Edmund Barnard Gardner

GEDCOM Note

Spouse's name: Martha Thompson

Researcher's (Elizabeth Kent Bedell Krueger) note:

"Broken chains - My father always said my great grandfather was Richard Allison Whetstone. It wasn't until I did the tree myself that I realized that's impossible because he died in 1894 and my grandmother was born in 1869. I then found a typed tree my aunt Marion Bedell Kelsey wrote for my father, mentioning "the 2nd husband" Edmund Gardner. I spent a lot of time trying to find which Edmund Gardner was the right one. I only narrowed the field when I thought maybe they weren't married. To me the closed candidate is Edmund Bernard Gardner, son of Edmund Gardner of Nantucket (one of the sea captains Herman Melville interviewed before writing Moby Dick). This Edmund was a grocer in Marion Gardner Whetstone's Spring Hill neighborhood, so the only one I could find that actually lived near my gr. grandmother. Marion moved from Cincinnati to Philadelphia while pregnant, so that fueled my conjecture. Right or wrong - I don't know."

------------------------------------ From the biography, "Captain Edmund Gardner, of Nantucket and New Bedford: His journal and his family"

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CAPTAIN EDMUND GARDNER, HIS DESCENDANTS

7. Edmund Barnard Gardner9 (Edmund8) was born in Nantucket, Mass., Mar. 2, 1822 and died in 1905. He married Martha Thompson, bom 1828 and died in 1917.

An article in the “Daily Spy” of Worcester, Mass, dated Feb. 4, 1847, found by Miss Sylvia Gardner among her papers, reports the death on Feb. 8 of Sewall Thompson, son of Mr. S. Thompson, 23. It would seem that probably the man who died was Martha Thompson’s brother. Edmund B. Gardner was in business in Cincinnati for many years with his twin brother John until the latter’s death. As mentioned in the Journal, he moved to New York during his father’s lifetime and was in a wholesale busi¬ ness there. He and his wife later lived in Hartford, Conn., and they are both buried in Bay View Cemetery in Sandwich, Mass.

Children:

14. Edmund Gardner, b. May 10, 1855; d. May 1, 1910.

14a. Sewall Lincoln Gardner, b. Aug. 25, 1858; d. Nov. 2, 1859.

14b. Simeon Thompson Gardner, b. Aug. 18, 1860; d. Feb. 9, 1862.

14c. Albert Braman Gardner, b. June 6, 1863; d. May 17, 1873. All the above children are buried in Lot 11, Section 67, of the Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.

14d. Seymour Gardner, the only child except Edmund who lived for any con¬ siderable time, died in 1950 in Lexington, Kentucky. He had been married and worked for one or more insurance companies in the Mid¬ west. His date of birth has not been ascertained, but he must have been one of the grandchildren referred to as living in New York on Captain Gardner’s 88th birthday, Nov. 8, 1872. He had no issue.

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Regarding the "Swain-Gardner Tankard": From the biography, "Captain Edmund Gardner, of Nantucket and New Bedford: His journal and his family"

EBMG Edmund Barnard Gardner married Martha Thompson

b. March 2, 1822 b. 1828 d. 1905 d. 1917

The EBMG initials on the tankard are for Edmund Barnard and Martha Gardner.