{"id":390,"date":"2009-05-29T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-05-29T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:48:54","slug":"gardner-family-tours-wessyngton-for-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/gardner-family-tours-wessyngton-for-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner Family Tours Wessyngton Plantation for 75th Family Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_264\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/gardners-at-wessyngton.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-264\" title=\"Gardner Family at Wessyngton 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/gardners-at-wessyngton-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Gardner Family Tour at Wessyngton Plantation\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/gardners-at-wessyngton-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/gardners-at-wessyngton-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gardner Family Tour at Wessyngton Plantation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2008 the Gardners celebrated their 75th annual family reunion.\u00a0 As part of the reunion festivities I led them on a tour of Wessyngton Plantation.\u00a0\u00a0 The tour included the Wessyngton mansion, Washington family cemetery, slave cemetery and a restored slave cabin. \u00a0The Gardner earliest ancestors, Aaron Gardner, his wife Betty and their three sons, Daniel, George and Jackson came to Wessyngton in the late 1830s.\u00a0 There are more African Americans in Robertson County, Tennessee with the Gardner surname than any other family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 the Gardners celebrated their 75th annual family reunion.\u00a0 As part of the reunion festivities I led them on a tour of Wessyngton Plantation.\u00a0\u00a0 The tour included the Wessyngton mansion, Washington family cemetery, slave cemetery and a restored slave cabin. \u00a0The Gardner earliest ancestors, Aaron Gardner, his wife Betty and their three sons, Daniel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,13,21,18,20],"tags":[185,83,184,187,190,189,186,117,188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}