Re: Eleazar Hardeman

Wayne,
After we exchanged information I bought the Daniel Trabue Memoirs.They were very interesting to read.I had not realized the DuPuy/Foster connection, though I always felt that James Foster had come from VA through KY.

I have been looking through my records for Mary B. Kelly, the wife of James Foster Hardeman, son of Eleazar and Elizabeth Foster Hardeman.I was interested since Daniel Trabue talks of his George Smith cousins and his Foster Aunt.

The information that I have on the Smith family involves my ancestor James Foster Hardeman's wifes familhy.The mother of his wife Mary B. Kelly is Susannah.She was married first to Moses Smith and had I think three children, one of whom was George S. Smith, born ca. 1800 and another John born ca. 1802.Moses Smith died in Dickinson County, TN in 1805 and she married John Kelly.Mary B. Kelly was a child of this marriage.

The children of James F. and Mary Kelly Hardeman include a son George S. Hardeman presumably named for her older brother.It was George Hardeman's descendants who had the Eleazar Hardeman Bible.In it Mary recorded the birthdates and I think the death date of George and her sister Elizabeth in the Bible.

Many years ago when I was researching the Fosters I also found two other "Smith" men.One was Bartholomew Smith who married Dorcus Stone, a niece of Thomas Hardeman Sr.His sister Elizabeth married William Stone.Bartholomew and Moses Smith may have been related.

Another was Ebenezer Smith, who when he died in 1826 left his property to his wife and then to his nephew Nathan Foster of Kentucky.

I wish that I could put all these strands together.I believe there are closer ties with the Smith/Hardeman/Stone/Foster families than I have been able to dig up.
Barbara