This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gardner, Rankin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xh.2ADE/1634.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry! It is the wrong family. I don't know the exact date of John Rankin's birth, but I know he was the son of Robert Rankin and Ellen Gardiner. They came to Clay County, IN in about 1884 from Wishaw Scotland. Ellen Gardiner/Gardner was the sister of my my husband's grandfather, Thomas Gardner. Mary