Notes:

ABNER GARRARD, PROBABLY BORN IN BERKELEY County (W) (VA), DIED IN
MONTGOMERY County, OHIO 1818-1819; SON OF REV. JOHN GARRARD OF
BERKELEY County, (W) (VA).

1. PROBABLY BORN 1760'S AS NO RECORD IS FOUND OF REV. WAR SERVICE.
SOME OF HIS BROTHERS DID SERVE.

2. 1787--CO-ADMINISTERED HIS FATHER'S ESTATE 1787 (OF AGE).

3. HE WAS BAPTISED THE SAME DAY AS HIS BROTHER, JONATHAN, AT MILL
CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH, BERKELEY County (W) (VA), SOMETIME BETWEEN
JANUARY AND NOVEMBER, 1792--MENTIONED IN MINUTES FOR 24, NOV,
1792; 2 MARCH, 1793; 12 OCT., 1793

4. MARTHA, HIS WIFE, WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH, JOINED
PROBABLY IN THE SUMMER OF 1794.

5. THEY WERE DISMISSED FROM MILL CREEK CHURCH TO "MIAMIS ON ON
KENTUCKY", 7 AUG, 1794.

6. HE DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE GOSHEN CHURCH RECORDS, GREENE County, PA.
HE MUST HAVE GONE STRAIGHT TO OHIO.

7. ABNER JERRETT APPEARS ON THE COLUMBIA TWP, HAMILTON County, OHIO,
TAX ASSESSMENT LIST IN 1796.

8. HE ATTENDED THE FOUNDING OF THE MIAMI VALLEY BAPTIST ASSN. FROM
MIAMI ISLAND CHURCH, NOV. , 1797, WITH HIS BROTHERS JONATHAN AND
NATHANIEL, JOHN BUCKLES AND JOHN SUTTON. ON 3 JUNE, 1798, HE AGAIN
ATTENDED THE ASSN.

9. HE APPEARS ON THE HAMILTON County, OHIO, LIST IN 1798.

10. HE APPEARS ON THE SYMMES PURCHASE MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS, 13
JULY, 1799, WITH HIS BROTHER NATHANIEL AND NATHANIEL'S SON, HENRY.
(THEY ARE ALL SPELLED GARARD). ALSO APPEARING ON THE LIST: ISIA
CLOSON, JAMES LENNON, JOHN AND JUSTICE LUCE, EDWARD MITCHELL, AND
DAVID SUTTON, ALL NAMES ALLIED BY MARRIAGE OR FRIENDSHIP.

11. A SIMILAR MEMORIAL OF 23 DEC., 1799, LISTS HIM AGAIN WITH JAMES,
JOHN, AND WILLIAM BUCKLES; JOHN, PETER, AND THOMAS CLAWSON; JOHN,
SAMUEL, AND THOMAS ENNIS; HENRY AND NATHANIEL GARARD, JAMES AND
JOHN LENON; ABRAHAM AND DAVID GARDNER; JOSEPH AND LEWIS SUTTON,
JR.

12. HE REPORTEDLY CAME TO MIAMI County, OHIO, IN THE SPRING OF 1799, TO
DUTCH STATION, WITH JOHN GERARD, URIAH BLUE AND NATHANIEL
GERRARD/ HENRY GERARD HAD COME IN THE SPRING OF 1798. THE AREA
HAD AWAITED SETTLEMENT UNTIL THE INDIANS HAD BEEN SUBDUED.

13. HE ENTERED LAND IN MONTGOMERY County, OHIO, 30 DEC., 1801; PATENT
ISSUED 30 JULY, 1812. WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS THE SAME LAND HE HAD
CLAIMED IN THE SYMMES PURCHASE IS UNKNOWN. MOST PURCHASERS HAD
TO PAY FOR LAND TWICE AFTER SYMMES' LAND SCHEME FAILED. THE LAND
HE PURCHASED WAS T3, R5, SEC. 34 (THE NORTH ONE-HALF SECTION). HE
RECORD IS IN THE LAND OFFICE IN CINCINNATI, OHIO.

14. ABNER AND MARTHA WERE RECEIVED BY LETTER TO THE SUGAR CREEK
BAPTIST CHURCH, MONTGOMERY County, OHIO, 1 MAY, 1802.

15. HE WAS APPOINTED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND PERFORMED THE FIRST
MARRIAGE IN MONTGOMERY County, OHIO. HE WAS REFERRED TO AS "JUDGE
GARARD".

