Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Gardner, Thomas P. 1804 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Thomas P. Gardner, farmer, Hillsboro, son of Aaron and Rachel (Sutton)
Gardner, was born February 25, 1804, in Fleming county, Kentucky. His mother
died of cholera in 1833, and his father died about 1844. Mr. Gardner left his
native state in 1834, and halting three months in Rush county, arrived in
Fountain the following year. He entered 160 acres of timber land on Sec. 31, T.
20, R. 7, the farm on which he has ever since lived; of this 120 acres are now
cleared. It is not too much to say that his life has been one of sturdy toil and
voluntary hardship. That the first settlers should invariably select land on
which they must wear out their lives in exacting and rigorous labor to render it
fit for profitable cultivation was a subject of curious speculation until it was
discovered to be a law of social economy that the poorest lands are first
appropriated. He was married December 17, 1829, to Jane M. Crystal. Their
children were twelve in number: Marquis de La Fayette, born September 28, 1830;
Lusetta Ann, October 31, 1831, died April 25, 1833; Martin P. M., September 7,
1833, died October 10, 1872; Polly Ann, October 17, 1835; John M., August 15,
1837; William C. S., June 12, 1839, died October 18, 1877; Aaron P., June 16,
1841; James R., July 3, 1842; Nancy E., September 5, 1844; Francis A., April 5,
1847; Joseph G., March 11, 1849; Rachel Ann, November 21, 1854, died September
14, 1855. Aaron and James were each in the army five months just before the
close of the war. Mr. Gardner was constable of Richland township a number of
years ago. He has been a member of the Methodist church forty years. The first
eight or ten years of his religious life in Kentucky he was a member of the
Baptist church, but when he came here there was no society of that denomination
near, and he united with the church to which his wife belonged. She was in
communion with the church fifty-five years, and died May 20, 1880, aged
seventy-one years. Mr. Gardner was once a whig; he is now a republican.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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