James Hicks Hardaway was born 8 January 1854 at Montgomery, Ala. He was the son of Samuel George Hardaway (b.ca.1820) and his wife Sarah Pickett Terry Hardaway (1825-1903). His mother was the niece of Albert J. Pickett, the Alabama historian, and of Gov. William Wyatt Bibb. His father served in both the Mexican War and the Civil War, first as a captain in the Montgomery Grays and then as an officer on Gen. Clanton's staff. James, after attending Alabama Polytechnic Institute, spent his career in the cotton warehouse business and was elected to the state legislature in 1918. He married Cornelia Mickle, the granddaughter of Judge George W. Stone (1811-1894) and his first wife Mary Gillespie Stone (1812-1848), whose papers are also included in this collection. Judge Stone served on the Alabama Supreme Court bench for nearly a quarter of a century. James and Cornelia Hardaway had six children.
From the description of James H. Hardaway family collection, 1833-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122438380
