This is a working copy of a genealogy in
preparation of a book, possibly on the Hardesty line, if enough interest is
shown. From the first printing on 1 Mar. 1981
this booklet has grown tremendously and it is thanks to the
descendants. This booklet began with my
lines and that of the Ashcraft - Emery lines that I was working with when revising the "Genealogical
Records of Descendants of John Emery of Newbury, Massachusetts" which was
published in Nov. 1982.
Data within is gathered from the
W.P.A. Books of Greene co., Indiana,
census, obituaries appearing in the Bloomfield News. Some of the data has been gleaned from the microfiche marriage
records 1921-86 and hopefully I can do more later. I was pleasantly surprised to find this occurring in the
courthouse and was only prepared to glean quickly from the names of Hardisty,
Edington and Emery along with my McKee surname. Two other sources were of
help getting these families started "Koleen, Indiana My Hometown" and
"Koleen, Indiana Recollections of Original Settlers" both by Claude
M. Lynch. Bless him for writing down
his invaluable memories, recollections and knowledge of these people. Also of help was "Gone But Not
Forgotten An Anthology of Fact and Folklore" by Mildred Uland.
The original booklet was of 8 1/2 by 11
typed material on front and back full size pages. There were only fifty copies
printed up. After that it was a Xerox
project that included at first the book as typed original with added data with the pages being split to add in the new
data to the original booklet thus the
original booklet soon disappeared the only evidence being a few pages that
never were changed only Xeroxed off because the back side had nothing added to
them. After the original 50 copies sold it was only a Xerox project for those
wanting a copy and giving a donated copy to several people who have been
helping gathering information for the booklet.
The last booklet was much the same form except that we went to 2 pages on front and back (through a
reduction process) since it was beginning to take on bulk. By this time the term "Booklet"
should really be discarded because in reality it has become a BOOK!
I am hoping that this book will take
similar format. I am entering my
manuscript copy onto computer disk in order to hopeful compact some of the data
and to index it hopeful better.
Also
In hopes of making indexing easier and for this reason the format of entering
names will have to be as such: Burns, Judith Elaine so the computer can read
them by Surname!
Now, If I can get the indexing mode to
work in "Wordstar 4" after the 2nd file it wants to eat part of the
file! That’s frustrating. The file nesting for printing works just
great!! No worrying about numbering
pages. Just be patient I am a self
taught PC Computer user and its slow, frustrating but sometimes rewarding when
it all works!
The centered Boldface print indicates
family groups it will appear as such:
Thomas and Nancy Ann (Cheney) Hardisty
I
have added boldface print to my direct lines to aid you at a quick glance to
see those that I descend from. In the
sections Early Hardesty and Allied Lines and Allied Lines I have add Boldfaced
print to the direct lines also. I
have also started a section of Wills, Obits, pictures, ect. but unsure whether
I will include them at this date.
Please
if any errors, corrections or additions should be needed please write and let
me know! Many of these families could
be incomplete also as many came from sources of records named
previously.
Judith E. (McKee)
Burns
16
Mar. 1988
I have just entered all new data of the
past year and half possible two. I have
not been fully into this since my husband passed away on 23 Aug. 1990, suddenly
but also expected.
I have tried to keep up with it always
through the years. Many who had the
very first couple of booklets will greatly appreciate all the additions! I thank everyone over the last years for
their help in making this a great and on going family history.
3
Jun. 1991
Almost all that can and could be said has
been said in the above comments....
Again I have sat down and typed in all additions to this history mostly
obtained through obits. Hopefully I am
going to try and produce an index with this version if at all possible.
I have left my old address and telephone
number within the comments that you can have a reference and know that I have
moved.
It is never said enough thank you to all
who have contributed and who are interested in continually keeping this family
genealogy up to date.
Judith Elaine
(McKee) Burns
28
Oct. 1995
Well, here I am back again with another
addition to the preface. But with a different computer and word processor
program. I went from my faithful Kaypro Pc. 2 5 ¼ floppy and no hard drive (Oct
1986 – Aug 1997) to a modern Windows 95, 5¼, 3½,, CD-ROM, Modem/Fax, hard drive
and internet capable.
But a lot of problems and kept locking up;
finally went down in April 2000. Got it into
shop in Feb. 2001 came home on 16th and went down on 17th!
A friend took it to brother-in-law and worked on it and revamped it and got
windows 98. So far it works, except printer and its old enough that its not compatible with windows
98.
Somewhere in between all the lock ups I got
the 17 files translated from Wordstar 4.0 and 5.5 to Wordperfect 5.1 and
aligned for WP, but nothing else done to it.
Well a cousin Joe Chamberlain (I think he is in the book) wrote and gave
me incentive to add all new data and format for Word. Also condensed the
files into 7 for now. Still no index
but plan to work on that if possible. It needs to be re-numbered but
need a new hard copy for that
18 Aug 2001