Portrait of Hardeman Giddens and Martha Gaskins

October 14, 2012 at 12:08 am (Gaskins Family, Giddens Family)
Tags: Thomas Connell, William Parker

Several previous posts have related events in the life of Hardeman Giddens (Hardeman Giddens and the Big Fishing Frolic,   Georgia Gossip about Hardeman Giddens, Civil War Bullet Dodger Hardeman Giddens Finally Catches One in 1887) Here is a portrait of Hardeman Giddens and Martha Jane Gaskins.

Portrait of Martha Jane Gaskins and Hardeman Giddens.

Hardeman Giddens was born in 1844 in that part of Lowndes County which was later cut in Berrien County, GA. He was a son of Jacob Giddens and Sarah Ann “Annie” Sirmans. Giddens served with the Berrien Minutemen during the Civil War. After the war Hardeman Giddens married the twice-widowed Martha J. Gaskins. She was a daughter of Harmon Gaskins and Malissa Rowland Rouse, born February 16,  1838 in Lowdnes Co, GA.  Martha, married first to Thomas Connell who was killed in the civil war; second to William Parker who died three months later; third husband, Hardeman Giddens, was a first cousin on her mother’s side.

In the 1900s the Giddens lived and farmed near Ray City, GA

Children of Martha Jane Gaskins and Hardeman Giddens:

1. James Monroe Giddens, (1871-1951)
2. Infant Son Giddens, (1874)
3. Lyman Franklin Giddens, (1877-1963)
4. Infant Son Giddens (1878)
5. William Silas Giddens (1881-1943)

Related Posts:

• Hardeman Giddens and the Big Fishing Frolic,
• Georgia Gossip about Hardeman Giddens,
• Civil War Bullet Dodger Hardeman Giddens Finally Catches One in 1887
• Me and Mrs. Jones: Harmon Gaskins Had A Thing Going On – Twice
• Early Berrien Settlers Traded at Centerville, Georgia