Worked early in Foundry. Played fiddle for dances. For years had blacksmith
shop in Plevna, Reno, Kansas. Loved flowers. Buried Memorial Park Cem.,
Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas
Never married, She worked in the Plevna Post office with her mother who was Postmistress for many years. I believe that Dorothy became Postmistress after her mother died. Lucille or Sis, had adoped a baby girl while she was married to Bernard Mc Cabe. After their divorce, and the death of the mother Dorothy, and Sis lived in the old home place. There was an accident and Dorothy lost one of her arms. When Dorothy and Sis retired they moved to Wichita Kansas.
Buried Memorial Park Cem., Hutchinson, Reno Co., Kansas
454. Hubert J GARDNER
Vetran WW2
Married Glenda Rapp 1 Child - Divorced
Gifted singer
Orrel Sylvester Gardner married Vera May Buzzard Feb. 1921
Sacramento, Sacramento, CaliforniaOrrel Syslvester Garrdner married Leah Blanche Buzzard 8 Oct 1928
Des Moines, Polk, Iowa.Register of Deeds - Reno county, Kansas many years.
World War 1 Veteran -When the Armistice was signed he was waiting at the roadside for transportation to pick him up for embarkation.
Killed in Auto Accident
Newspaper clipping - not dated
Dies suddenly
End Came Last evening to
Mrs. O, S. Gardner.
Mrs. Vera May Gardner, 228 Ave F east, wife of Orral S. Gardner , died at 5:45 last evening at a local hospital. She was 22 years of age and was born at Des Moines Iia. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Merna, one year of age, and also by her father, who resides in San Francisco. She had been ill for some time but was taken to the hospital last Tuesday, Funeral announcements will be made later.Memorial record in Memory of Vera May Gardner born Des Moines, Iowa
Passed away at Hutchinson Kansas November 12, 1923
age 22 years 0 months and 30 days
Service by Rev. W. B. Stevens officiating clergyman on November 15, 1923
Song selection: Under his Wing ,There'll be no Dark Valley,
Saved by grace.
Rendered by M. E. Innman, Florence Myers, Dorothy Hinman and J. K. Huffman
Pall Bearers Ivan Wray, Vernie S. Shultz, Charles Hamilton , Carl Kerrick, Ben Buck , Thomas Hawkins,
Interment at Plevna Cemetery, Plevna, Reno co., KansasFloral offerings
Dr. & Mrs. Horton , Cora & Margaret Feese, Plevna A. H. T. A., Mrs. Bell Wray, Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Wray,
Mr. & Mrs. R. Parker, Rebekah Friends, Mrs. & Mrs. A. B. Shultz, Mrs. & Mrs. Chas. Hamilton, Plevna M. E. Church, Mrs. Chas. Lindahl , employees of Barton Salt Co., Mrs. Buck, Miss Buck, Mrs. M. R. Gardner, Mrs. E. J. Fulton
Mr. & Mrs. Chas. Fulton, Mr & Mrs. O. D. Gardner and family, Mr and Mrs. C. W. Mason and family, Mrs. & Mrs. Ira Mason and Family, Mrs. and Mrs. H. K. Mount and family, Father and Mother Gardner, Mr. & Mrs. A. M. Cline, Mr & Mrs. H. S. Gardner, Mr & Mrs. L. F. Gardner, Mr. Harold Gardner, Miss Grace Gardner, Myrna Marie Gardner, Sunflower Prooduce Co.,
As I was growning up I understood my step-mothers name to be Leah Blanche (Buzzard) Gardner. I was surprised to find that on the Remembrance card given out at the funeral her name appeared as Leah Blanche Gardner.
279. Eva Grace GARDNER
Grace was registered nurse. Dean worked for Sante Fe Railway.
