Robert H. Hanna was one of six children born to James Hannah (d. ca. 1811) and his wife Faith (or Fathy, d. 1841), both of South Carolina. He was likely born sometime around 1780. About 1809 Robert married Lydia Stone (1792-1889), daughter of W. Austin (17748-1818) and Elizabeth Singletary Stone (1751/52-1819) of Marion (later Florence) Co., SC. The family moved across the North Carolina border to Anson Co. where Robert purchased a farm. The couple had nine children: Elizabeth Stone (b. ca. 1810), James H. (b. 1811), William Austin (b. 1813), Martha/Margaret Emeline (b. ca. 1815), Andrew Jackson (b. 1818), Lydia Ann Cornelia (b. 1823), Adeline (b. 1831/32), Robert Alexander (b. 1835), and Eugenia (b. ca. 1840).
Robert Hanna lived to an advanced age, dying in early 1875. (His will, dated June 11, 1873, was filed April 26, 1875.) His grave marker boasts that he lived to be 106 years old. However, Federal Census records for 1850, 1860, and 1870 note his ages as 68, 80, and 91 years respectively, suggesting that Hanna died a few years short of his centennial. Whether 106 or 96, Hanna's advanced age provoked a postmortem jest from a Charlotte newspaper:
Mr. Robert Hanna, the oldest citizen of Anson county, died the other day, aged 106 years. The use of tobacco no doubt killed him.
[Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), February 21, 1875, 2.]
Robert Hanna lived to an advanced age, dying in early 1875. (His will, dated June 11, 1873, was filed April 26, 1875.) His grave marker boasts that he lived to be 106 years old. However, Federal Census records for 1850, 1860, and 1870 note his ages as 68, 80, and 91 years respectively, suggesting that Hanna died a few years short of his centennial. Whether 106 or 96, Hanna's advanced age provoked a postmortem jest from a Charlotte newspaper:
Mr. Robert Hanna, the oldest citizen of Anson county, died the other day, aged 106 years. The use of tobacco no doubt killed him.
[Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), February 21, 1875, 2.]
Robert H. Hanna was one of six children born to James Hannah (d. ca. 1811) and his wife Faith (or Fathy, d. 1841), both of South Carolina. He was likely born sometime around 1780. About 1809 Robert married Lydia Stone (1792-1889), daughter of W. Austin (17748-1818) and Elizabeth Singletary Stone (1751/52-1819) of Marion (later Florence) Co., SC. The family moved across the North Carolina border to Anson Co. where Robert purchased a farm. The couple had nine children: Elizabeth Stone (b. ca. 1810), James H. (b. 1811), William Austin (b. 1813), Martha/Margaret Emeline (b. ca. 1815), Andrew Jackson (b. 1818), Lydia Ann Cornelia (b. 1823), Adeline (b. 1831/32), Robert Alexander (b. 1835), and Eugenia (b. ca. 1840).
Robert Hanna lived to an advanced age, dying in early 1875. (His will, dated June 11, 1873, was filed April 26, 1875.) His grave marker boasts that he lived to be 106 years old. However, Federal Census records for 1850, 1860, and 1870 note his ages as 68, 80, and 91 years respectively, suggesting that Hanna died a few years short of his centennial. Whether 106 or 96, Hanna's advanced age provoked a postmortem jest from a Charlotte newspaper:
Mr. Robert Hanna, the oldest citizen of Anson county, died the other day, aged 106 years. The use of tobacco no doubt killed him.
[Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), February 21, 1875, 2.]
Robert Hanna lived to an advanced age, dying in early 1875. (His will, dated June 11, 1873, was filed April 26, 1875.) His grave marker boasts that he lived to be 106 years old. However, Federal Census records for 1850, 1860, and 1870 note his ages as 68, 80, and 91 years respectively, suggesting that Hanna died a few years short of his centennial. Whether 106 or 96, Hanna's advanced age provoked a postmortem jest from a Charlotte newspaper:
Mr. Robert Hanna, the oldest citizen of Anson county, died the other day, aged 106 years. The use of tobacco no doubt killed him.
[Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), February 21, 1875, 2.]
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