Reuben Gardner

Male 1853 - 1924  (70 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Reuben Gardner was born on 29 Jul 1853 in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States (son of Archibald Gardner and Jane Park); died on 28 May 1924 in West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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    • FindaGrave Memorial ID: 35477292
    • _UID: B59F90FEE4944955850EBAB02321B4C9B6C0

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    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35477292


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Archibald Gardner was born on 2 Sep 1814 in Kilsyth Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland (son of Robert Gardner and Margaret Calender); died on 8 Feb 1902 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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    • FindaGrave Memorial ID: 5135285
    • _UID: D9B3D2F58B324DD3A8A910190811A4AA1112

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    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5135285

    Died:
    on of Robert and Margaret Calinder Gardner

    Married Margaret Livington, 19 Feb 1839, Alvinston, Brooke Twp, Lambton, Ontario, Canada

    Married Abigail Sprague, 19 Apr 1849, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Mary Ann Bradford, 26 Apr 1849, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Laura Althea Thompson, 3 March 1951, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Elizabeth Elinor Lewis, 20 Apr 1851, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Jane Park, 24 Aug 1852, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Serena Gahrsen Evensen, 26 Feb 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Sarah Jane Hamilton, 21 Jun 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Harriet Armitage Larter, 21 Jun 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Elizabeth Dowding, 2 Mar 1867, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

    Married Mary Larsen, 20 Dec 1869, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Utah

    History - Archibald Gardner was one of Utah's earliest entrepreneurs, made history in the state of Utah as a mill builder, canal builder, irrigation developer, bridge builder, bishop and as husband to 11 wives, father of 48 children and grandfather to 201.

    Archibald, born in Scotland, immigrated to Canada as a young man. There he built his first mill. There he met and married his first wife, Margaret. Together, they traveled with Utah's early pioneers, crossing the plains from Missouri River to the Great Salt Lake Valley, arriving there in 1847.

    In his lifetime, he built more than 36 mills, as well as canals and bridges. He was also instrumental in the building of the Salt Lake Temple. Gardner provided the valley with valuable irrigation water through his canals.

    In 1858, in the face of the threat of Johnston's Army and the Utah War in the Valley, he and his family moved to Spanish Fork, consisting of nine wives, fifteen children, seven step-children and an adopted Indian girl, Fanny. Archibald left behind a homestead at Mill Creek, the mills in the canyon above, a grist mill and carding machine on the Big Cottonwood stream, a grist mill and saw mill on the Jordan River, and the "big hay field" of about 1,000 acres in the river bottoms in the southern end of Salt Lake Valley. Archie began to build a large home for his family in Spanish Fork. However, in 1859, he was called to return to the Valley as bishop of the West Jordan Ward, a position he held for 32 years being released in May of 1891.

    Archibald built the original mill in West Jordan in 1853. In 1877 the mill was dismantled and moved to Fairfield. Archibald then built what he referred to as a "bigger and better" mill on the West Jordan site, with a stone basement. Surrounded by a mattress factory, a broom factory and a blacksmith shop, the flour mill became the center of activity in the area. A general store was located just west of the mill (where the Gardner Monument now stands) and supplied goods to settlers from miles around.

    He also built the Red Rock Church, which is still standing, near his mill starting construction in 1861. People were poor, and when it was ready for roofing, the money was gone. It was decided to hold a ball as a fund raiser. A tarp was stretched overhead and officers from Fort Douglas arrived in uniform adding a military touch. Many church officials were present including President Brigham young and George Q. Cannon. The church was completed in 1867.

    Archibald served two terms in the territorial legislature and was also instrumental in the discover of ore in the area. The first location claim in Bingham Canyon is signed by Gardner, Ogilvie and others. The document is dated Bingham Kanyon, Sept 17, 1863.

    In 1886 he spent several months in Mexico to escape the federal marshals, who were on the trail of polygamists. In 1889 he moved to Star Valley, Wyoming, to escape the persecution. From this time his family were spread across three locations - Spanish Fork, Utah; West Jordan, Utah; and Afton, Wyoming.

    Each of Archibald's wives had a home and acreage in West Jordan. Some of those houses are still standing. There are more than 20,000 descendants of Archibald and wives, living in every state except Delaware and in 22 countries.

