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
Oliver Welke been the host of the satirical "heute-show" on German public broadcaster ZDF, which is commonly viewed as a German adaptation of "The Daily Show". Welke is married and has two sons. He is involved in several charities such as Terre des hommes. Oliver Welke Oliver Welke (born 19 April 1966 in Bielefeld) is a German television presenter, actor, comedian, voice actor and sports journalist. Welke studied journalism at the University of Münster, graduating in 1993. He then worked in a number of fields and eventually became a rather well-known sport journalist and presenter. Together with Oliver Kalkofe, whom he met