John P. Gardner and Ellen Porter

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Husband John P. Gardner ¹

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           Born: 1829 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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Wife Ellen Porter ¹

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Children

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1 M John W. Gardner ¹

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           Born: 25 Feb 1865 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Etta Maud McKeever (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1897 1

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2 M Joseph Gardner ¹

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3 M William Gardner ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John P. Gardner

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He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was left an orphan at an early age. He was bound out to a man named Baughman, near Adamsburg, but finding his bondage irksome ran away and for four or five years nothing was seen or heard of him. Finally, however, he returned to Westmoreland County and up to the time of his marriage was employed on various farms. For one year after that event he worked in a sawmill in Robinson Station, and then purchased the Foster Tillbrook farm near what became the village of New Madison, where five of his children were born. Later he exchanged this farm for a larger one, the farm on which were later situated the Edna coal works No. 2, of the Pittsburg Coal Company. He also bought from the Walthour heirs another farm near the one on which he lived. Both these estates he subsequently sold at a good profit to the Pittsburg Coal Company. He was very successful in his undertakings and acquired a fortune. About 1888 he retired from active labor and moved to Irwin, where he lived until the marriage of his son John W., with whom he then resided. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the United Brethren church, in which he held office for many years.

He and his wife were the parents of seven children; three were still living in 1906.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 376.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 402.