Oliver Hardy wounded at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 and was 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 following the Civil War. He then bought a share in a retail business and was elected full-time Tax Collector for Columbia County, Georgia. Hardy's mother Emily Norvell was the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Norvell and Mary Freeman, descended from Captain Hugh Norvell of Williamsburg, Virginia who arrived in Virginia before 1635. The elder Hardy and Norvell married March 12, 1890; it was her
Ben Hardy (actor) Ben Hardy (actor) Ben Jones (born 2 January 1991), known professionally as Ben Hardy, is an English actor known for playing Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" (2013–2015). Hardy made his film debut as Archangel in the superhero film "" (2016), and played Roger Taylor in the biographical film "Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018). Hardy was born in Bournemouth, Dorset, and grew up in Sherborne. He attended Sherborne Abbey Primary School and the Gryphon School. As a student at Gryphon, Hardy starred as Sergeant Francis Troy in a school film adaptation of "Far from the Madding Crowd". In 2012, Hardy