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Note: From "Record of First Settlers on Gardner's Neck, in March 1623"
James and Melinda (Hammond) Gardner were living in Hornby, Stenben Co., N.Y. when their daughter Malvina Adeline was born Nov. 27 1829. The family later moved to Wisconsin, where she met and married the Rev. Milton Bourne, Aug. 12th, 1850, his first wife having died and left five children. During the next 13 years, she cared for these children and assisted her husband in his work. Her first child, Lucy Antoinette, was born and died in 1853. The twins Henry Asbury and Wilbur Sherman were born in 1854. Her second daughter, Fanny Louella, was born in 1860. After a very severe illness her husband retired from active work in the ministry and bought a farm near Macomb, Illinois. This was in 1863.
On March 4, 1864 she had her second pair of twins, Alice Lonna and Fred Ellsworth, and in May 1865 her husband died. The two older children, Olivia and Milton were now married, so she was left at the age of 35 with 3 of the first wife's children and her own five. In due time, Josie, Charles and Warren were married, also her son Wilbur and in 1882 they sold the farm and she, with Fanny, Henry, Alice and Fred moved to Beatrice, Nebraska, arriving there on March 4th (1882), Alice and Fred's birthday. She died in Beatrice March 14, 1907.
1860 US Census -- Roscoe, Winnebago, Illinois.
Milton Bourne 50, methodist preacher, owning property valued 2800
Malvina Bourne 23
Milton E. Bourne 17
Josephine Bourne 15
Charles Bourne 13
Warren Bourne 11
Wilbur Bourne 6
Henry Bourne 6
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