I begin my information for my HACKWORTH family with....
GEORGE HACKWORTH (The Emigrant) born about 1720 in England; died 1797 in Bedford Co., VA;
JOHN B. HACKWORTH born 1743 in Caroline Co., VA; died 8-20-1826 in Pike Co., KY; married (1st) Betty RICHARDSON in 1769 in Bedford Co., VA; daughter of Joseph RICHARDSON; married (2nd) Mary PRESTON in Richmond Co., GA; daughter of Phillip and Mary PRESTON;
JEREMIAH HACKWORTH born about 1784 in VA; died before September, 1849 in Floyd Co., KY; buried in Floyd Co., KY; Married ESTHER CRAVENS born in 1790 in Pennsylvania (Not sure of this birth year)
JOSEPH HACKWORTH was born in 1830 in Kentucky; died in 1865 in Kentucky; Married TABITHA FORTNER on April 24, 1850 in Morgan Co., KY; daughter of Jacob FORTNER and Rachel TUGMON. Tabitha FORTNER was born in 1829 in Virginia. She died after 1880 in Powell Co., KY;
JERRY HACKWORTH (Joseph-1) was born in May 1853 in Powell Co., KY; Married ELIZABETH “BETTIE” LITTRELL born about 1853; married in 1884 in Clark Co., KY; possible daughter of Robert LITTRELL and Maria UNKNOWN;
LUTHER HACKWORTH (Jerry-2, Joseph-1) was born in April 1885 in Clark Co., KY. He was hit and killed by a train September 9, 1928 in Madison Co., KY at the age of 43. Parents were Jerry HACKWORTH and Elizabeth “Bettie” LITTRELL;
THOMAS HENRY HACKWORTH born November 29, 1909 in Madison Co., KY; died September 29, 1945 in the Clark County Hospital in Winchester, KY; (accidentally run over by the train while working as a Brakeman for the L & N Railroad) at the age of 35 years and 10 months; buried in the Richmond Cemetery in Madison Co., KY beside his wife Anna Margaret TATE-HACKWORTH-WALL; married August 3, 1929 in Madison Co., KY;