Ida Hardwick

1878 - 1915  (~ 37 years)

• Name	Ida Hardwick  [1, 2]
  Born	Jan 1878	Indian Territory   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Died	22 Apr 1915	Kingston, Marshall County, Oklahoma   [1, 2]
  Notes	The Dawes Enrollment packet of George Mutz indicated that is took some time for him to be enrolled as a citizen by intermarriage. The fact that he and Ida married first under a U.S. marriage license, and married again some four years later under a tribal license appeared to be one factor. Additionally, it appeared that the Choctaw and Chickasaw attornies originally protested the enrollment on the grounds that they suspected Ida was actually a full sister of George W. Blevins, Annie B. Roberts, John Orndorf and Mattie Hybarger, and first requested that a full examination be made of the records to determine who the parents of Ida Hardwick Mutz were. The chairman of the enrollment commision stated that upon examination, it was determined that Ida was indeed the daughter of Dave Hardwick, now deceased, who was a citizen by blood and resident of Pickens County, and Creecy Merriman, who was presently age 42 and a citizen by blood. "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 Ida was born in April 1877 and died in 1915. J. W. Honeysuckle, in a article below relating to the death of Ida Mutz and her mother, Crecy Harney Hardwick Merriman, stated that Ida had been first married to his brother, a Honeysuckle, prior to her marriage to George Mutz. TWO WOMEN SLAIN IN FAMILY FEUD Marshall County Farmer's Home Scene of Double Tragedy MADILL, Okla., April 22 - (Special)- Mrs. Creacy Merriman, aged 60, and Mrs G. M. Mutz, 35 years of age, were shot and killed Thursday morning by J. W. Honeysuckle, 27, at the latter's home, about three miles northeast of Kingston. Honeysuckle fired two pistol shots into the body of each woman. Immediately after the second shot was fired into the body of Mrs. Merriman, she ran out of the house to the front porch where she fell dead. After Mrs. Mutz had been shot the second time she ran out of the room, and sat down by the side of the house. Mrs. Honeysuckle took the wounded woman back into the house and placed her in bed, where she died fifteen minutes later. Honeysuckle came to Madill and surrendered three hours later. He is now in the county jail here. According to Honeysuckle the double killing was the culmination of a quarrel over the guardianship of his three step-children. Honeysuckle had been married just one week when the killing occurred. According to Honeysuckle's statement, Mrs Merriman was the grandmother of his step-children, and Mrs. Mutz was his sister-in-law, her first husband having been his brother. At the time of the killing, Mrs N. F. Benson [Jennie Hardwick], a daughter of Mrs Merriman, and Mrs Honeysuckle, wife of the slayer, were the only other persons in the home. Honeysuckle says that there had been previous domestic trouble in the family. According to his statement, Mrs. Merriman and Mrs. Mutz drove up to his house during the rain about 9 o'clock Thursday morning. He says that he went to the door and invited the women to tie their team, and to come into the house, while it was raining. The women accepted the invitation, he says, and as they were entering the door one of the women made a remark which caused Mrs. Honeysuckle to object to their presence in the Honeysuckle home. The women entered the house, over the protest of Mrs. Honeysuckle, and attacked Mrs. Honeysuckle, knocking her down, says Honeysuckle, who alleges that while his wife was on the floor she was kicked by Mrs. Mutz. He says that he pulled the women from his wife and that they assualted him, pushing him back of a stove and against the wall. "Mrs Merriman picked up a butcher knife and started toward me," says Honeysuckle . "I warned her away several times and kept repeating, 'Don't make me hurt you.' The women kept crowding in on me. I drew a pistol and fired twice, one shot striking Mrs Merriman, the other hitting Mrs Mutz. The women grappled me, and while we were struggling I fired twice at Mrs Merriman, one of the bullets striking Mrs.Merriman, the other going wild and striking Mrs Mutz," says Honeysuckle. Mrs. Honeysuckle's three children, over whom the trouble occurred, are of Indian extraction by her former husband, Brit Hardwick, a son of Mrs Merriman. Mrs Merriman is a widow. (Courtesy of Debra Usry, copied from a Rootsweb/Ancestry message board) (Research):From Rootsweb Native Amercian Data: Name: Hardwick, Dave Tribe: Chickasaw Record Type: enrollment Sex: M Enrollment Type: P (Parent) Card No.: 1022 Credit belongs to the staff of SW National Archives, Fort W orth, Texas, who compiled the names from the Dawes Enrollment Cards for its National Archives ?u? ?/u?http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/tutorial/dawes/rolls-index.html?u? ?/u? Others with this Family: Surname First Name Type Sex Age Blood % Hardwick Dave P (Parent) M Merriman Crecy P (Parent) F Mutz George P (Parent) M Mutz Jake P (Parent) M Mutz Margaret P (Parent) F Mutz George BB (By Blood) M 36 IW Mutz Ida BB (By Blood) F 21 3/8 Mutz Ada BB (By Blood) F 3 3/16 Mutz Fred BB (By Blood) M 1 3/16 Mutz Henry Overton BB (By Blood) M 1 3/16
