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Joseph Edward "Ed" Gardiner, Sr. (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1823-06-17 d. 1889-11-22

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of T. Gardiner and E. Gardiner. Married to Martha J. Buckner Gardiner in Union County on February 13, 1855. Father of C. Rapier Gardiner, Ida L. Gardiner, William Gardiner, Arabella Gardiner, and Joseph E. Gardiner, Jr. Farmer in Nelson County in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860. Resident in Nelson County in 1863.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 292B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 208.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 115B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Precinct 10, p. 139B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, 1849-1882, Film #000562172, p. 197 of 308 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Find A Grave, "Joseph Edward Gardiner Sr. (1823-1889)," Memorial #6074248, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6074248 (accessed August 13, 2020).

Citation

Gardiner, Joseph Edward "Ed", Gardiner,. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210285 (November 12, 2026).

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