    Excerpts from Eagle Newspapers, 17 Nov 1994 by Olga Milius

    Archibald married Jane Park. Jane (daughter of David Park and Ann Brooks) was born on 15 Apr 1834 in Ontario, Canada; died on 27 Jun 1916 in West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Jane Park was born on 15 Apr 1834 in Ontario, Canada (daughter of David Park and Ann Brooks); died on 27 Jun 1916 in West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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    • FindaGrave Memorial ID: 34252477
    • _UID: BA283D5F846D4D65B19098539D0ECD27EC95

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    FindaGrave Memorial ID:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34252477

    Children:
    1. 1. Reuben Gardner was born on 29 Jul 1853 in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; died on 28 May 1924 in West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
    2. Ann Emmerrette Gardner was born on 26 Jun 1855 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; died on 28 Feb 1939 in Logan, Cache County, Utah, United States; was buried in Logan City Cemetery, Logan, Cache County, Utah, United States.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Robert Gardner was born on 12 Mar 1781 in Houston & Killellan Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 20 Nov 1855 in East Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

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    • FindaGrave Memorial ID: 5139296
    • _UID: 5CD893AE8CE1442092E5587C4E01796FC836

    Notes:

    FindaGrave Memorial ID:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5139296

    Died:
    There is no known photo of Robert Sr. Pioneers Prominent Men of Utah incorrectly connected Robert Jr's photo to Robert Sr. The error has continued to be perpetuated because the publication of the book cannot be revised.

    Son of William Gardner and Christian Henderson

    Married Margaret Calinder, May 25, 1800, Falkirk Parish, Barony, Lanark, Scotland

    Children - William Gardner, Robert Gardner, Archibald Gardner, Mary Gardner; the following children died in Scotland, baby girl Gardner, Margaret Gardner (b. 1801), Christine Gardner, Margaret Gardner (b. 1810), Janet Gardner, female child Gardner

    History - Robert Gardner, age eighteen, and Margaret Calender, age twenty two, were married. Robert Gardner was a Lowlander. The lowlands have the best farm land, while the Highlands fill the entire northern half of Scotland and have scenery of exquisite beauty. Robert was a "good scholar." He was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade. During his early married life he kept a grocery store and the Black Bull Inn tavern. He later rented the Garrel Mill from the Canal Company. The mill was located on the outskirts of Kilsyth.

    Robert was imprisoned for in the Stirling castle for speaking out against the queen. He was found innocent and released. Nine weeks of imprisonment, however, was sufficient to fill him with resentment against the injustice meted out to him and to give him the determination to leave this the land of his birth and seek his fortune in a far country.

    Historical records indicate that forty-seven men were taken to Stirling Castle, and twenty-four of them were tried and sentenced to death. Based on Archibald's autobiography, Robert must have been one of the men who was released without being tried. Nineteen of the death sentences were commuted, and those men were sent to Botany Bay in Australia.

    The Gardner family sailed to Canada where they homesteaded in the area of backwoods of Canada in the Township of Dalhousie, Banthest District, Upper Canada. This was a very poor part of the country consisting of rocky ridges covered with heavy timber mostly hemlock, pine, cedar and some hardwood. Some swamps and mud lakes, and here and there small patch of land that would do to cultivate, after cutting and burning the heavy timber then there was a kind of a thistle that came up among the grain which compelled us to reap it with gloves or mittens on our hands, cradles, reapers, and thrashing machines was not in fashion in that country in those day. And it was hard, cold country to live in.

    Robert's son, Archibald, was a young man and was tired of the poor country and started west in search of a better country which he found about 500 miles of in the township of Warwick then known as county of Kent, Western District called Canada West, near the lower end of Lake Huron. He then bought some land claims called W. E. claims that was then in the market, and entered some land and then returned home and soon as it was convenient he and his older brother William started for there new home in the West.

    Meantime the rest of the family went to work to clear off another timbered farm the labor was hard they we had to cut down the timber, cut it in about sixteen foot lengths haul it together with oxen, pile it in piles four or five logs high and seven or eight logs wide and set fire to it and burn them up in the summer. Then they had to plant among the stumps which it took years to rout out. There was no prairie's in that country and it took a long time to make a start in a new country in them days. Those who have been raised in the far west has but little knowledge of the labor it took to make a start in the Canada timbered lands, although this was a much better country than the one we first settled in country of Dalhousie.

    In the year 1844 that an elder named John Baraman brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to the neighborhood. In the beginning of January 1845 in company with a few Saints the Gardner family went a mile and half into the woods and cut a hole in the ice about 18 inches thick and was there baptized in the township of Brook in a stream called Brown's Creek. Son, Robert Jr., was there baptized by his brother William who had been ordain elder, and he was confirmed by another elder, named Samuel Bolton.

    Sister Mary and her husband, Roger Luckham, was the next to be baptized and the family has all joined now but father and he was the first one in the family to believe and said that it was only true church on the earth and when he heard anyone opposing he would stand up for it although he would not be baptized as soon as Robert. He embraced the gospel he had a strong desire to go to Nauvoo to see the apostle and the Saints in their gathering place, a distance of five hundred miles. He left Canada on 1st June, 1845 traveled 30 miles on foot to Port Sarnia, there took steamboat to Chicago and then traveled on foot to Nauvoo a distance 160 miles. He made the trip in two weeks his wife made him a lot of crackers and he put his crackers in a two bushel sack and he traveled on foot. He packed them on his back and the lasted him to Nauvoo. But it was a pretty good day for crackers, better than it was for money.

    Robert and his family traveled with the Edward Hunter - Joseph Horne Company (1847)

    Robert Sr., Archie and Robert Jr. sowed six acres of wheat and early in the spring of 1848 and moved camp six miles south of Salt Lake on Mill Creek. They moved their saw mill and they rebuilt on Mill Creek and commenced to make lumber and build houses and get them farms.

    Archibald Gardner Blogspot

    Autobiography of Robert Gardner, Jr.

    Robert married Margaret Calender on 25 May 1800 in Falkirk Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Margaret was born in Jan 1777 in Falkirk Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 28 Apr 1862 in East Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Margaret Calender was born in Jan 1777 in Falkirk Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 28 Apr 1862 in East Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave Memorial ID: 5139337
    • Name: Margaret Calinder
    • _UID: E294C4A366B3412E8E22EDE05550D861C00D

    Notes:

    FindaGrave Memorial ID:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5139337

    Died:
    Daughter of Archibald and Margaret Ewen Calender

    Married Robert Gardner, 25 May 1800, Falkirk Parish, Barony, Lanark, Scotland

    History - Margaret Calinder was born at or near Falkirk, Sterlingshire, Scotland, in January 1777, the daughter of Archibald Calinder and Margaret Ewens. In his diary, her grandson Archibald Gardner wrote:

    "My maternal grandfather Archibald Calinder was a strong, healthy man with never an ache or pain. When he was about fifty years old, he went out one morning before breakfast to work a bit in his garden. It was a nice garden with a table and chairs hewn out of rock and surrounded by beech trees. The leaves of the beech remain dried on the trees all winter and are pushed off by the swelling buds in the spring. A wind stirred among them, and as they rattled grandfather leaned on his hoe. Grandmother came to call him to his morning meal and, seeing him in this unusual position, asked him what was the matter. 'I do not know,' he said. 'The breeze that rustled the leaves struck my head and sent a shiver though me.' She started with him to the house about 20 rods away, but before they reached there he was delirious. He died the next day."

    Robert Gardner, Sr, was born March 12, 1781, at or near Hilston, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His father was William Gardner, his mother Christine Henderson. His people were strong, healthy people. His father measured six feet two inches in his stocking feet and was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. They were strict living people.

    Robert was the youngest of thirteen children. He was bound out to learn the carpenter's trade but evidently did not follow that activity for a livelihood.

    In his twentieth year he married Margaret in Glasgow sometime in 1800, when she was 23 years of age. The couple made their first home in Glasgow.

    Their first child was Margaret, who died at the age of nine months and nine days of smallpox. The second child named William was born in Glasgow on January 31, 1803. Other children included Christine, born in Glasgow about 1805 who died of the dregs of whooping cough, aged 15 months. Mary was born in Kilsythe, Sterlingshire on June 5,1807. Margaret (the second) was born in Kilsythe on January 10, 1810. She died when about thirteen or fourteen months old which would be in March or April 1811. Janet was born in Kilsythe on July 5, 1812. Archibald was born in Kilsythe, which is twenty miles east of Glasgow on September 2, 1814. The next child was stillborn baby girl. The ninth and last child was born October 12, 1819 in Kilsythe. They named him Robert Jr.

    When Margaret and Robert were first married, they kept a grocery store and tavern called the Black Bull Inn. They later moved to the outskirts of Kilstythe on the main road to Edinburgh. Their home was a little rock house across the road from the Garril Oat Mill. Robert rented the mill from Canal Co. who owned it. They also had a farm which netted them a fair profit.

    Living out of town, the children's education was limited. In 1818 the family moved into town where Archibald, aged 4, was sent to school and then learned to reach the New Testament. No doubt the other children were given educational advantages, as the father was rated a good scholar. In town they ran a tavern again.

    Times were poor, business dull, and people became dissatisfied with the government. The women and children shared in the anxiety as well as the men. What a worry it must have been when Robert was carried to prison along with many others after protests, insurrections, and battles erupted against the government.

    Soon jails and castles were crowded with prisoners and many honest folk were carried away who had had no hand in the affair. This was the case with Robert. He was taken away from his business, and Margaret was left to care for the family as well as the tavern. He was incarcerated for nine long weeks in Sterling Castle. He was released when no one appeared to testify against him.

    It was this incident that caused Robert to leave Scotland for a land of liberty and justice, the land of America. Taking leave of his wife and three younger children, he set sail for Canada in the spring of 1822. William, now nineteen, and Mary, fourteen, accompanied him.

    What a decision to make! What a year of anxiety and worry for Margaret! She received no encouraging reports of how her husband fared in the new land. Nevertheless, she sold out all the remaining possessions and took passage aboard the sailing vessel, "Bucking Horn," bound for Quebec, Canada, in the spring of 1823.

    On the way to Glasgow she received the one and only letter from her husband in a year's time. There was no information as to where they were or the direction they had taken after landing. Nothing more was heard until Margaret arrived at Prescott, above Montreal, where her husband was waiting to greet her. She had been five weeks and three days crossing the ocean. What a meeting! Robert had heard that the wives of twenty-five Scotch men were following their husbands to America, and he had walked 72 miles to see if his wife was among them.

    They left as soon as possible for their home in the woods. Ten miles were traveled that morning to the home of a family named Grey where William had been employed. It was here Margaret mistook Thomas Reed for her son, when asked by Mrs Grey to pick William out as the farm hands came in for dinner. William, not knowing of their arrival, passed her by. When they found out their mistake, they all burst into tears. William had grown so tall, his Scotch plaids were much the worse for wear, his face sunburned and so changed, she could not tell which was her son.

    After dinner they left for Brockville, 20 miles away. William quit his job and went with them. They took turns carrying Archibald, nine, and little Robert, two and a half. Mary had remained at home while the father was away.

    Watching and waiting, she heard them approaching. With her little dog Snap, she ran through the woods to meet them, but was so overcome on seeing them, she burst into tears and ran back to the shanty without speaking. Poor little Mary! What heartaches, loneliness and hardship she had borne since she last saw her dear mother and sister and brothers. How they must have thanked their Heavenly Father that they were permitted to be together again in family reunion.

    Life in Canada was not easy. In the biography of Robert their hardships are told. Yet I picture Margaret grinding their flour for over a year in a two dollar pepper mill, with the help of the family at times or trying to cook meals when all they had to eat one winter was bitter or winded potatoes and what game they could kill.

    I imagine her anguish when Janet, twelve years old, became ill with typhus. Archibald wrote: "She complained for months of pains in her side. She grew worse, sank into unconsciousness and never rallied. The night before her passing, those attending her were pouring cold water from a teakettle onto her head when she said, 'Let me rest. By the middle of the night I will be at the top of the hill.' As she said, at midnight that night in October, 1824, her spirit took its flight.

    During all the time she was sick, we could get no flour or meal, but procured a little coarse shorts or fine bran and prepared it the best we could. When we tried to get her to eat some, she said, 'Is that for me? Such stuff!' But she had no other while she lived." What a trial for a mother to bear!

    For the next ten years, the family struggled along in Dalhousie. Margaret's eldest son William had married Ann Lackie in January, 1919, at the age of 26.

    The fall of 1835, Robert and Margaret decided to move to Warwick, 500 miles farther west to join their sons William and Archibald who had gone the year before to try their fortunes in a more favorable part of Canada. This location was thirty miles east of Port Sarnia and thirty five miles west of New London, near the lower end of Lake Huron. Archibald, now 21 years of age, had procured five hundred acres of timberland at soldier's rights for fifty cents per acre. He gave 100 acres to his brother William, 200 to his father, and kept 200 for himself.

    The two brothers had worked very hard the previous summer clearing the land of the heavy hardwood timber and raised enough corn for foodstuffs for the coming winter. The next two years were spent clearing the land and farming. Life was "one of pioneering. With settlements so far away, we had no stores to go to. The clothes which we wore came from the backs of the sheep in our own pastures. After being clipped, the wool was cleaned and carded by the women. The nearest carding machines were from 30 to 50 miles away. The carded wool was spun into yarn on the old spinning wheel and then woven into cloth on hand looms. The wives and mothers made this cloth into clothes for men, women and children in their own kitchens."

    The homes in that "locality were build of logs; the better ones hewn, the humbler ones of rough logs. Floors were made of split logs, flat side up. Glass windows were unknown. A little slide was thrown back admitting light when the weather would permit. Doors were of split and hewn logs."

    No mills were available, so the people ground their grain in little stones set in the hearth. This condition prompted their son Archibald, not much more than a boy, to undertake building a mill. This he accomplished and later built a saw mill and got along well, having custom for thirty miles around.

