Individual Details

Not mentioned in Will of her husband, but Lydia may have died some earlier. A more recent book, Brent Town and the Elk Run Valley - A History, by Joan Peters and published by Southern Fauquier Historical Society, 2010, has an interesting story. The property where Martin & Lydia Hardin lived, and he kept Ordinary, eventually became a community of former slaves. Eli Addison Blackwell, born a slave in 1857, lived his entire life there. He claimed to have found an old gravestone by his garden fence, near the road, lying flat and half-covered with dirt. The stone had "Lydia Hardin - died in the 38th year of her age, ye 22nd of March, 1760". This would have been less than two weeks following the birth of their youngest child.

Birth	16 Apr 1720	Stafford County, Virginia
Marriage	1739	Martin "Ruffled Shirt" Hardin
Death	22 Mar 1760	Elk Run, Fauquier County, Virginia

Spouse	Martin "Ruffled Shirt" Hardin (1716 - 1779)
Child	Mary Hardin (1741 - )
Child	Sarah Ellen Hardin (1743 - 1826)
Child	Hannah Hardin (1745 - 1784)
Child	Lydia Hardin (1748 - )
Child	Mark "Horse Racer" Hardin (1750 - 1835)
Child	Col. John Hardin (1753 - 1792)
Child	Catherine Hardin (1755 - )
Child	Martin Hardin (1757 - 1848)
Child	Rosanna Hardin (1760 - 1789)

Father	Thomas Waters ( - )
Mother	Rose Wickliffe ( - )