Thurs.6/14 Gardner List: Sending this out again! Hard to believe no substantive responses!! > > To the two Marilyns, Muriah, Charles, Mike...or other Gardners, > > With all of you and your queries re Thomas etal, I must sign in at this > appropriate time and tell you that my earliest GARDNER descendant is > Thomas, b circa 1811, possibly in Germantown, New York. He had 7 > children: Leonard; William, who died in Civil War; Martha; Mary; Ida; > Emma; and my GrGrGrandfather, Charles H. GARDNER, b ca 1828. > > Charles Gardner m. Catherine SCISM GARDNER. They had 10 children: > Wesley; Charles; Frank; Hannah; Elizabeth; Carrie; Minnie; Maude; Emma; > and my GrGrandfather Virgil GARDNER, b 1852. > > Virgil H.GARDNER m. Mary Elizabeth Rifenburgh GARDNER. They had one > child, my Grandmother, Stella Margaret GARDNER, b 1883. Virgil was Town > Clerk, Tivoli,NY, before he died ca 1908. > > I have made no connections beyond Thomas, but most of these relatives > seem to have lived a good deal of their lives in Columbia or Dutchess > Counties, New York. Thomas' wife, I believe, was Hannah Elizabeth HOVER > and they are both my "dead-ends". > > I also have surnames of many of the above siblings, but nothing that has > helped me...unless I do not know where to look...the most likely answer. > > I have Hunt's book on Town of Clermont, & it says that Virgil GARDNER > lived in a house built by Thomas GARDNER and that the house was a > milestone, 111 miles from New York! No dates. I have Henry Jones' two > volumes on Palatine families, Arthur Kelly's Settlers & Residents series > on Clermont & Germantown and Chuck Rivenburgh's book on descendants of > the Reiffenberg Family...and still am missing the "GARDNER connection". > Before the 'Net, I'd thought it to be an English name...but most of my > paternal surnames are German or Dutch. > > Forgive me for rambling a bit, but it appears this group is highly > active & informed!! In the one & a half years I've been online, I have > come across two distant cousins with GARDNER ties, but nothing beyond > Thomas. The LDS & Ancestry.com sites have come up zeros. I'd appreciate > even one little clue. IF..I have anything to share, I will! Thanks. > > Lynn Gardner Miller > > Marilyn R Otterson wrote: > > > > Just want to mention that not all of Thomas "the Planter" Gardner's > > descendents went to the south in the Revolution. Some went to Maine, > > mine in particular. > > > > Marilyn in NH > > ________________________________________________________________ > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > > ============================== > > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB