Gardner Wells

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Cemetery:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyallega/mthopecb4.html

Gardner married Ella Hobart. Ella (daughter of Lansing Hobart and Sylvia Diana Gleason) was born on 12 Apr 1853 in , Allegany Co, New York, USA; died on 13 Oct 1924; was buried in Friendship, Allegany Co, New York, USA (Mount Hope Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Cemetery:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyallega/mthopecb4.html

This may be the Gardner Wells that the town of Wellsville, NY is named for.

Email Received
From Don Adams romAdamsdross(at)aol.com
To Roz Edson mrsedson(at)gmail.com
Date Feb 17, 2011
Subject Gardner Wells
Roz,
"Wellsville, NY IS named for Gardner Wells, b.1800, whose wife was Lucy Stone.
I have more info. about Gardner and Wellsville, including the Town of Wellsville and the Village ....."
From "The Wellsville Story" by Hazel Shear.
The well-known story of how the village got it's name is given in the 1895 History of the COunty. Those present who gave it it's name,on that rainy night in 1832 were Silas Hills, Samuel Hills, Robert Wells, Reuben Kent, Daniel Tuttle, Asa Foster, Harmon Van Buren, Anthony and Cornelius Seeley and possibly others. Gardner Wells chose to remain home that night and while siting buy his fireside his friends and neighbors named the town Wellsville, in his honor.

Gardner married Lucy Stone. Lucy was born in 1803; died on 11 Oct 1867; was buried in Friendship, Allegany Co, New York, USA (Mount Hope Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Cemetery:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyallega/mthopecb4.html