James Taylor HARDIN

HARDIN, GILLHAM, BUTLER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/11/2006 at 19:39:28

See Vol. 3, Jefferson County Records, "Forty-Niners", for the fate of James Taylor HARDIN. The "Miner's Express", Dubuque, March 6, 1850, mentions the death of "James T. HARDIN, Jefferson County, drowned in Feather River, California." (Annals of Iowa)

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"Fairfield Weekly Journal", Jan. 31, 1901, Pg. 5, Col. 6

"His skeleton was packed in a trunk and brought back to Fairfield by C. GILLHAM and Hardin BUTLER, who was a cousin, and buried in the Fairfield Cemetery, HARDIN having been a Mason."

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"History of Jefferson County, Iowa", Western Historical Co., Chicago: 1879, Page 372 ~~

James T. HARDIN was the teacher of the first school... and is well remembered by the old settlers and scholars of that period. When the gold fever reached here from the Pacific Slope, he fell a victim to the mania....

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.