Anna Hardin Taylor

Not the daughter of Moses Hardin and Mary Ball. Their daughter Anna married Daniel Cheatham.

Not a confirmed DNA match to this Hardin family. 4.2 cM is not a match--more than half of segments at this size are false positives. Please see "Don’t Poison That Tree" by Judy G. Russell:

https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2021/09/05/dont-poison-that-tree/

Anna ______ married John Hardin before she married Charles Taylor. Her grandson, Griffin Hardin, came to live with Charles and Ann Taylor after the death of his parents Hiram and Permelia Rester Hardin.

Many accounts say Charles Taylor married a full-blood Creek. It is not clear whether this refers to Mrs. Anna ___ Hardin or Charles Taylor's first wife, who was from South Carolina.

With John Hardin, Anna is thought to be the mother of:

Clarissa Ann Hardin b: 2 SEP 1813 in Marion County, Mississippi m. John Bradley Wallis

Hiram Hardin b: c1817 Tennessee? m. Permelia Rester

Samuel A. Hardin b. c1818

John Hardin s. c1819 in Alabama m. Annie Jane Stockstill

Sarah Ann Hardin b: 1820 in Mississippi m. William Washington Rester

Anna ____ Hardin cannot be the biological mother of Charles Taylor's children.

Her maiden name is unknown.

Anna Taylor, after the death of her husband Charles settled in Diboll, Angelina County, Texas with her [grandson or nephew] Griffin Hardin. In the 1860's she was living with the Smith family. Reference the Angeline County census. Ann is buried in an unmarked grave next to Griffin Hardin in the Rhyne [Ryan] Cemetery in Diboll, Texas near Lufkin. Ann's sister is also buried there.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shannon50...

http://www.spiers.net/mstree/note_1190.htm

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1830 Census Marion Co. MS

Taylor, Charles

1 male age 10 to 15 (???)

1 male age 50 to 60 (Charles)

1 female age 05 to 10 (???)

1 female age 10 to 15 (could be Lucinda)

1 female age 30 to 40 (Anna Taylor)

Note: the unidentified children may be children of Anna Hardin Taylor.

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1840 Marion Co. MS Census:

Charles Taylor

1 male under 5 (Griffin Hardin)

1 male (40-50) (??)

1 male (60-70) Charles Taylor

1 female (40-50) Anna Taylor

Note: the unidentified male may be a son of Anna Hardin Taylor.

1850 US Census, Marion County, Mississippi, with her grandson Griffin Hardin:

Charles Taylor M 78 South Carolina

Anne Taylor F 54 Virginia

G Hardin M 12 Mississippi

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LD-RY6

1860 US Census, 1st District, Angelina, Texas, United States

William H Smith M 44 Mississippi

Rebecca Smith F 37 Louisiana

Andrew J Smith M 15 Mississippi

Benjamin Smith M 13 Mississippi

Nancey C Smith F 11 Mississippi

Joshua J Smith M 10 Mississippi

Melissa Smith F 7 Texas

James M Smith M 5 Texas

Hiram Smith M 2 Texas

Anna Taylor F 64 Virginia

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXFG-GBL

(next door is Elizabeth Bryant, age 60, b. GA--could she be a relation to Anna or to the Taylors?)

On 12 April 1853, after the death of Charles Taylor, Mrs. Anna Taylor purchased a "negro girl" about ten years old, named Dolia, for her grandson Griffin, from the Resters, the family of Griffin's mother. Dolia's later whereabouts are unknown, but it's likely she also went to Texas. See document below and at link: http://www.samhardin.family/spec/Gabe-sons/other-grandsons-of-gabri...

Land Deed 982-1039 C Marion County, MS William Washington Rester p.567 Bill Sale to Anna Taylor This Indenture made and entered into between William Washington Rester of the Parish of Washington, and state of Louisiana of the first part and Anna Taylor (wife of Charles Taylor) of and [for] Griffin Hardin (Minor Child of Hiram Harden and Pamela Harden his wife) Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of Five Hundred dollars to me in hand paid by the said Anna Taylor for herself as well as for the said Griffin Harden, at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, I have this day bargained sold and delivered and do by these presents bargain, sell, deliver, and confirm to the said Anna Taylor for and during the full term of her natural life a certain negro girl about ten years old named Dolia - the said girl slave to be kept used managed and disposed of by the said Anna, in any manner that she may see fit, for and during the term of her natural life as beforesaid - and after the death of her the said Anna and upon the determination thereby of her said estate in said slave. I do hereby bargain, sell, convey and dispose of to the Said Griffin Harden the remainder in fee (simple) of the said slave as well as of all her increase, that may have been borned of her body prior to the determination of the life estate aforesaid as well as what may be bornd after the determination of said life estate - To have and to hold the same to the said Griffin Harden his heirs and assigns forever.

Given under my hand and seal this twelfth day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty three.

The State of Mississippi } Marion County } Before me A. Willoughby, a Justice of the Peace of Said County, personally came the above named Wm. Washington Rester who acknowledges that he signed sealed and delivered the bargain and of conveyance of slave on the day and year therein mentioned as his act and deed and that he did at the same time delivered the Slave therein mentioned for the purposes therein specified to Said Anna Taylor.

Given under my hand and seal this 12th day of April AD 1853. A. Welloughby, JP {SEAL} Dated Apr. 14, 1853 Jno. H. Webb, clerk Duly recorded the 12th April AD 1853 Jno H. Webb, clerk