William Wilkin Gardner, Mary Gardner, and Sarah Catherine Randall

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William Wilkin Gardner4 (Mary3, John2, John1), son of Mary Elizabeth Berry and William Charles Gardner, was born April 08, 1829 in Marion Co Mississippi, and died July 12, 1895 in Simpson Co Mississippi

He married  1.)  Mary Ann Gardner, in 1869, Simpson Co Mississippi.  His first cousin, the daughter of German Howard Gardner & Emily 'Milly' Walker, she was born 1845 in Simpson Co Mississippi, and died March 14, 1888 in Simpson Co Mississippi. 

He married 2.)  Sarah Catherine Randall, daughter of Jack Randall.  She was born February 1862 in Mississippi

1870 Simpson Co Mississippi  Beat 3 Westville
Enumerated June  1870 by G.W. Farlow
page 25  #187/188  2 doors from Dennis P. Berry
Farmer  $800/300        

  Census Image

William Gardner 41 MS
Mary A. Gardner 25 MS
Marion Gardner
b Sept 1869		 9 mo MS
Stephen Gardner 74 MS

Ann McNair submits the following:
Published in the Westville News, Westville, Simpson Co Mississippi on May 03, 1900:
"Reminiscences of Simpson County - Historical Events That Happened Years Ago"
written by the late Hon. T.L. Mendenhall in 1889

Stephen Gardner moved from Marion county about 1828, and settled on the head of this prong of Silver creek, above where E.M. Brooks now lives, where he died about 25 years ago, leaving no children. He willed his property to his nephew, W. W. Gardner.

So .... apparently Stephen is Wm.'s uncle, brother of his father.
Wilkin served first in the Westville Guards of the 16th Mississippi Regiment, organized September 18, 1860.   The Westville Guards were the only Simpson County soldiers who fought at Gettysburg.  Since Wilkin was then in Co H, 27th Regt from Feb-June 1862,  it is  unlikely he  fought at  Gettysburg, however.    He was then  in  Co H,  6th  MS  Regiment, CSA, Private; discharged at Vicksburg in 1865.  The changes of regiments probably were  because he had a leg broken twice during war and  was  sent  home to  recuperate  each time. 

This information about the leg was found by Sally Patterson while doing research in the Simpson Co Courthouse

1880 Simpson Co Mississippi, Beat 1 page 202C
From Family Search Organization
Welkin Gardner 51 Farmer MS SC GA
Mary A. Gardner 35 Keeping house MS MS MS
Marion Gardner 10 At school MS MS MS
William L. Gardner 7 At home MS MS MS
Howard Gardner 5 At home MS MS MS
Luther Gardner 2 At home MS MS MS


Children of William Gardner and Mary Gardner are:

  145 i.
Marion Gardner5  born September 29, 1870 in Simpson Co Mississippi, and died April 18, 1890 in Simpson Co Mississippi 
  146 ii.
William L. Gardner  born c1873 in Simpson Co Mississippi
  147 iii.  
Howard Walker Gardner 
  148 iv. Luther Gardner 
  149 v.
Lott Gardner 
  150 vi
Lela Gardner / twin of Letha
  151 vii. Letha Gardner / twin of Lela
+152 viii.
Sallie Francis Gardner born May 17, 1885 in Simpson Co Mississippi, and died August 10, 1933 in Simpson Co Mississippi, burial in Cross Roads, Simpson Co Mississippi

Children of William Gardner and Sarah Randall are: 

  153 x. Mary Edith Gardner5 
  154 xi. John Berry Gardner 
  155 xii. Leo D. Gardner 
Levi Jefferson Fortenberry and Matilda Gardner