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Cordelia Haywood “Delia” Erwin Hardy

Birth
Burke County, North Carolina, USA
Death
1876 (aged 63–64)
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
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Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Cordelia Haywood "Delia" Erwin was the youngest of sixteen children born to Col. William Willoughby Erwin (1764-1837) and his wife Matilda Sharpe (1769-1843) of Belvedere Plantation, near Morganton, Burke County, NC.

Delia married Dr. James Freeman Eppes Hardy (1802-1882) of Asheville, NC in 1839. He was a native of Newberry District, South Carolina, and had been previously married to Jane Patton. Thus Delia assumed the care of several stepchildren.

Delia & James had at least two children together, Lt. William Henry "Willie" Hardy (1842-1861) and Edward Erwin Hardy (1848-?).

When the War came, Willie, age 19, enlisted in the Confederate Army, and was elected Lieutenant of his company. Just before a battle up in Virginia, he wrote a quick note to his mother:

"Dear Mother:
We are about to go into an engagement. I want you to know that, if I should be killed, all is well. Willie"

Willie was killed in the First Battle of Manassas, shortly after he wrote that note. He was the first soldier from Asheville and Buncombe County to die in the War. In his memory, his mother presented a beautiful silver Communion set to the First Presbyterian Church, of which he had been a faithful memeber.

His body was brought home and buried in the Presbyterian Church graveyard. I believe the graves in that cemetery were all removed to Riverside Cemetery when the church was expanded in the 1950s.

Delia and her husband Dr. J. F. E. Hardy would have been buried there, as well. She died around 1876, and he in 1882. He had been a doctor in Asheville (often the only one) for about 50 years.
Cordelia Haywood "Delia" Erwin was the youngest of sixteen children born to Col. William Willoughby Erwin (1764-1837) and his wife Matilda Sharpe (1769-1843) of Belvedere Plantation, near Morganton, Burke County, NC.

Delia married Dr. James Freeman Eppes Hardy (1802-1882) of Asheville, NC in 1839. He was a native of Newberry District, South Carolina, and had been previously married to Jane Patton. Thus Delia assumed the care of several stepchildren.

Delia & James had at least two children together, Lt. William Henry "Willie" Hardy (1842-1861) and Edward Erwin Hardy (1848-?).

When the War came, Willie, age 19, enlisted in the Confederate Army, and was elected Lieutenant of his company. Just before a battle up in Virginia, he wrote a quick note to his mother:

"Dear Mother:
We are about to go into an engagement. I want you to know that, if I should be killed, all is well. Willie"

Willie was killed in the First Battle of Manassas, shortly after he wrote that note. He was the first soldier from Asheville and Buncombe County to die in the War. In his memory, his mother presented a beautiful silver Communion set to the First Presbyterian Church, of which he had been a faithful memeber.

His body was brought home and buried in the Presbyterian Church graveyard. I believe the graves in that cemetery were all removed to Riverside Cemetery when the church was expanded in the 1950s.

Delia and her husband Dr. J. F. E. Hardy would have been buried there, as well. She died around 1876, and he in 1882. He had been a doctor in Asheville (often the only one) for about 50 years.

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