Some Descendants of Abner Harding (Nathan, Nathan, Nathan, Amaziah, Joseph, Joseph)

 

  1. George Franklin Harding (son of Rebecca) was born on 1 Oct 1830 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. [AACH, p. 90] He married Adelaide Matthews on 7 Nov 1853. [AACH, p. 90] Adelaide was the daughter of Reuben Matthews. [AACH, p. 90]
    George was educated at Knox College and Harvard. [AACH, p. 90] He received his LLB in 1851. [AACH, p. 90]
    In 1850 George was living with his father in Warren, Illinois. He was a lawyer. [C1850] In 1860 George and Adelaide were living in Peoria, Peoria, IL. [C1860] George had real estate worth $40,000 and a personal estate of $20,000. [AACH, p. 90]
    1. Abner Clark Harding was born on 31 Dec 1857 in Peoria, Illinois. [AACH, p. 92] He died on 11 Mar 1921 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92] He married Addie Augusta Church on 29 Mar 1959 in Union Mills, Indiana. [AACH, p. 92] Addie, the daughter of Firman and Augusta (Freeman) Church was born on 20 Mar 1859 and died on 26 Nov 1924 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92]
      1. Abner Clark Harding was born on 27 Jan 1880 in Peoria. [AACH, p. 93] On 9 Sep 1919 he left New Orleans by a ship that was last sighted passing into the Gulf of Mexico on 10 Sep 1919. [AACH, p. 93] He married Maud McCain on 2 Nov 1903. [AACH, p. 93] Maud, the daughter of Lucius and Georgia (Simms) McCain was born on 25 Feb 1886 in Matagorda, Texas and died on 14 Sep 1941 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 93]
        1. Addie Clark Harding was born on 29 Aug 1904 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 93]
      2. George Franklin Harding was born on 9 Aug 1881. [AACH, p. 93] He married Julia Melville Hoyne on 18 Nov 1907 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 93]
    2. Victor Matthews Harding was born on 25 Apr 1866 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92] He married Mary Mathilda Boak [HPN] on 6 Oct 1903. She was born in Nova Scotia. [AACH, p. 92]
      1. Mary Adelaide Harding was born on 22 Jul 1904. [AACH, p. 92] She married Unknown Findlay. [HPN]
      2. Jane de Bois Harding was born on 20 Feb 1906. [AACH, p. 92]
      3. Victor Matthews Harding [HPN] was born on 26 Jul 1908. [AACH, p. 92]
      4. Robert Cornelius "Bob" Harding was born in May 1915. [AACH, p. 92]
      5. Beatrice Louise "Betty" Harding was born in Oct 1916. [AACH, p. 92] She married Unknown Loucas. [HPN]
    3. George Franklin Harding was born on 16 Oct 1868 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92] He married Ellen Osborn Davis in Dec 1896. [AACH, p. 92] She was born in Neenah, Wisconsin. [AACH, p. 92]
      1. Penelope Harding was born on 10 Sep 1898. [AACH, p. 92]
      2. Mary Milson Harding was born on 6 Nov 1899. [AACH, p. 92]
    4. Adelaide Harding was born in 1870. [AACH, p. 92] She married Edward Vincent. [AACH, p. 92]
    5. Beatrice Harding was born on 30 Aug 1873 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92] She married Cornelius Peter Van Schaack [HPN] in Feb 1902 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92]
      1. Harding Van Schaack [HPN] was born on 29 Jul 1907 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92]
      2. Cornelius Peter "DeeDee" Van Schaack was born on 9 May 1909 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92]
    6. Susan Grace Harding was born on 10 Dec 1874 in Chicago. [AACH, p. 92] He married William Rummler [HPN] on 30 Oct 1905. [AACH, p. 92]
      1. Joseph Rummler was born on 10 Jul 1906. [AACH, p. 92]
      2. Adelaide Rummler was born on 27 Jan 1907. [AACH, p. 92]
      3. Robert Stevens Rummler [HPN]
    7. Madeline Harding [BPN][HPN] was born on 18 Nov 1878 [ANC] in Chicago. She died on 6 Sep 1958. [ANC] She married her second cousin Brig. Gen. Bruce Palmer. [ANC][WPS][AACH, p. 92]

References

ANC Arlington National Cemetery website: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net.
C1850 Bureau of the Census, Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1850.
C1860 Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1860.
AACH McPherson, Gladys Redfield, Ancestry of Addie Clark Harding: Daughter of Abner Clark Harding, Jr., and Maud McCain, Chicago: unknown, 196-?.
BPN Notes by Brig. Gen. Bruce Palmer, son of Maj. George H. Palmer
HPN Notes by Harding Palmer, son of Brig. Gen. Bruce Palmer, 15 May 1989.
WPS Walter Palmer Society