This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XcB.2ACE/134.136.1 Message Board Post: Jim: My Ruth Gardiner was the daughter of Benoni Gardiner/Gardner and Elizabeth Hall. Benoni's father was Isaac who married Elizabeth Davis. Isaac's parents were Benoni and Mary Eldred?. Benoni's father and mother were George and either Sarah Slaughter or Heriodias . Ruth married twice. First to Job Jones Fowler son of Simeon and Mercy Jones Fowler 28 Jun 1770, Exeter, Washington, RI. They had 4 children Amon, Susan, Sally and Elizabeth. Second to Benjamin Bentley 24 Aug 1780 Exeter Washington Co., RI. They had two children Mercy, my ggggrandmother who married Constant Vaughn and Gardner who lived in Providence Co., Smithfield and died 23 Jul 1850. Mercy died in St. Joseph Co., MI in 1840. Kate Ross