As recalled a few weeks ago, numerous Hardys seemed to be born with a writer’s pen in their hands or a bent toward some form of journalism. They stemmed from Gen. J.P. Hardy, a Confederate Army veteran who fought at the age of 14, and after the Civil War fathered three sons who toiled among printers’ presses. They were Albert Hardy Sr., publisher of the Gainesville News, J.B. Hardy of the Thomasville Times and Benjamin Hill Hardy of the Barnesville News-Gazette.