I have not determined what brought the HARDIE family to Montgomery County. Thomas HARDIE was a miller. He moved to Smith County (actually a part that is now Trousdale) as a teenager or young adult. His grandparents (Henry FEATHERSTONE and Elizabeth MARSHALL) had moved to Smith Co from VA. When his father died (when Thomas was only 10) his mother stayed in VA for several years before joining her parents in TN. Thomas married and had 10 children,the last one in 1846. His wife died between 1846 and the 1850 census (Macon Co) and all of his FEATHERSTONE family connections had either died or left Macon Co. In 1853 he bought property in Montgomery County. One of his daughters married Michael SHRADER. Thomas HARDIE is listed on the 1860 census in Montgomery Co, in the 1870 census in Stewart Co, and in the 1880 census in Trigg Co (where the SHRADERS lived). Ida

Col. John Hogan came in 1795 to Brush Creek, Montgomery Co., TN, from Orange Co., NC, to take up a PURCHASED military land grant. Probably Presbyterian. Reuben Holt, Sr. came in 1812 to Coon Creek, Montgomery Co., TN from Orange (now Alamance) Co., NC via Williamson Co., TN, where he had lived near a son; to work for Maj. John Baker, I THINK. Probably Primitive Baptist. James B. Norfleet [NOT, REPEAT NOT, Maj. James Norfleet] came in 1812 to Coon Creek, Montgomery Co., TN from Bertie Co., NC, probably at the invitation of his remote cousin, MRS. John Baker, nee Elizabeth Norfleet. Probably Methodist. ----Cleo, from Little McAdoo Creek.