BTRVETC-L Digest Volume 99 : Issue 35 12 Jul 1999 Today's Topics: Burnett/Hardeman correction Burnett/Hardeman Correction HI CUZINS BURNETT WEB SITE "IS" WORKING!!!!! Re: Adam Turner Bible Transcriptions Administrivia: for the Burnett/Turner/Ross/Via/Etc Mailing List (BTRVETC-L) Post your queries to: btrvetc-l@genealogy.org (that's a lowercase ell, not a number one.) To unsubscribe, email btrvetc-d-request@genealogy.org with the SUBJECT: UNSUBSCRIBE. To subscribe to the regular list, email btrvetc-l-request@genealogy.org with the SUBJECT: SUBSCRIBE You can also use the web page at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/BTRVETC/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:04:43 -0700 From: "Rod D. Allen" To: Subject: Burnett/Hardeman correction Message-ID: <000001bec9c2$5242cae0$ad01480c@oemcomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Peter H. Burnett family bible transcription, which has recently been posted to the web site, has a probable error in that one of the children listed for Thomas Hardeman is named Thomas James Hardeman. The error was either made during the D.A.R. transcription or the error exists in the original copy of the bible. The correct name is probably Thomas Jones Hardeman as shown in the following article about Bailey and Thomas Jones Hardeman, brothers of Dorothy Hardeman (wife of George Burnett). Note to cousin Kevin--What a small world, I now live in San Francisco after retiring from the military but I lived in Leavenworth, Ks attended junior high school at Ft. Leavenworth and high school in Leavenworth (class of 1963) and college at Pittsburg, Ks (class of 1967). My grandmother, Mildred Turner Allen granddaughter of Glen Owen Burnet, is buried in the cemetary near the VA Hospital, Leavenworth, Ks.. Rod -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Bailey & Thomas Hardeman Written by Viola Hardeman Kraemer from the "Last Frontier" the story of Hardeman County, Texas by Bill Neal, 1966, published by Quanah Tribune-Chief, printed by Southwest Offset, Inc. Hardeman County was named in honor of Bailey Hardeman, 1795-1836, and his brother, Thomas Jones Hardeman, 1788-1854, for their valuable services to Texas in her struggle for independence from Mexico. The Hardeman men were pioneer settlers, builders, and soldiers of strength, courage, daring, and faith. To my knowledge, there have been no descendants of these men, who have lived in Hardeman County, but four of their great, great , great, grand nieces, Eula and Grace Hardeman, Helen Hardeman Hand of Wichita Falls, and Viola Hardeman Kraemer of Amarillo, have taught school in various towns in the county. Our father, the late James Maxwell Hardeman, was a friend of Colonel Charles Goodnight, and conversed quite often with Quanah Parker for whom Quanah was named. It was before the Revolutionary War that my forefathers emigrated to the United States from England, Ireland or Wales. John Hardeman, the only son of our emigrants was born about 1716. He married Dorothy Edwards from Ireland about 1746. The issue of this marriage was two sons, Thomas and John, and seven sisters. Thomas Hardeman, (father of Bailey and Thomas Jones) was the second child of this marriage and was born in 1750 in Virginia. He left home at the age of 13 with a party of hunter and trappers on a wild expedition to the Holston or Powells Valley, at that time the "western wilderness". H e returned the following year to his father's home, and as was customary in that day, he served his minority even though he was married in 1770 at the age of 20, to Mary Perkins, daughter of Nicholas Perkins, Sr. Histories of Tennessee and of Texas would not be complete without mention of Thomas Jones Hardeman, Hardeman County, Tennessee was named for him in recognition of his service to Tennessee, as a soldier in the war of 1812. