of Washington County, Iowa · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Lewis G. Harding d. 1878
Lewis G. Harding⚭ Mary Brannon
childrenBenjamin Harding · Mary Jane Harding · Thomas Harding · Lyddie Anne Harding · Nancy Ellen Harding · Eliza Harding · Josiah Harding · F. W. Harding · John B. Harding
Their story
What the record says
History of Washington County, Iowa, vol 2.
Father of Thomas Harding.
Native of West Virginia.
Went to Ohio in boyhood.
Spent 3 years in Illinois.
Removed to Iowa in 1860.
Died 1878.
General farmer.
In youth assisted his father in a hotel.
Hardings an old American family originally from England, lived in Delaware before West Virginia.
Ancestor William Harding (great-grandfather of Thomas) came from England in pioneer times.
Family of ten children, one died in infancy.
Married Mary Brannon in Ohio.
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