Ellen Lewis Hardeman
b. 5 December 1849, d. 4 June 1934
- Father: Samuel Wilson Hardeman b. 23 March 1821, d. 2 January 1883
- Mother: Sally Ann Hardeman b. 26 June 1828, d. May 1879
- Ellen Lewis Hardeman was born on 5 December 1849 in Texas.
- Ann Lewis Hardeman wrote in her diary on 2 June 1851: Received a letter fom my bror D from N.O. all well--a Newspaper containing the marriage notice of my dear Bethenia which was celebrated on the 29h of April 1851 to Dr Napoleon B. Viser--they seem to be highly pleased---hope they will do well---he writes despondingly about his picuniary affairs--my dear nieces Sally and Bethenia are now married. May God bless them & prosper them in all things. -- & make them good wives & a blessing to their husbands---Sally has a little girl Ellen Lewis Hardeman. Not quite a year old a very interesting child. [From An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67.]
- Samuel Wilson Hardeman and Sally Ann Hardeman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Hardeman PO, Hardeman County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ellen Lewis Hardeman, Bethenia Tennessee Hardeman, Fanny D. Hardeman, John M. Hardeman and Bailey Hardeman.
- She married Francis Marion Gregory, son of Alexander E. Gregory and Mary Nixon, on 1 March 1881 in Matagorda County, Texas.
- Ellen Lewis Hardeman became a widow at the 5 January 1928 death of her husband Francis Marion Gregory.
- Ellen Lewis Hardeman died on 4 June 1934 at age 84 in Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas, informant Mrs. R. C. Millican, Bay City.
- She was interred at Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas.
- Last Edited: 23 Feb 2010