The Families That Play Together,
Stay Together...
Part III
The Hargett/Presley
connection from NC to MS The
Hargett family left North Carolina in 1831. Before that time,
they had lived in Anson County, North Carolina, since Johann
Heinrich Hergett, a Palatinate German from Swabia who first
moved to England and became a subject of King George II before
coming to America in 1749 on the ship "Jacob." Johann
and wife, Anna (or Nanna) Craig, settled in Pennsylvania briefly
then migrated to Anson County, NC, nearby a branch of the Pee
Dee River, by 1752 where Johann Heinrich Hergett, the immigrant,
quickly became John Henry Hargett, the colonist, and the first
Hargett child, a son, John Henry Hargett, Jr., was born.
Peter Hargett, born 12 July 1754 in Anson County, NC, had served
honorably in the American Revolution and had applied for a pension
on May 14, 1833 from Kentucky where he had lived. He had served
in Colonel Polk's Mecklenburg Regiment of the North Carolina
line during the Revolutionary War along with many of our other
ancestors.
John Henry Hargett Sr. died intestate in Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina in 1833 (original will and administretion papers
can be located in the Mecklenburg County Wills, 1749-1869, VII
Part 1, Folios 1,3 and 4, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh,
NC). John's will is dated March 28, 1803 and was probated in
July, 1803. Anna Hargett died in 1810.
The children of John Henry Hargett and
Anna Hargett were:
1. John Henry Hargett
Jr.* - born 1752 in Anson County, North Carolina
2. Elizabeth Hargett - born 1753
in Anson County, North Carolina
3. Peter Hargett - born July 12,
1754 in Anson County, North Carolina
4. Joseph Hargett - born 1755 in
Anson County, North Carolina. Married Hannah Laney about 1775
in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
*John Henry Hargett, Jr.,
a/k/a
Henry Hargett, Jr. was born in 1752. He served during the Revolutionary
War , a private in Captain Jacob Barnett, Co. Hampton's Regiment
of Light Dragoons, South Carolina Brigade. The Brigade Commander
was General Sumter. The Hargetts resided only a few miles fron
the South Carolina border, in Anson County North Carolina.
John Henry Hargett's first wife, Margaret Finley, died ca. 1779.
She was born 1756, daughter of James Finley, who died in 1806.
John married Anna Charity Broom ca. 1777. Anna was born before
1755, probably in Anson County. Between 1777 and 1782, John
was in Mecklenburg County and owned a farm on Richardson's Creek.
He received another fifty acres on Richardson's Creek by a state
grant entered on October 23, 1790, and issued July 9, 1794.
In 1800 his household included three sons under ten years of
age, two sons ten to fifteen, one daughter under ten, three
daughters between ten and fifteen. Both Henry and Anna were
over 45 years of age. Henry had no slaves in both 1790 or 1800.
John Henry Hargett's Last Will and Testament is dated December
25, 1825. He died before November 2, 1827.
The children of Henry Hargett and
Anna Broom were:
1. James Hargett (m. Diana Johnston 23 December 1800, Mecklenburg
Co., NC)
2. Nelly Hargett (adopted) m. ? Matthews
3. John M. Hargett b. 1781 in
NC. (m.1 ? m. 2- Sarah Windham James)* d. MS ca 1855
4. John Henry Hargett III ** b.
23 October 1784, Mecklenburg Co., NC, died Aft 1870 in Franklin
Co., AL. He married (1) Vina Ward and 2. Isabel Presley ca.
1805. (source:
1870 Franklin Co., AL census, lives with son George.)
5. Sarah Hargett b. 1785 (m. Joel
Helms)
6 . Casper Hargett b. ca. 1788 (m. Prudence
Massey)
7. William Hargett b. 22 Jan. 1789, Mecklenburg Co., NC. d.
2 Oct. 1857, Union County, NC)
8. Amy Hargett Presley
9. Charity Hargett (m. William Keziah)
10.Daniel Hargett
11. Phoebe Hargett m. Walker Helms
(source: Mecklenburg Co. NC Will abstracts,
1791-1868 Books A-J by Herman W. Ferguson, p. 340 p 90., Last
Will and Testament of Henry Hargett, Sr. Executors were son,
Casper Hargett and son-in-law, Joel Helms.)
Facinating
Fact and Fate:
The Hargetts of Itawamba County,
MS, are
connected directly to Elvis Presley as is the Jonathan Helms
who also went down to MS from NC, by way of Itawamba County,
married a daughter of John Hargett. Both families are buried
amid many of Elvis' ancestors in St. Andrew's Chapel Cemetery
in Itawamba County.
