Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485320198:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: 9NRG-L7K
• _UID: 29AA63169EDC4790B9AE23132B41495B4AD7
• Census: 26 Oct 1850, Bienville, Bienville, Louisiana, United States

Notes:

Eliza Ann and John Snell had no children.

Eliza married John E. Snell on 6 Dec 1853 in Bienville, Bienville, Louisiana, United States. John and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Hardy Nixon Vickers
• _AMTID: 162485320218:1030:191555462
• _UID: EAC4D88E2A9D48FBBDD178497B627E864EEC
• Residence: 1798, Burke, Georgia, United States; Address:
  District 2
• Possessions: 1 Oct 1798, Burke, Georgia, United States; assessed for 3 slaves
• Possessions: 28 Jan 1809, Wilkinson, Georgia, United States; purchased 202 1/2 acres, Land Lot 303, 20th District
• Residence: 28 Jan 1809, Laurens, Georgia, United States; purchased land from Henry Stokes
• Residence: Jun 1809, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; served on Grand Jury
• Misc: 20 Aug 1810, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; appointed overseer of the road from Musketer Creek Run to opposite Lester Crafford's mill
• Misc: 4 Jan 1815, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; sued by Benjamin Chairs, William Lester as security
• Possessions: 1818, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; over 1100 acres; Address:
  Bryan's District
• Misc: Oct 1818, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; sat on Grand Jury
• Residence: 21 Mar 1820, Pulaski, Georgia, United States
• Census: 7 Aug 1820, Pulaski, Georgia, United States
• Possessions: 7 Aug 1820, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; 26 slaves
• Misc: 5 Mar 1821, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; named guardian for Lester orphans
• Residence: 9 Jul 1822, Pulaski, Georgia, United States
• Misc: 20 Jan 1824, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; temporary administrator for Abraham Vickers
• Misc: 1 Mar 1824, Pulaski, Georgia, United States; named administrator for Abraham Vickers
• Residence: 2 Nov 1824, Pulaski, Georgia, United States
• Residence: 7 Jun 1825, Pulaski, Georgia, United States
• Possessions: 1 May 1826, Leon, Florida Territory, United States; W 1/2 NW 1/4 Section 34, Township 2 N Range 1 E, Tallahassee Land Office
• Possessions: 1 Dec 1826, Leon, Florida Territory, United States; W 1/2 NE 1/4 Section 17, Township 2 N Range 1 E, Tallahassee Land Office
• Possessions: 20 Feb 1827, Leon, Florida Territory, United States; W 1/2 SE 1/4 Section 8 Township 2 N Range 1 E, Tallahassee Land Office, Territory of Florida
• Census: 1830, Leon, Florida Territory, United States
• Possessions: 1830, Leon, Florida Territory, United States; 35 slaves
• Misc: 5 Sep 1832, Leon, Florida Territory, United States; publish notice about sale of a lot
• Will: 2 Feb 1833, Leon, Florida Territory, United States
• Probate: 27 Nov 1833, Leon, Florida Territory, United States

Notes:

From at least 1809 until his move to Florida, Hardy Vickers lived in Wilkinson County, Georgia, the part of which became Pulaski County. It looks like he still owned land in Georgia even at the time of his death.

Notes from Betty Wren to Kelly Vickers:

http://kvickers.tfc.edu/Hardy_Vickers.htm

May6, 1996, Material Contributed by Betty Wren:
HUSBAND: Hardy Nixon VICKERS-281 Yr of Birth 1775 WIFE: Sarah LESTER-282 Yr of Birth 1784
HUSBAND - Hardy Nixon VICKERS-281
TAX LIST: 1818 Pulaski Co GA, Bryan's Dist., pll4. John Lester was also on same page. Abraham Vickers was in Lester's Dist., pll5.
CENSUSES: 1820 Pulaski Co GA, ROLL 8; 1830 Leon Co FL, ROLL 15.
DEATH: Leon Co FL Probate Rec, 1827-l827. WILL filed for probate 27 Nov 1833, FHC, film no. 0982903; DB-D, p 92, 3 Feb 1834, Leon Co FL, Sarah Vickers, James J. Vickers, executrix and executor of Hardy Vickers, deceased.
NOTE: Sarah Vickers marries John Jordan, Bk-B p.44, 19 Dec 1838 Thomas Co GA.

MILITARY: HISTORY OF PULASKI & BLECKLEY COS. GA, 1808-1956, Harris Hawkensville Chpt. DAR, p 48, Pulaski Co, 3 Nov 1814, Pay rolt of Militia stationed at Fort Pike, under the command of Capt Gedion Kellan, HARDY VICKERS PVT, 9 Sept, $8.00, HARDY VICKERS PVT, $2.66 2/3, Ft. Green, 10 days.

