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Haggard
Related surnames or alternate spellings: Hagard / Hagart / Hagarth / Haggardt / Agard / Hoggard / Hogard
Notable ancestors include:
Merle Haggard, country music singer-songwriter
Nathaniel Haggard Sr, patriot from Virginia, DAR: A049112 or NSSAR Ancestor 172283
Sir H. Rider Haggard, English author
Genealogy websites
“Clinton R. Haggard Memorial: Haggard Family Genealogy Files” This is an angelfire site that still works, created to share the research of Clinton R. Haggard of Rhode Island and run by his daughter, Susan E.H. Hayashi. Includes PAF, GED, and other files.
“Haggard Genealogy & Family History”. This is a rootsweb site that still works, by Paul R. Sarrett, Jr.
“Haggard Surnames”. Site is down, link is through the Wayback Machine. Site by Gary and Janet Foster.
“James Francis Haggard (1899 - 1946)” from Forney Clark Genealogy. Includes photos of James Francis Haggard, Flossie Mae Harp Haggard, Dillie Eunice Haggard, Walter Augusta Haggard, Hildred Jane Haggard, George Byran Haggard, and possibly more.
Message boards
“Seeking information about James Henry Haggard” post by Robert Barger, via the Genealogy Forum on History Hub.
“Haggard” posts on Ancestry.com Message Boards
“Haggard” posts on Genealogy.com GenForum Message Boards -
“Haggard” posts on WikiTree
Social Media Groups & Societies
“Haggard Family” Facebook Group, public.
“Rider Haggard Society”, UK Membership group for the author.
Photographs:
“Arlyne Haggard and band” 1940s, Texas
“Billy Haggard” 1978, Center for Sacramento History
“Cala Haggard” CSU Chico Digital Collections
“Edna Haggard”, DeadFred
“Gene Haggard”, DeadFred
“Haggard”, DeadFred
“Haggard, John and Friend” 1909, Missouri
“Haggard, Sewell, Mrs., portrait photograph” Library of Congress
“H. Rider Haggard, half-length portrait, facing left” Library of Congress
“H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard, 1856 - 1925” Library of Congress
“Leslie Haggard” DeadFred
“Marion and Tiney Haggard, Tennessee” Tennessee Virtual Archive
“Merle Haggard performing at the Grand Ole Opry” Library of Congress
“Mrs. Curtis A. Haggard, 1947 - 1948” Coral Gables Woman’s club
“Mrs. Lizzie Haggard” CSU Chico Digital Collections
“Mrs Rider Haggard & daus.” Library of Congress
“Sir Rider Haggard” Library of Congress
“Thomas Haggard” CSU Chico Digital Collections
“Wallace Haggard” Scopes Trial Photographs
“Walter E. Haggard” Minnesota
Local historical or genealogical society website clippings
“Haggard Family History” Collin County, Texas History -
“Haggard, David” by Lisa Dretske. McLean County Museum of History, 2009.
“Haggard, Merle Ronald (1937 - 2016)”. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society.
Online news clippings or blog posts (no paywalls)
“The Haggard Family - Part 1” on Forgotten Ancestors: Tracing the Faces”. August 2, 2015
‘The Haggard Family - Part 2” on Forgotten Ancestors: Tracing the Faces”. August 10, 2015
“Rutledge Haggard talks Plano’s past and future” by Cori Baker. Feb 27, 2018.
“Merle Haggard and his Arkansas Ozarks Ancestry” Echoes of the Ozarks. Sept 23, 2019.
“Haggard Farm” by Candace Fountoulakis. April 4, 2018.
“Genealogy of the William Haggards” Kentucky Genealogy Trails
“Descendants to Save Plano’s 1861 Collinwood House from Demolition” Shelby Skrhak. June 30, 2018
Artifacts
Correspondence and Letters
“Haggard, Patience (State University of New York), 1952” correspondence collection in The Newberry Library
“Clara Patience Haggard, letter, 1920-01-24, to Hamlin Garland” Calisphere, University of California
“H. Rider Haggard, letter, 1905-06-20, to Hamlin Garland” University Southern California
“H. Rider Haggard Autograph letter signed” RR Auction
“Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. Rider Haggard” Theodore Roosevelt Center
“Rudyard Kipling, original art in an autograph letter signed to H. Rider Haggard” Schulson Autographs
Homes & Historical Markers
Nathaniel Haggard Plantation House, Clark County, Kentucky
Haggard House, Bakersfield, California. Historical Marker Database
“Mrs. Lucy Haggard Longbotham (1793 - 1873)” Historical Marker Database
Oral Histories
“Interview with Aaron Haggard, November 17, 2019” College Life Oral History Project; Kentucky -
“Oral history interview with Blanche Woolard Haggard, 1999” University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“David Earl Haggard Collection” Veterans History Project, Library of Congress
“Edmund Haggard Collection” Library of Congress
“Thomas Jackson Haggard Collection” Library of Congress
“Wayne Lawrence Haggard Collection” Library of Congress
“Louis D. Haggard Collection” (audio only) Library of Congress
Books (Online & In Print)
Haggard, Clinton R. and the Haggard Family Association “Genealogy of the Haggard family: the first Haggard to come to America” - Full view on FamilySearch.
Haggard, David Dawson. "History of the Haggard Family in England and America: 1433-1899" Joel Munsell's Sons; Albany, NY 1899.
Haggard, William Sandford. "Genealogy of the William Haggards." Compiled by Patience Haggard. Kentucky Ancestors, January 1975, 135-41.
Ray, Jennie Haggard. “History of the Haggard Family in England and America 1433 to 1899 to 1938”. Dallas, Texas. 1938. Full view on Internet Archive.
Hall, Colby Dixon. "Rice Haggard, the American Frontier Evangelist Who Revived the Name Christian" University Christian Church, 1957.
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