Hardy Lafayette Tatum
Born: 15 April 1831 North Carolina
Married: Mary Forester 28 August 1851
Born: 23 January 1834
Death: 27 March 1903
Cedar Grove, Walker County, Georgia
Buried:
Death: 9 February
1905
Cedar Grove, Walker County, Georgia
Buried:
Parents: Hardy Coates Tatum and Lavica Ann Roberts
Children
CONTACT A DESCENDANT OF ALIJAH C. TATUM
Born: 26 August 1852
Alabama
Married: Lucy McBrayer
22 January 1873 Dade County, Georgia
Death:
July 1924 Walker County, Georgia
Buried:
Antioch Cemetery, Cedar Grove, Walker County, Georgia
Born:
11 November 1855 Dade County, Georgia
Married: Mary
Carolyn Head 11 December 1887 Walker County, Georgia
Death:
20 July 1923
Born:
About 1859
Married: Mary P.
Slayton 31 August 1879 Dade County, Georgia
Death:
unknown
Born:
about 1861
Married: Nancy H.
Henson 10 July 1883 Walker County,
Georgia
Death:
unknown
Born:
about 1869
Married: J. W.
Bailey 25 May 1898 Walker County, Georgia
Death:
unknown
Born:
11 September 1870
Died:
23 May 1942
Buried:
Antioch Baptist Cemetery, Cedar Grove, Georgia
Married: John V.
Pierce 26 December 1897 Walker County, Georgia
Born: 15 February 1873
Died: 8 July 1918
CENSUS RECORDS
1860 Dade County, Georgia, 1129 District, family 117
Lafayette Tatum 29 M
Farmer North Carolina
Mary
26 F
North Carolina
Alijah C.
7 M
Georgia
William H.
5 M
Georgia
Elisha S.
1 M
Georgia
Eveline Foster
22 F
Georgia
1870 Dade County, Georgia, Smith P. O., Rising Fawn, Family 10
Hardy L. Tatum 37 M
Farmer
Tennessee
Mary
36 F Keeping House Georgia
Abijah
18 M
Alabama
William W.
14 M
Alabama
Elisha S.
11 M
Georgia
Robert P.
9 M
Georgia
Elizabeth
1 F
Georgia
1900 Walker County, Georgia, Cedar Grove, page 288A, family 188
Hardy Tatum
April 1831
69 GA
NC NC
Mary
Jan 1833 67
GA TN
TN married 48 years
Pierce, John V.
1874 26 GA
son-in-law
Levisa A. Pierce Sept 1872
27 GA
GA GA
married l year
Ruth Pierce
July 1899
GA GA GA
grand daughter
COURT RECORDS
This information supplied by Patricia Worth
GEORIGA, WALKER COUNTY
Last Will and Testament of Hardy L. Tatum
In the name of God, Amen. I, Hardy L. Tatum, being of said state and county being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all wills heretofore made by me.
Item 1st - I desire first to be decently buried in a proper and appropriate manner in keeping with my mode of living and financial circumstances and that so much of my estate as may be necessary be used to defray the expenses of same.
Item 2nd - I wish second that my executor as soon as possible after my death to pay all my just debts. If a sale of property should be necessary to do this, that these be sold for this proper purpose, such property as be his judgement call be most advantageously disposed of either at private or public sale.
Item 3 - I give to my two beloved daughters, Bettie Bailey and Lavicie Ann Pierce all of my household and kitchen furniture, wash pots, tubs and such other house furnishing as I may own at the day of my death, share and share alike, they to divide said among themselves in a fair and equitable way.
Item 4th - In addition to the property mentioned in Item three of this will I give to my two daughters mentioned in said Item one hundred ($100.00) dollars each, to be paid to them as soon as practicable after my death.
Item 5th - I will that all the residue of my property both real and personal be equally divided among my six children, to wit: Clayton, William H., Elisha, Robert P., Bettie Bailey and Lavicie Ann Pierce, share and share alike. They to make an equal and equitable division of all of said property mentioned in this item and to have inherited control of each of these several shares of xxxxx as they may see fit and proper.
Item 6th - I do hereby appoint my son, Robert P. Tatum, executor of this my will and that he have such compensation for this services as such as may be reasonable and just.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand this 30th day of April
1904.
Hardy L. X Tatum
his mark
Signed and published by Hardy L. Tatum, as his last will and testament in the presence of the under signed, who subscribe our names hereto as witnesses at the insistance and request of said testator and in his presence and in the presence of each other, this April 30, 1904
John W. Bale, N. C. Napier, R. S. Gurmany