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was a Captain when taken prisoner by the British in New Orleans and he was beaten over the head with a saber for refusing to give them information as to General Jackson's position when General Pickenham, the British Commander was ready to attack. He was confined on a ship and prevented from taking part in the victory of General Jackson and his troops in 1815. After this incident he was called "Colonel Hardeman". Colonel Hardeman was married to Mary Polk, daughter Ezekiel Polk in Maury County, Tenn. about 1814. She was an aunt of James K. Polk who became the President of the United States in 1845. When Colonel Ezekiel Polk, his son William Polk and son-in-law, Thomas McNeal and their families settled in West Tennessee in the early 1820's Colonel Hardeman and his family came also and they located in Hardeman County, Tennessee, and engaged in farming. Thomas Jones Hardeman, like his father before him, was greatly interested in the welfare of the settlers in the new country. In Book B, the first deed recorded in the county, states that Bailey Hardeman sold 840 acres of land to Thomas Jones Hardeman in 1822, for 1000 dollars cash. Witnesses; William Anthony, Thomas Hardeman, Jr., William Hardeman and Blackstone Hardeman. In 1829 Colonel Hardenam was then county clerk and one of three commissioners for the town. He looked after a large farm, and farming in those days meant that every acre had to be cleared of timber before it could be plowed. Mary Polk whom Thomas Jones Hardeman married in 1814 was born April 6, 1783, and died September 24, 1835. There were five children born to this union: Thomas Monroe, William Polk, Owen, Leonidas and Mary, the only daughter. After his wife's death Thomas J. decided to try a new frontier. This time his pioneer spirit lead him to Texas. He did not come alone but brought his sons Thomas Monroe and William P. and his brother, Bailey. They were followed soon after by other members of the family, a sister, Julia Ann, and another brother Dr. Blackstone Hardeman with his daughter Mary and his nephew-son-in-law, John Marr Hardeman. Bailey, Thomas Jones and his sons, Thomas Monroe and William P. went to Matagorda County, Texas, which borders on the Gulf of Mexico. They settled on Caney Creek. It was from this county, that Thomas Jones Hardeman was elected to the House of Representatives of the Second Congress of the Republic of Texas and served from 1837 to 1838. It was during this term that he proposed that the name of Austin, in honor of "The father of Texas" be given the new Capitol. On Oct. 26, 1837, he married Eliza DeWitt Davis, a widow, and the daughter of Green DeWitt, the founder of DeWitt's Colony. They had three children. After moving to Bastrop County he served as Chief of Justice and also represented the County in the State Legislature in 1848. Declining any longer to serve in a public capacity he retired into private life on his plantation near Bastrop where he quietly and calmly expired on the 11th day of January, 1854. He was buried in the family cemetery three miles up the Colorado River from Smithville but his remains were reinterred in the State Cemetery in Austin on June 18, 1937. As has already been stated, Bailey Hardeman, son of Thomas Hardeman, Esq., and brother Thomas Jones, was born in Davidson County, Tenn. on Feb. 26, 1795. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and served with the West Tennessee Volunteers. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on Oct. 28, 1813. Rebecca A.F.Wilson of Williamson, Tennessee became the bride of Bailey Hardeman on June 19, 1820. In the words of Sam Houston Dixon in "Men Who Made Texas Free" he said, "Bailey Hardeman's short career in Texas was one of honor and fame. He was a man of mature age and possessed well defined ideas regarding the rights of the Colonist. He was a successful advocate at the bar of Bolivar, Tenn.. When it became evident to him that the Texans were soon to be engaged in a conflict against further encroaches of Mexican depotism he abandoned a life of ease and contentment to cast his fortunes with them and to share with them the hardships and privations incident to war with a nation ruled by tyrants. Immediately after reaching the State he entered into military services. He soon established a reputations for leadership, gallantry and bravery. When the convention was called to meet at Old Washington, March 1, 1836, his neighbors elected him a delegate to the Convention, although he was absent from Matagorda on Military duty. On learning of his election to this Convention he secured a temporary furlough from the Army, that he might be able to attend its sessions. He arrive in Old Washington on the early morning of March 1, 1836. After having secured quarters he began to mingle with the delegates, whom he greatly impressed by his earnestness and