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From: "Carol S." <>
Subject: [GARDNER] GARDNER 1800's NY & AZ
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:26:23 -0700
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Subject: [GARDNER] Please Submit all of your Gardner info as follows: Let's
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> Name of Ancestors: THOMAS FREDERICK GARDNER

> Date of Birth Possibly 1820 - 1830 he couldn't remember
> Birth Location Upstate NY: Buffalo, or Erie, Monroe, Orleans areas
> Date of Death March 26, 1906
> Place of Death Patagonia, AZ

> Names of Children Mary, 1862, Sonora, Mexico; Tomossa Gertrude, b. Apache
Springs, AZ 11/12/ 1875; Thomas Fredrick Gardner Jr. b. 1/30/1878; Delia
b. 1867, AZ: Elizabith, AZ, no date. See additional names below.

Birth place & death if known see below
States/Counties of Migraton WI, (unconfirmed) CA, AZ
Whom married Gertrude APODACA
Marriage Location Patagonia AZ
Something about family

Thomas F. Gardner stated he was born 1820 in Buffalo NY but this has not
been confirmed. Reportedly he left NY to go Wisconsin for a brief time,
then followed the gold rush to California in '49. Failing to find gold he
was told of silver to be found in Arizona and proceeded here. He did
develop,along with partners,several silver mines in lower Arizona, then
known as Arizona Territory.

Although it's said he could not read or write, he was quite an entrepreneur.
He developed a large ranch where cattle fattened and sold to nearby military
forts, attended to silver mines, harvested building lumber for Tucson etc.
from nearby mountains, developed a horse race park in Tucson, etc. He was
described as "a large man, six feet four inches in height and weighted about
two hundred forty pounds"

The Apache Indians at this time were active in stealing cattle and otherwise
harassing the newcomers. Gardner's daughter described several fatal
incidents at their ranch. In a cattle drive from Mexico to Gardner's ranch
south of Tucson he was ambushed by Cochise who took advantage of the
situation and shot him through and through the lungs. He refused a doctor
in favor of his wife's nursing and recovered. When his children were of
school age he moved his family from the ranch to Tucson. He had a large
ranch in what is now Patagonia. It still stands and is in use as a home
with ranch out-buildings.

His history is widely recorded in southern AZ stories and statements from
family and friends, of which there are many, and are found gathered at the
Arizona Historical Society, Tucson Library Archives, more than 50 pages.
Pictures are found in the Archives collection. His obituary lists names of
following children: Thomas Jr., Dave, Fred, Bill, Joe of Duquesner, and five
dauthers Mrs. Margaret MOORE, Mrs. Elizabeth BLABON, Mrs. Delia BURKE, Mrs.
Frank SAENZ, and Gertrude GARDNER (Nogales high school student) Not all of
these children are accounted for in the collections.

This man, Thomas F. Gardner, is the fourth g-grandfather of my son's wife.
I'm trying to help her with this search for confirmations. Carol S. in AZ






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