Life History

Notes

• The folloiwng record in the 1870 census appears to be for Nancy Elizabeth Hargis.  She adn her siblings are without their parents, in the household headed by Delila Graddick, who is likely their maternal grandmother.  I have not discovered sufficient family details to confirm this.  I have found a couple of families in the 1860 census that might be the correct ones, but children's names do not match enough to confirm the parents.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Bradley County, Arkansas, 18 June, Pennington Township, P O Warren, page 25 (scan 563), Hse  #168, Fam #165
  Graddick, Delila 58 FW Keeping House $220 Real Estate $350 Personal b Tenn [b abt 1812]
  Hargis, Jane 26 F W born Ark [b abt 1844]
  Hargis, Nancy 23 F W born Ark [b abt 1847]
  Hargis, William 18 M W born Ark [b abt 1852]
  Hargis, James 11 M W born Ark [b abt 1859]
  
  Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
  Robert L Kinard
  Age 28, Birth Year abt 1848
  Spouse Elizabeth Hargis
  Spouse's Gender Female
  Spouse's Age 26
  Marriage 21 Dec 1876 Bradley County
  Marriage License Date 19 Dec 1876
  
  1880 Federal Census, Bradley County, Arkansas, 24 June, Pennington Township, P O Warren, District 15, page 42 (scan 22C), Hse #352, Fam #430
  Kinard, Robt W M 31 Head Farmer TN NC TN [b abt 1849]
  Kinard, Elizabeth  W F 32 Wife Keeping House TN TN TN [abt 1848]
  Kinard, Jas [John] W  W M 2 Son Cannot read or write AR GA TN [b abt 1878]
  Kinard, Hettie M  W F 11Mos Dau Cannot read or write AR GA TN [b abt 1879]
  
  The grave in the Kinard-Hargis Cemetery in the name of Nansie E Hargis appears to be Elizabeth's grave.  The name reads:
  "Nansie E Hargis, wife odf R L Kinard, born [obscured on stone]."
  
  This would seem to make her full name Nancy Elizabeth Hargis.  In various sources, the standard spelling of Nancy is used, rather than the non-standard spelling found on her gravestone.
  
  The memorial on Find a Grave has mistranscribed her name from the stone as Nansue W Hargis.  But on the posted photo of the stone, the name is easily readable as Nansie E Hargis.  The engraved name is in all caps.  The letter between the S and the E is definitely I; there is only one stem and the I is clearly visible in the photo provided.  The following initial is clearly readable as an E, having the same form as the final E on NANSIE.
  
  The initials N E are confirmed in her son's gravestone.  The inscription on the gravestone of John W Kinard (1886-1891) reads:  "Son of RL & NE Kinard."
  
  Nansie E Hargis Kinard
  Birth unknown
  Death  unknown
  Wife of R. L. Kinard;  Monument badly deteriorated cannot read birth date of date of death
  Spouse Robert L. Kinard (1848 - 1930)
  Son John W. Kinard (1886 - 1891)
  Burial Hargis-Kinard Cemetery, Farmville, Bradley County, Arkansas
  Created by lb44 Feb 09, 2013
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #104910822, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Kinard&GSiman=1&GScty=10910&GRid=104910822&

Sources

• 1. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
• 2. 1870 Federal Census, Bradley County, Arkansas
  • 18 June, Pennington Township, P O Warren, page 25 (scan 563), Hse  #168, Fam #165
• 3. 1880 Federal Census, Bradley County, Arkansas
  • 24 June, Pennington Township, P O Warren, District 15, page 42 (scan 22C), Hse #352, Fam #430
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. 1910 Federal Census, Bradley County, Arkansas
  • [no date], Pennington Township, District 22, Sheet 28B, Hse #547, Fam #569