Robert Archelaus Hardaway was born on February 2, 1829 in Morgan County, Georgia and raised in Alabama. He attended St. Joseph's College in Alabama, and Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia. He was married to Rebecca Elizabeth Hurt (1837-1887). He served with the United States Army in Mexico. After the Mexican-American War, he became an Alabama planter and was the superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad. During the Civil War, he served as a Confederate artillery officer in Virginia. After the war he was the superintendent of the East Alabama & Cincinnati Railroad. He was an engineering professor at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (later Auburn University), 1873-1881, and later at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897. Between his teaching positions, he was an engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. He died April 27, 1899. Robert Early Hardaway, Sr., the son of Robert A. Hardaway and Rebecca Elizabeth Hurt, was born April 26, 1858 in Columbus, Georgia. He married Mathilda Ustick Dainwood (1868-1935) of Livingston, Alabama on November 27, 1889 and died September 14, 1938 in El Paso, Texas. Benjamin Hurt Hardaway, Sr., the brother of REH, Sr., was the founder of the Hardaway Contracting Company which built roads, dams and bridges across the South and Southeast of the United States. REH had mining and real estate interests in various states.

Robert Early Hardaway, Jr. was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on September 1, 1890. He was originally named Robert Dainwood Hardaway, but his name was changed when he was 6 years old. He married Martha Rebecca McCoy (1890-1966) of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on February 3, 1920 and died in Columbus, Georgia on January 5, 1992. REH, Jr. assumed control of the Robert E. Hardaway, Sr. family businesses after his father's death, and managed his estate through the 1960s.

William Franklin Loflin, Sr. was born April 30, 1894 in Salisbury, North Carolina and died July 14, 1969 in Columbus, Georgia. He was a teacher for a short time but spent most of his career as a CPA, founding his own accounting firm, William F. Loflin and Co. in Columbus. He was active in Georgia CPA organizations and held state offices in several of these organizations. He married Dolores Watkins Agee (b. August 2, 1895 in Mobile, Alabama) and they had two children. William Franklin Loflin, Jr. was born 20 November, 1919 in Tennessee and died November 4, 2003 in Columbus, Georgia. He worked on and off as an accountant in his father firm, but eventually purchased and worked at a full service gas station. He was active in property investments with his brother, Robert Lawrence Loflin (1920-1984), who worked full time in their father's firm. Robert was married to Rebecca Jane Hardaway Loflin on April 11, 1948. She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on February 25, 1922. Their daughter Elizabeth Loflin was born on June 19, 1949. Her married name is Vech.