Paris Cleveland "Cleve" Gardner

Family/Spouse: Annie Tazwell Lloyd. Annie was born in in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina; died on 2 Sep 1986 in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lloyd William Gardner was born on 20 May 1924 in Gaston, NC; died on 29 Aug 1992 in Durham, NC.
2. Scott Cleveland Gardner was born on 5 Jun 1929 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
3. Tommy Beam Gardner was born on 20 Sep 1933 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 30 Mar 2010 in Jacksonville, North Carolina; was buried on 8 Apr 2010 in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.

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• Cemetery: Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Cleveland County, NC
• Occupation: Farmer

Leonidas married Mary Angleline Wellmon on 14 Dec 1884. Mary (daughter of William Riley Wellmon and Rebecca Gladden) was born on 7 Jan 1864 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 25 Nov 1927 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; was buried in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Cleveland County, NC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Cleveland County, NC

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• Military Service: Civil War (CSA)

Notes:

From Clevelamd Gardner's notes: Thomas Gardner like many others in Cleveland County enlisted in the Confererate Army at the beginning of the Civil War. He was wounded at the battle of Sharpsburg and his injury was serious enough that he had to return home for a time to recover. Once strong again he returned to his company. He was seen to fall of a wound at the battle at Gettysburg. He was never seen or heard from since. After first considered wounded and missing he was later declared killed in action. He was probably burried in a mass grave there.

Military Service:
Promoted to Sgt 1 Aug 1862. Present and accounted for until wounded at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 Sep 1862. Returned home to recover from his wounds. Returned to service Jan-Feb 1863. Missing and probably killed at Gettysburg. Mary, his widow, applied for pension 27 Jun 1885.

Thomas married Mary Jane Williams on 20 Mar 1855. Mary (daughter of William (Buck) Williams and Mary (Polly) Wellmon) was born on 3 Jan 1829 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 18 Dec 1924 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Cleveland County, NC

Notes:

In 1870 Mary Jane is living with her mother along with her brother Jacob and his family. Her brother is incorrectly listed in the census as a female.

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC
• Military Service: Civil War CSA

Notes:

From P. Cleveland Gardner's notes: He bought a farm just South of his father's homestead upon which he and his wife settled and reared a large family. Some years later he erected a large two story house just West of where he first settled, which residence is occupied by his son and known as the Wellmon Homestead. His father died will still in the prime of life and left a large family, and he administered upon the estate of his father and purchased the interest of the several heirs and took care of his mother who lived to of old age. He is buried in the family plot with his father.

Military Service:
William served in the military in 56th Regiment NC Infantry CO F The 56th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in July 1862, at Camp Magnum, near Raleigh, NC. Its members were recruited in the counties of Camden, Cumberland, Pasquotank, Northampton, Orange, Cleveland, Alexander, Rutherford, and Mechlenburg. It fought at Gum Swamp, Plymouth, and Drewry"s Bluff, endured the hardships of the Petersburg trenches south of the James River, and saw action around Appomattox. The regiment had 149 men captured at Gum Swamp, lost 4 killed and 84 wounded at Plymouth, and reported 90 causualties at Ware Bottom Church. Many were disabled at Sayler's Creek, and only 9 Officers and 62 men surrendered with the army of Northern Virginia.

William married Rebecca Gladden on 13 Feb 1849. Rebecca (daughter of Squire John L. Gladden and Patience (Patsy) Hardin) was born on 28 Oct 1831 in Rutherford County, North Carolina; died on 15 Nov 1876 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC

Notes:

From P. Cleveland Gardner's notes: They had some twenty-one children, twelve of whom lived to marry and raise children.

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• Cemetery: Gardner Homestead, Cleveland County, NC

Notes:

From Clevelamd Gardner's notes: William Gardner and wife settled on Vaughn's Creek lying southeast and adjoining that of his father. Here the young Gardner aquired a large plantation lying on the east side of First Broad River and extending down the river below Double Shoals. This included the later home place of Dick and Schenck Spangler. His youngest daughter Nancy Gardner Crowder and her husband later lived here. This property was later owned by by Dick Spangler. During September 1847 William Gardner and all his family were ill with typhoid fever. William died on Sunday the 12th and his daughter Jane died the following Sunday. He was 46 and Jane was 17. They were buried next to each other on this farm.

