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Jane Tandy Chinn Hardin Cross (September 26, 1817-September 29, 1870)

Jane Tandy Chinn was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, the eldest daughter of Judge Christopher Chinn (1789-1868) and Sarah White Stull Hardin (1787-1864). She was educated at a boarding school in Shelbyville, Kentucky. On November 10, 1835, when she was only eighteen, she married James Pendleton Hardin. Hardin was the son of Senator Benjamin Hardin, had served as a Lieutenant in the Black Hawk War and was trained as both a doctor and a lawyer. Hardin was plagued with ill health and, despite a 1841 trip to Cuba for medical reasons, died on October 26, 1842, leaving his wife a widow with three daughters at the age of 25.