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Subject: [GARDNER] RE: S.C. Gardners
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:06:58 EDT


Hi!

My name is Janie Ruth Mills Freeman and my brick wall is John Nelson Gardner,
a paternal gg grandfather. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Name: John Nelson Gardner
Birth: May 1826, Chesterfield County, South Carolina
Death: 22 May 1905, Chesterfield, Chesterfield Co., S. C.
Burial: Mount Olivet United Methodist Church, Teal's Mill, Chesterfield Co.,
S.C.
Spouse # 1: Mary Burr, married abt 1845
Spouse # 2: Lavicia(Levecia) Burr, married abt. 1852
Children:
1. James Washington Burr born 22 Nov 1846, died aft 1900, married Nancy___
2. Thomas Jefferson Gardner born 15 May 1848, spouse: Isabella Emma Martin
3. Mary Margaret Gardner born 2 Mar 1853 married Joshua Brigman abt 1875
4. John Calhoun Gardner born 5 June 1854 married Ella Grant abt 1879
5. Jacob Newton Gardner born 21 Dec 1855
6. Joseph Allan Gardner born 13 Oct 1857 married Nancy J. Smith abt 1883,
died 8 June 1919 in Chesterfield Co., S.C.
7. *Furman Walter Gardner born 7 Jan 1861 married Mary Frances James abt
1878, died 2 May 1941 in Wadesboro, Anson Co., N.C., buried in Seago
Cemetery.
8. Emma Levicia Gardner born 15 Dec 1864 married R. Calvin Sellers abt 1890,
died either 16 Jan 1918 or 16 Jan 1919
9. George Wellington Gardner born 4 Oct 1866 married Sarah Horton, died 14
Feb 1932, had 6 children
10. Wiliam Preston Gardner born 12 Feb 1869, married Rosa Smith
11. Mattie Jane Gardner born 15 Apr 1871
12. Robert Clifton Gardner born 31 Aug 1873 married Mary Lou Morris, died 16
July 1948, occupation: police officer in Charlotte, N.C.
13. Wade Hampton Gardner born 2 Jan 1875 married Martha Medlin, died 13 Aug
1953 or 16 July 1948?
14. Caldwell Baxter Gardner born 17 July 1876 married Sarah Jane Purvis abt
1899, died 29 Nov 1967 in Chesterfield Co., S.C.
15. Hattie Louginia Gardner born 22 Nov 1878 Married Sandy Milton Purvis abt
1909 and died abt 1951 in Chesterfield Co., S.C.

All of the children were born in Chesterfield Co., South Carolina. Their
names and dates of birth were taken from a Bible belonging to Clifton Nelson
Gardner, a son of Hattie Gardner. Mary and Lavicia were sisters. Their
parents were Jacob George Washington Burr and Rachel Sellers. Mary was born
about 1826 in South Carolina and Lavicia(Levecia,Lavisa) was born abt July
1834 in South Carolina.
John N. Gardner served in the Civil War in the Confederacy between 1861
and 1865 in Company B, 8th S.C. Infantry. The 1880 S.C. Census lists his
occupation as a farmer. According to the census records his parents were
born in S.C.
Any information about the Gardner family or related families would be
appreciated!

Ruth Freeman


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