This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gardner, Vedder Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1117 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 889. LANCASTER OLIVER P. GARDNER, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Lancaster. Owns 40 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. Born in Kentucky, in 1824. Came to Wisconsin in 1837; located on his farm in 1871. Married Lucy Ann Vedder, a native of New York, and they have four children - Lovilla J., Abby Ellen, Effie J. and Allen Eugene. Mr. Gardner enlisted in Co. H, 25th W. V. I., in 1862, and was discharged in 1865. [I am not related to this family - just posted this as a service and I hope it helps!]