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The family portrait of Reverend George W. Hartage, his wife Laura Jane Battle Hartage, and their three oldest children: Daniel Webster, Marie and Dougless. George Hartage was the oldest child of Webster Joshua Hartage and Manerva Mathis-Butts Hartage.
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Plans are now set for this very important event which, as previously announced, will occur on Saturday and Sunday, July 22 and 23, 2023, at our ancestral seat: the town of Buena Vista and rural Marion County, Georgia. Click Here for More...
Chapter One--Family Origins in Slavery and Reconstruction The history of the African Hartages in Marion County, Georgia during slavery is easy to trace because there was only one: Webster Joshua, who was the only slave belonging to Zachariah Hardage and Delilah Peebles Hardage. (This is the usual spelling of this old English surname, Hardage. When George, oldest son of Webster Joshua, learned to read and write, he changed the spelling, whether deliberately or in error is not clear.) More...
