Gardner Family

This information concerns six generations of the Gardner family.
1600-1800

 • Individuals are listed chronologically, and those in red show my line of descent.
 • Connections of collateral lines to main lines are indicated by linked names.
 • Generations within a family are separated by a series of asterisks.
 • Unknown or unsubstantiated data are marked with blanks or with question marks.

   Jasper born: (1675) in
married: _?_ ( ) in
children: Jean
died: ( ) in
buried:

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   Jean born: (1696) in
married: Mary "Patsy" Pryor ( ) in
children: George?, John Thomas
died: ( ) in
buried:

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   John Thomas
(child of Jean Gardner and ?)
born: (August 8, 1721) in NC
married: Martha Waller ? ( ) in
children: (a) Betty, William, Thomas, John/Daniel?, George, Christopher, Camp/Kemp, Pryor, Thomas, Sterling, Mary
died: (1777) in Halifax County, North Carolina.
buried:
note: The will of Thomas Gardner (Halifax County, North Carolina, will book 2, entry 51) dated November 9, 1773, provides the names of his wife and seven sons, including his son Sterling as an executor.

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   Betty
(children of John Thomas Gardner and Martha Pryor)
born: (November 15, 1742) in
married: ( ) in
children:
died: ( ) in
buried:

   William born: (April 6, 1744) in
married: ( ) in
children:
died: ( ) in
buried:

   Thomas born: (January 1745) in
married: ( ) in
children: .
died: ( ) in
buried:

   John born: (December 11, 1748) in
married: ( ) in
children:
died: ( ) in
buried:

   George born: (November 30, 1750) in
married: ( ) in
children:
died: ( ) in
buried:

   Christopher born: (October 26, 1752) in
married: ( ) in
children:
died: ( ) in
buried:

   Camp/Kemp born: (July 5, 1754) in
married: ( ) in
children:
died: ( ) in
buried:

   Pryor born: (January 19, 1758) in Edhecombe County, NC
married: Drucilla Rose ( ) in
children: .
died: (1827) in Warren County, GA
buried:
note: The will of Pryor Gardner (Warren County, GA, will book 1829-52, pages 9-10) is dated February 1, 1827.

   Sterling born: (May 5, 1762) in Raleigh, Halifax County, NC
married: Sarah (Polly) Neal ( ) in Warren County, GA
children: Sarah [Moss], Thomas N., Elizabeth [Heath], Martha [Persons], Nancy [Pitts], Priscilla [Ivy], John, Caroline C. [Smith], Frances B. [Rogers] [Stafford], Sterling, Susannah [Jenkins], Mary Rose [Gibson],
died: (1848) in Upson County, GA
buried:
note: The will of Sterling Gardner (Upson County, GA, Will Book A, page 76-77) dated March 2, 1843, lists Mary T., Caroline C., and Alabama Gardner as "heirs of my beloved son Thomas Gardner, deceased."

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   John born: (November 17, 1801) in Warren County, GA
married: Emeline Beall (April 11, 1822) in Warren County, GA
children: Mary Neal [Smith], Robert Beall, Thomas Neal, John Jr, Sterling Capers, Caroline Narcissa [Gause], Sarah Melissa [Rogers], John Brantley, James Hightower
died: (October 31, 1879) in Booneville, Prentiss County, MS
buried:

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   Thomas N. born: (about 1790) in Warren County, GA
married: Rebecca Garrett (February 25, 1824) in Dallas County, AL
children: Mary Thomas, Caroline C., Martha Pryor, Alabama Virginia
died: (about 1836) in Dallas County, AL
buried:

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   Mary Thomas
(children of Thomas N. Gardner and Rebecca Garrett)
born: (March 13, 1825) in Dallas County, AL
married: Henry Horatio Davis (October 27, 1842) in Dallas County, AL
children: William Henry, Thomas Gardner, Sarah M., Taylor, Anderson Wiley, Rebecca T., Caroline G.
died: ( ) in AR
buried:

   Caroline C. born: (April 27, 1829) in Dallas County, AL
married: William Wesley Davis (1844) in Dallas County, AL?
children: James, Thomas, William Wesley Jr
died: (September 4, 1858) in Clark County, AR
buried: Davis cemetery, Vaden, Clark County, AR
note: After Caroline's death, her husband married Fannie M. Vaden (April 14, 1859) in Clark County, AR.

   Mary Pryor born: (about 1831) in Dallas County, AL
married: no
children: none
died: (August, 1835) in Dallas County, AL
buried:
note: Her obituary in the Selma Free Press (August 29, 1835) states that she was 4 years and 10 months old.

   Alabama Virginia born: (about 1835) in Dallas County, AL
married: (a) William T. Davenport (November 23, 1854) in Clark County, AR
                (b) Daniel Madison Wadley (October 1867) in Clark County, AR
children: (a) James G., Mary Hannah, John Thomas, William Alexander (Billy)
                (b) = children of Daniel Madison Wadley and Minerva Moss: William Garrett, Dove Ann [Allen], Betty, Alice, Thomas Burrow, James Lafayette, Mary P. "Mollie"?, Laura, Daniel Felix
died: ( ) in
buried:

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