Title: Notes
Text:
Rev. Edward Hardy, born March 18, 1770, in Bertie county,
was a clergyman of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and resided in Currituck county, North Carolina,
near the court house, and died April 3, 1837. At the age of nineteen years he
became convinced of his calling to engage in the ministry, and on December 24,
1791, before completing his twenty-second year, he was appointed a traveling
minister by the Methodist conference, and was appointed a deacon, December
11, 1793, at Green Hill by Bishop Asbury. He continued his labors in North
Carolina until his death. He was made an elder at Norfolk, February 24, 1814.
He married (first) December 25, 1796, Lydia Jarvis, born
August 25, 1780, died
December 20, 1807, daughter of Colonel Thomas and Lydia Jarvis, of Currituck;
married (second) December 20, 1808, Elizabeth Murden, who died September
11, 1815; married (third) September 24, 1816, Dorcas Woodhouse, who died
December 11 of the same year; married (fourth) July 1, 1819, Lydia (White)
Bray, widow of Captain Thomas Bray, born November 27, 1784, died March 18,
1853, daughter of Caleb and Amy White. Of the first marriage were born four
sons: William J., Thomas Asbury, Charles Wesley and Edward Washington. All
of these reared large families.
The second wife had three children who died unmarried.
The third wife died childless.
Children of the fourth marriage:
Lemuel Cook, died at the age of seventeen years;
Henry Clarke Hardy
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