    And so life went on in Warwick. March 29, 1836, their daughter Mary married George Sweeten, a farmer. Several children were born to the couple, but all died except their daughter Margaret and son Robert. Then Christmas Eve, 1842, George died, leaving his wife Mary a widow with her two children, a great grief for the parents.

    Some time in the year 1843, a Latter-day Saint, Elder John Borrowman, preached the gospel to the Gardner family. Son William was the first to be converted, but soon the whole family received baptism, except father Robert. He was baptized after he reached Utah. Margaret his wife "believed the Gospel at once and wholeheartedly. She had belonged to the Methodist Church and had always taught her children faith in God and Jesus Christ and to search the Scriptures. They taught their children to read the Bible, and they devoted much time to it."

    William's daughter Jane wrote: "We could repeat all the books of the Bible, both the Old and New Testament, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and many passages of Scripture besides a good many hymns. When father went away, I was sent to Grandmother Gardner to be cared for. I did not go to school, there was none near where we lived. How I longed to read before I was able to! But I mastered the art while still quite young.

    "Grandfather Gardner had a bookcase full of books up in the garret. My brother used to bring them home. One after another was diligently studied. We became the best readers in all the country round."

    No long after contacting the new faith, Margaret became very ill. Archibald recorded: "Her life was despaired of. She insisted on being baptized. The neighbors said that if we put her in the water they would have us tried for murder as she would surely die.

    Nevertheless, well bundled up, and tucked into a sleigh, we drove her two miles to the place appointed. Here a hole was cut in the ice, and she was baptized in the presence of a crowd of doubters who had come to witness her demise. She was taken home. Her bed was prepared but she said, 'No, I do not need to go to bed. I am quite well.' And she was.

    "One man declared that if she did not die the night of her baptism he would become a Mormon next day, but next day she met him near the place where he had made the statement. He looked at her as if he had seen a ghost, nodded but did not speak. She was on her way, afoot, to her daughter's. He never joined the Church."

    It was three years after they joined the Church that the family decided to gather with the Saints. On the last day of March 1846, they left Warwick, their destination Nauvoo. It took a month to reach that city, but they found it deserted. The trip across the state of Iowa was slow and trying.

    William's children Janet and John both had the measles. Robert Jr's wife Janet gave birth to a baby boy during a terrible stormy night which brought water around the wagons up to the mens' boot tops. Next morning the mother was made as comfortable as possible, and the Canadian Company moved on. This was in Lee County in Iowa, May 22, 1846.

    By September they reached Winter Quarters where they spent the winter. The season was long and bleak and bitter. They suffered cold and hunger, and most of them were sick. Son William was worst of all. He came near dying. Because of the assistance given to wives of those who had gone with the Mormon Battalion, they did not get into their own houses until New Year's. It was a winter of much sickness.

    Margaret's son Archie was the only one of the family who was not confined to bed. Two of her granddaughters, William's daughter Janet and Robert's daughter Janet, both died and were buried in Winter Quarters about October 10, 1846. There was so much sickness at that time that the care of the living left no time for mourning for the dead. But when general health returned, they grieved for the loss of their dear ones and have never ceased to grieve for them.

    In the spring of 1847, the Gardner clan prepared to start for the mountains. One of the houses, a good log one, which had been lived in only for three months and had cost about a hundred dollars was traded for a gun valued at 10 dollars. Many other similar sacrifices had to be made. They left Winter Quarters the 21st of June in Bishop Hunter's company of one hundred wagons.

    About twenty miles west of Winter Quarters, son Robert's oldest little boy, five and a half years of age, was knocked under the wheel of a wagon. "Both nigh wheels ran over his bowels. He was tenderly cared for for 500 miles, through dust and wind, over rough roads or smooth, before death mercifully ended all. He was buried on the bank of the Platte River."

    On Friday October 1, 1847, the second company to reach the valley arrived. "Twenty four Gardners had left Canada in the spring of 1846. Three died and one was born during the journey to the West, making 22 who arrived in Great Salt Lake valley that October."

    They camped in their wagons the first winter at the Warm Springs. The morning of Oct 6, another granddaughter was added to the family. Archie's wife Margaret gave birth to a baby in the Old Fort. She had driven the horse team all the way across the plains, through rivers and deep canyons and over the Big Mountain. They said at the finish: "Notwithstanding all we had passed through, the hand of the Lord was over us, and we arrived safely at our destination."

    In the spring of 1848, the family moved and settled at Mill Creek, southeast of the Old Fort. Margaret's two sons Archibald and Robert erected a sawmill on that Creek. Later two other sawmills and two shingle mills were built by them with the help of others. Margaret must have been very proud of the achievements of her husband and sons and the good homes they built together.

