Mary T. "Mollie" Hardwick

Notes:

Viki Anderson "Viki's Little Corner of the Web," http://www.roark-family.org/ shows that John David and Francis Dunephine had a child between 1872 and 1874. Jon Eastman Hardwick, in his article in "Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Volume II" writes that John David Hardwick and Frances Dunephin "had a DAUGHTER, name not known." (Emphasis added).

It appears that this daughter must be Mary T. "Mollie" Hardwick, born 23 Oct 1872 in Indian Territory. Mollie married Thomas Bunker Payne in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, in 1891. She died in 1893, leaving behind her husband and one son, Thomas Hamilton Payne II. Thomas Bunker Payne later enrolled in the Chickasaw Nation based on his marriage to Mollie.

The actual marriage license between Thomas and Mary shows her last name as HARDWICK. Thomas B. Payne's application for enrollment in the Chickasaw Nation by marriage shows the name as HARDRICK. That spelling appears to be incorrect.

All circumstantial evidence points to this being the only family into which Mary "Mollie" Hardwick, the wife of Thomas B. Payne, could fit. However, there is not as yet any definative proof. PLEASE EMAIL US at stxstrong@gmail.com if you can provide more information about the child of John David Hardwick and Sarah Dunephine, and/or help us prove or disprove that this child was Mary T. "Mollie" Hardwick.

Mary married Thomas Bunker Payne on 11 Jul 1891 in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. Thomas (son of Thomas Hamilton Payne and Martha Jane Marshall) was born on 24 Nov 1864 in Shelby County, Missouri; died on 11 Oct 1906 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
In the matter of the application for enrollment as a citizen by intermarriage of the Chickasaw Nation, Thomas B. Payne was sworn before the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes in Chickasha, I.T. on October 15, 1902 and testified as follows:

Q What is your name? A Thomas B. Payne Q How old are you? A I was born in sixty-four the 24th day of November. Q What is your post office address? A Arthur Q How do you spell that A A-r-t-h-u-r I think, Q That is in the Chickasaw Nation? A Yes, sir. Q How long have you resided in the Chickasaw Nation? A I have been here about sixteen or seventeen years. Q Lived here continuously for the past seventeen years? A Yes, sir. Q White man? A Yes, sir. Q Applicant to this Commission for enrollment as a citizen by intermarriage of the Chickasaw Nation? A Yes, sir. Q What is the name of your Chickasaw wife? A Mollie Hardrick Q She is a citizen by blood of the Chickasaw Nation? A Yes, sir. Q Always recognized and enrolled as such? A Yes, sir. Q When was you married to her? A I disremember just when it was; the Comission has a certified copy of my license; it was in eighty-nine or ninety I think. Q Were you married with her in accordance with the Chickasaw license? A Yes, sir; I paid fifty dollars for the license. Q Was you ever married before you married that woman? A No, sir. Q Was she ever married before? A No, sir. Q Was you married to her in the Chickasaw Nation? A Yes; near Ardmore. Q Your Chickasaw wife now dead? A Yes, sir. Q When did she die? A It was the 20th day of this last June I think ten years ago. Q You lived together until that time? A Yes, sir; until she died. A She has been dead about nine years now? A Yes, sir. Q Have you remarried since her death? A Yes, sir; I have. Q When? A It was about this time four years ago when I enrolled and married some time in February or March. Q Whom did you marry? A A girl by the name of James. Q She is a white woman? A Yes, sir. Q Never recognized in any manner as a citizen of the Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations? A No, sir. Q Where were you married to her? A In the Indian Territory. Q Married under a United States license? A Yes, sir. Q Living with this woman still? A Yes, sir. Q How long did you say you have been living with her? A Since February or March, I think in February after the Commission was through some time in this month four years ago. Q You were married then the February after you made your application to the Commission? A Yes, sir. Q That would be in Ninety-nine? A Yes, I think so. Q You have lived with this woman about three years? A Yes, sir. Q Have you any children by her? A Yes, sir.

