The son of Swiss-born John Jacob & Pennsylvania-born Catherine (Hougendoubler) Hardy, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Philadelphia July 9, 1863, mustered into federal service there July 13 as 1st corporal of Co. B in the six-month organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry (181st Pennsylvania), and honorably discharged with his company January 25, 1864.
He married Catherine M. "Kate" Hinkle and fathered the children you see linked below. After the war, he worked as a blacksmith. He died suddenly at his home in Columbia Monday afternoon the results of an illness from a complication of diseases. Mr. Hardy had gone into the cellar and the delay in his return alarmed the family, and upon a search he was found unconscious. He was carried upstairs and physicians summoned, but he died in a few minutes without regaining consciousnes s. He was sixty-nine years of age and for many years was a blacksmith in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad, having retired about three years ago. He was a member of the First English Lutheran church. A wife and the following children survive: Nellie, wife of C.W. Bender, of New York; Sarah, wife of Samuel S. Graver; John J., Mary, wife of Dr. Roland Reeser, of Columbia; also one sister, Mrs. John P. Frank, of Columbia.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Philadelphia July 9, 1863, mustered into federal service there July 13 as 1st corporal of Co. B in the six-month organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry (181st Pennsylvania), and honorably discharged with his company January 25, 1864.
He married Catherine M. "Kate" Hinkle and fathered the children you see linked below. After the war, he worked as a blacksmith. He died suddenly at his home in Columbia Monday afternoon the results of an illness from a complication of diseases. Mr. Hardy had gone into the cellar and the delay in his return alarmed the family, and upon a search he was found unconscious. He was carried upstairs and physicians summoned, but he died in a few minutes without regaining consciousnes s. He was sixty-nine years of age and for many years was a blacksmith in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad, having retired about three years ago. He was a member of the First English Lutheran church. A wife and the following children survive: Nellie, wife of C.W. Bender, of New York; Sarah, wife of Samuel S. Graver; John J., Mary, wife of Dr. Roland Reeser, of Columbia; also one sister, Mrs. John P. Frank, of Columbia.
The son of Swiss-born John Jacob & Pennsylvania-born Catherine (Hougendoubler) Hardy, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Philadelphia July 9, 1863, mustered into federal service there July 13 as 1st corporal of Co. B in the six-month organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry (181st Pennsylvania), and honorably discharged with his company January 25, 1864.
He married Catherine M. "Kate" Hinkle and fathered the children you see linked below. After the war, he worked as a blacksmith. He died suddenly at his home in Columbia Monday afternoon the results of an illness from a complication of diseases. Mr. Hardy had gone into the cellar and the delay in his return alarmed the family, and upon a search he was found unconscious. He was carried upstairs and physicians summoned, but he died in a few minutes without regaining consciousnes s. He was sixty-nine years of age and for many years was a blacksmith in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad, having retired about three years ago. He was a member of the First English Lutheran church. A wife and the following children survive: Nellie, wife of C.W. Bender, of New York; Sarah, wife of Samuel S. Graver; John J., Mary, wife of Dr. Roland Reeser, of Columbia; also one sister, Mrs. John P. Frank, of Columbia.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty in Philadelphia July 9, 1863, mustered into federal service there July 13 as 1st corporal of Co. B in the six-month organization of the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry (181st Pennsylvania), and honorably discharged with his company January 25, 1864.
He married Catherine M. "Kate" Hinkle and fathered the children you see linked below. After the war, he worked as a blacksmith. He died suddenly at his home in Columbia Monday afternoon the results of an illness from a complication of diseases. Mr. Hardy had gone into the cellar and the delay in his return alarmed the family, and upon a search he was found unconscious. He was carried upstairs and physicians summoned, but he died in a few minutes without regaining consciousnes s. He was sixty-nine years of age and for many years was a blacksmith in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad, having retired about three years ago. He was a member of the First English Lutheran church. A wife and the following children survive: Nellie, wife of C.W. Bender, of New York; Sarah, wife of Samuel S. Graver; John J., Mary, wife of Dr. Roland Reeser, of Columbia; also one sister, Mrs. John P. Frank, of Columbia.
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