Patience Piggott Pickett Birth 25 Jan 1758 in Cane Creek MM, Orange Co., (now Alamance) NC Death in Randolph Co., IN
Family MembersParents
Benjamin Piggott 1732 - 1818
Mary (Margery) Hadley 1739 - 1810Spouse & Children
John Cox 1756 - 1827
Benjamin Cox 1780 - 1842
John Cox 1782 - 1825
Mary Cox 1784 - 1785
Patience Cox 1786 - 1814
Joshua Cox 1788 - 1853
Margery Cox 1792 -
Isaiah Cox 1795 - 1852
Simon Cox 1798 - 1881
Hannah Cox 1803 -
He related to me (unknown writer a grandchild), his only remembrance of crossing the plains. He came across the plains with his parents in 1852. He was then five years old. While the company were camped, the young people went along the river or stream to pick some wild berries. Grandfather started to go with them but his mother Electa(Lamport) Gardner told him to stay in camp. When she was not watching him he started to follow the group. His mother soon discovered he was gone and went after him, bring in g him bvack where she tied him to the wagon tongue. He tried to untie the rope when his mother said, "Don't you untie that rope." Grandfather said, "When mother told me a thing I knew she meant it!"
Note: Joseph, Emma and Isaac died same year, 10 months apart.. William was invalid at 3 years until time of death.Life History of Joseph Smith Gardner
Joseph Smith Gardner, son of Benjamin and Electa Gardner was born March 15, 1847 at Vernon, Van Buren County, Iowa, and settled on North Pidgeon. We lived there 5 years. In 1852 we crossed the plains and arrived in Salt Lake City Sep. 28. After visiting Aunt Margaret Wells and family we came back to Birch Mill south of Ogden. My father ran the grist mill 5 years. We lived here the year that was known as the Hard Winter. I can remember people coming to our house with a coat, vest, or any article of clothing they could spare to exchange for flour. I never saw anyone go away without flour nor I never seen my parents take any of their clothing. I remember some men coming from southern Utah for flour, the people had raked up all the money they could and sent it with these men to buy flour. They expected to pay $12.00 per 100 lb. as flour was selling for that, but my father sold it for $6.00 per 100 lb. That being the tithing office price. They would take flour for all the money they had, "No you won't," my father said, "for that flour will last your people through, and this flour is to save lives and not for speculation." I remember my older brother driving the cattle to Toole Balley to winter for there was no feed in Weber county for them.
My father had charge of the ferry boat on the Weber River. I remember the Indians coming there to cross, but some of them preferred their old way of crossing the river in their canoes, or bullrush raft.
In 1857 my parents moved to North Ogden, where I worked in the canyon and on the farm, and sometimes in the mill, for father was the miller in Blodgett Mill. Here I ended my school days going to Aunt Hiedda Barnes. Here I met and married Miss Mary Elizabeth Williams March 15, 1869. In May 1869 we moved to Dewyville, Box Elder County, Utah, where my father bought 20 acres of land from Mrs. Margaret Jenkins. Afterward he gave it to me. I took up 10 acres of land, when the land office was established in Salt Lake. It was proved upon under William Walter Howards' permission of 80 acres. I built a rock house and began making a home. In the fall of 1869 we went to camp Weber to the last training of the Utah Militia before Utah was put under Marshall Law. I was drummer in Captain David Gardner's company of Colonel Chester Loveland's Regiment.
Our eldest child, Joseph Nathaniel Gardner, was born Jan. 30, 1870 North Ogden while we were on a visit. 2- Lucinda Elizabeth Gardner born Jan. 7, 1872, 3- Hyrum Chauncey born March 25, 1876, 4- Emma Rebecca June 15, 1876, all three born at Deweyville, Utah. 5- Benjamin Ezra July 17, 1878, North Ogden while on a visit, 6- William Frederick March 4, 1883, Deweyville. March 26, 1885 we moved to Pleasant View, Weber County Utah. It was once a part of North Ogden. 8- Isaac Moroni, May 27, 1885 died March 27, 1886 Pleasant View, Joseph Nathaniel died December 28, 1886. Emma Rebecca died December 5, 1886, Pleasant View. 9- Francis Adna Gardner born Sep. 5, 1887, Pleasant View. 10- Andrew Gardner born Nov. 11, 1889, Pleasant View in a house his father bought of George Mower Jr. down by the railroad. The others were born on Dr. E.G. Williams farm. In 1886 I took up 160 acres of land in Ogden Valley now called Liberty, where I home steaded 160 acres of land, and began clearing the sage brush and rocks off to make a home in a new settled place.
