences).
(Front cover of letter):
Attn: Joel
DodgeWarren Township
Washington County
Ohio
Point
Harmar office
May 14, 1839 (seal)
(1st pg.)
Dear brother & Sister
I now set down to write you a few lines to let you know that we recieved your letter in march which brought us bad news of our fathers death which was sad news to us you say he is gone can be be possible that we are left fatherless our dear widowed mother make her decling days as happy as possible --- Sister so be a comfort to her I want her to spend the remainder part of her days in peace I hope all you that are there will be a comfort to her give my love to her or tell her that I will remember her till the last you did mpt write how long father was confined to his bed these _____(lives) leaves us well except myself I have dad a pain in my left side on ____ ____ks which makes me not able to do much it has been quite sickly here this winter with bad colds which ____ ____ with a pain(?) in the side and shoulder which not(?) many(?) deaths Ruth
Patten is dead I want some of you to come up and visit(?) us this fall
Amos told Asa last fall that he was a coming out hear this fall tell him he must come or I shall bee much disopointed there has the appearance of fruit tell Jonathan that we will write to him soon tell him that we have not forgot him I am truely glad to hear that he was once more settled if there is any comfort to bee taken in this world s___ (samuel?) has the sold all of his hay at 8 dollars a ton I don't expect we shall stay this place no longer than in next spring where we will go I don't know tell all of my brothers and sisters that I will write to them and I want them to write ____ ____ give my love to your children and tell them to come and see their aunt. He tells
Amos that he must tell ___ son (?) to come with him I cant come if we do move till my children git old enough to take care at home but yours is now so that you can leave them tell Mother I want to see her very bad
(nxt. pg.)
you(scratched out) we have write to you as ofter as you do did you forget that you took a letter out of the office but a short time ago from us we will try and pay the postage if we have to borrow the money we have a few bacon hams to sell yet and a few oats and possibley by the time you write we can get enough money to pay the postage you must ____ that you are all there and but one hear if we could set down and write you all a letter it would take some time I would rather wash all day than to set down to write a letter Sally Friend and George will bee hear to day they come to John Hardens on saturday I want you to write us soon as you git this give my love to brothers and sisters no more at this time
/s/
Harriet Harden(her signature)
(same pg)
In answer to what Joel has wrote to me I will write a few lines which will bee as many as he wrote, these leaves us well we was bery glad to here from you all but very sorry to hear of the loss of your parent, we will try to answer you letters as ofter as you will send there we have wrote to you as often as you have wrote to us since we began this letter the frost has kild the bigest part of the fruit, produce of all kinds bears a high price & is very scarce we shall look for some of you out this summer or fall to see us I expect we shall leave this place next spring I do not know but I shall go to the Indiania country I want you to write to us as soon as you git this give my love to all & tell them I want them to write to us no more at this time but remain your brother till death
/s/ ~~~Samuel
Harden(his signature)
May the 13th 1839 Joel & Sylvina
Dodge