devotion to the cause which brought them together. Because of his mature years, pleasing personality and trained mentality, they recognized in him a sane and dependable counselor". At the convention, Bailey Hardeman was appointed on the Committee of five men to draft the Declaration of Independence and to frame the Constitution for the new Government about to be organized. The draft of the Declaration of Independence was read by Mr. Childress and Mr. Hardeman endorsed it in a brief address which caused great enthusiasm among the delegates. Together with Mr. Childress, Potter and Rusk, he made his way to the Secretary's desk and fixed his signature to it. "On the formation of the ad interim government, Hardeman became Secretary of the Treasury. On April 1, 1836 he signed the same document twice, once as Secretary of Treasury; once as Secretary of State in which capacity he was serving in the absence of Samuel P Carson. With President David G. Burnet, and others Hardeman signed the Treaty of Velasco with Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna on May 14, 1836. On May 27, Lorenza De Zalvala and Hardeman were appointed Commissions to accompany Santa Anna to Vera Cruz to negotiate a treaty, but circumstances prevented the fulfillment of the commission. Hardeman died at his home on Caney Creek in Matagorda County on September 25, 1836. On August 29, 1936 his remains were reinterred in the State Cemetery. The foregoing paragraph was taken from Handbook of Texas. A-K--Ref. 917.64H. Visitors to the Capitol in Austin may see a life-size portrait of Bailey Hardeman in the painting styled "Surrender of Santa Anna" which hangs on the West wall of the hall opposite the Governor's office. Hardeman County in North Texas was created in 1858 and named from Thomas Jones and Bailey Hardeman. They did not live to enjoy this honor, but their numerous descendants scattered through Tennessee and Texas have appreciated it through the years. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 19:45:34 -0700 From: jbbork To: BTRVETC List Subject: Burnett/Hardeman Correction Message-ID: <3786B3CD.BCB10A68@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------8E8BDFAE1A87B7190E5A1F1B" --------------8E8BDFAE1A87B7190E5A1F1B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a copy of a letter from John L. Hardeman to Ferdinand Stith, M.D. dated June 27th, 1834 from the University of Missouri Western Manuscript Joint Collection at Columbia State Historical Society of Missouri Manuscripts. John L. Hardeman said, ". . . At the age of eighteen, Thomas my grandfather left his father's house to join a party of hunters destined for the Holston or Powell Valley. Of this party were Ben Crowley, Sam Crowley and Bill Faulin, experienced woodsmen and brave men, whose names deserve to be remembered for the active part they had in the ensuing struggle for liberty, serving sometimes as guides to the armies, at others scout or entering the enemies camps as spies gave information of their strength and situation and finally fell in battle." Thomas Hardeman's grandson John L. Hardeman may have garbled the story a little. Of the three men mentioned, only Samuel Crowley "died in the struggle for the birth of the nation." His brother Ben Crowley and Bill Faulin died later on. Thomas Hardeman never forgot his friend who took him on the great hunt. Samuel Crowley's daughter Effaniah married Jeremiah Burnett in Henry Co, Va Thomas Hardeman was born 8 Jan 1750 in Albemarle Co, Va. He appears on Peter Perkins 1767 Tax rolls of Pittsylvania living in house of his father John. The Crowleys, Strongs, Perkins, Shields, etc. were his kin and his neighbors. Two of Tom Hardeman's sisters married two Strongs, kin to Elizabeth Strong Crowley. The Edwards family was also involved. Samuel & Benjamin Crowley's father, Jeffrey Crowley married 2/ Mrs. Martha Edwards, the widow of Thomas Edwards Sr. The Great Hunt was in the year of 1768, the year of the creek, hard labor and Fort Stanwix Indian treaties, eighteen year old Thomas Hardeman joined a group of long hunters and trappers in an expedition deep into the forbidden zone beyond the Proclamation Line. The cluster of woodsmen crossed the mountains into the valleys of the Holston and Powell Rivers. These prototypes of the legendary mountain men, called long hunters because they stayed in the back