SIXTH GENERATION

58. Phillip GARNER was born on 11 Oct 1808 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He was buried in Sep 1872 in Teton City, Fremont, Idaho. He died on 16 Sep 1872 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was baptized into the LDS church on 3 Nov 1964. He has reference number 1BNW-ZH.
PHILLIP GARNER
1806 - 1672

Phillip Garner was born 11 October 1808 in Rowan County, North Carolina to David and Jane Stephens Garner. On the 4th of April 1830 he married Mary Hedrick. He was inbred with the pioneer spirit and very readily partook of the spirit to "go west" and claim the great outdoors.

In 1830 he and his wife left North Carolina and passed through Ohio into Indiana where Sarah was born in 1832 in Jackson County, Indiana and in 1633 Henry was born in the same county. The third child, David W., was born in Morgan County, Indiana 13 August 1614. Soon after his birth the family moved on into Pottowattamie County, Iowa and from there to Hancock County, Illinois, where five children
i.e. Jane, Fred, Martha, Asael and Roena were born.

During his residence in Illinois he passed through the trying scenes that befell the Church and was among those driven from Nauvoo and accompanied them to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Here with the other exiles he was making preparations to come with the Saints to the West when the United States Government made the call for volunteers to go to the Mexican border to protect the country. Phillip was among those ready and willing to serve and joined the Mormon battalion. July 16, 1846 he enlisted and Left his wife and eight children in a covered wagon--five of them sick in bed and not enough food to last them a month. His wife, Mary, said that was the hardest trial she had ever passed through during all the persecutions and strivings. The suffering she passed through caused her to feel as though her heart would break. Phillip's brothers David and William also enlisted at that time. Joseph L., another son was born in Council Bluffs, 27 November 1846, after the battalion had left. while Phillip was on picket duty in Santa Fe, he fell into a deep ravine and was so badly injured he could net continue the march and was returned to Pueblo where he remained that winter and then returned to Council Bluffs the next spring.

He came to Utah in the George Albert Smith Company and arrived 25 October 1849. They spent the first winter near Bountiful, and in the spring took up a farm in Ogden--from the City hall square west to the depot about 30 or 40 acres. His first home was where the City hall stands. He gave up this town site and took up an acre Lot on the corner of 27th and Adams and built a home. He assisted in building the Old Fort. He always had a good team and was in all hard work and improvements.

Being an unselfish pioneer he was public spirited and gave freely of his time and service by furnishing teams to assist the immigrants to Utah. A farmer by nature, he was one of the first to take up and farm land in what is now known as Birch Creek. It was on this farm that the first alfalfa was grown in this part of Utah.

The Garner-Stephens ditch was so named because of the service He rendered in its construction thus bringing water to farmers in that area.

When he moved on the farm the Indians camped en the hill between them and came in numbers from 2 to 500 for weeks at a time. He was well acquainted with Old Jack Big Ute, a Large Indian, and Bush Head. Uncle Phil (son of Phillip) said he had witnessed their war dances and pow wows at night many times. One time Uncle David (son of Phillip) got into a mix with two Indians as follows--the Indians turned horses into the field. He ordered them out and a fight ensued.

At the time of the Echo War, the family moved south and camped way below Payson. They Left in the spring and returned in the fall. Three more children were born in Weber County: Phillip 6 May 1850, William F. 3 June 1852, and John A. 11 September 1856.

Phillip Garner was endowed in Nauvoo, Illinois, 6 February 1846. He was ordained a High Priest 26 January 1851 by President Brigham Young and was made a member of the first High Council of Weber Stake 26 January 1851.

Grandma Mary Hedrick said "When Brigham Young took Joseph Smith's place you couldn't tell him from Joseph."

Phillip Garner died at the age of 64, 16 September 1872 at Ogden, Utah. His father, David, died in Iowa 3 September 1872, just thirteen days prior at the age of 104.

The information in this sketch has been contributed by his children and written in notes by Horace E. Garner. It was compiled in the above form by Lolabell Oleson, 14 July 1958.

He was married to Mary HEDRICK on 4 Apr 1830 in Rowan County, North Carolina.

59. Mary HEDRICK was born on 25 Sep 1811 in Rowan County, North Carolina. She was baptized into the LDS church in 1841. She was endowed on 6 Feb 1846. She was buried in Mar 1892 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. She died on 3 Mar 1892 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. She has reference number 1BNX-0M. MARY HEDRICK GARNER
1811 - 1892

Mary Hedrick was born 25 September 1811, at Davis County, North
Carolina to Francis Hedrick and Elizabeth Howard. She claimed to be
Pennsylvania Dutch.

When twenty years old, she was married to Phillip Garner, son of
David Garner and Jane Stephens. Shortly after their marriage they
moved to Jackson County, Indiana, where they lived for a number of
years. During their residence in this state three children were born
to them--Sarah, Henry and David W. They subsequently moved to Adams
County, Illinois where, in the summer of 1841, Mary Hedrick was
baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In
1845, with her family, she moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where she remained
until the Mormon exodus in the winter of 1846, which expulsion from her
peaceful home she shared in common with the whole church at that time.

With her family she reached Council Bluffs at the time the call was
made by the government of the United States for five hundred "Mormon"
men to march to Mexico to defend the flag of our nation. Her husband,
Phillip Garner, volunteered and with the battalion on 16 July 1846,
participated in that historical expedition. He was absent from them
for fifteen months, during which time Mary was left with a family of
eight children, the oldest of whom was a daughter, Sarah, fourteen
years of age. The next in age to her was a son, Henry, who was sick
and not expected to live.

