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[Trivia Master]

How was Oliver "Ollie" Hardy, born Novell Hardy a famous American comic actor connected to the Civil War?

credit: @Seduzal

**I will be observing Independence Day with my family on July 3rd, no trivia will be posted or scored that day.

 

[Stony]

Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. His father, Oliver, was a Confederate veteran who was wounded at theBattle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. After his demobilization as a recruiting officer for Company K, 16th Georgia Regiment, the elder Oliver Hardy assisted his father in running the vestiges of the family cotton plantation.

Source-http://www.geni.com/people/Sgt-Oliver-Hardy/6000000000943605945
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[Copperhead-mi]

His father was Sgt. Oliver Hardy, a Confederate soldier in the 16th Georgia Infantry.

 

[kholland]

His father was a sergeant in the 16th Georgia who was wounded at Antietam.

 

[ErnieMac]

Son of Private Oliver Hardy, Company K, 16th Georgia Infantry who was wounded at Sharpsburg.

 

[MRB1863]

Wiki sez:
His father, Oliver, was a Confederate veteran who was wounded at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.
After his demobilization as a recruiting officer for Company K, 16th Georgia Regiment, the elder Oliver Hardy assisted his father in running the vestiges of the family cotton plantation.

 

[Dbersh]

His father was a Confederate veteran wounded at Antietam and was a recruiting officer.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Norvell (with an "r") Hardy was the son of Confederate veteran Sgt. Oliver Hardy, from his third marriage to Emily Norvell Tant.

Full story here:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12823557

Great question! Never knew this and never thought I would ...

 

[GELongstreet]

His father, the other Oliver Hardy, was a Sergeant in the 18th Georgia Infantry.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12823557

 

[nextcity]

His father was a Confederate soldier.

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Sergeant Oliver Hardy - father of the chubby comedian

Birth: Dec. 5, 1841 Georgia, USA
Death: Nov. 22, 1892 Harlem, Columbia County, Georgia, USA
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Civil War veteran and father of the legendary comedian Oliver Norvell Hardy. He was the son of a farmer who owned thirteen acres of land and nine slaves, and descended from English stock. When the Civil War began in 1861, young Oliver was one of the local farmers in Columbia County who rallied to defend their way of life. He enlisted in Company K, 16th Georgia Infantry, rising from Private to Sergeant, and eventually fighting in sixteen battles during the course of the war. He was wounded during the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. At the end of the war, he was among less than half of the original Columbia County soldiers who returned home. Soon thereafter, he married his childhood sweetheart, Sarah Olive. Several years later, she died in childbirth with their first child. In 1870, Hardy remarried to Cornelia Magruder, the sister of two of his fallen comrades. They went on to have three children together, Lillian, George, and Mamie. He did very well for himself during the post-war years, becoming a tax collector, a politician, and a supervisor on one of the construction crews rebuilding the Southern Railroad, as well as being effusively celebrated in the local newspaper the Columbia Sentinel. In 1888, his wife Cornelia died, also in childbirth, and two years later he remarried to Emily Norvell Tant. She was a young widow with four children, Elizabeth, Emily, Jr., Sam, Jr., and Henry. By this time he owned a hotel in the city of Madison, Georgia, the Turnell-Butler Hotel. Together he and Emily had their own child, Norvell, who was born on January 18, 1892. (He took on the forename Oliver at the age of eighteen in his late father's honor). However, Hardy had already been in ill health at the time of his remarriage, and three days before Thanksgiving of 1892, he died suddenly of a heart attack. He is buried beside his second wife Cornelia.

 

[donna]

He was son of Sgt. Oliver Hardy who served in Civil War. His father enlisted in Company K, 16th Georgia Infantry. he was in 16 battles. He was wounded at Antietam. When war over he returned to Georgia.

 

[E_just_E]

His father, Oliver Hardy, was a Confederate Veteran with Company K, 16th GA Volunteer Infantry. Wounded in Antietam.

 

[Brenal]

His father was a sergeant in the 16th Georgia Infantry, fought in 16 engagements and was wounded at Antietam.

 

[Pat Answer]

Through his father, Sgt Oliver Hardy of the 16 GA Inf

Very interesting story, this.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12823557

 

[chellers]

He was the son of Sgt Oliver Hardy of Columbia County, Georgia who enlisted July 25th 1861, and served in Co K, 16th Georgia Infantry Regiment, wounded at Sharpsburg MD. September 17 1862. One source also said the comedy actor was a member of the SCV.

 

[adisciu9]

His father was a Confederate veteran who was wounded at Antietam

 

[rhettbutler1865]

How was Oliver "Ollie" Hardy, born Novell Hardy a famous American comic actor connected to the Civil War?

credit: @Seduzal

**I will be observing Independence Day with my family on July 3rd, no trivia will be posted or scored that day.

His father was Sgt. Oliver Hardy, Confederate CW veteran from Georgia.

 

[MaryDee]

Oliver Hardy, of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team, was the son of a Confederate veteran, Sgt. Oliver Hardy, who served in Company K, 16th Georgia Infantry. Sgt. Hardy was wounded at Antietam but served through the end of the war. The younger Oliver, born in 1892, was the son of Sgt. Hardy and his third wife. The son was originally named Norvell (his mother's maiden name), but took the name of Oliver at age 18 in honor of his late father. Sgt Hardy died when the future comedian was 10 months old.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12823557

 

[DickWilliams]

Harry's father was a Confederate veteran who was wounded at Antietam.