country for months and even years at a time, went as far west as the Cumberland Basin and the site of the present Nashville, shooting buffalo and quite possibly eyeing this fertile land with a view to future homes. The long hunters returned from the hunt of 1768, laden with pelts. They could make more on one hunt than a farmer could in a lifetime. Another connection to the Burnetts was Comanche Chief Quanah Parker who terrorized Texas ranchers in the 1870s before making a fortune leasing the grazing rights on tribal lands in the 1880s to his long time friend, Samuel BURK Burnett of Texas fame. Samuel Burk Burnett was son of Capt. Jeremiah Burnett and Nancy Turner and Capt. Jeremiah Burnett was son of Samuel Burnett, the son of Jeremiah Burnett & Effie Crowley. /June ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:27:13 -0400 From: "Waddie *Bos'n Mate* Salmon" To: "List - Burnett" Subject: HI CUZINS Message-ID: <004d01becaf9$74b2e0a0$ce821e26@waddie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Y'all, Just wanted to let y'all know that if you have tried to get to "our" Burnett/e web site and received a message that it was "NOT FOUND" this is sort of not true. It is still there but the problem is that GeoCities and Yahoo did a merger or whatever and the "powers that be" decided to make major changes in everything. (It figures. Always fixing things that ain't broke.)Anyway, at this time most people, me too can't get to a lot of my web site pages. I hope that soon it will be fixed. If not I'll be moving it. I'll keep you posted, Cuzin Waddie Waddie "Bos'n Mate" Salmon BM1 - USN - Retired http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3348/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:44:08 -0400 From: "Waddie *Bos'n Mate* Salmon" To: "List - Burnett" Subject: BURNETT WEB SITE "IS" WORKING!!!!! Message-ID: <002f01becbce$0e536340$236c1e26@waddie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Cuzins, Over the past few days my web site AND the Burnett page has been broken along with several others. I just received an email from GeoCities/Yahoo and they stated that the commands that were hard carded in the HTML by GeoCities had to be remove in order for the page to be found. GRRRRRR! Anyway, to make a long story short, if you are having this problem with your web site in GeoCities, go to the Editor and remove all the junk at the top above your command and save it. WORDS OF ADVISE: If you have a web site anywhere, ensure that you save each and every page to a floppy disk!!!! On my Burnett page when I looked, 99% of it was GONE! The only thing that showed up was the background. I was lucky in that I had saved it to a floppy. If you are new to the list, come visit. If you haven't been there in a while, come on back. New stuff being added soon. Web site is at, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3348/ then just click on Burnett. Stay a while, kick your shoes off and look at the rest of my site too if you will. Cuzin Waddie Waddie "Bos'n Mate" Salmon BM1 - USN - Retired http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3348/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:11:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Christine Gaunt To: BTRVETC-L Subject: Re: Adam Turner Bible Transcriptions Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, anhughes wrote: > In response to Becky's statement that she still couldn't find the > compilation to which I submitted my transcriptions from the Adam Turner > Bible, I am attaching a copy of my original posting to the compilations. If > you have trouble reading it, please let me know. > > My family' history, both verbal and some recorded, dating back many > generations, indicate Adam's father, Francis was Irish, and so was Adam. > The Bible was printed in Edinburgh, Scotland. > > Ann Turner Nolen Hughes > Hi, Folks, For those of you who had trouble with Ann's attachment, her original posting to the compilations is at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/etc/comp216.txt Chris Christine Gaunt, cgaunt@umich.edu or gaunt@genealogy.org Campbell-L and BTRVETC-L listowner Co-compiler of Genealogy Resources on the Internet http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/gen_int1.html -------------------------------- End of btrvetc-d Digest V99 Issue #35 *************************************