Re: Rowland Gardner MA/MI/NY/OH/IA
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Re: Rowland Gardner MA/MI/NY/OH/IA
S Brewer 11/11/03
I see this post is rather old, but am hoping that you're all still watching it! The story in my family also is that we're related to Abby Gardner, but I've always assumed it was somewhat of a myth. Still, my dad's name was James Gardner Miller III and his father and grandfather before him all bore the name Gardner for Abbie. Anyway, no one ever tracked the connection down until I just recently started working on another history project in Seneca Falls, NY, and ran across a newspaper article from 1857 wherein it the story of Spirit Lake was recounted and Abby Gardiner [sic] was referred to as a "native of Seneca County" (not Detroit, as one person intimated).
Anyway, I've looked through the vital records index here at the Seneca County historian's office with no luck, and I've also been all over Rootsweb, Ancestry, and so on.
Have you had a better time getting to the lines in this family? I would love to hear from you and to share what meager information I have.
Heather Miller