Bibb County AlArchives Biographies.....Gardner, John S. August 20 1840 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    HON. JOHN S. GARDNER, probate judge of Bibb county, and resident of
Centreville, was born in Bibb county, August 20, 1840. He is a son, of Jackson
and Margaret (Bolling) Gardner, and a grandson of John Gardner, who was a native
of North Carolina and who emigrated to Alabama at an early day and afterward
spent his life in farming. The father of John S. Gardner was also a farmer. He
was born in Clarke county, Ala., in 1818, his wife being born in 1822. They were
married in 1837, and became the parents of ten children, five sons and five
daughters, viz.: Sarah J., widow of Dewitt C. Logan, now residing at
Centreville; John S.; Mattie E., widow of James W. Owen, now a resident of
Centreville; Millard F., a resident of Centreville; Beulah B., widow of S. S.
Jones, a resident of Centreville; Stonewall J., a resident of South Carolina,
and Mary A., Willey P., Mulcay, James P., Parolee, and an infant, all deceased.
He came to Alabama early in life, engaged for a while in  farming, and in 1853,
he was elected sheriff of Bibb county, serving three years. In 1856 he was
elected probate judge of the county and served twenty years. In politics he was
a whig and in his day was one of the most influential men of the county.
Afterward he became a democrat. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and
died September 26, 1876, his wife dying in 1889. He was a member of the
Presbyterian church. John S. Gardner was educated at Randolph and Centreville,
receiving a business education. He was married June 21, 1861, to Miss Rebecca T.
Carson, born in Centreville, in 1837, and a daughter of Charles and Rebecca
Carson. By this marriage he has three children, viz: Mary V., wife of L. D.
Logan; Lena B., wife of E. M Jones, and Margaret R, deceased. The mother of
these children was a member of the Presbyterian church, and died in February,
1872. He was then married to Edna L. Parker, a native of Bibb county, born in
1838, by whom he has had three children, only one of whom survives, Robert J.,
the others dying in infancy. John S. Gardner, in 1861, enlisted in the army as
an orderly sergeant in company F, Eleventh Alabama infantry. He was successively
promoted to third lieutenant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant, serving
until June, 1862, when he had an attack of pneumonia, was discharged and went
home. After remaining at home three months, he volunteered in company H,
Forty-fourth Alabama infantry, as first lieutenant, in which he served until
November, 1864, when he was nominated for and elected sheriff of Bibb county,
which position he re 
turned home to fill, and in this office he served three years. In 1867, he was
elected to the office of circuit court clerk and served until 1870. He was then
elected again to the same office and served until 1872. In 1873 he was appointed
register in chancery, which position he held until 1878, when, on account of
illness in his family, he retired to a farm and was engaged in farming until
August, 1880, when he was elected to the office of probate judge of the county.
He was re-elected in 1886, and held the office until 1892. In these various
offices he has served the public with credit to himself and satisfaction to the
community. He is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, and is an elder in
the Presbyterian church, while his wife is a member of the Baptist church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 483-484

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