Ziba Hardee and son John Hardee

Ziba and Peggy Hardee’s son

John Hardee

Ziba and Peggy Hardee had a son named John Hardee. (There are a lot of men named John in the Hardee family!) John was born about 1816 in Georgia.

Like his older brother Joel, John moved to Alabama at a young age with his family.

On February 15, 1834 he married Sibithia Brooks in Monroe County Alabama. (Many people confuse this marriage with John Ziba and Tabatha's marriage since Tabitha was also a Brooks.)

In 1840 he had moved to Coosa County Alabama but was back in Monroe County Alabama by the 1850 census.

In the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census he and his wife are still living in Monroe County, Alabama. It does not look like they had children as none are ever listed with them on the census.

I have not done a lot of research on this John Hardee. I am not sure of when and where he died. He is listed as a farmer in all the census records.

The below record is John and Sabithia in the 1860 census.

John and Sabithia Hardee in 1860 Monroe County, Alabama Census.

John and Peggy Hardee's daughter, Elephare Susan Hardee

Photo of Ziba and Tabitha Hardee and son James Hardee

PHOTO OF ZIBA AND TABITHA HARDEE AND OLDEST SON JAMES HARDEE

This is the only know photo of Ziba and Tabitha Brooks Hardee. Date unknown. Ziba and Tabitha Hardee are my 3rd Great Grandparents.

Surname Saturday - Hardee

John Ziba Hardee is my earliest known Hardee. I have found Ziba in the 1830 Census in Monroe County, Alabama; in the 1840 census in Jordan, Coosa County, Alabama; and the 1850 Census in Hatchet Creek District, Coosa County, Alabama. I have searched the 1860 census and did not find Ziba or his family. I searched page by page of the Van Zandt County Census and no Hardee's were found. I searched most of the Coosa Co., Alabama Census and did not find Ziba Hardee.

Ziba's Timeline

From what I have read but not found sources for is that John Ziba Hardee was born in North Carolina and moved to Georgia with his father who may have been John Hardee. Here Ziba met and married his first wife Peggy Mitchel in 1813. Around 1821 they moved to Monroe Co., Alabama. Sometime between 1823-1825 Peggy died and Ziba married Tabitha Brooks about 1825 in Alabama. About 1837 they moved to Coosa Co., Alabama. Sometime after 1850 they moved to Van Zandt County, Texas where Ziba died in 1862 and is buried. Some of Ziba's sons served in the Civil War in Texas units and some served in Alabama units.

My Hardee Line 
Ziba Hardee born 1782 or 1794 in North Carolina
Tabitha Brooks born about 1810 in Baldwin Co.,GeorgiaMarried about 1825 in Alabama (Ziba's second marriage)

Willliam Thomas Hardee born 10 March 1836 in Hatchet Creek, Coosa Co., Alabama
Juda Frances Lee born about 1838 in Alabama
Married 19 November 1854 in Alabama

Samuel Burel Hardee born 26 January 1860 in Alabama
Georgianna Clarissa Ransom born 17 January 1870 in Texas
Married about 1887


Joseph Abraham Hardee born 6 January 1902 in Decatur, Wise Co., Texas
Dessie Pearl Galttana born 31 July 1902 in Chickasha, Grady Co., Oklahoma
Married 17 December 1923 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas