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Jane Tandy Chinn Hardin Cross (September 26, 1817-September 29, 1870)

Jane Tandy Chinn was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, the eldest daughter of Judge Christopher Chinn (1789-1868) and Sarah White Stull Hardin (1787-1864).^[1] She was educated at a boarding school in Shelbyville, Kentucky.^[2] On November 10, 1835, when she was only eighteen, she married James Pendleton Hardin. Hardin was the son of Senator Benjamin Hardin, had served as a Lieutenant in the Black Hawk War and was trained as both a doctor and a lawyer. Hardin was plagued with ill health and, despite a 1841 trip to Cuba for medical reasons, died on October 26, 1842, leaving his wife a widow with three daughters at the age of 25.^[1]^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b G. Glenn Clift (1963). "Editor's Introduction". In Hardin, Elizabeth Pendleton (ed.). The private war of Lizzie Hardin: a Kentucky Confederate girl's diary of the Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Historical Society. pp. xvi–xxii. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
^ Mary Forrest (1866). "Jane T.H. Cross". Women of the South distinguished in literature. C. B. Richardson. pp. 354–67. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
^ Willett, Adrian Schultze Buser (December 2008). Our House was Divided: Kentucky Women and the Civil War (Ph.D.). Indiana University. Retrieved 8 March 2013.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

External links

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Category:1817 births Category:1870 deaths Category:Women writers from Kentucky Category:People from Mercer County, Kentucky

[Clift-1] G. Glenn Clift (1963). "Editor's Introduction". In Hardin, Elizabeth Pendleton (ed.). The private war of Lizzie Hardin: a Kentucky Confederate girl's diary of the Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Historical Society. pp. xvi–xxii. Retrieved 8 March 2013.

[Forrest1866-2] Mary Forrest (1866). "Jane T.H. Cross". Women of the South distinguished in literature. C. B. Richardson. pp. 354–67. Retrieved 8 March 2013.

[ourhouse-3] Willett, Adrian Schultze Buser (December 2008). Our House was Divided: Kentucky Women and the Civil War (Ph.D.). Indiana University. Retrieved 8 March 2013.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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