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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



GARDNER, JOHN, was born June 21, 1805, in that part of Gallatin that is now Trimble county, Ky. Mary C. Duncan was born March 27, 1810, in the same county. They were married there June 13, 1830. They had one child in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving April 17, 1833, two miles west of Springfield, and early in 1834 moved to what is now Gardner township, two miles north of Farmingdale. They had eight children in Sangamon county. Of their children--

HIRAM E., born April 28, 1831, in Trimble county, Ky., opposite the city of Madison, Ind. He was raised in Sangamon county, and married June 17, 1857, in St. Louis, Mo., to Louisa R. Brown. They had one child, EDWIN B., born Sept. 27, 1858, and died July 13, 1873. Mrs. Louisa R. Gardner died July 23, 1859, and Hiram E. Gardner was married Feb. 8, 1865, in Sangamon county, to Harriet E. Bradford. They have three children, LOUISA B., HARRIET M. and HARRY B., and reside in Gardner township, one mile northwest of Bradfordton.

Hiram E. Gardner has represented Gardner township in the Sangamon county Board of Supervisors for several years, and is one of the most extensive farmers in the county.

SARAH A., born Oct. 15, 1833, in Sangamon county, lives with her mother.

NANNIE C., born Sept. 12, 1836, in Sangamon county, died April 10, 1857.

JOHN P., born July 5, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 7, 1869, to Susan L. Kendall. They had one child that died in infancy, and Mrs. Gardner died June 30, 1871. John P. Gardner was married November, 1874, to Lou. Gibson, and lives in Curran township, five miles west of Springfield.

CRANMER died Aug. 3, 1843, aged two years.

JAMES, born March 27, 1844, in Sangamon county, lives with his mother.

MARY E., born April 3, 1847, in Sangamon county, lives with her mother.

LUCY M., born June 19, 1851, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 24, 1869, to William Hurt, a native of Kentucky. They have two children, and reside two miles southeast of Pleasant Plains.

WILLIAM P., born June 13, 1854, lives with his mother.

John Gardner died Feb. 11, 1868, and his widow, Mrs. Mary C. Gardner, resides two miles north of Farmingdale, where they settled in 1834.

John Gardner was one of the commissioners who divided Sangamon county into townships, and the township where the family reside bears the family name, in honor of his memory.



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