16.31 JULY, 1802, HE SERVED ON THE SUGAR CREEK CHURCH TO FORM
RULES. HE WAS APPOINTED MESSENGER TO THE ASSN. WITH BENJAMIN
ARCHER, JOHN LUCE, AND BENJAMIN LUCE , AND THOMAS CLAWSON. (JOHN
LUCE MAY HAVE BEEN THE FATHER OF WM. LUCE AND BENJAMIN LUCE WHO
MARRIED ABNER'S DAUGHTERS, JUDITH AND ANN OHIO/NANCY. IF NOT, HE
WS SURELY RELATED TO THEM.)

17. HE WAS AN OHIO STATE SENATOR (REPUBLICAN) IN 1813.

18. HE WAS A STOCKHOLDER IN THE FIRST (WOOLEN) MILL IN WASHINGTON
TOWNSHIP, MONTGOMERY County, OHIO, WITH JACOB AND JOHN GERRARD AND
THOMAS CLAWSON , AND WILLIAM LUCE. (RELATIONSHIP WITH JACOB AND
JOHN NOT ESTABLISHED.) THOMAS CLAWSON WAS BROTHER TO MARY
CLAWSON SHANKS; HER SON, JOHN, MARRIED ABNER'S DAUGHTER,
ELIZABETH. THE FARMERS AND MECHANICS MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF
CENTERVILLE, ALONG THE NORTH BRANCH OF HOLE'S CREEK, WAS THE MILL.
THE TOWN OF WOODBURN/WOODBURNE GREW UP AROUND IT. THE DESIGN
FOR THE MILL WAS BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND BY SAMUEL GERRARD ( A
COUSIN?) THE PANIC OF 1819-20 HIT AND MOST STOCKHOLDERS SOLD OUT
ABOUT 1821. SINCE ABNER GARARD AND WILLIAM LUCE WERE MAJOR
STOCKHOLDERS AND DIED CLOSE TOGETHER, THEIR ESTATES WERE
SNARLED BY THE DEBTS OF THE COMPANY.

19. ABNER WAS ACTIVE IN THE SUGAR CREEK CHURCH AT LEAST UNTIL
AUGUST 1812 WHEN HE SERVED AS MODERATOR AND 3 JULY 1813, WHEN
HE WAS APPOINTED TO EXAMINE THE OLD AND NEW RECORD BOOK. MORE
MIGHT BE LEARNED FROM THE CHURCH RECORDS, BUT THE CURRENT CHURCH
MANAGEMENT WILL NOT ALLOW THE BOOKS TO BE EXAMINED. (PROBABLY
DUE TO THE DISAGREEMENT/ SCHISM IN THE CHURCH IN THE 1820'S.)

20. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MONTGOMERY County, OHIO: SUMMONS
ANSWERED FIRST TUESDAY OF NOVEMBER, 1818: SUIT BROUGHT BY
ARTHUR VANDERVEER BY HENRY BACON HIS ATTORNEY AGAINST ABNER
GARARD AND JOHN SHANKS FOR "DEBIT OF THREE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS
DAMAGES ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AS IT IS SAID"; TO APPEAR 1ST TUES. OF
NOV, 1818. SHERIFF OF MONTGOMERY County SAID HE SERVED SUMMONS ON
ABNER 26 OCT., 1818. SHERIFF OF MIAMI County SAID HE SERVED SUMMONS ON
JOHN SHANKS 30 OCT., 1818. BOTH APPEARED "IN THEIR PROPER PERSONS"
AND THE CASE WAS CONTINUED UNTIL THE 3RD MONDAY IN APRIL, 1819.
(NOTE: JOHN SHANKS MARRIED ABNER'S DAUGHTER,ELIZABETH.) ON THE
3RD MONDAY IN APRIL, 1819, JOHN SHANKS, REPRESENTED BY ATTORNEY
HENRY STODDARD; VANDERVEER BY BACON. VANDERVEER COMPLAINS THAT
JOHN SHANKS AND ABNER GARARD SIGNED "WRITING OBLIGATORY" FOR
$350 ON 14 SEPT., 1816, TO BE PAID 14 SEPT., 1818, BUT "ALTHOUGH
OFTEN...REQUESTED" "HAVE ALTOGETHER REFUSED & STILL DO REFUSE".
VANDERVEER INFORMS THE COURT "SAID ABNER GARARD DIED" ..."SINCE
THE LAST CONTINUANCE OF THIS DAY." (SO ABNER DIED BETWEEN NOV.,
1818 AND APRIL, 1819.) THE CASE WAS CONTINUED. ON THE 3RD MONDAY
IN AUGUST, 1819, JOHN SHANKS, BY HIS ATTORNEY, WAS ORDERED TO PAY
VANDERVEER THE DEBT AND $61.35 FOR DAMAGES AND $12.29 FOR
VANDERVEER'S COSTS. NO RECORD HAS BEEN FOUND TO SHOW IF THE DEBT
WAS PAID. IF WOULD HAVE BEEN A MONUMENTAL ONE FOR A YOUNG FAMILY
MAN TO PAY.

