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This work has been written for my/our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and on, and to my siblings and their children, with love, so that each may know one strand of the complex whole of his or her life. Each life has myriads of strands that twist together to make the thread of what composes one individual. Here I have attempted to relate what I remember and have gathered from others about those who made it possible for each of us to live. The following story of people and happenings are central to who I am and who all of you are or may become.
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Hearing friends talk about their ancestors and genealogical research prompted the author to wonder about her ancestors and started her on a journey that may never end. With the help of distant cousins contacted on the Internet, it was soon apparent that James Gardner of Butler County, Pennsylvania, was her great-great-great-grandfather. But there the trail grew cold. Where was he born and who were his parents? Was he part of the William and Sarah Gardner family that moved from Maryland to the wild frontier of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, either before or during the Revolutionary War? Most of the descendants of James and Martha "Molly" McAnallen Gardner married, had children and brought many other surnames to the Gardner family tree. Among those surnames are Ackerman, Brinkley, Cameron, Cann, Carson, Dover, Duffy, Fehrenbach, Grossman, Harriger, Hoge, Johnson, Mansfield, Marmie, McAnallen, Mershimer, Ott, Rohrer, Shoaf, Teal, Welsh and Wimer. With the help of more research and information from yet unknown cousins, this family tree will continue to grow and spread its branches. Perhaps we will even learn about the ancestors of James Gardner.
Wiley Hines Holden was born in Tennesse in 1820, the son of Joshua Holden and Mary Talley. He married Abigail Olmstead and died a young father of several children, including Martha Elizabeth, Catherine Irene, Caroline, John Wiley and Myrum. Other surnames include Hicks, Parry, Hullinger, Logan, Cook, Calder, Allred and Powell.