Josiah S. Gardner

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c1817

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1892-01-15

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White

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"Josiah S. Gardner" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019781, (accessed June 29, 2024).

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Trigg County, Kentucky, merchant. Virginia native. Married to Caroline M. Cook Gardner in Montgomery County, Tennessee, on September 19, 1848. Father of Mary A. Gardner, Thomas C. Gardner, and George C. Gardner. Merchant in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed John C. Roberts as a clerk in Trigg County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850. Merchant in Trigg County in 1860. Employed John Northington as a clerk in Trigg County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860. Held an additional twenty-five enslaved persons in trust for the estate of Jane Miller in Trigg County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 291B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 187.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 391A.
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Montgomery County, 1838 - 1874: Marriages 2, p. 84.
"An Old Evansvillian Dead," The Sunday Messenger (Owensboro, KY), January 17, 1892, p. 1.

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