21. APPRAISAL OF ABNER'S ESTATE 19 MAY, 1819, BY BENJAMIN ARCHER,
BENJAMIN MALTBIE ,AND SAMUEL BROADAWAY FOR $793.45.

22. SALE OF PERSONAL ESTATE ON 20 MAY, 1819, BY JONATHAN GERARD
AND WILLIAM BUCKLES, ADMINISTRATORS RESULTED IN PROCEEDS DUE THE
ESTATE OF $1036.71. (JONATHAN WAS ABNER'S SON;WILLIAM BUCKLES
WAS HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW.) IT IS POSSIBLE BUT NOT LIKELY THAT
ABNER'S BROTHER, JONATHAN, WOULD HAVE COME UP FROM HAMILTON County,
OHIO, TO ADMINISTER THE ESTATE.)

23. TOTAL DEBTS OF JUST UNDER $1500. WERE DECLARED BY JONATHAN
GERARD AND WILLIAM BUCKLES.

24. PETITION, 4TH TUES. OF FEB., 1822, BY BENJAMIN HILLMAN: ABNER
MORTGAGED HIS LAND 29 SEPT., 1814, FOR $800 FOR 60 ACRES; HE WAS
TO PAY THE DEBT BY 1 APRIL, 1816, OR DEED THE LAND OVER. THIS
TRANSACTION WAS WITNESSED BY JOHN SHANKS AND JONATHAN
GARRARD. HILLMAN WAS TO PAY ABNER $120. BY 1 APRIL 1816. THE LAND
WAS DESCRIBED WRONG; ABNER NEVER GAVE HIM A DEED. THE COURT
PROCEEDING WAS TO SETTLE THE DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND. (JUNE TERM
1822 CHANCERY COURT.)

HEIRS DESCRIBED:

WIDOW MARTHA
JUDA LUCE (NOTE: WILLIAM HAD DIED 1821)
MARGARET MITCHELL, HUSBAND OF EDWARD MITCHELL OF AGE & OF MONT.
County, OHIO
JONATHAN GARRARD " "
ABNER GARRARD " "
JEFFERSON GARRARD MINORS & OF MONT. County, OHIO
MARTHA GARRARD " "
MILTON GARRARD " "
HENRY GARRARD OF GREENE County, OHIO, A MINOR
JOHN GARRARD MIAMI County
ELIZABETH SHANKS, HUSBAND OF JOHN SHANKS
NANCY LUCE, HUSBAND OF BENJAMIN LUCE
MEHITABLE STEVENS, HUSBAND ABEDNEGO OF BUTLER County, OHIO
WILLIAM BUCKLES OF GREENE County MENTIONED AS ADMINISTRATOR. HE WAS
ABNER'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, MARRIED TO ABNER'S SISTER, SARAH. HENRY
APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH THEM.

25. 2 NOV., 1825--HEIRS SELL TO RICHARD STEPHENS. JUDITH, NOW MRS.
WILLIAM MCCAMPBELL, AND HENRY, THOMAS J., MARTHA, NOW MRS.
RICHARD BOLAND, AND MILTON SIGN. (ESTABLISHES THAT THEY WERE ALL
OF AGE BY 1825.)

