Elizabeth was born January 7, 1807 Knox County, Kentucky, the daughter of Peter and Hannah (Iahannah?) Poe Hart. She married her first cousin, William Morgan Hart, on April 8, 1828, in Whitley County, Kentucky. Elizabeth's father, Peter Hart, and William Morgan Hart's father, John Hart, were brothers.
Elizabeth's family migrated from Ashe County, North Carolina to Knox County, Kentucky where the John Hart family had settled a few years earlier. Her family stayed only a short time, but are found on the 1807 tax list in Knox County, which leads us to believe that Elizabeth was born while they were living there. Her family returned the next year to Ashe County, North Carolina, where they remained for almost 20 years, before again moving west.
The Peter Hart family is again found on the Whitley County, Kentucky tax lists in 1827. Elizabeth Hart would have met the cousin that she never knew that year, and married him the next year. When Elizabeth's family left Kentucky, to move farther west, William Morgan and Elizabeth Hart also moved west, with her family. There is much additional information on Elizabeth Hart Hart's family in the section of this book relating the Peter and Hannah Poe Hart family.
William Morgan and Elizabeth Hart apparently left Kentucky in 1829 or early 1830. We find the couple on the 1829 tax list in Whitley County, Kentucky, but by the time the 1830 census was taken, they are found living in Vermilion County, Illinois, close to other members of Elizabeth's family. We believe that several members of William Morgan Hart's family also left Kentucky and moved to the same general area, along the Indiana and Illinois State line, in those same years. In 1830, the young couple have a daughter, who was probably born the year before in Kentucky. We know nothing of this child, who apparently died young, as she is not shown on the next census taken in 1840. In 1831 Morgan and Elizabeth moved farther northwest in Illinois to Putnam county, along with other members of her family.
William Morgan and Elizabeth had three more children, born in Putnam County, Illinois. Nancy Caroline was born in 1832, Hannah Jane in 1834 and their only son, John Morgan was born in 1837.
Elizabeth Hart Hart died soon after the birth of this last child. She died in Putnam County, Illinois. We do not know the exact date of her death, nor where she is buried.