Individual Details

Listed as Merchant/Landowner in 1900 census. Sometime between 1900 an d 1907, the family relocated to Cov ington, OK. Dad, D. B. Gardner, a lways told the story tha t W. C. had over $10,000 in the Covington Ban k, and the ban k president embezzled the money and fled. The money w as n ever recovered according to dad. Thelma and dad were bot h born w hile the family lived in Covington. When Jane and I lived in Garfiel d County (1973-1979), I vis ited with an elderly lady at a Covington s ervice station wh o recalled the Gardner farm as being north and wes t of Covi ngton.

Birth	Jul 24, 1856	Delaware, Delaware, OH, USA
Marriage	May 13, 1877	Billings, Christian, Polk, MO, USA - Ada Alice Owen
Marriage	May 13, 1877	Ada Alice Owen
Death	Dec 31, 1926	Billings, Christian, Polk, MO, USA
Burial		Billings, Christian, Polk, MO, USA

Spouse	Ada Alice Owen (1858 - 1932)
Child	Infant Gardner (1879 - 1879)
Child	Rose Ella Gardner (1880 - 1955)
Child	Julia Pearl Gardner (1883 - 1903)
Child	Ivey Messenger Gardner (1885 - 1969)
Child	Elmyra Gardner (1888 - )
Child	Lura Gardner (1892 - 1894)
Child	Clement Owen Gardner (1894 - 1965)
Child	Bessie Loraine Gardner (1896 - 1915)
Child	William Lawrence Gardner (1899 - 1962)

Father	Aaron Bolivar Gardner (1828 - 1906)
Mother	Elmyra Joy Messenger (1829 - 1873)
Sibling	John Moses Gardner (1851 - )
Sibling	George H. Gardner (1852 - )
Sibling	Charles Lester Gardner (1858 - 1934)
Sibling	Frances E. Gardner (1866 - )
Sibling	Nathan Dudley Gardner (1873 - )