Allen is next found in the 1850 Census of Lowndes County, Georgia with his wife Sarah and seven children. 65 born North Carolina and Sarah is 45 born Georgia as are all the children. Are all these children, Allen's or someone elses. He is 20 years older than Sarah. The make up of the Allen Hardie family, below, is based on the above information.
Much more research needs to be done.
Documentation is difficult to come by as all the counties in Georgia that these folks lived in had courthouse fires that destroyed land, will, marriage and other valuable genealogical records thus requiring the use of secondary sources to prove relationships. Theophilus Hardie was born in Wilkinson Co., Georgia circa 1831. He married Henrietta Franklin. Henrietta was born circa 1830. Joel T. Hardie was born in Wilkinson Co., Georgia circa 1832.