Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Christine... Cristina... Teenie... Tennie... Tenny... Leney... Richard... Richards (nee Hardin)

My maternal grandmother's paternal grandmother, Christine/Cristina/Teenie/Tenny/Leney/Richard/Richards (nee Hardin) is proving very difficult to track down. According to Grandma Wray her grandmother was called Teenie but may have been listed as Lenny on her husband's death certificate. Looking at that death certificate, I think that "L" is actually a "T" if you look at the "T" in the word, "The" further down the page. So, her husband's death certificate actually does say, Tenny (but not Teenie). Still, if she is Tenny, she had no death certificate because she died in 1899 (according to my grandmother). Her son's death certificate calls her "Christine Hardin." I can't find a Christine Hardin or Christine Richard in the federal census. I find a "Leney Richards" which could be "Teney Richard" if you squint hard enough in the 1880 census. I found a "Cristina Hardin" in the 1860 census listed with a D. D. Hardin, Abel Hardin, Betsey Hardin and William W. Hardin. In the 1850 census D. D. Hardin is listed as Dial D. Hardin and he is 35 years old. There's a Lucy Hardin who is 34 years old but Abel Hardin is still 16 years old. So, if Lucy and D. D. Hardin are the parents they started having children very young. But the 1860 and 1850 census don't list the relationship of members of the household so they could be cousins or nieces and nephews. And Christine/Cristina isn't born until 1850 so she isn't listed there either. If only she had lived a little bit longer... as it is she was born too late to be listed with Lucy and Dial D and to died too early to have a death certificate in North Carolina. No marriage bond either.

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