_Joseph HARDESTY _
_Elijah HARDESTY _|
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|--Elijah HARDESTY
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|_Sarah WELLS _____|
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Was a soldier of the war of 1812, was living in Preston County in 1798, coming from Greene. He settled on Snowy Creek and the mill he built near the present railway track has disppeared. The posterity of his three sons are mainly in Portland and Union.