History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

162 History of Swansea
married Thomas Gray and (second) Clark Chase; Jeremiah, born Nov. 8;
1794, died Oct. 5, 1862, married April 26, 1818, Susan Pierce, daughter of
Obadiah and Susan (Luther) Pierce.
(V) Capt. Henry Gardner, born Jan. 14, 1773, died July 15, 1851.
Jan. 8, 1800, he married Parthenia Gardner, born Mar. 28, 1781, died Dec.
30, 1844, daughter of William and Zerviah (McKoon) Gardner. In the old
Bible record her name is spelled Parthany. Children: Henry, born June
20, 1802, died Dec. 14, 1872; Jonathan, born Oct. 4, 1805, died Jan. 8,
1862; William R., bom Dec. 28, 1807, died Dec. 28, 1809; WiUiam Richmond,
born Feb. 26, 1810, died April 16, 1886; Charles, born April 10, 1812,
died Sept. 15, 1843; Seraphine, born Aug. 18, 1815, died May 15, 1843;
CaroUne, bom March 21, 1818, died Sept. 15, 1843; Parthenia Augusta,
bora April 18, 1820, died March 26, 1909 (she married John Mason)
Francis B., born Feb. 27, 1822, died Nov. 26, 1880; Sophia Mason, bom
March 25, 1826, died Feb. 4, 1903 (she married the Rev. Edward Cowley).
Capt. Henry Gardner was a seafaring man, and was engaged in the West
India trade. He made his home on Gardner's Neck, now known generally
as South Swansea.
(VI) Henry Gardner, son of Capt. Henry, born June 20, 1802, died
in Dec. 1872. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Benj. and Ann Haile
Bosworth, of Swansea, and their children were born as follows: Leander
Everett, April 8, 1838; Evelyn F., Feb. 26, 1840 (deceased); Seraphine or
Josephine B., July 15, 1841 (died in infancy); George H., March 14, 1843
(married Elizabeth H. Smith and resides at the Sailor's home Staten Island,
N. Y.); Sylvester Child, July 2, 1845, (married Mary A. Brightman and
resides in South Swansea) ; William Francis, May 2, 1847, (married Esther
M, Cook, and deceased Jan. 17, 1909); (Mrs. Gardner died in 1916);
Anna B., July 24, 1849; Newton Halsey, July 26, 1850, (married Nancy
Maple, and resides in Swansea); Caroline, March 27, 1852, (married
Harriet Ella, July 27, 1853
Edward M. Thurston, and both are deceased) ;
(deceased); Henry, April 22, 1855, (married Caroline H. Hodges, and
lives in Newton, Kans.); Benjamin B., March 25, 1858 (married Katherine
F. Gardner, who died April 16, 1914); Dana L., Feb. 10, 1860, (married
Kate Macomber and deceased, June 23, 1909).
(VII) Leander Everett Gardner, born April 8, 1838, son of Henry
and EHzabeth (Bosworth) Gardner, married Feb. 12, 1865, Mary Anna
Cole, daughter of William B. and Hannah (Wheaton) Cole. She was born
Oct. 13, 1844, and died June 10, 1901. Children: Daniel, born March 23,
1868, died March 24, 1868; Willard Child, born Nov. 11, 1869, married Oct.
26, 1892, Caroline Elizabeth Barney, bora Jan. 27, 1872, and they had two
children, Madora (born March 25, 1895) and Marcia Elizabeth (born July
3, 1898, died Sept. 11, 1913) ; Arthur Leonard, born May 6, 1875, died Sept.
13, 1875; Clarence Irving, born Feb. 27, 1877, died Sept. 4, 1877;
Roswell C, Bora Feb. 25, 1877, died Sept. 26, 1877.
Leander E. Gardner was born on the old homestead at G£U"dner's Neck,
South Swansea, and there attended school. In August, 1857, he went to
Lee Center, III., where he attended school until March, 1859, when he
returned home. Feb. 10, 1860, he sailed for California, going via Panama.
For two years he was on a stock ranch there and after a severe attack of
pleura pneumonia returned to his home in Swansea, remaining on the home
farm thereafter until he married. Then for two years he lived on a farm at
Gardner's Neck, rented the home farm for five years, and then bought a
place at Woodville. For seven years he was foreman on Frank S. Stevens
*' Hillside Farm" in Swansea. In 1893 he purchased a farm near
Following an attack of heart failure in 1897, he retired from active
business, and died August 27, 1914.
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