COURT: GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL FROM LEGAL NOTICES IN EARLY GEORGIA NEWSPAPERS, Southern Historical Press, 1989, p 232, Burke Co., Nathan & Hardy Vickers, Admrs. of estate of John Vickers, 14 May 1816.

NOTE: 1805 GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY, Living in Burke Co GA for one year with wife and child, US citizen, 2 draws.

HISTORY OF PULASKI & BLECKLEY COS. GA (above), p 74, Grand jurors, 7 Dec 1805, Burke Co GA, Hardy & Abraham Vickers.
NOTE: According to will had land in WiLkinson Co GA that later became Pulaski Co GA.
RELIGION: Was a contributor to Myrtle Springs Baptist Church, Leon Co FL according to his estate. This may have been the church of his wife as her father, John Lester, was known to be a Baptist. Later Vickers appeared to be Methodist.
NOTE: 1821 Pulaski Co GA, Academy of Hartford formed, Hardy Vickers, Commissioner.
NOTE: Leon Co., FL, Lots sold in original plan of city of Tallahassee, #179 Geo. Graves [original owner] to HARDY VICKERS, $116, 5 Feb 1829. A copy of the original plat of Tallahassee was obtained at the Florida Archives, Tallahassee on 10-2-96with a List of original owners. Hardy Vickers is listed as Hood Vickers. Lot179 which is on the west side of Monroe about mid block between Clinton & Jefferson. Nathan Vickers has Lot 161 on west corner of Monroe & Pensecola.

WIFE- Sarah LESTER-282 BIRTH: Census, 1850 Bienville Pr LA, pl23.
FATHER: A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE TOOKE FAMILY, Mary Tooke Rockwell & Ida Gertrude Tooke, p 190. Leon Co FL,D BK-B, 126, 110 Mar 1830.
MARR: NO 2. John Jordan, Thomas Co GA, 19 Dec 1838.
DEATH: Tooke reference above, 'some place in Arkansas'.
DIVORCE:Thomas Co, GA, 1846, November Term of Court.
NOTE: She was probably living with son James J Vickers Sr. or daughter Eliza Vickers Snell in Hempstead Co AR. Eliza Vickers Snell is buried at Emmet, Nevada, AR.
Other marriages: 19 Dec 1838(div) John JORDAN-685

Birth:
Some sources say that Hardy Nixon Vickers was born in North Carolina and moved to Georgia at an early age. Other sources say he was born in Georgia. I am tempted to believe that he was born in North Carolina only because of the extensive migration into newly opened areas of northeast Georgia around that time.

Name:
Some researchers, including Betty Wren, have suggested that Hardy Vickers had a middle name, Nixon. I am less inclined to believe this at present, since this was actually a name in his wife's family rather than his.

Possessions:
General list of slaves - Hardy Vickers, 3 slaves, 2 exempt from taxation, 1 aged 12-50 and subject to tax

Possessions:
purchased 202 1/2 acres, Land Lot 303, 20th District from Henry Stokes for $200.
Recorded 9 Aug 1810, pages 188-190

Possessions:
1818 Georgia Property Tax Digest
Hardy Vickers - 1 poll, 17 slaves, 907 1/2 acres pine, 200 acres 2nd class, District 20, lot 303, Pulaski Co, 1 wagon, total tax 9 dollars, 10 cents, 5 1/4 m

This same tax book has been filmed as Burke Co. But the headings call it out as Pulaski.

Also pays the taxes for the estate of Lester Cranford.

Residence:
He applies letters of administration for the estate of Mrs. Saleton Shepherd.

Census:
Census Enumeration:
Free white males: 111101
Free white females: 1201
Slaves - Male: 643
Slaves - Female: 715
Agriculture: 10
Date 7 Aug 1820

Misc:
Hardy Vickers, Guardian
William Lester & Joel Sherrod, securities
Bond $9000
Orphans: Silas M Lester, Natham M Lester, Alfred J Lester
Deceased: Nixon Lester

Residence:
He applies for letters of dismission for the estate of Solomon Shepherd, for whom he was administrator.

Misc:
Hardy Vickers and Nathan Vickers named temporary administrators for Abraham Vickers. William Lester, Security, bond $3000

Residence:
Hardy Vickers was listed as a commissioner in Pulaski Co., Georgia

Residence:
Hardy Vickers is listed as a grand juror for the May term, 1825

Possessions:
1 W ½ NW Tallahassee No 2 N 1 E 34, 79.91 acres

Census:
Census Enumeration:
Free white males: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0
Free white females: 0-1-1-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0
Slave males: 4-4-4-0-0-0
Slave females: 11-7-5-0-0-0
Total slaves: 35

Misc:
Bill paid "for publishing notice forewarning agaist the purchase of Lot No 21"

Payment was received from Jas J Vickers after Hardy's death

Probate:
Probate was opened 27 Nov 1833. It would take 25 years to complete. The probate file exceeds 220 pages.

