Oliver P. Gardner From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 889.

LANCASTER

OLIVER P. GARDNER, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Lancaster. Owns 40 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. Born in Kentucky, in 1824. Came to Wisconsin in 1837; located on his farm in 1871. Married Lucy Ann Vedder, a native of New York, and they have four children - Lovilla J., Abby Ellen, Effie J. and Allen Eugene. Mr. Gardner enlisted in Co. H, 25th W. V. I., in 1862, and was discharged in 1865.

 


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