    Among their neighbors who settled at various points on Mill Creek and Big Cottonwood Creeks were a number of their old Canadian friends. John Borrowman, the man who carried the Gospel to them in Canada also located there, as well as Mary Fielding Smith and Apostle Joseph F. Smith, and John Smith, Patriarch, and others.

    The year 1848 the bread stuff, mostly corn, had to be rationed and weighed to make it last until harvest. Margaret saw the darkest days when the crickets swarmed down from the mountains and devoured the crops. She saw the miracle of the seagulls which were sent by God to destroy the pests. Ensuing years saw pests of locusts and grasshoppers that made times hard, but never was there a season so serious as the summer of 1848 when the crickets came.

    Seven years later, on November 2l, 1855, Margaret was called upon to part with her beloved husband, Robert Gardner Sr. He died at Mill Creek, leaving her to live alone in her little log house on the hill. She was now 79 years of age.

    Two years later great grandmother attended the tenth anniversary celebration in Big Cottonwood on July 24, 1857. All the Gardners attended except two. This was an important occasion. Headed by President Brigham Young, a company of 2587 people were conveyed there in 464 carriages and wagons drawn by 228 horses and mules and 332 oxen and cows. It is a steep rugged canyon quite a few miles up. Entertainment consisted of musical numbers from six brass bands, singing, programs, athletic contests, and drills by six companies of militia. Dancing was punctuated by a salute from a brass howitzer. During that time word came that the U.S. government had troops on the way to exterminate the Mormons. That ended the celebration.

    Johnston's army came to Utah in 1858. The Gardner clan left all their possessions, joined the migration, and moved south to Spanish Fork. Margaret was among them. Later when the trouble with the government had been adjusted, the people returned to their former homes. Son Robert and family went back to Mill Creek, his mother with them. Margaret, now 81 years of age, made her home with her son's first wife Jane.

    Four years later on April 28, 1862, the faithful saint and devoted mother of William, Mary, Archibald, and Robert died at the age of 85 at Mill Creek and was buried beside her beloved husband in the Salt Lake Cemetery.

    Her daughter Mary, who had as a girl of fifteen left her native Scotland and accompanied her father into the rugged wilderness, fell a victim of the migration to Spanish Fork, and weary and worn, died in the same year, aged 51. She lies buried in the Upper Grave Yard, restored and rededicated by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers of Spanish Fork.

    Notes:

    Married:
    FAG info location: Falkirk Parish, Barony, Lanark, Scotland

    Children:
    1. 2. Archibald Gardner was born on 2 Sep 1814 in Kilsyth Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 8 Feb 1902 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

  3. 6.  David Park was born on 12 Jun 1809 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 18 Jun 1809 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland (son of James Park, I and Marrion Allen); died on 22 Jul 1884 in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States; was buried in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave Memorial ID: 15022787
    • _UID: 0428F0861F7F4C74BAE29A1A0734C7378914

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    Christened:
    PARK
    DAVID
    JAMES PARK/MARON ALLAN FR113 (FR113)
    M
    18/06/1809
    627/
    10 190
    Cambuslang

    FindaGrave Memorial ID:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15022787

    David married Ann Brooks about 1829 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Ann was born on 3 May 1811 in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 25 Feb 1889 in Mottsville, Douglas County, Nevada, United States; was buried in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Ann Brooks was born on 3 May 1811 in South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 25 Feb 1889 in Mottsville, Douglas County, Nevada, United States; was buried in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave Memorial ID: 15022823
    • _UID: 2F99D534F4954DBBB2C4C7DDF70FD3E43917

    Notes:

    FindaGrave Memorial ID:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15022823

    Children:
    1. Marion Allen Park was born on 26 Sep 1831 in Dalhousie Lake, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 2 Oct 1882 in Nephi, Juab County, Utah, United States; was buried in Vine Bluff Cemetery, Nephi, Juab County, Utah, United States.
    2. 3. Jane Park was born on 15 Apr 1834 in Ontario, Canada; died on 27 Jun 1916 in West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
    3. David Brooks Park was born on 24 Dec 1839 in Ontario, Canada; died in Jul 19078 in Douglas County, Nevada, United States; was buried in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
    4. Hugh Park was born in 1844 in Toronto (York), Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada; died on 24 Jan 1924 in Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States; was buried in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
    5. Martha Park was born on 2 Feb 1845 in Canada; died on 8 Sep 1920 in West Point, Calaveras County, California, United States; was buried in West Point Cemetery, West Point, Calaveras County, California, United States.
    6. Joseph Hyrum Park was born on 17 Dec 1849 in Missouri, United States; died on 24 Sep 1922 in Douglas County, Nevada, United States; was buried in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
    7. William Nephi Park was born on 3 Jan 1854; died on 29 Jun 1933; was buried in Summerville Cemetery, Summerville, Union County, Oregon, United States.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  James Park, I was born in 1770 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 17 Jul 1770 in Glasgow Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (son of John Park and Janet Imrie); died about 1856 in Poland, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Umpherston Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: Scotland; coallier
    • _UID: E82DEC1EE7694EE9B493990F064A7E0A6DA7
    • Immigration: 15 Sep 1820, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
    • Land & Property: 19 Nov 1820, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Concession 2 Lot 12W
    • Census: 1851, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
    • Occupation: 1851, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; carpenter

