The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
March 6, 1935
Page 1
Column 5

BAPTIST HARDY
DIES FOLLOWING
SHORT ILLNESS

Was Prominent Har-
mony Twp. Farmer
And Citizen

Baptist Hardy was born in Harmony township, Hancock county, Illinois, on February 13, 1886, and passed away on Wednesday morning, February 27, 1935 after a short illness of double pneumonia, aged 69 years and 14 days.

He was the son of Thomas and Margaret (Rogers) Hardy, natives of Adams county, Illinois, who came to Hancock county and engaged in farming in, near Bentley.

The deceased was the fifth child in a family of twelve children.  He attended Pleasant Valley school and remained at home until he was eighteen years of age.  He went to Iowa, where he worked for five years.  He returned to his home in Hancock county for a year and then went to Montana, where he herded stock and engaged in farming for five years.  At the end of that time he again returned home.

He was married to Ollie May Hughett of Bentley, Ill., on March 3, 1895.  After their marriage they moved to the present home, where all of their eleven children were born.  The oldest daughter, Lulu Pearl, died on Feb. 22 1910, at the age of seven years.

Besides the widow he leaves ten children: Leonard, of Ft. Madison, Ia.; Charles, of Rockford, Ill.; Olive, of Davenport, Ia.; Zula, Mrs. Jesse Matheny, of Macomb, Ill.; Glenn, of near Ferris, Ill.; and Walter, Theodore, Joy, Wayne and Bessie, all of Carthage.

There are eight grandchildren: Joanne Hardy of Ft. Madison, Ia.; Jesse and Stanley Matheny, of Macomb, Ill.; Neil and Leonard Hardy, of near Ferris, Ill.; and Virginia, Walter Jr., and Robert Hardy, of Carthage, Ill.

Two brothers, Clement Hardy of Bentley and Joseph Hardy, of Carthage, and one sister, Mrs. Isaac Hopkins, of Leeton, Mo., survive with many other relatives.

Mr. Hardy was a member of the Anti-Thief Association of Independence community.  He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Hancock Lodge No. 20, A. F. and A. M. of Carthage and of Grace Chapter No. 67, Order of the Eastern Star, also of Carthage.

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