Robert Gardner Jr (1819 - 1906)

Born 12 Oct 1819 in Kilsyth, Stirling, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Ann (Carr) Gardner — married 20 Jul 1856 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States

Husband of Leonora (Cannon) Gardner — married 23 Jun 1863 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Descendants

Died 3 Feb 1906 at age 86 in Pine Valley, Washington, Utah, United States

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Robert Gardner Jr was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

This profile is part of the Gardner Name Study.

Biography

Robert Gardner, son of Robert and Margaret Calender, was born October 12, 1819 in Kilsyth, Sterlingshire, Scotland. He with his mother and brother (his father, brother and sister having left some time before)emigrated to America and settled in the backwoods of Canada. After many hardships, they made their home in Kent Court, Western Canada. Robert Gardner married four times. He was the father of 37 children, 27 of whom grew to adulthood.

Educational institutions were very scarce at the time. Robert, however, was permitted to attend school for six weeks. The rest of his education he got from his mother who, being very religious, taught him many things from the Bible pertaining to the life of Christ. Having this knowledge of the gospel, it was not hard for him to accept it when it reached him. He was baptized in January 1845 by his brother William who had joined the church some time before. His father, mother, and the rest of the family joined later.

History - In 1846 the Gardner party, which consisted of 10 wagons, left Alvinston, Ontario, Lambton Co., for Nauvoo, Illinois to join the rest of the Saints. They spent the winter there and in the spring of 1847, they left with Brigham Young for Salt Lake City, Utah, arriving there the 24th July 1847.

Robert and Jane McKeon were married on March 17, 1841. Later he married Cynthia Lovina Berry, Mary Ann Carr and Leonora Cannon. In 1846, in company with his father, mother, brothers, sisters and their families, he started to Nauvoo to join the saints who were coming west. When they arrived there, the saints had gone, so they started at once for Winter Quarters. At Winter Quarters, many of the company fell sick with chills and fever. They had many difficulties there, but in 1847 followed the pioneers to the Rocky Mountains. Robert and his wife and four children, drove an ox team to Salt Lake in Bishop Hunter's Company. After arriving in Salt Lake, they lived there for 14 years. He was called on a mission to Canada but was called home because of Johnson's Army coming to Salt Lake.

He was called in 1861 as a pioneer to help settle Dixie. He and his wife Mary Ann left at once, reaching there December 2nd of the same year. The place was nothing but a brush patch, but Erastus Snow, Robert Gardner and Israel Ivins began at once to survey, putting up brush as sheds, wagon covers, tents or wagon boxes to live in until something better could be built. Later Robert Gardner built a small adobe house were the Arrowhead Hotel now stands, and lived there for some time.

In 1862 he was set apart as Bishop of St. George by President Erastus Snow. He was later set apart as first councilor to Joseph W. Young, President of the St. George Stake. President Young died in 1875 and Robert Gardner with A.F. McDonald as second councilor, presided over the Stake until J.D.T. McAllister was put in as President. (Written by Phyllis Gardner Stacey)

1. Married Jane (McKeown) Gardner (1823-1904), 17 Mar 1841, Warwick, Lambton, (formerly Kent), Ontario
2. Married Cynthia Lovina (Berry) Gardner (1833-1918), 5 Aug 1851, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
3. Married Mary Ann (Carr) Gardner (1841-1906), 20 Jul 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
4. Married Leonora (Cannon) Gardner (1840-1924), 24 Jun 1863, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

• Fact: Christening (13 April 1820) Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland
• Fact: Emigration (1822) Scotland
• Fact: adult-christening (1 January 1845) Dalhousie Twp, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
• Fact: LDS Baptism (1 January 1845) Dalhousie, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
• Fact: Location (APR 1846) Joliet, Illinois
• Fact: Location (April 1846) Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States
• Fact: Location (BET OCT 1846 AND 10 JUN 1847) Winter Quarters, Council Bluffs, Pottwatamie, Iowa
• Fact: Location (BET OCT 1846 AND 10 JUN 1847) Winter Quarters, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Emigration (17 Jun 1847)
• Fact: Utah Pioneer (1847) Winter Quarters, Council Bluffs, Pottwatamie, Iowa
• Fact: Immigration (29 Sep 1847) Utah, United States
• Fact: Location (1 OCT 1847) Salt Lake Valley, Utah
• Fact: Location (1 October 1847) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Fact: Residence (1850) Great Salt Lake county, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
• Fact: Emigration (10 May 1858)
• Fact: Immigration (21 Jun 1858) Utah, United States
• Fact: Residence (1860) Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
• Fact: Burial (5 February 1906) Pine Valley Cemetery, Pine Valley, Washington, Utah, United States
• Fact: Pioneer Company to Utah Edward Hunter/Joseph Horne Company
• Fact: Burial Pine Valley Cemetery, Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah, USA

LDS Baptism

LDS Baptism: 21 Aug 1992

LDS Temple: PROVO

Note: @NI1492@

@NI1492@ NOTE!BAPTISM-ENDOWMENT-MARRIAGE LOCATION-SEAL TO SPOUSE: RE 1994 IGI.

 !BIRTH: Location per 1994 IGI.

Sources

• Autobiography [1]

Autobiography (1819-1848)

Typescript, HBLL

HISTORY OF ROBERT GARDNER, JR.

• https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/21227/robert-gardner
• Journals, Diaries, Biographies, Autobiographies and Letters of Some Early Mormons and Others Who Knew Joseph Smith, Jr. and/or His Contemporaries. A number of journals relevant to this collection may be found in the Mormon missionary diary collection at Brigham Young University.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNSL-B9G : 14 November 2020), Robert Gardner, Price City, St. George, Washington, Utah Territory, United States; citing enumeration district ED 93, sheet 363A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,339.
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 28 December 2020), memorial page for Robert Gardner Jr. (12 Oct 1819–3 Feb 1906), Find A Grave: Memorial #41043, citing Pine Valley Cemetery, Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah, USA ; Maintained by SMSmith (contributor 46491005) .

• FamilySearch tree entry https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KWNT-RCJ * "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 10 February 2023, 03:13), entry for Robert Gardner Jr. (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KWNT-RCJ ); contributed by various users.