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Parker Watkins Hardin (Adair County, Kentucky, student, attorney and city attorney)

b. 1841-06-03 d. 1920-07-25

Adair County, Kentucky, student, attorney, and city attorney. Adair County, Kentucky, native. Son of Parker C. Hardin and Carolina Watkins Hardin. Married to Mary E. Sallee in Wayne County, Kentucky, on December 23, 1863. Father of John C. Hardin. Student in Adair County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned fifteen enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Resident of Adair County in 1860. Household owned nineteen enslaved persons in Adair County in 1860. Attorney in Adair County in 1863. Attorney in Adair County in 1865. City attorney of Danville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 1A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 12.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 95.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 7A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 591B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994057, Adair County Marriages, p. 312.

Helen B. Crocker, "Hardin, Peter Watkins" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 404.

"Gen Parker Watkins “P. Watt” Hardin (1841-1920)," Find A Grave, Memorial 83091983, accessed December 27, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83091983.

Citation

Hardin, Parker Watkins. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280692 (November 12, 2026).

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