FAMILY TREE‒HARGETT(e)

THE HARGETT LINEAGE

Written on July 4, 1986

by

Jeanette Hargett Downes 12/18/1920 - 3/9/2003
Daughter of John Presley and Annie Yandle Hargett

          For the past twenty years, my sister, the late Louise Hargett Ketchum and her husband Everette Ketchum have been engaged in tracing and documenting our family history. Now, as the last of my particular branch, it falls my lot to be the progenitress of the current generation to complete their work for the enlightenment and edification of posterity.
          It appears that the Hargetts, with many derivations of spelling of the name, began to leave the upper Rhine River valley in Germany in the early seventeen hundreds. Causes of the migration; destructive wars, Tyranny of Princes, Lords and Fiefs and religious persecution are well known to history. Some went to Roumania, some to Russia and many to America, which promised a new and better way of life. It was through the efforts of William Penn, who obtained a charter for his Province of Pennsylvania for the two-fold purpose of aiding suffering and persecuted humanity and advancing his own self interests, that we came.

           Descendants settled in many states but we believe the largest contingents are in North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland. Of the original six who came, Johann Heinrich Hergel and Frederich Hergett settled in the Piedmont section and eastern part of North Carolina respectively. Both men are listed in history as early pioneers and carved a place in the history of the state for those to follow. Names were quickly anglicized to John Henry Hargett and Frederick Hargett.

          We have documented copies of the land grants made by the Crown of England in the 1700s. The first Union County (then Mecklenburgh) grant was Stewarts Fork of Richardson Creek in the New Salem area for 200 acres. Presumably Lake Twitty, the Monroe city reservoir for water supply is a part of the original location. Several others followed in Anson and Mecklenburgh (now Union) counties totaling approximately 800 acres. There is much more of interest to pass on.

Descendants of Johann Heinrich Hergett Aka John Henry Hargett to Margaret Louisa Hargett who married Frederick Watson Hayes.

Generation No. 1
Johann Heinrich Hergett, anglicized to John Henry Hargett was born October 31,1728 in Germany, and died Abt. July 1803 in North Carolina. He married Nanna Hergett.  She was born Abt. 1728. Moved in 1749 from Philadelphia, PA.  Changed name to John Henry Hargett, Sr.  Applied for land grant on Pee Dee River in 1760.
Children:  Henry, Jr, Elizabeth, Peter, Rachel, Rebecca, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Daniel and Agnes.

Generation No. 2
John "Henry" Hargett, Jr. was born about 1757. Died between December 1825 and February 1827. He married Anna Broom. She was born about 1757.
Child:  William Hargett, b. January 22, 1789; d. October 2, 1857.

Generation No. 3
William Hargett married SARAH PRESLEY. She was bom March 18,1789, and died May 18,1858.
Child:  Presley Hargett, b, November 5, 1808; d. February 5, 1863.

Generation No. 4
Presley Hargett married Cary Keziah July 27,1828. She was bom May 17,1808, and died June 19,1853.
Child: James Robertson Hargett, b. May 14, 1848; d. October 7, 1899.

Generation No. 5
James Robertson Hargett married Louisa Jane Martin October 1,1874. She was born April 7,1854, and died February 21,1932.  (Notes for Louisa Jane Martin: Louisa is reported to have the maiden name of Ervin or Erwin and grew up in Cabarrus County. Lore has it that she came from a "blue blood" family in Cabarrus County who rejected her after she married below her station in life.
Child: Margaret "Maggie" Louisa Hargett b. May 26, 1883, Union Co. NC; d. October 18, 1962, Union Co. NC; 

Margaret "Maggie" Louisa Hargett married Frederick Watson Hayes, Sr on July 19, 1905, in Union Co. NC; He was born on January 16, 1882, Union County, NC and died on May 6, 1949 in Union Co. NC.   Note about Maggie's cause of death: Arteriosclerosis (hardening of arteries.)  Note about Frederick's cause of death: Amyotrophic]ateal Sclerosis (hardening of throat tissues)

Go to Hayes Family Tree to see further descendants of Margaret "Maggie" Louisa Hargett.