G. Rosenwinkel being duly sworn on his oath states that as stenographer to the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes her reported in full all the proceedings had in the above entitled cause on October 15, 1902, and that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct transcript of his stenographic notes in said cause on said date.

The commission followed the ruling of the Department of the Interior in the case of Thornton D. Pearce (I.T.D. 4060-1904) relative to the question of forfeiture, and Thomas B. Payne was enrolled as a citizen by intermarriage of the Chickasaw Nation on September 8, 1904.

He received a land allotment in Tishomingo, Indian Territory on December 20, 1904. His P.O. Box at the time was Marlow, Indian Territory. The land was in Sections 29 and 30, Town IN, Range 5W. He received a total of 190 acres with a value of $1,000. (Certificates 10150 and 13786).

In his sworn testimony, above, Tom states that he married Mollie in 1889 or 1890. This is supported by the fact that they can be found as husband and wife on the 1890 Chickasaw Census. However, the transcribed "Copy" of his actual marriage license, which was part of his Dawes enrollment packet, showed that they married on 11 July 1891 in Pickens county. There may have been an error on the transcription, or it could be that they were married in 1889, and remarried under a Chickasaw license in 1891.

1. Thomas Hamilton Payne, II was born on 20 Mar 1893 in Marlow, Indian Territory; died on 12 Dec 1957 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon; was buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.

Notes:

John David "Dave" Hardwick might actually have been born early than 1852, as two month old John Hardwick is listed with his parents and brother James at the time of the 1850 census. Or did that earlier census record actually relate to Joseph, said to have been born in 1850?

"Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Volume II"; compiled and edited by Nova A. Lemons, contains a sketch of the Hardwick Family submitted by Jon Eastman Hardwick of Baird, Texas (now deceased). He stated that John David Hardwick was an U.S. mashal and was killed in the line of duty. John and Creacy were both buried in the old Harney graveyard. He thought that the cemetery was moved to near Woodville at the time Lake Texoma was built.

The FORT SMITH CRIMINAL CASE FILES, 1866-1900, references a case involving Dave Hardwick. It related to an incident that took place 23 January 1883 in Texas "on the Indian Nation." Charles CRISWELL testified that on that night a party of five men, including Milton B. OVERTON, Brit WILLIS and Dave HARDWICK came to his home and asked to stay the night and have their horses fed. They also wanted supper. He went to feed the horses and then Milton Overton "got after my wife (Sarah CRISWELL)" ----she jumped the fence and ran into the smokehouse. He grabbed her by the ankle, and Charles tried to push him away. Milton pulled out his pistol and Sarah CRISWELL hollered because she was afraid. Then HARDWICK came out with a pistol. Charles told him to put up the gun so no one would get hurt. HARDWICK told OVERTON to "behave himself and let the Woman get supper". The defendants later said they came from Sherman and had rented the horses out of the stable Charles said he was born in South Carolina and he was an Irishman. His wife was born in Grayson Co and was a White Woman and not an Indian. CRISWELL reported that Milton OVERTON told him the next morning that he was a Chickasaw, he said they were all Chickasaws. Charles said that he married his wife about 5 or 6 months previously in Grayson county. She was 35 and had been married once before. He said that HARDWICK did not molest his wife that night, and that as quick as Brit WILLIS got off his horse that evening, he had said he was sick and went straight to bed and did not attempt to molest his wife. Lewis COLBERT also did not attempt to molest his wife in any way---none of the defendants attempted to molest his wife in any way except Milton OVERTON. CRISWELL also said that he had heard later from a neighbor that the defendant Dave HARDWICK was an officer. Dave HARDWICK testified he was Constable in the Chickasaw Nation. He said he had four men with him as a posse to assist in making an arrest. They were Milton OVERTON, Brit WILLIS, Frank McLISH, and Lewis COLBERT. Milton Overton was 19 or 20 years of age and they "were all sober." He said he "did not see or hear nor was not Informed of any ??? between Milton and Mrs. Criswell on that night. I did not see Milton use any Improper Language or Conduct towards Mrs. Criswell. I did not tell Milton at any time that might to put up his pistol or behave himself when I went out to see where our Horses were and came back I said to Milton 'Come and lets go to bead that was all I said to him.'" HARDWICK further testified that he and Milton slept in the same room all night, that they had breakfast the next morning with the CRISWELL's and then paid for their keep and left. Charles CRISWELL was recalled to the stand and testified that they men were drinking something from a flask.

