My family connections include John Wesley Hardin and Clay Allison, both of whom had Tennessee ancestors. Did the outlaws ever meet?

Don Magers Saltillo, Tennessee “Wes Hardin never went to Tennessee,” says author Dennis McCown. “Clay Allison’s ‘outlaw years’ and death all occurred when Hardin was serving time in Huntsville Prison, Texas. I think we can ‘bet the farm’ they never met. “John Wesley Hardin’s relation to Tennessee is extremely remote. Hardin County was posthumously named after Hardin’s great-grandfather, Joseph Hardin, a Revolutionary War hero. John Wesley’s father, James Gibson Hardin,