C. C. HARDWICK, Webster County, was born March 31, 1829, in Madisonville, Ky., and is a son of John D. and Nancy (Gordon) Hardwick. The father was born in Montgomery County, Ky., and in 1803 he moved to Madisonville, where he carried on the tailoring business and also kept a hotel. He died in 1875, aged seventy-three years. The mother was born in Henderson, now Hopkins County, Ky. Her father, John Gordon, was the first county surveyor of Hopkins County, and surveyed the town of Madisonville. She died in 1855, aged forty-eight years. Subject, at the age of twenty-three was appointed postmaster of Madisonville, and held that office four years. He next served four years as deputy sheriff. In 1860 he was appointed United States census enumerator. He afterward followed farming four years, and for the past twenty-one years, has been engaged in merchandising in Dixon, except two years spent elsewhere. He was married, December 14, 1848, to Catherine Rutherford, of Christian County, who died in 1857, leaving one son. His second marriage was, November 22, 1859, to Addie Henson, of Crittenden County, Ky. This union has been blessed with eight children—five sons and three daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick are members of the United Baptist Church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 1035.