26. MONTGOMERY County DEED BOOK M. P. 203: JOHN A. GERRARD AND
MARGARET HIS WIFE OF MIAMI COUNTY"- GIVE MARGARET'S NAME.

27. ABNER'S ESTATE SHOWS THAT HE HAD ACQUIRED CONSIDERABLE
WEALTH, AND THE PRICES PAID FOR SOME OF HIS POSSESSIONS INDICATE
HOW DEAR THEY WERE. THE SINGLE MOST EXPENSIVE ITEM SOLD WAS A
WAGON, SOLD TO JACOB WILTSE FOR $76.50. OBVIOUSLY AS LATE AS
1819, TRANSPORTATION WAS STILL PRIMITIVE. A SORREL MARE WENT FOR
$60.50; A BAY HORSE FOR $55.67, AND WILLIAM LUCE BOUGHT A SORREL
COLT FOR $45.50. BY CONTRAST, A COW AND A CALF WENT FOR $21.51.
BEDS AND "SPREADS" ("REAL BEDS?") WERE SOLD FOR $12.06 AND $13.00
WHILE A "BEDSTEAD AND CORD" WERE ONLY $2.63. A CLOCK, WHICH MUST
HAVE BEEN A RARITY, WENT FOR $16.00, WHILE A LOOKING GLASS WENT
FOR $2.00. EDWARD MITCHELL PAID $7.69 FOR THE LARGE BIBLE (AND
PERHAPS TOOK IT WITH HIM TO INDIANA?). THE GARARD FARM MUST HAVE
BEEN SELF-SUSTAINING AS THERE WERE TOOLS FOR CLEARING,
CULTIVATING AND HARVESTING, AND LIVESTOCK--TWELVE GEESE, THE
THREE HORSES, EIGHT SHEEP,THREE COWS WITH CALVES, THREE HEIFERS,
TWO WHITE STEERS, THREE SOWS, ONE SOW WITH PIGS, ONE BOAR AND
ELEVEN SHOTE (?). ABNER MUST HAVE TAKEN HIS COWS TO A NEIGHBOR TO
BREED AS THERE'S NO BULL LISTED. JONATHAN BOUGHT THE LAST ITEM ON
THE LIST, A BARREL OF WHISKY , FOR $3.06 AND ONE/FOURTH CENT IT
MUST HAVE BEEN HARD FOR MARTHA TO SEE ALL THESE TREASURED
POSSESSIONS GO, ESPECIALLY THE BIBLE AND DICTIONARY. MAYBE
EDWARD MITCHELL GAVE HER THE USE OF THE BIBLE DURING HER LIFETIME.

28 MARTHA COULD WRITE. SHE SIGNED A RECEIPT FOR $35. AS HER SHARE
OF THE ESTATE 22 JAN., 1821.

Abner married Martha Patsy Lloyd in 1780 in Berkeley County, WV. Martha was born in 1765 in VA.; died on 11 Nov 1842 in Fountain County, IN; was buried in Old Baptist Cem.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Henry Gerrard, probably the oldest child of Abner, was born in
Virginia in
1775. It is said he had three wives and many children.

Henry married Henrietta Pettit on 21 Oct 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The marriage of John A. Gerard to Margaret Kepler came from a family
group sheet sent to me on 8/6/94 from Ruth Hamm. Ruth descends from
the Elias Gerard family, through his son John, then through John's
daughter, Mehitable who married Stephen Dye.

Notes:

Died:
Y
Y
Y
Y

Notes:

FOLLOWING PERNIAH'S DEATH (ABT 1848), MILTON MARRIED HARRIET
WILSON IN TIPPECANOE County, IND, ON 18 OF JUNE, 1849.

Milton married Perniah Blair on 7 Mar 1830 in Greene County, OH. Perniah was born in Greene County, OH; died about 1848 in Carroll County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Y
Y
Y
Y

Notes:

Died:
Y
Y
Y
Y

Notes:

Died:
Y
Y
Y
Y

Notes:

NO MARRIAGE VERIFICATION HAS BEEN FOUND FOR THOMAS GILBERT AND
THURZA (THURSEY, TIRZA, TERESA, ETC.) GERARD. A MARRIAGE COULD
HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN IROQUOIS County,ILLINOIS. RECORDS FOR THE
PURPORTED TIME OF MARRIAGE ARE LOST.

THURZA "PROBABLY" IS THE DAUGHTER OF MILTON GERARD AND PERNIAH
BLAIR. SHE IS THE SISTER OF EDWARD MITCHELL GERARD ,WHO MARRIED
MARTHA GILBERT--DAUGHTER OF THOMAS--, AND EMILY GERARD, WHO
MARRIED HERMAN RHODES GILBERT.

THE GILBERT/GERARD "CONNECTION" SEEMINGLY TOOK PLACE IN
INDIANA--CARROLL, WHITE,TIPPECANOE COUNTIES. BENTON AND NEWTON
COUNTIES SAW MARRIAGES TAKING PLACE AMONG THE TWO FAMILIES.

THE FAMILIES LIVED IN IROQUOIS County,ILLINOIS, FOR APPROXIMATELY EIGHT
YEARS.

CONTACT BETWEEN THE FAMILIES COULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE EARLIER IN
OHIO--I.E. FRANKLIN County, OHIO--BUT EVIDENCE HAS YET TO SURFACE TO
SUBSTANTIATE THIS.

THURZA (TURSA) BONE (GILBERT--NEE GERARD) WAS 73 YEARS, 9
MONTHS, 20 UPON HER DEATH IN CROFTON, NEBRASKA. SHE LEFT A
HUSBAND , JAMES BONE, THREE CHILDREN , TEN GRAND CHILDREN, AND SIX
GREAT GRAND CHILDREN. THE CHILDREN ARE ONE SON AND TWO
DAUGHTERS; THESE , ACCORDING TO THEIR AGES, ARE MRS. C.M. HENRY OF
WAUSA, MRS. C.M. HIGHSMITH, OF OMAHA AND SEVERE GILBERT OF
CROFTON.

