Elizabeth Eppes1
HAIRSTON.org ID#7540
| Father* | Peter Eppes2 |
| Elizabeth Eppes was the daughter of Peter Eppes.2 | |
| Marriage* | Elizabeth Eppes married Littlebury Hardyman III, son of Littlebury HARDYMAN II and Susannah LIGHTFOOT, in Indian Fields, Charles City, Virginia. She was 19.1,2 |
| Will | In Littlebury Hardyman III's will dated 12 November 1789 in Charles City, Virginia, Elizabeth Eppes was named as an heir; Charles City Will Book 1789-1808, page 15-16. FSL #7644395, images 26-27. |
| Marriage* | She married (surname unknown) Cocke after 1791. |
| Biography* | EPPES - BALLARD - HARDYMAN - BURTON - BINFORD, &c. "Family record of my mother, who was Elizabeth Eppes; she had one sister and one brother, who were Anne & Peter Eppes. These three were all the children of Peter & Annie, my Grand Father and Grand Mother Ann, the Eldest, married John Holt, of Charles City County, Va., & died leaving no child. Peter Eppes married Lucy Ballard, of Charles City, and lived and died in Rich, Va., leaving several children. Elizabeth, my mother, married Littlebury Hardyman at the " Indian Fields, " Charles City County, at the age of 19 years. They had 3 children, one son & two daughters, Erasmus Hardyman, who died an Infant; Susan Hardyman, the eldest, married John Southall, of Charles City County, Va., by whom she had 3 sons, Norborne, Albert, & William. Louisa, the 2nd, married George Hairston, of Henry County, Va., by whom she had 8 children, 5 Sons & three daughters, who married, and all have families of children. She died at Hordsville, the residence of her husband, in 1847, in the 60th year of her age. Littlebury Hardyman, her father, was an only son; he had 3 sisters, Susan, Fannie & Lucy. Susan, the eldest, married Daniel Jones, of Nottoway, Va., by whom she had 3 sons: Col. Littlebury Jones, of Florida, Daniel Jones & Hardyman Jones; this was all of her family. Fannie, the second, married Col. John Binford, of Northampton, N. Carolina, by whom she had sons & daughters. Lucy, the youngest, married Col. John Bradley, of Laurel Hill, "Charles City, Va., by whom she had 4 children: Maria, who married Philip Southall, Son of Wm Southall, and had two children, John & Lutilda; Lucy Stith Bradley (who) married Col. Thomas Burton, of Rich, Va., & had three daughters, Maria, Lucy, & Louisa; Littlebury Bradley, the Eldest son, married his Cousin Maria Bradley, and resided at Mount Gallant, near his Father; he died leaving several children, sons & daughters; John M. Bradley (who married his Cousin Elizabeth Eppes, daughter of John Eppes. John M. Bradley resides at his Father's Homestead at "Laurel Hill," Charles City, Va. My grandmother, whose maiden name was Anne Hardyman, had two brothers only & no sister; her brothers were Stith Hardyman & John Hardyman. Stith Hardyman married Rachel Tyler, Sister of Judge Tyler, of "Greenway,” Charles City Co., Va., and Father of Ex-President Tyler. She had only one child, a Son, call 'd Tyler. John Hardyman was an officer of the Revolution, and died an Old Bachelor in the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City, Va. This family record is made from Memory by the last and oldest member of the family now living; it should be preserved as an interesting Relic at the request of the Author. ELIZA B. ATKINSON,1 Magna Vista, Va. 1 This lady, whose maiden name was Cocke, was half-sister of Louisa Hardyman, who married George Hairston, of Henry county, has been dead some time. She died in Paducah, Kentucky. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Lyon G. Tyler, M. A., LL. D., Richmond, Va., Whitet & Shepperson, General Printers, 1896. ------------------------------------------ Captain Littlebury Hardyman, of " Indian Fields, Charles City County, is named in an article on " Racing in Colonial Virginia, in the Virginia Historical Magazine for Jan., 95, p. 301 along with Colonel John Tayloe, Colonel Wm. Byrd, Mr. Maclin, Wm. Lightfoot, George Washington, Lewis Burwell, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, and a number of other gentlemen, who were engaged at that period in the importation of horses of the English racing stock. He married Elizabeth Eppes, and she married, second, Cocke, and had by him a daughter named Eliza Cocke, who in the year 1830, at the house of George Hairston of Henry county, married Amos Allen Atkinson, of Alabama. George Hairston had married her half-sister, Louisa (Eppes) Hardyman. Another half Sister Susan (Eppes) Hardyman, married John Southall, of Charles City, Littlebury Hardyman had a sister Lucy who married Colonel John Bradley, of Laurel Hill Charles City county, and these had a daughter, Maria, who married Philip Southall, son of William Southall, of Charles City. (c.18.) The grandmother of Eliza Cocke Atkinson was also a Hardyman (Anne), and she had a brother, Stith Hardyman, who married (1) Rachel Tyler , sister of Governor Tyler, the father of President John Tyler. See Wm. & Mary Quar., April 97, p. 272. |
Family 1 | Littlebury Hardyman III |
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Family 2 | (surname unknown) Cocke |
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| Last Edited | 27 Oct 2025 |