Individual Details

The estimated marriage date of 1705 is troublesome, as the couple would have been approaching middle age yet are accredited with at least eight children. The family was found in a WorldConnect database "Siemon Roots".
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=katehep&id=I00056

Note: others credit with Thomas as being the youngest child, but born 1670. In other words all the birth years are guesstimates.

In 1714 Thomas Garner patented 1,000 acres and later 1,400 acres on Tinpot Run and Licking Run Creeks, branches of the Occoquon River. Said granted by Lady Fairfax (need to check LofVA land grants) He obtained several thousand more acres of land during the next 10 to 15 years.

The following tracts are represented in his will, but doesn't add up to the statement of several thousand more acres.
400 acres on Tinpot Run, Rappahannock
something is to be divided between sons Thomas & John but seems to be missing
400 acres lying below the above mentioned tract
400 acres at the corner of James Withers on Licking Run, line of Thomas Welch
400 acres on Licking Run west to Tinpot Run
400 acres running to the Rapphannock River


Will: To my eldest son John 400 acres of land lying on Tinpot Run in Rappahannock where my plantation is.....between my son Thomas and my son John and his heirs, wanting heirs to son Parish if he has no heirs to son Charles, if he has no heirs to son, James. To son John, a negro maned Willis, 3 cows, 3 young cattle, a feather bed, a bolster, rug, 2 blankets, 6 hogs of 2 years, also 6 hogs of 3 years, one iron pot, but not to have possession until he becomes of age of twenty one, without his mother's consent. To my son Thomas 400 acres lying below my son John's.. a negro named George, 3 cows, 3 calves, 3 barrows of 3 years, 3 brooding sows, an iron pot, one feather bed, one bolster, a rug, 2 blankets, when 21 years of age. To my son Vincent a tract of about 400 acres of land beginning at the corner of Mr. James Withers, at Licking Run, running west to Thomas Welch, a negro named Tony, a feather bed, a bolster, a rug, 2 blankets, 3 cows and calves, 3 young cattle, 3 barrows of 3 years, 3 brooding sows and one iron pot. To my son Parish 400 acres lying on Licking Run running west to Tinpot Run in Rappahannock, joining the land of my son John, a negro named Peter, 3 cow, 3 calves, 3 young cattle, 3 barrows, 3 sows and one iron pot. To son Charles 400 acres of land on Licking Run over the Rappahannock River west to my son John's a negro named Frank...(also a stock of household things like his brothers). To my son James 400 acres of land running to the Rappahannock River and joining my son John's, a negro named Giles...(other things like his brothers). To my daughter Susanna Garner 2 cows, 3 calves, a negro named Cate (etc.) To my loving wife Mary all the remaining part of my estate moveable and unmovable, the dwelling plantation she now lives on for her life then to my son James, a negro girl named Judie, later she and her increase to my boys. Signed Thomas Garner

Executors of the will were wife, Mary, and son, John Garner. Witnesses were James Jewers, Thomas Seddon and John Harding.

There are records of an indenture in Stafford Co., VA, dated Nov. 7, 1726, which states: "Mary Garner, widow of Thomas Garner transferred to her daughter Susanna and her husband, Thomas Seddon, the younger, thrice three hundred and seventy eight acres of land on Potomack Run..being the land given devised and bequeathed by the said Thomas Garner deceased unto the said Mary Garner his wife as may appear by the last will and testament of the said Thomas Garner one hundred and fifty acres of land bought by Charles Bushnell, of Adam Wafendall and descending from the said Charles Bushnell to his daughter the said Mary Garner..... in consideration for which Thomas and Susanna Seddon were to pay the yearly rent of one Pepper Corn at the feast of Michael to arch angel only if the same be demanded. Witnesses were: Charles H. Harrison, Henry Conyers and Thomas Weeden.