In the fall we went back to Pleasant View on account of deep snow and to have the children in school. The snow fell 3 or 4 feet deep in winter. Here four of our children were married and left the parental home to begin to make homes for themselves. Lucinda Elizabeth to Richard Robinson Jan. 12, 1890, Ogden Utah. Hyrum Chauncey to Mary Ellen Marshall Jan. 16, 1895 Liberty Utah. Benjamin Ezra to Effie Jane Walker Dec. 14, 1898 Salt Lake City. Electa Henrietta to Joseph Edward Southwick Liberty, Feb. 27, 1900. In 1898 I bought 1 1/4 acres of land of Mrs. Christian Marshall 2 miles south and built a three room log house. We lived here 2 years. In June 1901 I sold 85 acres of the farm to Clarence Hinkley. The rest of the land had been given to the children.
About Aug. 20, 1901 we loaded our wagons and with four head of horses, four cows, 1 calf we started for Idaho to begin to make a new home. We landed in Grant Aug. 28, 1901. In Oct. I bought a house and 2 lots of Lee Jardine and one lot of Jensen of the Townsite. Afterwards I had a small store building of A. A. Bremwell a mile west where I set out trees, orchards, and berries, also in the grocery business. 1909 I took up 120 acres of deseret land known as the Noles. I cleared the sage brush, making water dikes and there Francis Adna married Rose Pricilla Randall on Oct. 9, 1907. She was born on June 19, 1888 Harrisville Utah.
Later I moved back to Deweyville Utah.
Joseph Smith Gardner died in Liberty at the home of his son, Hyrum Chauncey on Dec. 19, 1935.He related to me (unknown writer a grandchild, I believe it was Ada Gardner Palmer), his only remembrance of crossing the plains. He came across the plains with his parents in 1852. He was then five years old. While the company were camped, the young people went along the river or stream to pick some wild berries. Grandfather started to go with them but his mother Electa(Lamport) Gardner told him to stay in camp. When she was not watching him he started to follow the group. His mother soon discovered he was gone and went after him, bringin him back where she tied him to the wagon tongue. He tried to untie the rope when his mother said, "Don't you untie that rope." Grandfather said, "When mother told me a thing I knew she meant it!"
Note: Joseph, Emma and Isaac died same year, 10 months apart.. William was invalid at 3 years until time of death.
Mary arrived in Smithfield, UT soon after a fight with the Indians. Her father Ezra Granger Williams was a physician and surgeon who dressed up the wounds and cared for the wounded. She attended schools of Mrs. Mary Ann Boyce and Mrs. Cousins who taught in their one room homes. She became an ardent genealogist to whom we owe the major part of the records we have.
Mary arrived in Smithfield, UT soon after a fight with the Indians. Her father Ezra Granger Williams was a physician and surgeon who dressed up the wounds and cared for the wounded. She attended schools of Mrs. Mary Ann Boyce and Mrs. Cousins who taught in their one room homes. She became an ardent genealogist to whom we owe the major part of the records we have. Died of Pneumonia.
