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
David Oliver (actor) November 18 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills. David Oliver (actor) David Oliver (January 31, 1962 – November 12, 1992) was an American stage, film and television actor. Oliver was one of eight children born to Pat and William Oliver in Concord, California. He began his acting career in 1982. From 1983 to 1985, Oliver played the role of Perry Hutchins on the daytime soap opera "Another World". In 1986 he played the role of Sam Gardner in the miniseries "A Year in the Life". The miniseries then became a regular series in the fall of 1987