Joseph Hardin - Savannah, TN
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N 35° 13.501 W 088° 15.022
16S E 386212 N 3898713
Hardin died July 4, 1801. He is interred at the Hickory Creek Cemetery, Hardin Valley, Knox Co., TN
Waymark Code: WMTXZX
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 01/21/2017
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County of memorial: Hardin County
Location of memorial: Main St., courthouse lawn, Savannah
Plaque erected by: Tennessee Historical Commission
Plaque Text:
JOSEPH HARDIN
1734 – 1801
Colonel Hardin was born in Virginia but moved to North Carolina in 1772. During the Revolutionary War, he fought at King’s Mountain and elsewhere in the South. He was Speaker of the House of the State of Franklin in 1785 and a member of the Territorial Assembly in 1794. After the war, he received a 3000-acre land grant located within the present boundaries of Hardin County, and family members and friends settled on it in 1816. The county, created in 1819 and was named for him.