They moved to Kinsley, , Kansas. Dean died in Kinsley,
Grace worked in hospital near Manhatten, Riley, Kansas.Delores Ann is a nurse also. married and has two children
Husbands name Gerald Hargadine. Lonnie Dean lives in Broomfield Colorado (1999)
280. Nina Marie GARDNER
Nina m. 1. Weaver there were three children - Ruth, Marie,and Margaret Jane I think Margaret Jane married Kenneth Love but am not sure. The first marriage ended and Nina married Walter Woodall. They had one son but am not sure of his name. Nina had a high complaining voice and I remember her as always sick and "ailing" yet she and Walter both lived to be very old. Walter is buried in Hutchinson.
287. Lewis Alvin WEIR
Laura's list says d. 12 Oct 1964 Harold's list says d. oct 12 1984
Source e-mail from Bob Weir \to Edward Osborn 12 Jun 2006 "mom passed away Feb. 5th 2003. Fred and I were able to be with her to the very end and she went to meet our Lord very peacefully. Mom was never really happy in a nursing home so when she realized she could no longer spend holidays with her kids and grandkids I think she just gave up."
288. Laura Evelyn WEIR
regarding Laura Weir - in early 1980"s I was living in Tulsa Oklahoma, and had an opportunity to go to Australia with a young missionary and his young family to work with the Aborigine people in the McDonald range near Perth.
I would be serving as part Nannie, part Secretary - jack of all trades. I had been in Austrailia with my husband Bill Norris, an international Lecturer, in 1950 - just after the end of World War II, and I was anxious to go back.
Travel restrictions at that time were excessive - I would be able to take 1 bag. and as I remember it now, in 2006, - total weight no to exceed 34 lbs. My collected Genealogical records on the Gardner family consisted of over nine thousand names. research from Washington and Scott Counties of Indiana, copies of Deeds - - Copies of Grandfather Millhouser's will etc etc etc. The most important being a small red book regarding the presbyterian followers of William Martin and their arrival in this country.
I could not take these records to Australia and I needed to find a secure place to store store those records while I was in Australia. - I had been corresponding with Laura (Weir) Kahoe of Sharon Oklahoma - Laura being a daughter of Johnnie Carlton Weir of my line. She offered that storage. I took the Genealogical records and mistakenly, my address book, to Sharon , Oklahoma before continuing on to Texas to be with the young missionary as we made final perparations for our tripto Australia..
Laura's husband was an Invalid of many years - he ad been an oil field worker and had fallen from a rig and received extremely serious injuries, for years she had nursed and cared for him.
I had arrived in Sharon at about three in the afternoon - that evening Laura's brother Walter W. Weir who lived in Thomas, Custer Co., Oklahoma arrived, and we spent a delightful evening discussing our family history.
The next morning I left for Texas.
In 1982 I tried to contact Laura and could not find her - Her husband had died. She had remarried, and moved to another area.I was finally able to contact her son - a Psychiatrist , in Blackwell Oklanoma who said that she was in a nursing home and comatose. He admitted having some of my work but refused to let me reclaim any of materials that I had left with his mother.
Needless to say I was upset - that is stating it mildly, but after sulking for a time I realized that all things happen for a reason. I would start over - but having done enough research on the family to realize that there were many errors I decided to research the research to find the source of some of the errors I had found and this policy has continued now for ten years - Now in the 84th year of my age I continue the search with a data base of over 8,000 Gardner-Weir descendants found in every state of the United States and several other countries scattered over the world.I found the Work of Laura Weir in the Mormon Library in Salt Lake, Utah - The Bible of Lillie Dale Williams and Johnnie Carlton Weir. She had listed the children - grandchildren - great-grandchildren of James Gardner Weir and Mary Ann (Hougland) biving birth and death dates - no other information
I Contacted Janet Scott - in Bellevue Missouri who had written book on the Weir family - Recording descendants of George William Weir son of George and Margaret (Gardner) Weir. this needs to be finished - and transferred to it's own file. must leave now to keep an appointment at the Veterans Hosphtal in Prescott.
Differences in death date - Kahoe, Clifton Woodward Geneaology Data [age says he died July 1985 - His grandchildren say
July 7 1985
289. Roxie Alice WEIR
Conflict Jessie H. says d. 5-25-1965 we have April-25 1965