This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Wh.2ADE/1830.1 Message Board Post: See the information on "Claburn R." Hardin, born ca 1873, of Union Co IL, at http://genforum.genealogy.com/hardin/messages/2552.html . Claiborn Hardin married Fannie Jackson in Union Co IL on 24 Jul 1898, according to the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index. http://www2.sos.state.il.us/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html 1910 CENSUS, JACKSON CO IL Grand Tower Township, ED 51, Sheet 6B April 29, 1910 "CLABRON" HARDIN 36 IL IL IL farm laborer, married 12 yrs Fanny 33 IL IL IL. Mother of 4 children, all living. Albert 11, Claud J. 7, Flossi J. 6, Ernie 2 (1900 census showed Albert b Jul 1899.) 1920 CENSUS, JACKSON CO IL Grand Tower Township, ED 56, Sheet 11A 19 Jan 1920 TAB HARDEN 46 widower IL IL IL, laborer, Oakwood Farm (Don't know for sure why he's listed as "Tab", but this is evidently Clayborn.) Flossie, dtr, 15 IL IL IL Earnest, son, 11 Winnie, dtr, 9 Mary R., dtr, 5 Louis E., son 3 8/12 Robert (middle initial I?, O?), son 1 1/12 According to the Illinois State Death Index at http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/IDPHDeathSearchServlet one Clayborn Hardin died 1946-05-03 at Murphysboro, Jackson Co IL. One Louis E. Hardin died in Perry Co IL in 1943. If you have a definite connection to this family, please let me know. I don't know if any of them ever spelled their surname Harding. Andy Anderson