James J. Vickers, Sarah Hart, and Wm. W. Hart are listed as executors.

One early document is an inventory account dated 1833 that starts 11 Feb 1833. This would hint that Hardy died prior to this. Then, there is an accounting that is dated 1832 that includes dates throughout that year as well.

But there are signed receipts from 1833 by Hardy Vickers. So, maybe the accounting is a list of debts and tabs with vendors that were open.


Died:
Georgia Journal (Milledgeville)
Wednesday, December 11, 1833
Died: on the 15th of November last, at his residence in Leon County, Florida, of a billious fever, Hardy Vickers, Esq., in the sixty-first year of his age. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss.

Hardy married Sarah Lester before 1806 in Georgia, United States. Sarah (daughter of John Lester and Sarah Nixon) was born in 1784 in North Carolina, United States; died about 1868 in Hempstead, Arkansas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485318247:1030:191555462
• _UID: CC2A16A454594FCDBE4B76AEC06B92C4271C
• Possessions: 17 Dec 1847, Thomas, Georgia, United States; sells property in Thomas County to James H. Hill.
• Census: 26 Oct 1850, Bienville, Bienville, Louisiana, United States
• Possessions: 26 Oct 1850, Bienville, Bienville, Louisiana, United States; real property $23100 and 35 slaves
• Possessions: 1 Jul 1859, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; purchased land through the US General Land Office
• Census: 1860, Missouri Township, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States
• Occupation: 1860, Missouri Township, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; farmer
• Possessions: 1860, Missouri Township, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; real property $5200, personal property $34000, and 19 slaves
• Possessions: 8 Jun 1866, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; sold land to her grandson, Drury V. Reaves
• Possessions: 8 Jun 1866, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; sold land to James J Vickers, Sr. her son,
• Will: 20 Jan 1868, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States
• Probate: 16 Mar 1870, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States

Notes:

See Hempstead County tax records, probate records, and will book C, p. 254.

Possessions:
Sarah's trust, created at her divorce, sells what appears to be all of her Thomas County property (at least nearly) to James H. Hill in preparation for her move to Louisiana.

Possessions:
NW 1/4 NE 1/4 S 7 T 12 South R 23 West, 40 acres

Possessions:
Two deeds on the same day, same page in the book.

Will:
Abstract of Will, Will book C, pages 253-256
Sarah Jordan of the County of Hempstead, State of Arkansas
daughter Eliza A Snell - pleasure carriage, dressing bureau, small candle on work stand
son John L. Vickers $5 in cash
daughter Anne M. Tooke $5 in cash
grand-daughter Sarah F. Reaves $5 in cash
grand-daughter Martha D. Logan $5 in cash
grand-son Hardy V. Reaves $5 in cash
grand-daughter Frances G. Wren cottage bedstead, bed, mattress, and all of the beds clothing that belong to the same, two cows and calves
son James J Vickers senior all the rest of the estate, in trust for the benefit of his children
executor James J Vickers senior

Notes:

Married:
Hardy Nixon Vickers and Sarah Lester had six children, one of whom died in infancy.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485320221:1030:191555462
• _UID: 45F5ACAA1EB9453D9C7702D340799AEF13C1
• Possessions: 1 Oct 1798, Burke, Georgia, United States; assessed for 1 slave
• Probate: 15 May 1816, Burke, Georgia, United States

Notes:

NOTE: Moved to Burke Co, GA in the mid to late 1780's.

Possessions:
taxed for 1 slave, aged 12-50

Probate:
Advertisement of administrator's sale.
Sale to be held 5 Jul 1816 in Burke County.
Nathan Vickers and Hardy Vickers, administrators

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485318241:1030:191555462
• _UID: DB48CB637A704473A3A54C25866C1FDA96D4
• Residence: Bef 1789, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
• Possessions: 6 Mar 1789, Greene, Georgia, United States; 100 acres in Greene County for L 45

Notes:

In Pulaski County, there are several Lesters with the Vickers

John Lester
William Lester (son?)
Nixon Lester (son?)

Possessions:
Deed book B, p. 221
John Cessna of Greene Co to John Lester of Rowan County, North Carolina for L 45, 100 ac in Greene County. Recorded 6 Mar 1789.

From this, we know that John Lester came to Greene County around March 1789 from Rowan County, NC.

John married Sarah Nixon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485320899:1030:191555462
• _UID: 572F222E9FC44D1F95CCD4F35DE8067C9403

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485320222:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: L4BK-GK7
• _UID: 2BA194F770364B4AA93344109BA33EB3F1F5

John married Mary in 1736 in Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States. Mary and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485318385:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: L2H5-ZRH
• _UID: 98C6F8050A6043BC8ACE185A807BA90739CB