    Notes:

    Christened:
    PARK
    JAMES
    JOHN PARK/JANET IMRIE FR789 (FR789)
    M
    17/07/1770
    644 / 1
    150 / 205
    GLASGOW

    James married Marrion Allen on 8 Aug 1788 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Marrion (daughter of Hugh Allan and Mary Park) was born in 1769 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 2 Apr 1769 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 25 Mar 1838 in Ontario, Canada; was buried in Umpherston Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Marrion Allen was born in 1769 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 2 Apr 1769 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland (daughter of Hugh Allan and Mary Park); died on 25 Mar 1838 in Ontario, Canada; was buried in Umpherston Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FindaGrave Memorial ID: 64295106
    • Name: Marion Allan
    • Name: Maron Allen
    • _UID: 3C128C03B955413F973811C10C184F58D78A

    Notes:

    Christened:
    ALLAN
    MARRION
    HUGH ALLAN/
    U
    02/04/1769
    627/
    10 133
    Cambuslang

    FindaGrave Memorial ID:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64295106

    Died:
    Plympton Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada

    Marion's parents may have been Hugh Allen and Mary Park. She married James Park on Aug. 8, 1788 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland. James was born Feb. 9, 1766 and worked as a coallier in Scotland; he was the son of James Park and Martha Connell who were married July 17, 1768. James is thought to have died in Plympton Twp., Lambton Co., Ontario.

    UPDATED INFO - October 2013 - Marion is probably not buried at Umpherston Cemetery. She probably relocated to Plympton Twp., Lambton Co., and is buried there, location unknown. This information is based on L. Hanson's work in finding Hugh Park's will.

    Marion and James had 13 children. All of their children, born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland, came to Canada, except for their son Andrew, who stayed in Scotland. Marion and James lived in the West Cotes area of Cambuslang.

    The children of James and Marion were:

    James Jr. b. Jun. 8, 1789; m. Euphemia Sutherland; d. probably in Plympton Twp., Lambton Co, Ontario. Euphemia may have been the daughter of William Sutherland and Katherine McPherson. Their son Allen's line appears to have moved down to Michigan.

    Hugh b. Sep. 29, 1790; m. Janet Hay on Aug. 22, 1812 at Cambuslang, Lanarkshire Co., Scotland; d. Oct. 9, 1841 Plympton Twp., Lambton Co, Ontario (Janet is findagrave #114136155).

    Mary b. Oct. 15, 1792; m. William Arbuckle/Arbucle. It is thought that they came to Canada later than most of the family. The couple did not have any children. Eventually they returned to Scotland. Research by Michael Umperson provides the death registration for Mary and William.

    Statutary Death 627/00 0032 Cambusland, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

    Mary Arbuckle. Married to William Arbuckle pauper and formerly a coal miner. Died March Seventeenth 1875 9 hrs. o m. AM. West Cotes, Cambuslang. Female. Age 82 5/12 years. Father-James Park coal miner deceased. Mother-Marion Park, M.S. (maiden surname) Allan, deceased. Cause of death-old age and general frailty as certified by Munge B. Turnbull M.D. Informant-Archibald Glen neighbour (his mark). John Arbuckle, Registrar, Witness. Registered March 17 at Cambuslang. John Arbuckle, Registrar.

    Statutory Deaths 627/00 0069 Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

    William Arbuckle. Pauper. Formerly a cotton weaver, widower. 1st marriage to Jane Muir, 2nd marriage to Mary Park. Died June Fifteenth, 1875. Died 5 hrs. 50 m. PM. West Cotes, Cambuslang. Male, age about 79 yrs. Father-Andrew Arbuckle coal miner deceased. Mother-Jane Arbuckle M.S. (maiden surname) Forrest, deceased. Cause of death-chronic bronchitis and general frailty, years. As certified by M.B. Turnbull, M.D. Informant-James Coats half brother present (his mark). John Arbuckle Registrar, Witness. Registered June 16th at Cambuslang. John Arbuckle, Registrar.