  Person ID	I32395	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	John David "Dave" Hardwick,   b. Between 1850 and 1852, Mississippi ,   d. 23 Oct 1889, Paris, Lamar County, Texas  (Age ~ 39 years)
  Mother	Lucretia "Crecy/Cresy" Harney,   b. Mar 1860, Panola County, Indian Territory ,   d. 22 Apr 1915, Kingston, Marshall County, Oklahoma  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Married	30 Nov 1876	Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory   [2]
  	Hardwick, David [John David] Harney, Cresy [Lucretia] 11/30/76 Robert S. Bell, minister Pickens Co. Pickens Co. Records http://www.chickasawhistory.com/g_mar_2.htm Posted to Rootsweb by J.L. Christian, now deceased, on 7 June 2004: Searching for Descendants of John David HARDWICK and Lucretia (Crecy) HARNEY HARDWICK, John David was born 1852 in Mississippi, Marshall County, and died 23 October 1889 in Paris, Texas, Lamar County. He married Lucretia HARNEY 30 November 1876 in Pickens County, Indian Territory, daughter of Will HARNEY and MAULSIE UNKNOWN. She was born March 1860 in Panola County, Indian Territory, and died 22 April 1915 in Kingston, Marshall County, Oklahoma. Children of JOHN HARDWICK and LUCRETIA HARNEY are: HARDWICK, Ida, b. April 1877; d. 22 April 1915, Kingston, Marshall County, Oklahoma. HARDWICK, Brit, b. 04 May 1880, Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory; d. 04 March 1911, Kingston, Marshall County, Oklahoma. HARDWICK, Eastman, b. 15 September 1883; d. 23 December 1950, Baird, Callahan County, Texas. HARDWICK, Janie, b. 10 July 1887; d. 13 March 1960, Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma. "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) also showed that Dave and Crecy were the parents of an Ada Hardwick, born 1888 and died March 27, 1964 in Ardmore. He showed that she was married first to Mr. Russell and had a son, Charles. She married second to Dawes Bixby Cummings. However, the "Jones/Johnston Ancestors" tree at WorldConnect instead shows that Ada, born ca 1888, was actually the daughter of Ida Hardwick and George Mutz. She was shown as marrying first a Russell and later Dawes Bixby Cummings.
  Family ID	F6968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George Mutz,   b. Jan 1870, Indiana ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	7 Sep 1896	Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory   [2]
  	George Mutz married Ida Hardwick, (issue of Crecy & Dave), in Pickens Co. 7 Sep 1896 under Chickasaw License. Married in 1892 under U.S. License.
  Children	1. Ada Mutz,   b. Mar 1896, Indian Territory ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Fred Mutz,   b. 8 Nov 1898, Indian Territory ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Henry Overton Mutz,   b. 15 Feb 1901, Indian Territory ,   d. Abt 1957, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas  (Age 55 years)   4. Edna Mutz,   b. Abt 1904, Indian Territory ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Lem Mutz,   b. Abt 1906, Indian Territory ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Irvin Mutz,   b. Abt 1914, Kingston, Marshall County, Oklahoma ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2008
  Family ID	F10398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Died - 22 Apr 1915 - Kingston, Marshall County, Oklahoma  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S667] RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, (The WorldConnect Project is a set of tools, which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their genealogy with other researchers. The program used to day has a genealogy of its own. RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November 10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project continues to grow, and as of January 2004 had more than 312 million records. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunications. It is a file format developed by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). It provides a flexible and uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data, and allows you to share files with other researchers who may not use the same genealogy program.), Johnston, Lissa (mail@lissajohnston.com) "Jones/Johnston An cestors" Updated 2008-07-28; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry. com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=lissaj (Reliability: 3). [S682] Lemons, Nova A., Compiler and Editor "Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Volume II" Timbercreek Ltd., Rt. 1 Box 242, Miami, OK 74354, 1997. [S384] 1900 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1900 United States Federal Census, the Twelfth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, relationship to the head of household, color or race, sex, month and year of birth, age at last birthday, marital status, number of years married, the total number of children born of the mother, the number of those children living, birthplace, birthplace of father and mother, if the individual was foreign born, the year of immigration and the number of years in the United States, the citizenship status of foreign-born individuals over age twenty-one, occupation, and more. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1900 Federal Census.), Indian Territory, Chickasaw Nation, Twp 6 (Reliability: 3).