B. F. OVERTON, the father of Milton Overton, posted appearance bonds for everyone involved. He was Governor of the Chickasaw Nation at the time.

From About Ft. Smith Criminal Case Files, 1866-1900
Database of criminal case files

This database consists of criminal court cases of such famous outlaws as Wyatt Earp and "Cherokee Bill" Goldsby. Many of these 50,000 cases were heard by the famous "hanging" Judge Isaac C. Parker, appointed by President Grant to bring law and order to the territory of Arkansas. The descriptions provide the first and last name of the defendant, the type of crime, the year, the jacket number, and other information.

Coverage Dates:1883 - 1883 Part Of:Series: Defendant Jacket Files for U.S. District Court Western Division of Arkansas, Fort Smith Division, compiled 1866 - 1900 Access Restriction(s):Unrestricted Use Restriction(s):Unrestricted General Note(s):See also criminal defendant case file for Overton, Milton.

Variant Control Number(s):NAIL Control Number: NRFF-21-3W51-19696

(Research):From National Archives M2086 Roll 1

1878 Chickasaw Annuity Roll Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory

#64-Hardwick Dave 1 Male, 1 Female Head of Household 1 Female Child (Self) 3 Family Members Total

The above listing appears to be for John David Hardwick, with his wife, Crecy Harney. Is the Female child listed their newborn daughter, Ida? Or could it possibly be the older child born to Dave by his first wife, Sarah Dunephin? If this listing is for an older child, it would very possiblty be Mary T. "Mollie" Hardwick, born ca 1872, parents currently unknown. It is known, however, that Mary/Mollie was a member of the Chickasaw tribe by blood.

#65 Hardwick George 1 Male Head of Household 1 Family Member Total (Brother)

#193 Hardwick J C 1 Male, 1 Female Head of Household 1 Female Child (Self) 3 Family Members Total (Brother)

John married Sarah Frances Dunephin on 8 Feb 1872 in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. Sarah was born before 1855; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Hardwick, John David Dunephin, Sarah Frances 2/8/72 Thos.C.S. Boyd, Chief Justice Pickens Co. Pickens Co. Records

http://www.chickasawhistory.com/g_mar_2.htm

Notes:

Hardwick, John C.- white resident among the Chickasaws, was possibly the
last white man to marry a Chickasaw in Mississippi. He married Elizabeth
Jane Boyd (born February 3, 1828), daughter of James M. and Nancy Boyd,
in Marshall County, Mississippi. on November 25, 1844 (1). The couple
lived in Tippah County, Mississippi, in 1850, but moved west in 1852.
When they died is unknown, though they were in Pickens County in the
Chickasaw Nation in 1870. they were the parents of James (1847), Joseph
C. (1850-1884), John David (1852-1889), George D. (1854-1889), and Nancy
(married John T. Huff) (2).

(1) Garland, 130-134.
(2) Ibid. John C. Hardwick was probably related to the Bourlands.
John B. Bourland, son of Ebenezer Bourland, was born in Hopkins County,
Kentucky, and married Nancy R. Hardwick, daughter of James Hardwick of
Tennessee and wife Nancy Melar (Speer and Brown, ARK:35).
That is the only Hardwick listed. There are no Hardricks...

From "Who Was Who Among The Southern Indians", (Page 204)
a genealogical notebook, 1698-1907 by Don Martini, 929.314, printed in
1998, Falkner, MS. It is a guide to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek Indian
tribes and the relatives/possible relatives.

