Hello My Hardin Kin!
I have put together a draft tree of what I know so far of the descendents from Adlai and Cordelia. I've attached it for you. Please let me know if this is accurate and let me know where I've gone wrong. Also, if you have anything more you could attach, I would be grateful. I haven't signed up as a member of ancestry.com yet, so I can't access trees, but if that is the only way to access the information, then I'll join up. I would love to have dates and more notes about what these people were like, their occupations, etc. Thanks so much!
Samuel Hardin had
1) Melver Hardin
2) Adlai H Hardin
Cordelia (Dixie) Ophelia Evalina Jones (1859)
& Melver Hardin had two children, Minnie and Melver
1) Minnie
2) Melver (Richard) Hardin (b) 02/17/1889 in Marrianna Arkansas, 06/29/1972 (d) Chowchilla, CA & Flora Evelyn East 08/11/1892(b), 11/18/1991(d)
a. Charlotte Hardin Lesan (10 July 21)
Charlotte Montague Hardin born 10 July 1921 at Marianna, AR. Married James Edwin Lesan 1945, a public accountant.
i. 1. Lari Letitia Lesan, b 14 Oct 1946
ii. 2. Catherine Ann Lesan, b 9 Oct 1950 (FE,Z)
Martha Elizabeth Hardin born 26 January 1915 at Marianna, AR, died at Monteagle, 1916
Patricia Joan Hardin 13 October 1927 at Wasco, CA, married Robert Stanley Blackburn 1948. sportscaster for the Seattle Supersonics of the National Basketball Association,
1. Robert Henry Blackburn, b 11 Jan 1951
2. Beth Ann Blackburn, b 23 Jul 1953
3. Stanley Earl Blackburn, b 31 May 1955
4. David Brian Blackburn, b 15 Jan 1959
5. Bonnie Sue Blackburn, b 30 Dec 1960
6. Kathleen Patricia Blackburn, b 24 Apr 1963 (FE)
Richard Melver Hardin born 31 July 1917 at Marianna, AR., married Marie Sidney Phillips at Reno, NV on 23 April 1944, died in 1997 at 78.
1. Sheryl Ann Hardin, b 20 Aug 1945
2. Richard James Hardin, b 29 Jun 1948 (FE)
Cordelia (Dixie) Ophelia Evalina Jones# (b 1859) married Adlai H Hardin* (d 1925) after Melver died
1) Irvin Ingram (b 23 April, 1903) (died 16 May 1962, San Diego, 59 years from stomach cancer) Married Clemencia Caratinni
a. Adlai Benito Hardin (b 1928-d 2004), married Olive Mabel Druce (b 1935-d 1994)
i. Laura Jane Hardin (b 1956)
ii. Daniel Lee Hardin (b 1955)
iii. Jannis Lynn Hardin (b 1963)
b. Shirley (Dixie) Hardin (b?-d 2009)
i. Son 1
ii. Son 2
2) Marian
3) Lillian
4) Adlai Evalina Hardin Bass Hoyle & Roy Bass (Life notes, Roy’s father was Albert and his mother was Susie Ledbetter)
a. James Bass
b. Hal Bass (has a picture of Adlai H Hardin)
c. Roy Jr Bass
d. Ophelia Susie Bass (d 2004) and Michael ? (Life notes, Michael was born in Munkatch, Hungary and died on October 4th, 1989. Susie was born in Marianna Arkansas and died in 2004 in Grass Valley California & in 2010 still have 6 living brothers and sisters)
i. ? Bass and ? Clarke
1. Susan Clarke (corresponding on Ancestry.com)
e. Marian Bass (married Clyde Mitchell)
f. Lillian Bass
g. Minnie Bass (married Robert Tucker)
i. Son 1
ii. Son 2
h. Richard (Dick) Bass
i. Donald Wayne Bass
i. Diane Lewis, married to Tom (corresponding on Ancestry.com)