Gardner Wells

1800 - 1868  (68 years)

• Name	Gardner Wells
  Born	1800
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Dec 1868
  Buried	Friendship, Allegany Co, New York, USA (Mount Hope Cemetery)
  Person ID	I30614	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2011

  
  

  Family	Lucy Stone,   b. 1803,   d. 11 Oct 1867  (Age 64 years)
  Children	1. Gardner Wells,   b. 7 Nov 1840,   d. 23 Sep 1915  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009
  Family ID	F12181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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.