L. Kirk Hardesty
L. Kirk Hardesty, a native of Clarke County, enlisted in a military company from Clarke at the outbreak of the Civil War, according to the death notice the Clarke Courier reprinted from the Shepherdstown Register in April 1922. He was a livestock dealer in Jefferson and Berkeley counties and died near Swan Pond in his 77th year.
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IDENTITY Confirmed The page rests on one reprinted notice that names him; no other record is matched to him here.
Clarke connection: Birth statement in a reprinted obituary: the Shepherdstown Register, reprinted by the Courier on April 6, 1922, calls him a native of Clarke County (C678). That is a newspaper's statement, not a birth record. It says he had lived in Jefferson and Berkeley counties for thirty-odd years.
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| War | Civil War | Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 6, 1922 The statement | RECORD Likely | IDENTITY Confirmed |
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| Date not established | The Clarke Courier of April 6, 1922 reprints from the Shepherdstown Register the death of L. Kirk Hardesty, a livestock dealer in Jefferson and Berkeley counties, on the Sunday morning before at the home of his son-in-law, Edward W. Myers, near Swan Pond, in his 77th year. It says he was a native of Clarke County who had lived in that section for thirty-odd years, and a Confederate veteran who enlisted in a military company from Clarke at the outbreak of the Civil War. | RECORD Likely | IDENTITY ConfirmedThis is the item the entity was created from. | See the source and its limits✓ LikelyAn account exists
The Clarke Courier of April 6, 1922 reprints from the Shepherdstown Register the death of L. Kirk Hardesty, a livestock dealer in Jefferson and Berkeley counties, on the Sunday morning before at the home of his son-in-law, Edward W. Myers, near Swan Pond, in his 77th year. It says he was a native of Clarke County who had lived in that section for thirty-odd years, and a Confederate veteran who enlisted in a military company from Clarke at the outbreak of the Civil War. What the source supportsThat L. Kirk Hardesty, a livestock dealer in Jefferson and Berkeley counties whom the Shepherdstown Register called a Clarke County native and a Confederate veteran, died near Swan Pond, as reported on April 6, 1922. UncertaintyRead from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR prints the surname "Hardqsty" and "Hardaaty." The account is the Shepherdstown Register's, and its war record was not checked. It dates the death only as "last Sunday morning." His relatives have no records here. SourceEvidence role: supports. The April 6, 1922 reprint. Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 6, 1922Clarke Courier · 1922-04-06 (publication) Locator: Page 2, obituary "Native of Clarke Dies in Jefferson," from the Shepherdstown Register Relevant passageL. Kirk Hardqsty [Hardesty], a live stock dealer with a wide acquaintance in Jefferson and Berkley counties died last Sunday morning at the home of his son-in-law, Edward W. Myers, near Swan Pond. ... he was in the 77th year of* his age ... Mr. Hardesty was a native vf [of] Clarke county, Va.,<but had lived in this section for thirty odd years ... He was a Confederate veteran, having enlisted in a military company from - Clarke at the outbreak of the Civil war. Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected. Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses. |
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- Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., April 6, 1922, Page 2, obituary "Native of Clarke Dies in Jefferson," from the Shepherdstown Register. The text was read from a transcription or machine reading, not from a saved page image.
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