THE REMAINS WERE SENT TO OMAHA ON THE NOON TRAIN ACCOMPANIED BY
THE HUSBAND, MRS. HILGHSMITH, SEVERE GILBERT ,AND TWO GRANDSONS,
FRANK CORRIGAN AND B.M. BEAN.

DEC. 12TH, 1912--THOSE WHO AATTENDED THE FUNERAL OF MRS. JAMES
BONE AT OMAHA LAST WEDNESDAY WERE JAMES BONE, MRS. C.M.
HIGHSMITH OF OMAHA; SEVERE GILBERT OF CROFTON; FRANK CORRIGAN OF
CROFTON; BUFORD BEAN, WAUSA, JOHN WILSON, OMAHA; ADA WILSON,
OMAHA; MRS. HARLEY CATON, OMAHA AND FRED WILSON OF PORTLAND,
OREGON.

MRS. CHAS. HIGHSMITH OF OMAHA, WHO HAS BEEN IN CROFTON A FEW DAYS
ON ACCOUNT OF THE SERIOUS ILLNESS OF HER MOTHER, MRS. "BOWMAN",
RETURNED HOME SATURDAY. HER BROTHER HERE ALSO, HE RETURNING
FRIDAY.

THE CROFTON JOURNAL
CROFTON, NEBRASKA
ATTN: KEVIN HENSLER OR CURRENT EDITOR

WHAT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF RUNNING SOME OF THE MATERIAL
CONCERNING THE DEATH OF MRS. JAMES BONE WHO DIED IN CROFTON IN
1912? THE MOST IMPORTANT DATA WOULD INVOLVE THE DATES AND
NAMES. I'M HOPING TO COME INTO CONTACT WITH A RELATIVE OF THIS
LINE WHO MIGHT STILL LIVE IN THIS AREA, OR AT LEAST DEVELOP
CONTACT WITH SOMEBODY WHO MIGHT KNOW OF THE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN
THE NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT RUN IN 1912 IN THE CROFTON JOURNAL.

PLEASE ADVISE OF THE POSSIBILITY AND THE COSTS INVOLVED. IF IT IS
NOT POSSIBLE, CAN YOU SUGGEST ANY ALTERNATIVES SO THAT I MIGHT
DEVELOP CONTACT WITH DESCENDENTS?

ALSO, ARE THERE OTHER NEWSPAPERS IN YOUR LOCAL AREA WHICH MIGHT
BE INTERESTED IN RUNNING THE INFORMATION.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS LETTER.

HOPING TO HEAR FROM YOU.

A SASE IS ENCLOSED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE.

ONE OF THE GRANDCHILDREN OF THOMAS AND THURSEY MARRIED HARLEY
CATON. HARLEY WAS BORN IN 1882 AND DIED IN 1961 IN NEBRASKA.

Notes:

EMILY SIMPSON GERARD WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MILTON GERARD AND
PERNIAH BLAIR. SHE WAS THE SISTER TO THRUZA GERARD AND EDWARD
MITCHELL GERARD--BOTH OF WHOM MARRIED INTO THE "GILBERTS".
PREVIOUS TO MARRYING HERMAN RHODES GILBERT, EMILY GERARD MARRIED
JOSEPH M. SIMPSON. NO TRACE OF JOSEPH HAS BEEN FOUND. THEY HAD ONE
CHILD WHO DIED AND IS BURIED IN IROQUOIS County, ILL. JOSEPH M SIMPSON
AND EMILY HAD ONE CHILD, JOSEPH M., WHO DIED AUG. 1, 1861. HE WAS 15
DAYS OLD. HE IS BURIED IN LIBERTY CEMETERY IN IROQUOIS County, ILLINOIS.
EMILY DIED IN 1910 IN CENTRALIA, KANSAS. SHE IS BURIED IN LEON, IOWA.

IF EMILY MARRIED HERMAN IN 1860, AND THE BABY WHICH DIED WAS
JOSEPH SIMPSON'S (THE BABY DIED IN AUG. OF 1861), HOW COULD THIS
BE? SOMETHING IS NOT CORRECT

Centralia, Kansas...Seneca Courier P. 3 Democrat Supplement Vol. XLVII
#47, Thurs. , Sept. 8th, 1910. The death of Grandma Gilbert, living
with
her son Dan west of town, was reported Monday evening.