Her family tells Ann Gardiner”™s story via her own web site

Tales from
Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery

By Sue Hunter Weir

168^th in a Series

AnnGardiner

Ann Gall Gardiner has her own web page. Not all that unusual in these times, perhaps, but she is not from these times: She was born more than 200 years ago, on Jan. 20, 1817, in Kincardine, Scotland and died from tuberculosis in Minneapolis on May 31, 1886 when she was 67 years old.  

The epitaph “Gone, But Not Forgotten” is one that is commonly seen in cemeteries but it requires some effort to keep someone”™s memory alive.  Ann”™s descendants have done just that by creating a webpage where they have told her story (or as much of it as they know at this point in time) and more importantly, they have shared a remarkable photo of her.

Ann Gall married James Gardiner, a tinsmith, in Aberdeen, Scotland on Feb. 2, 1838. Between 1838 and 1863, they had 12 children, at least two of whom died before the family came to America.

On March 8, 1863, Ann was confirmed in the Church of the Latter Day Saints.  She and her husband left Scotland for the United States sometime between 1870 and 1877.… Read the rest “Her family tells Ann Gardiner”™s story via her own web site”