Son of John Kitch Gardner and Elizabeth "Betsy" Shatto*
Married Mary Ann Gable 6 December 1863. Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Married Malinda C. Cochran before 1880
Married Anna E. Pollinger 3 January 1900
Civil War Service
John enlisted in Newport, Perry County, August 20, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 18 as a corporal with Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer October 19, 1863, at Key West, Florida, promoted to sergeant September 18, 1864, and honorably discharged with his company December 25, 1865, at Charleston, South Carolina. He is recorded as discharged in October 1863, a technicality, as his original enlistment was for three years. He had to be discharged to re-enlist for the duration of the war.
He had three brothers who also served: Reuben Shatto and Jacob S. R. Gardner likewise served in Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry, and Ephraim Finlaw Gardner served with Co. G, 208th Pennsylvania Infantry.
(Civil war service courtesy of Dennis Brandt # 47232334)
* His death certificate, for which his daughter Mary Stock was the informant, gives his mother's maiden name as Susan Shadow. On the basis of the 1850 Wheatfield Twp. and 1860 Miller Twp. Perry County census that includes a brother Reuben S. mentioned in his obit, his mother was Elizabeth Shatto.
Reference:
a. Kapp, James Edward; Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Perry County (1820-1870), p. 114. Perry County Historians Accession 6687 (marriage to Mary Gable)
b. Ancestry.com: Pennsylvania Death Certificates - Berks County, Reading # 18457
c. Census: 1880 Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, Harrisburg
Married Mary Ann Gable 6 December 1863. Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Married Malinda C. Cochran before 1880
Married Anna E. Pollinger 3 January 1900
Civil War Service
John enlisted in Newport, Perry County, August 20, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 18 as a corporal with Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer October 19, 1863, at Key West, Florida, promoted to sergeant September 18, 1864, and honorably discharged with his company December 25, 1865, at Charleston, South Carolina. He is recorded as discharged in October 1863, a technicality, as his original enlistment was for three years. He had to be discharged to re-enlist for the duration of the war.
He had three brothers who also served: Reuben Shatto and Jacob S. R. Gardner likewise served in Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry, and Ephraim Finlaw Gardner served with Co. G, 208th Pennsylvania Infantry.
(Civil war service courtesy of Dennis Brandt # 47232334)
* His death certificate, for which his daughter Mary Stock was the informant, gives his mother's maiden name as Susan Shadow. On the basis of the 1850 Wheatfield Twp. and 1860 Miller Twp. Perry County census that includes a brother Reuben S. mentioned in his obit, his mother was Elizabeth Shatto.
Reference:
a. Kapp, James Edward; Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Perry County (1820-1870), p. 114. Perry County Historians Accession 6687 (marriage to Mary Gable)
b. Ancestry.com: Pennsylvania Death Certificates - Berks County, Reading # 18457
c. Census: 1880 Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, Harrisburg
Son of John Kitch Gardner and Elizabeth "Betsy" Shatto*
Married Mary Ann Gable 6 December 1863. Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Married Malinda C. Cochran before 1880
Married Anna E. Pollinger 3 January 1900
Civil War Service
John enlisted in Newport, Perry County, August 20, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 18 as a corporal with Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer October 19, 1863, at Key West, Florida, promoted to sergeant September 18, 1864, and honorably discharged with his company December 25, 1865, at Charleston, South Carolina. He is recorded as discharged in October 1863, a technicality, as his original enlistment was for three years. He had to be discharged to re-enlist for the duration of the war.
He had three brothers who also served: Reuben Shatto and Jacob S. R. Gardner likewise served in Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry, and Ephraim Finlaw Gardner served with Co. G, 208th Pennsylvania Infantry.
(Civil war service courtesy of Dennis Brandt # 47232334)
* His death certificate, for which his daughter Mary Stock was the informant, gives his mother's maiden name as Susan Shadow. On the basis of the 1850 Wheatfield Twp. and 1860 Miller Twp. Perry County census that includes a brother Reuben S. mentioned in his obit, his mother was Elizabeth Shatto.
Reference:
a. Kapp, James Edward; Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Perry County (1820-1870), p. 114. Perry County Historians Accession 6687 (marriage to Mary Gable)
b. Ancestry.com: Pennsylvania Death Certificates - Berks County, Reading # 18457
c. Census: 1880 Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, Harrisburg
Married Mary Ann Gable 6 December 1863. Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Married Malinda C. Cochran before 1880
Married Anna E. Pollinger 3 January 1900
Civil War Service
John enlisted in Newport, Perry County, August 20, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 18 as a corporal with Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer October 19, 1863, at Key West, Florida, promoted to sergeant September 18, 1864, and honorably discharged with his company December 25, 1865, at Charleston, South Carolina. He is recorded as discharged in October 1863, a technicality, as his original enlistment was for three years. He had to be discharged to re-enlist for the duration of the war.
He had three brothers who also served: Reuben Shatto and Jacob S. R. Gardner likewise served in Co. H, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry, and Ephraim Finlaw Gardner served with Co. G, 208th Pennsylvania Infantry.
(Civil war service courtesy of Dennis Brandt # 47232334)
* His death certificate, for which his daughter Mary Stock was the informant, gives his mother's maiden name as Susan Shadow. On the basis of the 1850 Wheatfield Twp. and 1860 Miller Twp. Perry County census that includes a brother Reuben S. mentioned in his obit, his mother was Elizabeth Shatto.
Reference:
a. Kapp, James Edward; Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Perry County (1820-1870), p. 114. Perry County Historians Accession 6687 (marriage to Mary Gable)
b. Ancestry.com: Pennsylvania Death Certificates - Berks County, Reading # 18457
c. Census: 1880 Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, Harrisburg
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