The orders for the battalion to march at once were imperative and
the husband had no time to provide any other shelter for the family
except a canvas covered wagon. But this was the common lot of
thousands who had been expelled from their homes and left destitute in
the land of wild beasts and Indians.

During the march of the battalion, Phillip had the misfortune one
very dark night to fall into a ravine. He fell across his musket,
breaking two of his ribs, and also inflicting other internal injuries.
He never fully recovered from the effects of this fall. In 1847 he
returned from the battalion to his family in Iowa, and in 1849 the
family crossed the plains in the George A. Smith Company.

On arriving in Utah they came north and settled where Ogden City
is now built, but which at that period was a barren and sterile section
of the country. Here, however, they remained, fighting crickets,
grasshoppers, snakes and Indians. The Latter, indeed, they conquered
by kindness, realizing that it was more cheaply, easily, and
effectively accomplished by feeding them than by fighting them with
carnal weapons.

They labored earnestly and assiduously to subdue the elements and cultivate the land until they established a home where they struggled and grew with the growth of the destined commercial center of these mountain regions.

Mary Garner departed this life full of years and good works. She was a dutiful wife, an affectionate mother, and a tried, true and trusted friend. She was quick to recognize and appreciate the good qualities in all with which she associated, and thus, she passed through Life without creating enemies, preferring to suffer wrong than to do wrong. She was never happier than when she was contributing to the happiness of others.

Her death occurred 3 March 1892 in Ogden City. She was the mother of twelve children--eight sons, and four daughters. She had ninety-two grandchildren, eighty-four great grandchildren, one hundred eight-eight in all, and her posterity is still increasing.








Children were:

i. Sarah A. GARNER was born on 18 Jan 1832 in Jackson County, Indiana. She was endowed on 10 Jun 1856. She died on 12 Aug 1906 in Logan, Cache, Utah. She was baptized into the LDS church on 10 Oct 1967. She has reference number 8R56-X1.
ii. Henery GARNER was born on 13 Feb 1833 in Vincennes, Knox, Indiana. He was endowed on 4 Feb 1865. He died on 5 Apr 1920 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was buried on 9 Apr 1920 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He has reference number 4718-4H.
iii. David W. GARNER was born on 13 Aug 1834 in Morgan County, Indiana. He was endowed on 9 Mar 1858. He died on 5 Jul 1900 in Huntsville, Weber, Utah. He was buried on 7 Jul 1900. He has reference number 1BNX-QF.
29 iv. Elizabeth Jane GARNER.
v. Fredrick GARNER was born on 13 Oct 1837 in Lima, Hancock, Illinois. He was baptized into the LDS church on 23 Jul 1848. He was endowed on 17 Sep 1864. He died on 2 May 1920 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was buried on 4 May 1920 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was sealed to parents on 1 Apr 1947. He has reference number 4QHS-FQ.
vi. Martha Ann GARNER was born on 18 Jan 1840 in Lima, Hancock, Illinois. She was baptized into the LDS church in 1848. She was endowed on 17 Sep 1864. She died on 3 Jul 1923 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. She was buried on 8 Jul 1923 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. She was sealed to parents on 1 Apr 1947. She has reference number 1BNX-SR.
vii. Ascel Smith GARNER was born on 18 Apr 1843 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. He was endowed on 17 Feb 1865. He died on 6 Jun 1911 in Wilford, Fremont, Idaho. He was sealed to parents on 1 Apr 1947. He was baptized into the LDS church on 10 Oct 1967. He has reference number 1BNX-TX.
viii. Roemma GARNER was born on 7 Apr 1845 in Carthage, Hancock, Illinois. She was baptized into the LDS church on 3 Oct 1878. She died on 15 Apr 1938 in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho. She was buried on 18 Apr 1938 in Sugar City Cemetery, Sugar City, Madison, Idaho. She was sealed to parents on 1 Apr 1947. She has reference number 1HFN-VM.
ix. Rosemary GARNER was born on 17 Apr 1845 in Carthage, Hancock, Illinois. She was baptized into the LDS church on 26 May 1945. She was endowed on 24 Oct 1945. She has reference number 2KPP-TL.
x. Joseph Lafayette GARNER was born on 22 Nov 1846 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. He was baptized into the LDS church in 1858. He was buried in May 1928. He died on 8 May 1928 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was sealed to parents on 1 Apr 1947. He has reference number 1BNX-W9.
xi. Philip GARNER JR. was christened in 1850 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was born on 5 May 1850 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He died on 11 Mar 1935 in Burch Creek, Weber, Utah. He was buried on 14 Mar 1935 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was baptized into the LDS church on 26 Jun 1936. He was sealed to parents on 1 Apr 1947. He has reference number 29VS-82.
xii. William Franklin GARNER was buried on 8 Sep 1810. He was born on 5 Jun 1852 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was baptized into the LDS church on 6 Jul 1865. He died on 6 Sep 1910 in Sugar City, Madison, Idaho. He has reference number 3VKK-5T.
xiii. John Albert GARNER was born on 11 Sep 1856 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He was baptized into the LDS church on 6 Jul 1865. He was endowed on 24 Nov 1881. He died on 3 May 1941 in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho. He was buried on 7 May 1941. He was sealed to parents on 1 Apr 1947. He has reference number 1BNX-ZM.

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