Name: n10uhc1 -- Gardner Ancestors of Boone Co, MO

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  1. Henry Thomas Gardner: Birth: 24 AUG 1883 in Maroa, Macon Co, IL. Death: 1 OCT 1955 in Lee Hospital-Fayette, MO

  2. Pauline Elizabeth Gardner: Birth: 13 DEC 1885 in Maroa, Macon Co, IL. Death: 12 SEP 1990 in Columbia, Boone Co. MO

  3. John Wilbert Gardner: Birth: 2 OCT 1887 in Maroa, Macon Co, IL. Death: 25 APR 1937 in Woodlandville, Missouri

  4. Carl Joseph Gardner: Birth: 15 SEP 1889 in Maroa, Macon Co, IL. Death: 5 FEB 1993 in Columbia, Boone Co. MO

  5. Sophia Sarah Gardner: Birth: 23 SEP 1891. Death: 25 FEB 1991

  6. Floy Lucy Gardner: Birth: 19 JAN 1894 in Oreana, IL. Death: 27 NOV 1998 in Columbia, Boone Co. MO

  7. William Harold Gardner: Birth: 29 OCT 1897 in Oreana, IL. Death: 14 DEC 1988 in Boone Co. MO

  8. Lora Kathryn Gardner: Birth: 11 OCT 1899 in Whitmore Township, IL.. Death: 3 AUG 1994 in Columbia, Boone Co. MO

  9. Harry Darling Gardner: Birth: 16 JUN 1902. Death: 00 OCT 1983

  10. Theodore Berkler Gardner: Birth: 19 DEC 1904. Death: 00 JUL 1984


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a. Note:   d the famous "Model Farm of Missouri."
 T.W. or "Will" as he was known, had purchased the Thralls Prairie farm from a Mr. Heidy, paying $45 an acre for the famous site. It had been named the premium farm of the state in 1873 by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association, after Rocheport merchant and banker John Woods Harris had devoted some twenty years and a sizeable fortune to make a country showplace.
 The rich farmland was abundant with trees and berries planted by prior residents. Spacious vegetable gardens provided for the large Gardner family. The farm crops provided food for themselves and their livestock, and the excess, sold for a profit, would allow them to purchase things they could not raise or make. The crops included 100 to 125 acres of corn, 80 acres of wheat and 40 acres of oats
 Will's wife Elizabeth died at the home in 1922 of heart disease. When John Wilbert lost his nearby farm in 1929 due to depressed farm prices, his family moved from their house to Will's farm and the Model farm was divided amoung Will's sons. John died of pneumonia in 1937. The house burned at Christmas of 1939.
Note:   Born in Delphi IN, Thomas Wilbert Gardner grew up in IL near Maroa, where he met and married Elizabeth Berkler at the Methodist Church they attended. They farmed near Oreana before moving their family to Boone County MO where they purchase

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