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
Stephen Oliver (actor) Stephen Oliver (actor) Stephen Oliver (November 29, 1941 – March 5, 2008), also known as Steve Oliver, was an American actor. Born in Philadelphia, Oliver portrayed the character of Lee Webber in the TV series "Peyton Place" from 1966 to 1968. He later portrayed the character Tom Hudson in early episodes of "Bracken's World" (1970). He made guest appearances in such other TV series as "Starsky and Hutch", "CHiPs", "The Streets of San Francisco", and appeared in biker movies such as "Motorpsycho" (1965), "Angels from Hell" (1968), "Werewolves on Wheels" (1971) and "Cycle Psycho" (1973). In addition, Oliver co-starred in