Margaret Discretion Isbell Hardie, born 9 June 1837, died September 23, 1916 in Los Angeles, California.
Daughter of Maj. James Rowan Isbell and Rutelia Houston Isbell; granddaughter of Thomas Isbell and Discretion Howard Isbell.
Wife of Maj. Joseph Hardie of Thornhill Plantation. They married December 17, 1856. He was born Jan. 26, 1833, and died MAY 15,1915. Son of John Hardie of Thornhill and Mary (Meade) Hall Hardie. His sister Mary Hardie married Judge Taul Bradford.
Maj. Hardie and Maggie Isbell lived at Thornhill in the early years of their marriage and intermittently through the later years after he and his brothers had deeded it to his sister. Maj. Hardie and Maggie had homes in Selma, Birmingham, and Los Angeles, California. They also kept a summer home at Chandler Springs. According to Anna Meade Minningerode, when Maj. Hardie died Maggie was offered a burial plot in the family cemetery at Thornhill but she wanted them to be buried with the Isbells in town at Oak Hill.
They were very wealthy former slaveowners and became great benefactors and liberal supporters of Tuskeegee Institute. They entertained Booker T. Washington in their own home at Selma, although in the kitchen rather than the dining room. At the time of her death in California, the Los Angeles newspaper headline read: "FRIEND OF NEGRO DIES HERE."
Montgomery Advertiser, Sept. 26, 1916, p.6: A despatch (sic) was received from Los Angeles last night announcing the death of Mrs. Joseph Hardie, relict of Major Joseph Hardie, for many years a resident of Selma and well known all over the state. Mrs. Hardie was the adopted mother of Mrs. L.E. Jeffries now of Washington. She was born at Talladega and the remains will be carried there for interment -- Selma Times."
Daughter of Maj. James Rowan Isbell and Rutelia Houston Isbell; granddaughter of Thomas Isbell and Discretion Howard Isbell.
Wife of Maj. Joseph Hardie of Thornhill Plantation. They married December 17, 1856. He was born Jan. 26, 1833, and died MAY 15,1915. Son of John Hardie of Thornhill and Mary (Meade) Hall Hardie. His sister Mary Hardie married Judge Taul Bradford.
Maj. Hardie and Maggie Isbell lived at Thornhill in the early years of their marriage and intermittently through the later years after he and his brothers had deeded it to his sister. Maj. Hardie and Maggie had homes in Selma, Birmingham, and Los Angeles, California. They also kept a summer home at Chandler Springs. According to Anna Meade Minningerode, when Maj. Hardie died Maggie was offered a burial plot in the family cemetery at Thornhill but she wanted them to be buried with the Isbells in town at Oak Hill.
They were very wealthy former slaveowners and became great benefactors and liberal supporters of Tuskeegee Institute. They entertained Booker T. Washington in their own home at Selma, although in the kitchen rather than the dining room. At the time of her death in California, the Los Angeles newspaper headline read: "FRIEND OF NEGRO DIES HERE."
Montgomery Advertiser, Sept. 26, 1916, p.6: A despatch (sic) was received from Los Angeles last night announcing the death of Mrs. Joseph Hardie, relict of Major Joseph Hardie, for many years a resident of Selma and well known all over the state. Mrs. Hardie was the adopted mother of Mrs. L.E. Jeffries now of Washington. She was born at Talladega and the remains will be carried there for interment -- Selma Times."
Margaret Discretion Isbell Hardie, born 9 June 1837, died September 23, 1916 in Los Angeles, California.
Daughter of Maj. James Rowan Isbell and Rutelia Houston Isbell; granddaughter of Thomas Isbell and Discretion Howard Isbell.
Wife of Maj. Joseph Hardie of Thornhill Plantation. They married December 17, 1856. He was born Jan. 26, 1833, and died MAY 15,1915. Son of John Hardie of Thornhill and Mary (Meade) Hall Hardie. His sister Mary Hardie married Judge Taul Bradford.
Maj. Hardie and Maggie Isbell lived at Thornhill in the early years of their marriage and intermittently through the later years after he and his brothers had deeded it to his sister. Maj. Hardie and Maggie had homes in Selma, Birmingham, and Los Angeles, California. They also kept a summer home at Chandler Springs. According to Anna Meade Minningerode, when Maj. Hardie died Maggie was offered a burial plot in the family cemetery at Thornhill but she wanted them to be buried with the Isbells in town at Oak Hill.
They were very wealthy former slaveowners and became great benefactors and liberal supporters of Tuskeegee Institute. They entertained Booker T. Washington in their own home at Selma, although in the kitchen rather than the dining room. At the time of her death in California, the Los Angeles newspaper headline read: "FRIEND OF NEGRO DIES HERE."
Montgomery Advertiser, Sept. 26, 1916, p.6: A despatch (sic) was received from Los Angeles last night announcing the death of Mrs. Joseph Hardie, relict of Major Joseph Hardie, for many years a resident of Selma and well known all over the state. Mrs. Hardie was the adopted mother of Mrs. L.E. Jeffries now of Washington. She was born at Talladega and the remains will be carried there for interment -- Selma Times."
Daughter of Maj. James Rowan Isbell and Rutelia Houston Isbell; granddaughter of Thomas Isbell and Discretion Howard Isbell.
Wife of Maj. Joseph Hardie of Thornhill Plantation. They married December 17, 1856. He was born Jan. 26, 1833, and died MAY 15,1915. Son of John Hardie of Thornhill and Mary (Meade) Hall Hardie. His sister Mary Hardie married Judge Taul Bradford.
Maj. Hardie and Maggie Isbell lived at Thornhill in the early years of their marriage and intermittently through the later years after he and his brothers had deeded it to his sister. Maj. Hardie and Maggie had homes in Selma, Birmingham, and Los Angeles, California. They also kept a summer home at Chandler Springs. According to Anna Meade Minningerode, when Maj. Hardie died Maggie was offered a burial plot in the family cemetery at Thornhill but she wanted them to be buried with the Isbells in town at Oak Hill.
They were very wealthy former slaveowners and became great benefactors and liberal supporters of Tuskeegee Institute. They entertained Booker T. Washington in their own home at Selma, although in the kitchen rather than the dining room. At the time of her death in California, the Los Angeles newspaper headline read: "FRIEND OF NEGRO DIES HERE."
Montgomery Advertiser, Sept. 26, 1916, p.6: A despatch (sic) was received from Los Angeles last night announcing the death of Mrs. Joseph Hardie, relict of Major Joseph Hardie, for many years a resident of Selma and well known all over the state. Mrs. Hardie was the adopted mother of Mrs. L.E. Jeffries now of Washington. She was born at Talladega and the remains will be carried there for interment -- Selma Times."
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