    Marion Allen b. Jul. 17, 1794; m. William Umpherston about 1818; d. Jun. 20, 1871/73 and is buried at Umpherston Pioneer Cemetery, Dalhousie Twp., Lanark County, Ontario.

    Andrew b. Jul. 19, 1796; m. Jane/Jean Pollock on Mar. 7, 1820. His second wife was Margaret Gould married May 3, 1849. Andrew died Aug. 21, 1873 in Cambuslang, Scotland.

    Joseph b. Apr. 16, 1798; m. Agnes Sarah Duncan Jan. 25, 1825 in Dalhousie Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario. Joseph died Apr. 17, 1868.

    Martha b. Dec. 31, 1799; m. William Hood, a school teacher in the Dalhousie Twp. area; d. Jan. 21, 1880 and buried at St. Andrew's Cemetery, Watson's Corner, Dalhousie Twp., Lanark County, Ontario.

    John b. May 11, 1802; m. Louisa Smith on Mar. 24, 1840//41 in Plympton Twp., Lambton Co., Ontario; d. Mar. 30, 1869 Provo, UT. (See FAG #12162495)

    Ellen "Nellie" b. Feb. 6, 1804; m. Andrew Park (no relation between the two have been found) abt. 1824; d. in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

    William b. Oct. 26, 1805; m. Jean/Jane Duncan Sep. 25, 1827/28 Dalhousie Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario; His second wife was Janet Findlay m. Apr. 7, 1850/51 in Utah; His third wife was Mary S. Gordon m. Jun. 11, 1854 in Utah; William died Mar. 11, 1890 at Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah.

    Margaret b. Jul. 10, 1807; m. James William Wood Brown in 1827 Dalhousie Twp., Lanark Co., d. Apr. 14, 1892 and is buried at Avon Bank Cemetery, Perth County, Ontario.

    David b. Jun. 12, 1809; m. Ann Brooks abt. 1829 Dalhousie Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario; d. Jul. 22, 1884 and is buried at Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas Co., Nevada (See FAG #15022787)

    Jean, born Feb. 1/10, 1814; m. David Williamson of Watford, Warwick Twp., Lambton County, Ontario on May 5, 1838 (#148861036?). Nothing more is officially known about Jean, but some report she died in 1839 while giving birth to their first child. On May 25, 1840 David married Mary Lamb in Watford.

    Notes:

    Married:
    Marion and James had 13 children. All of their children, born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland, came to Canada, except for their son Andrew, who stayed in Scotland. Marion and James lived in the West Cotes area of Cambuslang.

    Children:
    1. James Park, II was born in 1789 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 8 Jun 1789 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 8 Aug 1874 in Plympton Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.
    2. Hugh Park was born in Sep 1790 in West Cotes, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 29 Sep 1790 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 9 Oct 1841 in Plympton Twp, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Dunlop Cemetery, Lambton, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.
    3. Mary Park was born in 1792 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 15 Oct 1792 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
    4. Marion Allen Park was born on 17 Jul 1794 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 20 Jun 1871 in Ontario, Canada; was buried in Umpherston Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    5. Andrew Park was born in 1796 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 19 Jul 1796 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 21 Aug 1873 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was buried in Cambuslang Churchyard, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
    6. Joseph "Josie" Park was born in 1798 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 Apr 1798 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 17 Apr 1868 in McDonald Corners, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Park Lake, Dalhousie Lake, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    7. Martha Park was born in 1799 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 31 Jan 1799 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 21 Jan 1880 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Saint Andrew's Cemetery, Watson's Corner, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    8. John Park was born on 11 May 1802 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 13 May 1802 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 30 Mar 1869 in Provo, Utah County, Utah, United States; was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah County, Utah, United States.
    9. Helen "Nellie" Park was born on 6 Feb 1804 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 12 Feb 1804 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 11 Feb 1893 in Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
    10. William Park was born on 26 Oct 1805 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 3 Nov 1805 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 11 Mar 1890 in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
    11. Margaret Park was born on 10 Jul 1807 in West Cotes, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 19 Jul 1807 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 14 Apr 1892 in Perth County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Avonbank Presbyterian Cemetery, Avonbank, Perth County, Ontario, Canada.
    12. 6. David Park was born on 12 Jun 1809 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 18 Jun 1809 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 22 Jul 1884 in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States; was buried in Mottsville Cemetery, Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
    13. Jean Park was born on 1 Feb 1814 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 10 Feb 1814 in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; died about 1839.




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