"History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.'s, Indiana"
Goodspeed Bros. and Co., 1884


HENRY HOARD was born June 6, 1838, in the county where he yet resides, and
is the youngest son in a family of thirteen children born to William and
Catharine (Blair) Hoard, both of whom were natives of Tennessee, where they
married in 1812.  During the war of that year, Mr. Hoard served under Gen,
Jackson and in 1818, he and family immigrated to Orange County, Ind., and a
year later to Lawrence County, where he died March 30, 1853.  His widow yet
survives him at an advanced age, with a fifty years' membership in the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Henry Hoard married Miss Melinda Doan, daughter
of Harvey and Matilda (Jones) Doan, September 25, 1856, and two
children--Catharine, born September 15, 1867, and James R., August 24,
1859--are the result of their union.   August 5, 1862, he enlisted in his
country's cause in Company F, Sixty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was
wounded at Fort Anderson by a shell, saw much hard service, and was
honorably discharge June 22, 1865.  Mr. Hoard is one of the leading farmers
of his township and is the owner of a farm containing 155 acres.  Mrs. Hoard
was born December 20, 1839 in Lawrence County, and is a member of the
Baptist Church.


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