Marquis GARDNER

  General Notes:

Marquis gained local fame by killing a 900 lb. bear. In 1820, Marquis Gardner, Joseph Philbric and Stephen Doty, Sr., with a son of the same name, came into Lincoln. Gardner had come to Peru in 1816 with his father, John Gardner, from Virginia. The head of the family was a Scotchman, and came over as one of the British troops in the war of the Revolution, and was with Cornwallis at the surrender of Yorktown. Pleased with the country, lie determined to make it his home, and did not return to his native land. He settled in Virginia 1 and afterward emigrated to Peru, where he died. About 1820, Joseph Philbric, a native of Maine, came into this township and bought some two hundred acres of land in the southern part of the township; soon after, Marquis Gardner, who was related to Philbric by marriage, came to the latter's place, and, later, bought the property, where his son Robert now lives. This part of the township at that time was sparsely settled, and it is related that the Gardners were obliged to invite the settlers living within a radius of eight miles about, to raise their buildings. Doty was a native of Maine, and first "squatted" on the school lands in Harmony, but in a short time bought the land now owned by Collins Buck. Appleton Snell, from Maine, and James McConica, an Irishman, came into the settlement, and, marrying daughters of Mrs. Hubbell, built cabins and became members of the little community. Sarah Gardner b. abt. 1850 is she a grand daughter of Marquis, or who is she? She is listed in one of theMorrow Co. Ohio census with Marquis and2nd. wife Lura would be too old to be having children in 1850
Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Perry, Morrow, Ohio; Roll: M593_1247; Page: 444; Image: 360.

Marquis married Mary PHILBROOK on 1 Jul 1816 in Prob. Delaware Co. Ohio. (Mary PHILBROOK was born on 12 Apr 1797, died on 8 Feb 1838 in South Woodbury, Peru, Morrow, Ohio, USA and was buried in South Woodbury ME Cem, Peru, Morrow, Ohio.)

Marquis next married Lura HYDE, daughter of Andrew HYDE and Rebecca GALPIN, on 28 Mar 1839 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States. (Lura HYDE was born on 17 Nov 1795 in Massachusetts, USA, died on 2 Nov 1872 in South Woodbury, Peru, Morrow, Ohio, USA and was buried in South Woodbury ME Cem, Peru, Morrow, Ohio.)