(notes from granddaughter Elsie Gardner Taylor Curtis life history about Mary)
"Grandma, even with her bad asthma, took care of her daughter's children who had passed away in child birth. There were 4 of them...Venna, Katie, Ruby and Edward. Their father was Joseph Southwick. Then Ezra's wife died in child-birth (Ezra is papa's older brother). They lived in Lyman , WY. That left 6 children which grandma took care of of sometimes. I remember once that Katie come to stay at our house for awhile...she didn't even have a pair of shoes, but my father seen that she got some.Life History of Mary Elizabeth Williams Gardner
I was born February 2, 1851, in Salt Lake City. My father's name was Ezra Granger Williams; my mother?s Henrietta Elizabeth Crombie. My father owned several lots in Salt Lake City, also a farm five miles south of the city on Mill Creek.
I lived in the early hard times. We had to grind our own flour, barley or any kind of grain we used. At one time we had been without white flour for some time and Violate Kimball, wife of President Kimball, came and gave us a little white flour. It was so good. She was always helping in some way. My folks had a hard time during the time of the crickets.
When Johnson's army came to Utah to exterminate the Mormons, my father was out doing guard duty in Echo Canyon most of the winter. In 1858 we were told to move south because Johnson's army had entered the Salt Lake Valley, and they said they would burn everything. We left our home and started but only went as far as American Fork. We stayed there six weeks; peace was restored and we returned home. The grain was just turning ripe. It was a pleasant sight to see home once more with grass growing all around the house undisturbed.
In July 1860, I went with my parents to Smithfield, Cache County, Utah. We arrived soon after a fight with the Indians. On July 22, my father, being a physician and surgeon, dressed the wounds and cared for the wounded until they recovered. Here I went to school to Mrs. Mary Ann Boyce and Mrs. Cousins in their home, a one-roomed log house. That was all the school there was.
I remember at one time Col. P. E. Conner, with about 200 soldiers came to Smithfield after the Indians were troublesome in that part of the country. The Indians sent word that they were ready. The bugle sounded and the soldiers started from Smithfield about nine o'clock at night. It was a still, cold, frosty night, and the snow squeaked under their feet. They met the Indians twelve miles south of Franklin in Beaver Creek, Bear River, where the battle was fought, Jan. 29, 1863. Many of the soldiers had their feet frozen.
On Sep. 21 1863, I moved with my parents to North Ogden, that part now called Pleasant View, where I spent the rest of my school and girlhood days. There I met and married Joseph Smith Gardner, March 15, 1869. May 3, 1869 we moved to Deweyville, Utah.
On August 6, 1863 I was chosen President of the Retrenchment Society now called Young Ladies Mutual. I was also a teacher in the Relief Society. We moved to Pleasant View in March 1885, and to Liberty in June 1888. I was chosen President of the Liberty Relief Society February 23, 1893 and was blessed and set apart by Franklin D. Richards. I served four years. While living in Liberty I did my last spinning and making my own yarn but still continued knitting socks and stockings. I always knit all the stockings and mittens; I also made all the clothing for my family, also all my quilts, bedding, and etc.
Our family moved to Grant Idaho in 1901 and moved back to Deweyville in February 1920.
My family numbers at the present time 145. As a girl I was always interested in knowing who my ancestors were but hardly knew how to find out. In 1898 a cousin, B. S. Drake of Ohio who was interested in genealogy, wrote me about our family history. I was only glad to answer all questions and wrote letters to all my relatives. In this way, I started my genealogy work. I was living at Liberty at this time. My husband made trips to Deweyville, North Ogden, and Riverdale to get the information. This we sent to Drake.
I have the Gardner genealogy back to 1765. My husband furnished the money and I did the writing. We spend more than $150.00. I saw some Williams names in the Deseret News and I started a correspondence with this person. From that beginning I have traced out genealogy in a straight line back to 1600, and most of the work has been done in our temples. On my mother's side, Pope, we have the genealogy in a straight line back to 1584, and this work is all done. At one time it was published in the Deseret News that if the Church could raise $1,000 they could get English Parish records. I wanted to help in this worthy cause, so I joined the Genealogical Society.
For this 30 years my health has been poor, and I have not been able to work in the Church as I would like to have done. I have greatly enjoyed my work in the genealogical way.
Mary E. Gardner died December 14, 1934 at Deweyville, Utah and is buried in Liberty, Utah.