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Sears, Dallas17 people
Kent England to Loudoun Virginia
The Sears-Dallas trunk through Sarah Sears Hardin (1779 to 1868). Capt. Robert Sears (DAR Patriot A101104, born 1740 Kent England) emigrated to colonial Virginia, served as a Revolutionary patriot, married Eleanor Dallas. Their daughter Sarah married Presley Hardin in Loudoun 1803, joining the Sears line to the Hardin chain that flows into Brant.
Origin region: Kent, England
1800s
Capt. Robert Sears
1740 – 1812
b. County of Kent, England
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Presley Hardin
1777 – 1858
son of Joseph Hardin (b. 1750) and Elizabeth Pressley (b. 1754); father of Robert Wesley Hardin; Brant Hindman's 5th-great-grandfather (Hardin Virginia/Kentucky line)
b. Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
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Sarah "Sallie" Sears
1779 – 1868
daughter of Robert Sears and Eleanor Dallas; wife of Presley Hardin; mother of Robert Wesley Hardin; Brant Hindman's 5th-great-grandmother (Sears line via Hardin)
b. Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
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1900s
Robert WESLEY Hardin
1807 – 1881
son of Presley Hardin (1777-1858) and Sarah 'Sallie' Sears (1780); father of Alvin Hardin; Brant Hindman's 4th-great-grandfather (Hindman maternal line)
b. Loudoun County, Virginia, United States
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Philadelphia Baird
1812 – 1859
daughter of Samuel Davis Baird Sr (1780-1850) and Susannah Ratliff (1788); mother of Alvin Hardin; Brant Hindman's 4th-great-grandmother (Hindman maternal line)
b. Wyoming, Bath County, Kentucky, United States
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Alvin Hardin
1836 – 1904
son of Robert Wesley Hardin and Philadelphia Baird; father of William Wallace Hardin; Brant Hindman's 3rd-great-grandfather (Hindman maternal line)
b. Bath County, Kentucky, United States
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Minerva Mildred Gaines
1839 – 1917
daughter of Joseph P. Gaines (b. 1803) and Eliza Bell Metier (b. 1807); mother of William Wallace Hardin; Brant Hindman's 3rd-great-grandmother (Hindman maternal line)
b. Kentucky (state, no specific county recorded), Kentucky, United States
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William Wallace Hardin
1859 – 1944
first child of Alvin Hardin (1836-1904) and Minerva Mildred Gaines (1839-1917); eldest of at least 9 siblings; father of Bertha Rae Hardin; Brant Hindman's great-great-grandfather (Hindman maternal line)
b. Greenview, Illinois, United States
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Dona Sprouse
1862 – 1924
wife of William Wallace Hardin; mother of Bertha Rae Hardin; Brant Hindman's great-great-grandmother (Hindman maternal line)
b. Ohio (state, no specific county recorded), Ohio, United States
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Boyden Erwin Hindman
1878 – 1954
second of two children of William Murphy Hindman and Adaline Mellisa Wilcoxon; younger brother of Luella G Hindman; father of Boyden William Hindman (Brant's grandfather); Brant Hindman's paternal great-grandfather
b. La Salle, La Salle, Illinois, United States
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Bertha Rae Hardin
1883 – 1972
first child of William Wallace Hardin (1859-1944) and Dona Sprouse (1862-1924); eldest of four siblings; wife of Boyden Erwin Hindman; mother of Boyden William Hindman; Brant Hindman's paternal great-grandmother
b. Illinois (state, no specific city recorded), Illinois, United States
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2000s
Boyden William Hindman
1908 – 1972
first child of Boyden Erwin Hindman and Bertha Rae Hardin; older brother of Virginia Hindman; Brant Hindman's paternal grandfather
b. La Salle, La Salle, Illinois, United States
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Barbara F Rice
1912 – 1997
daughter of Charles Leslie Rice Sr. and Adelaide Crist; sister of Charles Leslie Rice Jr. (Princeton '41), Mary Rice Rohrer, Adelaide Rice Thomasson, and her older sister Winifred Rice ('Aunt Winnie'); Brant Hindman's paternal grandmother
b. London, England
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Virginia Hindman
1913 – 1991
daughter of Boyden Erwin Hindman and Bertha Rae Hardin; younger sister of Boyden William Hindman; Brant Hindman's grand-aunt
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William John Hindman
1945 – 2025
middle child of Boyden William Hindman and Barbara Frances Rice (older brother: Bob, still living; younger sister: Brenda, still living); MARRIED THREE TIMES — (1) Janice Barnes of Decatur Illinois (mother of Brant), (2) Pam Mathis (mother of Jason and Shawna Hindman, Brant's half-siblings), (3) Kathy Hindman, who survived him at his 2025 death in Fountain Hills, Arizona
b. Syracuse Memorial Hospital, Syracuse, New York, United States
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Brant Hindman
dates unknown
eldest child of William John 'Bill' Hindman (by Bill's first marriage to Janice Barnes of Decatur, Illinois); older half-brother of Jason Hindman and Shawna Hindman (by Bill's second marriage to Pam Mathis); spearhead of the Hindman family memorial site
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Eleanor Dallas
dates unknown
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