(Transcription by Lola Crane, original not viewed)

Lissa Johnston shows he was the Sheriff of Pickens County, Oklahoma in 1870. She cites Marie King Garland's book, "Chickasaw Loves and Allied Families" as the source of her information about the Hardwick family.

In April, 1872, J.C. Hardwick was summoned as a witness on a (judical) case and paid $5 for his services.

On October 16, 1872, the County Judge appointed J.C. Hardwick County Treasury of Pickens County.

On the 21 of May, 1873, J.C. Hardwick was ordered to pay himself $1000 for building and furnishing a court house for Pickens County.

(Research):Census Listings:

1850 Census
Mississippi, Tippah County, The Third Division
Enumerated 9 September 1850
155-155
John Hardwick 35 M Farmer Tenn
Jane Hardwick 28 F Miss
James Hardwick 3 M Miss
John Hardwick 2/12 M Miss

1860 Census
The Choctaw Nation, Indian Lands, Arkansas, P. O. Skullyville
Enumerated 29 October 1860
Page 19
216-216
James M. Boyd 63 M Farmer Mississippi
Mat Ault 30 M Miller Pennsylvania
John Ireby 31 M Wagoner Alabama
Christopher Wagoner 30 M Sawyer in Mill Germany
John C. Hardwick 35 M Carpenter Tennessee
J.W. Beam 31 M Carpenter S. Carolina

John married Elizabeth Jane Boyd on 25 Dec 1844 in Marshall County, Mississippi. Elizabeth (daughter of James M. Boyd and Nancy Mahota Love) was born on 3 Feb 1828 in Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jon Eastman Hardwick wrote that Elizabeth Jane Boyd was baptized at Martyn Mission.

Notes:

Married:
J.L. Christian, now deceased, posted the following query to a rootsweb message board:

Looking for leads to John C. HARDWICK parents, siblings, etc. in Tennessee. Was able to traced him back only to the Sept. 9, 1850 census in Tippah County, Miss. No trace before that time. John was Born abt. 1815 in Tennessee. He died before 1878?, Chickasaw Nation, Pickens County, Indian Territory. John married Elizabeth Jane BOYD 25 December 1844 in Mississippi. Elizabeth Jane BOYD a daughter of Nancy Mahota LOVE. Nancy LOVE was a daughter of Thomas LOVE and Homahota (Chickasaw Indian). Elizabeth was born 03 February 1828 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. John and Elizabeth children were;

1. James HARDWICK, born abt. 1847.
2. Joseph C. HARDWICK, born 31 March 1850.
3. John David HARDWICK, born 1852.
4. George HARDWICK, born abt. 1854.
5. Nancy L. HARDWICK, born 08 October 1858.

Notes: When John and Elizabeth left Mississippi (date unknown), they moved to a place called Poteau Hill near Fort Smith, Arkansas. It appears they lived near Elizabeth's parents for a while. On 16th of December 1854, they purchased a farm in Pickens county, I.T. from Robert H. LOVE, Bob LOVE had purchased the farm from his half brother's ( Ben LOVE) widow Charlotte CHOATE. It was known as the Cow Pen place in the lower Cross Timbers. (Source: Chickasaw Nation Records, Book 59, page 70). The farm was located on the west side of Horse Creek near its mouth and alone the north bank of Red River in Pickens County, C.N. and upon sections 16-15-21, Range 4, Township 7 east and south of
Arbuckle. (Source: Chickasaw Nation Records, Book 48, page 87)

John C. HARDWICK served as sheriff of Pickens County in 1870 and as County Treasurer from 1872 to 1874. In 1870 John was commissioned to build the Pickens County Court House. He received $1,000. John and Elizabeth are probably buried near Powell, in Marshall county, but no markers remain. (Source: Chickasaw Loves and Allied Families, by Marie King GARLAND.)

Jon Eastman Hardwick, in his article in "Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Volume II" cited only three known children born to John C. Hardwick and Elizabeth Jane Boyd, James, John David and Joe C. Hardwick. He noted that they were believed to be buried near Powell, Marshall County, Oklahoma, but with no stones remaining.

