Sally Ann Hardeman

b. 26 June 1828, d. May 1879
  • Sally Ann Hardeman was born on 26 June 1828 in Williamson County, Tennessee.
  • She married Samuel Wilson Hardeman, son of Bailey Hardeman and Rebecca Amanda F. Wilson, on 20 February 1849 in Matagorda County, Texas, cousins; Samule's father was a younger brother of Sally's paternal grandfather.
  • 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 Bethenia Tennessee Hardeman, Ellen Lewis Hardeman, Fanny D. Hardeman, John M. Hardeman and Bailey Hardeman.
  • Her husband Samuel Wilson Hardeman became a widower at her death.
  • Sally Ann Hardeman died in May 1879 at age 50 in Matagorda County, Texas.
  • She was interred at Matagorda County, Texas, east of VanVleck.
  • Last Edited: 23 Feb 2010

Family: Samuel Wilson Hardeman b. 23 March 1821, d. 2 January 1883