Cemetery:
This cemetery can be reached from Lawndale, NC by going east on NC 182 until you are about out of Lawndale and then making a right turn onto Ball Park Road. Go out Ball Park Rd. about a mile until you start to go into a curve to the left and there you turn right onto Power House Road. Go about two tenths of a mile out this road and find a paved drive to the right. This drive has a gate that might or might not be closed. The cemetery is at the top oh the little hill on the right side of the road, There is junk all over the cemetery and several pretty large trees. There is evidence of several other graves but only two that can be read. This is one of those really sad cemeteries.

William married Rebecca Beam on 4 Sep 1827. Rebecca (daughter of Martin Beam, Sr. and Elizabeth Alexander) was born in 1806; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: New Bethel Church Cemetery, Lawndale, Cleveland, North Carolina, USA

William married Mary (Polly) Wellmon. Mary (daughter of William Wellmon and Nancy (Peggy) Moss) was born on 17 Aug 1789; died on 16 Aug 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: New Bethel Church Cemetery, Lawndale, Cleveland, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

Birth:
From Tombstone

Cemetery:
She was a member of the Baptist Church for Seventy years.

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC

Notes:

Buried in family plot off Zion Church Road on Wilson-Cornwell Road.

William married Rebecca R. Weathers on 7 Nov 1816 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Rebecca (daughter of Willis Weathers and Polly Mary Lynn) was born on 9 Aug 1797; died on 26 Jul 1879 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC

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Married:
Witness on marriage record Willis Weathers and Thomas Martin

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• Cemetery: Gladden Family Cemetery
• Occupation: Public School Teacher : Singing School Teacher : Justice of the Peace

Notes:

John L. and Patience Hardin Gladden lived above Shelby, NC on the 1st Broad River near Double Shoals and Lithia Springs.

From notes of P. Cleveland Gardner written in the early 1930's:
According to reliable family tradition John L. Gladden was born in South Carolina, probably just across state line adjoining Cleveland County, North Carolina, and his mother died when he was ten (10) days old, leaving him with his father. And his father placed him with James Lucus and wife Rebecca Lucus. In the old family bible of John L. Gladden, now in the possession of his grandson, Ansil C. Gladden of Blacksburg, South Carolina, Route #1, we find the following record in the hand writing of John L. Gladden, to wit: "Rebecca Lucus died July 26, 1838, age 73 years"; "James Lucus died November 19, 1841, age 78 years, 7 months, and 14 days". It is not known at present time just where this Lucas family lived. However it is possible that the Lucas family lived at the old Botts homestead some three miles north of Shelby in Cleveland County, since there is an old grave yard on this place in which members of a Lucas family were buried, and in which John L. Gladden and his wife , Patience Hardin , werer buried. John L. Gladden was a man of unusual natural ability, with a mind trained and developed far superior to that of almost any man of his community during his time. Evidently the Lucus family which reared him were well educated, and hense provided an opportunity for schooling the infant child placed in their custody. John L. Gladden was the most prominent pubic school teacher, and singing school teacher, of his day. Also, he was for many years Justice of the Peace, and member of the court of "Pleas and Quarter Session", of Cleveland County. He was "attorney and counselor" for the people of his community. He probably drafted more wills, deeds, mortages and liens, and married more people, than any other one man of the community in which he lived. Following his first marriage it seems that he settled at what is now known as the old Botts homestead North of Shelby in No. Six Township. He later resided one mile west of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church on No. Nine Township, now known as the old homestead of the late A. Dillard Hamrick. Here he owned a farm and lived during the civil war, and kept post office, the office being kept in his home. I understand that the name of the Post Office was "Beams Mill". This post office when first established was kept at the home of Andy Beam on Buffalo Creek some two miles Northeast of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, and took its name from the late Andy Beam who owned and operated a corn mill and other machinery on said creek. The post office kept by John L. Gladden in his home during the war was the only post office in the entire community for miles around. He was living here when his first wife died, and he carried her back to the old Lucas grave yard on the Botts farm and buried her there. He was buried by the side of his first wife.

John married Patience (Patsy) Hardin on 26 May 1819 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Patience was born on 15 Aug 1802 in North Carolina; died on 6 Feb 1868 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Gladden Family Cemetery