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His older brother Sam Hardy died in a drowning accident in the Oconee River.

His father died less than a year after his birth. Norvell was likely born in Harlem, though some sources say his birth occurred in Covington, his mother's home town. Emily Hardy owned a house in Harlem, which was either empty or rented out to tenant farmers. The family moved to Madison in 1891, before Norvell's birth. He was of paternal English American descent and maternal Scottish American descent. Hardy and Norvell had married Mait was the second marriage for the widow Emily, and the third for Oliver. Norvell's mother, Emily Norvell, was the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Norvell and Mary Freeman, descended from Captain Hugh Norvell of Williamsburg, Virginia, who had arrived in Virginia before 1635. He bought a share in a retail business and was elected full-time Tax Collector for Columbia County, Georgia. After his demobilization as 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. His father, Oliver, was a Confederate veteran who was wounded at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. In some of his early works, he was billed as Babe Hardy, using his nickname. He was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914.

Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy (born Norvell Hardy) (Janu– August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 25 years, from 1927 to 1951.

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