Notes:

Jon Eastman Hardwick writes that Dr. James M. Boyd was believed to have been born in Glasgow, Scotland, and accompanied his parents to the Nachez area when he was about five years of age.

(Research):
Census Listings:

1860 Census
The Choctaw Nation, Indian Lands, Arkansas, P. O. Skullyville
Enumerated 29 October 1860
Page 19
216-216
James M. Boyd 63 M Farmer Mississippi
Mat Ault 30 M Miller Pennsylvania
John Ireby 31 M Wagoner Alabama
Christopher Wagoner 30 M Sawyer in Mill Germany
John C. Hardwick 35 M Carpenter Tennessee
J.W. Beam 31 M Carpenter S. Carolina

James married Nancy Mahota Love before 1826. Nancy was born about 1810 in Vicinity Of Old Pontotoc, Chickasaw County, Mississippi; died on 20 Aug 1869 in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jon Eastman Hardwick writes that Nancy Mahota Love was the eldest child of Thomas Love and his Chickasaw wife Homahota. The Love family was a prominent Chickasaw Indian family that early acquired an English surname by reason of intermarriage.

Viki Anderson writes that "The Love family was possibly the largest of the mixed-blood families in the Chickasaw Nation and second only to the Colbert family in service to the Chickasaw Nation. Thomas Love was my ggggg grandfather. He was a refugee Tory from Virginia who settled among the Chickasaw in 1782. After his father William Love ("English Bill") had been killed, Thomas said that he took off through a briarpatch and made his lifesaving escape.

He led a quiet existance. He was described in July, 1875 as "a person of high esteem". He assisted in marking the Creek-Chickasaw boundary in 1796. Another countryman, John McIntosh, appointed him administrator of his estate in 1803. He was still living in 1818 and apparently died about 1830.

Thomas had two wives; his first wife, was Sally Colbert, half breed Chickasaw, daughter of James Logan Colbert. His second wife was a full-blood Chickasaw woman named Emahota. Following the Chickasaw tradition of the husband becoming a member of the wife's family, he became a member of the house of In-cun-no-mar. Thomas fathered eight sons and five daughters.

Emahota was born in 1791. She sold land in Marshall County, Mississippi on April 8, 1836. She was listed on the 1840 LaFayette County census. She removed to Indian Territory in November, 1844. The 1847 census lists her as half white, head of household, consisting of one male over 18 and 2 females over 16. She died at Burneyville on September 25, 1873.
Sons: Henry, Isaac, Benjamin, Slone, Robert Howard, Samuel, William, and Thomas
Daughters: Delilah (married a Mitchell, then John B. Moore), Betsy (married James Allen), Sally (married James T. Gaines), Nancy Mahota (married James M. Boyd), and Lucinda (married Samuel A. Colbert)

By the 1820's, most of the Love family were living in a prosperous farming community located about six miles southwest of the present town of Holly Springs, MS. In 1826, a Presbyterian missionary located a station they called Martyn Station near Henry Love's home which stood at the crossing of two Indian trails near Pigeon Roost Creek. Many of the family's children attended school there.

Thomas died in 1830.

Seven of his sons became Chickasaw leaders, particularly during and after the removal to Indian Territory."

