"George Gardner married Catherine Dorsey in Baltimore Co., Maryland.  The Rev. Slingsby Lithicum (Methodist) officiated.  A Dorsey History published before her marriage to George gives her as a "spinster", at age 21!

George, the youngest of nineteen children, in his youth was interested in boating; living in Baltimore that would not be surprising.  When he came to Ohio isn't certain, but from various Ohio histories we learned that George was among the early settlers of Clayton Township.  When it was organized in 1810, it was a part of Muskingum County."

        From:   The Family of William Gardner (1736 - 1794) and Milkah Chaney Gardner  (1739 - 1794)
                                                                    by Mary H.Vry & Max J.Gardner

                                                                                   By A.A. Graham

 The Gardners were among the first settlers of Clayton Twp, Perry Co., about 1810 when it was a part of  Muskingum Co.   George Gardner organized the first M.E. Church in 1812.  He located at Rehoboth on the New Lexington road, became ordained and organized a circuit ministry which included  New Lexington, Uniontown and Somerset Churches. In 1818 a log church was constructed on the front part of the cemetery lot, a few rods south of the present site of Rehoboth on the Lexington Road.

Rehoboth Town was laid out in 1815 by John and George Gardner, then a part of  Muskingum Co.  It was originally recorded there on April 7, 1837.
On March 1, 1817 Perry Co. was formed out of part of Muskingum Co. and Washington and Fairfield Counties.    Uniontown   is located in Newton Twp., Muskingum Co.; New Lexington and Somerset are in Perry Co.  See Map

This township  map of Licking, Muskingum and Perry Counties covers the area where  my Gardner,Gordon, Hatcher, Storer    ancestors  settled when they arrived in Ohio

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George Gardner appears on the 1820 census for Clayton Twp., Perry County with two males under 10 and four females under 10 years of age.

On the 1830 census he is living in Rehoboth Town. He appears with two males 0 - 5, one male 5-10, one female 0-5 and two females 10 -15 years of age.

It is interesting to note that George and John Gardner are enumerated on the last two lines of the page for Rehoboth town where the total count for the town is tallied.  A total of 40 people were listed on that census.

Elizabeth Gardner, daughter of George and Catherine Gardner, married Jonathan Hatcher.They were living in this  house where their son  Isaiah was born. in 1837.  The family has a photo with the notation on the back that this was Isaiah Gardner Hatcher's birth place in Rehoboth, Ohio.

George Gardner apears on the1840 census for Licking County in Fallsbury Twp. In his household there are two males 10 -15 and onefemale 5 -10  and one female 50-60 years of age.(Catherine).

 Records of land transactions by George and Catherine Gardner extend from 1812 through 1841 in Ohio and include a land registration in Muskingum Co. dated October 19, 1814 for the NE ¼ of  S 33, T15, R 15 which contains 154.2 acres and  is  signed by President James Madison
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                                                                      S = section T = township R = range

George appears on the1850 census in Wayne Twp., Muskingum Co. pg. 406.

In 1855 he bought land in Iowa adjacent to the property of their son Joshua  in Jefferson Twp., Henry Co.(see Joshua's Letters )

Catherine died May 23, 1869 while they were living in Henry Co. She is buried in the Finley Cemetery in Henry Co., Iowa.

 After she died, George moved to Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa and is shown on the 1870 census living with daughter Julia Ann Anderson in Wayne Twp., Henry Co.

On the 1880 census he is shown back in Licking Co.and living in the household of daughter Rachel and her husband John Robinson.

George turned 94 years old on October 8, 1881.  About one hundred guests, family and friends, gathered to celebrate the occasion at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. J.R. Reed .  Mrs. Reed was  the Rev. George Gardner's  grandaughter.
                                                                     (Ref. American Tribune 1881)

George Gardner died August 28, 1885 in Fallsbury Twp., Licking Co. and is buried in the Perryton Cemetery, Perry Twp., Licking Co., Ohio. George Gardner's  Headstone and  Obituary
 

George and  Catherine Gardner had  11 children,  66 grandchildren, 63 great-grandchildren, and 7 great great-grandchildren
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