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The Hargett family who settled in
Itawamba, Tisimingo, Tippah, and Lee Counties in MS, come down from
the lines of John M. Hargett and Jacob Hargett, son of Henry Harget
III. The MS Hargetts came to marry into the line of John Wallace,
through Wallace' oldest daughter. This is the direct line of Elvis
Presley through John Wallace' relationship with Rosella Presley,
the father of her children. You can learn more about John Wallace
and Rosella Presley family lines at:
Roots
of Elvis Presley
Alabama
and Mississippi
Hargett Connection
John M. Hargett, son of Henry Hargett, Jr. was
ca. 1781 in Mecklenburg County, NC, moved to Tishimingo Co., MS,
where he died ca. 1855. John's first wife is unknown.
John married Sarah "Sallie" Margaret Windham b.March
17, 1791-d. July 28, 1869.
Sarah became stepmother to John's children, they having no children
together.
(source: Jerry Duncan)
Children of John M. Hargett and unknown:
1. Andrew Hargett b. Abt
1800, Mecklenburg Co., NC.
2. Naomi Hargett b. Abt 1818, Meckleburg
Co., NC; died February 17, 1894 in Tippah Co., MS. She married
John M. Stanford on
13 February 1840 in Marion Co., AL, the son of William Stanford
and Isabella King.
(Source: Info prepared by Shirley A. Jennings, P.O. Box 25, Sage,
AR 72573 and Janice Mauldin Castleman)
3. Cinthy Ann Hargett b. 1819, Mecklenburg Co., NC; d. February
03, 1897, Hunt Co., TX.
She married JESSE STANFORD 1837 in AL, son of William Stanford
and Isabella King.
(Source: On 1860 Franklin Co., AL census, PO Navarro, p.746, house
533 and Janice Mauldin Castleman)
4. Mary Hargett b. 1820; m. Jonathan Duncan.
5. Martha Ann Hargett b. ca. 1821; m. Robert Duncan.
NOTE:
Martha Ann Hargett who married Robert Duncan (source: Elizabeth
D. Pearson material; "History of AL and Dictionary of AL
Biography" by Thomas M. Owens, Vol. III; pg. 516-9.) and
Mary Hargett who married John Duncan The father of John Duncan,
William Duncan, married Vicy Colbert, daughter of Genl. Chief
George Colbert of Muscle Shoals, AL, and his wife, Saleechie,
daughter of "Chief Doublehead", Lauderdale Co. AL. (source:
"The Morketts Anne (Duncan) Smallwood Lineage" from
notebooks of Kay D. Hampton).
The children of Henry
Hargett and Isabel Presley Hargett were:
1. Holden Hargett b. March 17, 1806.
2. Mary Helms Hargett b. August 28, 1807.
3. Richard Jenkins Hargett b. April 13, 1811, Meckleburg Co., NC;
d. May 18, 1887, Belgreen, AL.
4. George W. Hargett b. November 14, 1813, NC; m. Sarah M. Walker
5. Laney Hargett b. November 03, 1816.
6.
Jacob Hargett b. August 05,
1820;
d. Tippah Co., MS. He married Melinda Bruton.
7. Phoebe Hargett b. December 02, 1823; m. unk Badgett.
8. John W. Hargett b. August 05, 1826, AL.
9. Alfred Hargett b. Abt 1827, AL.
10.Joseph Hargett b. Abt 1830.
(source: Janice Mauldin Castleman)
The children of Jacob and Melinda
Bruton Hargett were:
1. Eliza Hargett b. ca1838.
2. Mary Elizabeth Hargett b. ca 1840, Tippah Co., MS
3.Henry Hargett b. ca.1844.
4.Zilpha Hargett b. ca.1847.
(source material: Janice Mauldin Castleman)
The Hargett Family of
Itawamba County, MS,
first cousins of Elvis Presley
American
Revolutionary
War Patriot
John
Henry Harget, Jr. a/k/a Henry Hargett served in the American Revolutionary
War and his ancestral information is with the DAR headquarters.
Descendants have applied for membership through the Presley Hargett
line and the Richard Jenkins Presley lines. For further information
on how to join, or how to obtain these records, please contact Barbara
Lee at
elviscousin@comcast.net
The Richard Presley
Line
NOTE:
The family of General Frederick
Hargett of Jones County, NC does not appear to be recently related
to the Mecklenburg Hargetts, though he was also from Palatine Germany.
A lineage will be added at some point in the future. General Hargett
migrated from NC to Tennessee but generally his descendants were
known to have stayed in NC.
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