Story from Ancestry.com Family Tree:
John Garner was seventeen when he moved into Northumberland County, VA in 1650, two years after the county was established. The settlement consisted of a few plantations, sometimes a great distance apart. Between plantations there were no roads cleared and forest riders faced the strong possibility of being ambushed by Indians, so men established their plantations along the numerous waterways. John Garner settled near the mouth of the Coan River where he acquired 500 acres of land.
In 1660, he married Susanna Keene, who was born while her parents were on Kent Island.
John was a farmer, a surveyor, a builder, an attorney for neighbors and was the Constable for the Cherry Point Neck area.
At his death, in 1702, he left heirs appoximately 1500 acres of land, a sloop called the "Outcry" and "4000 pounds of good tobacco in cask", along with his house, his personal possessions and livestock.
Thomas Garner, the youngest child of John and Susanna, was born about 1670. He moved westward, but still lived within the Northern Neck area. By 1715, he owned approximately 200 acres of land in the Tinpot and Licking Runs area. Thomas was the original grantee of land received from Lady Fairfax, sole proprietor of the Northern Neck. He married Mary Bushnell and they had seven children.
Their son, James Garner, was born in Stafford County, VA, in 1726, shortly before his father's death. His father left him land to be held in trust until James "came of age" and this is where James lived when he married Elizabeth Freeman about 1748. He was appointed Constable of Prince William County and was called "Captain Garner". It was said that he was "six feet, six inches tall and a man of powerful physique." In 1754, James moved his family from Virginia to
Guilford Count, NC, near Garner's Meeting House.
I am descended from one of their thirteen children, their son John Fouche Garner, who was born December 25th, 1749, in Prince William County, VA, in that part which later became Fauquier County.
John Fouche Garner acquired approximately 450 acres in the extreme southeastern corner of Randolph County, NC. He married Nancy Whittle in 1770 in Orange County, NC, and they had eight children. In addition to farming, he served as a constable and, in the minute books of Randolph County, he is frequently mentioned as being a "justice of the court".
He was 32 years old and already the father of five children, when he enlisted on September 1, 1782, to serve in the militia during the Revolutionary War. He served three months during which he "fought in skirmishes with Tories and British." He re-enlisted immediately following his discharge on December 1, 1782, and re-enlisted again on March 3, 1783, for another three months. John moved to Tennessee in 1795 and 1796 he acquired a large farm (approximately 800 acres) near Maryville, Blount County, TN, where he lived until his death in 1839.
He was reported to have been a man of unquestioned character and common sense and , in addition to serving as a Justice of the Peace, was also one of the early lawyers of Blount County.
His son, James Garner, born in 1772, had married Mary Moon, a Quaker, in 1794, before both of their families had moved to Tennessee. Mary's family was strongly opposed to slavery and after James and Mary settled across the road from his father, it it told that Mary could barely tolerate living so near John Fouche Garner for he was a slave owner as his father and his grandfather had
been. So, in 1811, James and Mary moved with their nine children to Clinton County, OH, where Mary's parents and siblings had settled three years previously, in 1808. One of their grandchildren later wrote of this journey:
"When grandfather left Tennessee he had a wagon, 8 horses and 11 head of cattle,
but while coming through Kentucky, his cattle were all stolen and after he
arrived in this county his horses all died of milk fever. He then traded his
wagon for a horse and, amid all these discouraging circimstances, moved down the
East Fork and bought a farm of 150 acres. He returned to Tennessee on foot,
disposed of some interests left behind and collected some debts in all amounting
to over $400 in silver which he carried on his back in a kanpsack. On his way
back home he had several narrow escapes from robbers, but his giant proportions
and immense strength, being 6'4" in height and weighing about 250 lbs, and his
fleetings of foot brought him safely back".
James and Mary had four more children born in Ohio, one of whom was my Gr-Gr-grandfather, Ira Garner, who was born January 13th, 1816.
In 1838, Ira Garner married Margaret Lightfoot, daughter of Jeptha Lightfoot and Asenath Tuttle Lightfoot. Jeptha Lightfoot, a Quaker, was born in Pikeland Twp., Chester Co., PA, in 1754. Ira and Margaret were united with the Friends Church, were married for over 50 years and had twelve children. Ira lived to be 73 years old and Margaret was almost 82 when she died in 1902.
Their son and my Gr-grandfather, Joseph Tuttle Garner, was born in 1842 in Westboro, OH. When he was 19, he enlisted in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during "The War of the Rebellion". His regiment was "obliged to surrender to overwhelming numbers" at Harper's Ferry, MD. The men were paroled and mustered out, but Joseph enlisted again in 1864 and fought during the battle at Franklin, TN. He received a head wound and eventually eventually lost sight in his right eye. In 1870 he married Sarah Jane Murrell, a descendent of another early colonist, Zachariah Connell, the founder of Connellsville, PA.
My grandfather, Edward Murrell Garner, was the third of nine children born to Joseph and Sarah. He spoke often of "Old Fushee" and of James' trek from Tennessee to Ohio and of Joseph's attempt to locate a Confederate soldier he had shot, hoping that he had only wounded "the poor fellow". Grandpa inherited the Garner stature, being 6'4" tall, but more importantly he inherited the strength to face adversity and the Quaker gentleness which allowed him to see only the
goodness in people and the ability to forgive others' shortcomings. My cousins and I are referring to those qualities when we use the phrase, "That's the Garner in you".
So, although I was tempted to inform the author of "Along Other Rivers" of my displeasure with her assessment of my ancestors, I called upon "the Garner in me" and didn't.
by Juanita Smith Wagner
Sources:
"Along Other Rivers" by Ann Garner Note: this may be a private manuscript - no such book found
"Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck, Va" by Ruth Ritchie and Sadie Rucker Wood

Birth	Ca 1668	Northumberland County, Virginia
Marriage	1705	Mary Bushnell
Death	13 Jul 1726	Stafford County, Virginia

Spouse	Mary Bushnell (1673 - 1738)
Child	Susanna Garner (1706 - )
Child	John Garner (1708 - 1762)
Child	Thomas Garner (1710 - )
Child	Vincent Garner (1712 - 1796)
Child	James Garner (1717 - 1800)
Child	Parish Garner (1722 - 1796)
Child	Charles Garner (1724 - 1798)

Father	John Garner (1633 - 1702)
Mother	Susannah Keene (1641 - 1715)
Sibling	John Garner (1662 - 1712)
Sibling	Henry Garner (1664 - 1745)
Sibling	Vincent Garner (1666 - 1710)
Sibling	Parish Garner (1673 - 1719)
Sibling	Martha Garner (1676 - 1729)
Sibling	Mary Garner (1677 - 1726)
Sibling	Susan Garner (1679 - 1716)
Sibling	Benjamin Garner (1681 - 1718)
Sibling	James Garner (1682 - 1726)