Mary Ascora Hardeman
b. 3 August 1858, d. 29 December 1918
- Father: Thomas Monroe Hardeman b. 30 October 1815, d. 14 September 1861
- Mother: Susan Anna Burleson b. circa 1825, d. March 1860
- Mary Ascora Hardeman was born on 3 August 1858 in Caldwell County, Texas.
- She was known as Cora.
- Thomas Monroe Hardeman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Prairie Lea PO, Caldwell County, Texas. Other members of the household included Mary Ascora Hardeman, William Fawcet Hardeman, Elizabeth Polk Hardeman and Franklin Brown Hardeman.
- Mary Ascora Hardeman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Lockhart PO, Caldwell County, Texas. Other members of the household included Elizabeth Polk Hardeman and Franklin Brown Hardeman. They were enumerated in the household of physician James Fentress.
- She married John Wesley Campbell, son of Clark Calhoun Campbell and Lucy Caroline Goree, on 3 September 1879 in Caldwell County, Texas, with B. Harris, MG, officiating.
- John Wesley Campbell and Mary Ascora Hardeman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Luling, Caldwell County, Texas, and also one servant.
- On the south side of the railroad Mr. Coulter from Gonzales County built where Dick McGaffey now, lives and John Campbell, who had married Cora Hardeman, daughter of Gen. Gotch Hardeman, lived on the opposite of Seventh Avenue. . . . [from "Early Days in Luling"]
- John Wesley Campbell and Mary Ascora Hardeman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Harris County, Texas.
- John Wesley Campbell and Mary Ascora Hardeman appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Houston, Harris County, Texas, at 1404 Lamar lodging in the household of T. J. Atwood.
- Mary Ascora Hardeman died on 29 December 1918 at age 60 in Hillendahl, Harris County, Texas.
- Her husband John Wesley Campbell became a widower at her death.
- She was interred at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas.
- Research Note: The marriage license issued to John Wesley Campbell and Cora Hardeman is evidence of her surname. Apparently "Early Days in Luling" is in error that "Cora Hardeman" was a daughter of William Polk "Gotch" Hardeman. It is an educated guess that she is "C. C. Hardeman" found in the 1860 household of his brother Thomas Monroe Hardeman, likely his daughter and not his niece, based on the birthdates of W. P. Hardeman's children of record. The deaths of her mother and father in the early sixties no doubt contributed to the confusion about her parentage.
- Last Edited: 31 Mar 2015