{"id":631,"date":"2011-04-11T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2011-04-11T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:05:34","slug":"portraits-of-gardner-ancestors-revealed-at-76th-gardner-family-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/portraits-of-gardner-ancestors-revealed-at-76th-gardner-family-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits of Gardner Ancestors Revealed at 76th Gardner Family Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_629\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-629\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/portraits-of-gardner-ancestors-revealed-at-76th-gardner-family-reunion\/daniel-gardner\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-629\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-629\" title=\"daniel-gardner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/daniel-gardner-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Gardner 1839-1911\" width=\"133\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Gardner 1829-1911<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_632\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-632\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/portraits-of-gardner-ancestors-revealed-at-76th-gardner-family-reunion\/melissa-boisseau-gardner1\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-632\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-632\" title=\"melissa-boisseau-gardner1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/melissa-boisseau-gardner1-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Boisseau Gardner 1838-1931\" width=\"135\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Boisseau Gardner 1838-1931<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt;\">In August 2010 the Gardner family celebrated their 76<sup>th<\/sup> annual family reunion.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The festivities included a tour of Wessyngton Plantation. Aaron Gardner born 1804, his wife Betty born 1814, and their three sons Daniel Gardner 1829-1911, George Gardner 1830-1906, and Jackson Gardner Washington born 1831 were enslaved on the plantation from 1839 to 1865.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>After emancipation George Gardner purchased 169 acres of land, which he willed to his nephew Will Gardner.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Daniel Gardner and his wife Melissa Boisseau Gardner were the parents of eighteen children.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many of their descendants remain in the Robertson County area.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>There are more African Americans carrying the Gardner surname than any other surname in the county. Two original portraits of Daniel and Melissa Gardner were revealed to descendants at the 76th Gardner family reunion.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In August 2010 the Gardner family celebrated their 76th annual family reunion.\u00a0 The festivities included a tour of Wessyngton Plantation. Aaron Gardner born 1804, his wife Betty born 1814, and their three sons Daniel Gardner 1829-1911, George Gardner 1830-1906, and Jackson Gardner Washington born 1831 were enslaved on the plantation from 1839 to 1865.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,19,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[473,472,469,474,471,187,470,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}