Hardy and Hardie, Past and Present, H. Claude Hardy, Rev. Edwin Noah Hardy, 1935, Syracuse New York.
William Hezekiah Hardy was born in Friendsville, Susquehanna county, January 3, 1832. His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm and around the blacksmith shop of his father, near Orwell Hill, Pa. At the age of 14 years he left home and worked for some time as a farm hand. He later served a seven year apprenticeship at the mason trade and afterwards worked for about two years at the same. After his marriage with Charlotte Jane Moore in 1855, he located on a farm in Orwell Township, which he had purchased in 1848, and lived there for thirty years. Selling the farm in Orwell he purchased a farm at Cold Creek, Pa. While living at this place he met with a very serious accident which nearly cost him his life. While hauling wheat on a steep hillside on a sled, the team became frightened and ran down the hill, dragging him about 30 rods and leaving him so badly crippled that he was compelled to sell his farm. He later purchased a smaller farm near East Rush, Pa., where he resided for several years. In 1902 he sold his this farm and moved to Binghamton, living there until the death of his wife in 1909. After her death he resided with his daughter and her husband, Mr and Mrs. Andrew Canfield, and his son, Erstine Hardy, until his death in 1914.
He was drafted in the Civil War in December, 1864, and was mustered into service at Troy, Pa., as a member of the Company I, 45th P.V.I., under Charles D. Hart. He took part in the battle of Weldon Railroad, Fort Steadman and Petersburg; at the last named place was wounded in his right hip and shoulder by a bursting shell, and was captured on the way to a hospital and held by the Confederates until their surrender. After the Grand Review at Washington D.C., he was taken ill with Typhoid fever and was sent to a field hospital in Alexandria, Va., from which he was discharged June 29, 1865. For two years afterwards he was an invalid. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and Methodist-Episcopal Church, in which he served as steward and Sunday School superintendent for several years.
He was a supporter of the Republican Party until 1844, when he left that party for Prohibition Party.
Hardy and Hardie, Past and Present, H. Claude Hardy, Rev. Edwin Noah Hardy, 1935, Syracuse New York.
William Hezekiah Hardy was born in Friendsville, Susquehanna county, January 3, 1832. His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm and around the blacksmith shop of his father, near Orwell Hill, Pa. At the age of 14 years he left home and worked for some time as a farm hand. He later served a seven year apprenticeship at the mason trade and afterwards worked for about two years at the same. After his marriage with Charlotte Jane Moore in 1855, he located on a farm in Orwell Township, which he had purchased in 1848, and lived there for thirty years. Selling the farm in Orwell he purchased a farm at Cold Creek, Pa. While living at this place he met with a very serious accident which nearly cost him his life. While hauling wheat on a steep hillside on a sled, the team became frightened and ran down the hill, dragging him about 30 rods and leaving him so badly crippled that he was compelled to sell his farm. He later purchased a smaller farm near East Rush, Pa., where he resided for several years. In 1902 he sold his this farm and moved to Binghamton, living there until the death of his wife in 1909. After her death he resided with his daughter and her husband, Mr and Mrs. Andrew Canfield, and his son, Erstine Hardy, until his death in 1914.
He was drafted in the Civil War in December, 1864, and was mustered into service at Troy, Pa., as a member of the Company I, 45th P.V.I., under Charles D. Hart. He took part in the battle of Weldon Railroad, Fort Steadman and Petersburg; at the last named place was wounded in his right hip and shoulder by a bursting shell, and was captured on the way to a hospital and held by the Confederates until their surrender. After the Grand Review at Washington D.C., he was taken ill with Typhoid fever and was sent to a field hospital in Alexandria, Va., from which he was discharged June 29, 1865. For two years afterwards he was an invalid. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and Methodist-Episcopal Church, in which he served as steward and Sunday School superintendent for several years.
He was a supporter of the Republican Party until 1844, when he left that party for Prohibition Party.
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