http://www.roark-family.org/Loves/TheLoves.asp

Richard Allen Colbert wrote to Viki Anderson that Sally's father, James Logan Colbert "was born in America, on Plumtree Island in North Carolina to be more precise. If you don't believe me, would you believe James Colbert himself. On July 25, 1783, he sent letter to Governor Harrison of Virginia stating that he was "born" in America." I do not have a copy that I can send via computer, but it is located in the "Calendar of Virginia State Papers and other Documents," from January 1, 1782, to Dec. 31, 1784, Vol. III) (Richmond: Sherwin McRae, 1883), pp. 513-515. In addition, when James Colbert spent the summer of 1783 at Long Island on the Holston River with Malcolm McGee and the chiefs of the Chickasaw Nations to discuss peace terms with John Doone and Joseph Martin of Virginia, John Donne wrote a letter to General James Wilkenson, and said: "from his education and mode of life, being bred among the Indians from his infancy ...." QUESTION: How could this happen? ANSWER: His father was a Chickasaw Indian trader and took him to live among the Chickasaws after his real mother died. Father's name was William Colbert. He began trading with the Chickasaws in 1722. Also, in the Draper Collection of Manuscripts, Lyman C. Draper interviewed Malcolm McGee. McGee was asked to describe several of the Indian traders he knew. He described them by their Nationality, i.e., ADAIR-Irish, BUBBY-English, BUCKLES-English, HIGHTOWER-Dutchman, COLBERT-Carolinian. Note: McGee did not say Colbert was a "Scotsman." He said he was a "Carolinian." Also note that McGee was once married to Elizabeth Oxberry Harris, daughter of Christopher Oxberry and Molly Colbert. If anyone should know where James Colbert was born, it would be McGee." - Richard Allen Colbert to Viki Anderson, Jan 6, 2001

On her website, Viki Anderson writes "He (James Logan Colbert) married three Chickasaw wives and had nine children: seven sons and 2 daughters. He lead his life as an Indian trader, interpreter and leader of men during a time in history which was a turbulent struggle for land and new opportunity.

James and his Chickasaw followers harassed, frustrated, and repelled the Kings Enemies, patrolling the river country against invasion. French, Spanish, British, and Americans all courted the Chickasaw who skillfully played one against the other. The Chickasaw had begun to divide politically with one group showing favoritism toward the Spanish and the other lead by James Colbert staying loyal to the British. In 1781, James Logan Colbert lead an attack on Ft. Jefferson, an American military post erected in 1780 by George Rogers Clark on Chickasaw lands without Chickasaw permission. The siege lasted 5 days, but the Americans held the fort. James was wounded three times in the encounter. The Americans abandoned the fort in June of 1781.
After the British lost the American Revolution and the Anglo-Spanish War in Florida, they abandoned their colonization of the Mississippi Valley. The pro-British Chickasaw were not about to embrace the Spanish who claimed the territory between the mouth of the Yazoo River and the Ohio. They instead transferred their allegiance to the Americans. By 1782, according to some reports, there were almost three hundred whites and possibly a hundred blacks living in Chickasaw country, many of them Loyalist refugees from a failed rebellion at Natchez. James Colbert fashioned these men into a band of resistance fighters near Chickasaw Bluffs, assaulting Spanish boats on the Mississippi. A group of 150 Loyalists and 200 Indians attacked Spanish commerce on the river. The raids climaxed in 1782 with the capture of a boat carrying Se?ora Nicanora Ramos, the wife of Governor Cruzat of Saint Louis near present day Memphis. She was well treated and released after 22 days.

James first wife was a full-blood Chickasaw. They had a daughter,?b? ?/b?Sally . His second wife also was full-blood Chickasaw. They had several children: William, George, Levi, Joseph, and Samuel. His third wife was a half-blood Chickasaw. They had two children; James Holmes and Susan. James brought up his half-blood children as Indians. It is ironic that while James spent a good deal of his adult life seeking the Indian ways, his children would raise their children in the white mans culture, sending them to schools to become well educated. They became shrewd businessmen and leaders who exerted tremendous influence in Chickasaw councils well into the nineteenth century. In December, 1783, James died en route home from Pensacola in a fall from his horse. Some people believed that Caesar, the slave that returned home to tell the tale, had killed him."

Viki's sources include:
Adair's History of the American Indians, James Adair, published in London, 1775.
The Chickasaw, Duane K Hale & Arrell M. Gibson ISBN 1-55546-697
The Five Civilized Tribes, Grant Foreman, ISBN 0-8061-0923-8
The American Revolution in Indian Country, Colin G. Calloway, ISBN 0-521-47149-4

http://www.roark-family.org/Colberts/TheColberts.asp