William Thomas and Juda Frances Lee Hardee son
Zibe Brooks Hardee

Zibe Brooks Hardee was the third child of William and Juda Hardee. Zibe was born Sept. 4, 1859 in Alabama. He never married and is always listed in the census as single.

He is first listed with his family in the 1860 Alabama census as a one year old. His brother Pinkney Hardee was born Dec. 22, 1869 in Alabama so the family must have traveled to Van Zandt County, Texas sometime between then and Sept. 16, 1870 when the family is listed in the census and he is listed as 11 years old.

In 1880 he is living in Johnson Co., Texas as a single 21-year-old farm laborer with Abraham Arnold and his family. I don’t know of any connection with the Arnold family. But, Zibe’s father and siblings are living one family away, so they are nearby.

By 1900 both his parents have died. He is still living in Johnson County, Texas and is listed as a boarder in the household of the Killough family. He is listed as Zide Hardie age 38 and working as farm laborer.

In 1910 Zibe is living with his younger brother Robert Hardee and his family. They live at 401 Elmo St. in Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas. His name is listed as Side and he is 46 years old. His brother works as a machinist at the railroad shop. Zibe works as a hostler helper at the railroad roundhouse. Looking at a map they lived near the railroad yard and almost everyone listed on this census page works for the railroad.

I did not know what a hostler was so I looked it up. A hostler is the person who receives the locomotive as they come in and cares for them in the roundhouse. They have them clean and ready for departure when needed.

Robert, Clifford T. and Zibe B. are all listed in the 1915 Cleburne City Directory living at 401 Elmo. Clifford T. is Robert’s son. Clifford is listed as a laborer, Robert as a truckman at G C & S F railroad and Zibe is a helper at G C & S F railroad.

He still lives with his brother in 1920. Zibe is listed as 62 years old and a hostler at the roundhouse.

He lives with his younger widowed sister Caroline in 1930. They live on 613 Royal St. in Cleburne, Texas, still near the railroad yard. Even though it’s been 10 years since the 1920 census he has only aged five years as he is listed as 67 years old but still works as a hostler helper in the shops.

Zibe Brooks Hardee died April 15, 1932 of influenzas and pneumonia. He was still living with his sister Caroline when he died. The informant on the death certificate was C.W. Hardee which I assume is Creed Westly Hardee, Zibe’s nephew from his brother Robert. C.W. Hardee gave his birthdate as Sept. 4, 1874. The year is incorrect as Zibe is listed in the 1860 census as one years old.  He is buried in the Cleburne Memorial Cemetery in Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas.

Five months later his brother Robert dies of pneumonia. 

Even though Zibe never married or had children he will not be forgotten.

 

William Thomas and Juda Frances Lee Hardee daughter

Sarah Jane “Sally” Hardee

Sarah Jane “Sally” Hardee was the second child of William and Juda Hardee. Sarah was born December 23, 1857 in Alabama. She is listed in the 1860 U. S. Census in Coosa Co., Alabama and is 3 years old. Next, she is listed as Jane in the 1870 U.S. Census in Van Zandt Co., Texas and is 12 years old.

On December 22, 1878 she married William A. Pulley in Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas. They had eight children: Eugene Pulley born about 1879; Amy Pulley born about 1883; Leota Oline Pulley born 1885 and died 1946; Lettie A. Pulley born 1890 and died 1962; Lester William Pulley born 1891 and died 1962; Vivian Beatrice Pulley born 1894; Trudie Ellen Pulley bor 1895 and died 1958 and Chester W. Pulley born 1898 and died 1901.

In the 1920 U.S. census for Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas Sarah is living with her son and listed as a widow.

In 1930 Sarah, listed as Sallie J. is living with her sister and brother in law James and Annie Mayfield in Chickasha, Grady Co., Oklahoma, again listed as a widow.

Sarah died on June 9, 1935 in Cleveland Co., Oklahoma and is buried in Moore Cemetery in Cleveland Co., Oklahoma.

 

William Thomas and Juda Frances Lee Hardee daughter
Mary Elizabeth Hardee

 Mary Elizabeth Hardee was William and Juda’s first child. Mary was born October 20, 1856 in Alabama. She is in the 1860 U.S. census in Coosa Co., Alabama as five years old. In 1870 she is in the census for Van Zandt Co., Texas as 15 years old. Her mother Juda died in 1879 and Mary is still living at home in 1880 in Johnson Co., Texas as a single 22-year-old. (She was actually 24.)  Her youngest sibling is only one year old, so I would assume since her mother had passed, she was the one taking care of her siblings.

On October 5, 1884 Mary married William Copeland in Parker Co., Texas. They had three children:

John C. Copeland born March 1886 in Texas and died in 1911.

Willie Melinda Copeland born November 5, 1887 born in Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas and died July 9, 1951. She married Howard Luther Hall on November 23, 1904 in Johnson Co., Texas. They had seven children.

Ima Mae Copeland born May 11, 1889 in Keene, Johnson Co., Texas and died February 14, 1989 in Contras Costa, California. She married Claude Edgar Lee and they had five children.

William Copeland died in 1890 and Mary married W. R. Parsons on December 2, 1891 in Ellis Co., Texas. They had one son named Lee Parsons born October 1892 in Texas. He married Ora Lee Miller.

I don’t know what happened to W.R. Parsons but on July 31, 1897 Mary married Sargent Owings/Owens. Mary and Sargent are listed in the 1900, 1910 and 1920 census living in Johnson Co., Texas.

The 1921 city directory shows Mary and Sargent lived at 212 S. Washington Ave., in Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas.

Mary died December 23, 1921 and is buried in Hopewell cemetery in Keene, Johnson Co., Texas.

Mary Hardee in the 1880 Johnson Co., Texas Census with her family.