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Descendants of Louis Gardner

Generation No. 2

2. LOUIS J² GARDNER (LOUIS¹) was born September 30, 1839 in New Jersey, and died March 03, 1921 in Fredericksburg, Gilliespie Co, TX. He married BERTHA MARTHA ALTHAUS March 07, 1870 in Fredericksburg, Gilliespie, TX, daughter of JOHANN ALTHAUS and ANNA BEHRENS.

Notes for LOUIS J GARDNER:
Lived on San Antonio Street at age 70 with his wife who was 58 according to the April 19, 1910 census for Gillespie County. Louis's parents were also born in New Jersey. He died on March 3, 1921 and is buried in Der Friedhof Cemetery in Fredericksburg next to his wife Bertha Martha "Martha" Althaus. Louis came to Texas from New Jersey while serving in the Army. He served with the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War. During this time he was sent to Ft. Mason Scott to assist. It was during this period that he met my great grandmother Bertha Martha Althaus who was called Martha. He returned to New Jersey to be discharged from the Army, and returned to Fredericksburg to marry Martha. The artillery shells around his grave site were provided by my grandfather William Franklin Keyser.

Louis also had a brother named Phillip who was a minister. Phillip had visited him one time as it was reported in the paper. This information was provided by Flossie June Justi Reynolds,daughter of Susana Anna Icke and granddaughter of Ellen Gardner, Louis' daughter.

Today, 9 February 1999 I talked with the Gillespie County Clerks Office and found that Louis' middle initial on his death certificate is J not G as shown on his tombstone. I also found out that his parents names were Louis and Louisa Dickerson Gardner. I have requested his death certificate.

Notes for BERTHA MARTHA ALTHAUS:
The following is taken from page 9 of the Kirchen-Buch Church Record Book of the Vereins-Kirche 1849-1870:

To Christian Althaus was born by his wife Anna, nee Behrns, on 14 August a daughter who on 24 August was baptized and received the names; Bertha Martha. Baptismal witnesses were: Bertha Basse, Martha Marzil Doss, Annie Cegen Decker, Dietrich Rode.
Note: She was the 16th girl of 26 children confirmed so far that year. Also, note that the spelling of Behrns was incorrect.

According to my father William Scott Keyser, Sr., his grandmother Bertha Martha was shot and killed in 1937 by her neighbor. I am currently trying to locate newspaper articles in Fredericksburg to verify cause of death and who did it. "Martha" died April 11, 1937 and is buried in Der Friedhof Cemetery in Fredericksburg next to her husband Louis.

The Gillespie County Census of 1860 listed in Pioneers in God's Hill has her name listed as Mocy and sex as male. I suppose this was a childhood nickname and the census taker mistook it as a male name.

The 1910 census shows that Martha had 12 children of which 10 were still living at the time of the census.

Today, 9 February 1999, I talked with the Gillespie County Clerks office and confirmed that Bertha Martha's actual date of death was April 12, 1937 according to her death certificate. I have requested a copy since her tombstone shows it to be April 11.

Children of LOUIS GARDNER and BERTHA ALTHAUS are:

3.	i.	LENA³ GARDNER, b. Abt. February 1871.
4.	ii.	PHILLIP WILLIE GARDNER, b. July 16, 1872, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX; d. September 09, 1951, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX.
5.	iii.	LOUISE GARDNER, b. Abt. 1874, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX; d. January 26, 1920, San Antonio, Bexar Co, TX.
6.	iv.	CLARA D GARDNER, b. May 04, 1876, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX.
7.	v.	ELLEN D. GARDNER, b. April 01, 1878, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX; d. March 22, 1959, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX.
8.	vi.	JOHN C GARDNER, b. January 17, 1879, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX; d. October 26, 1947, San Antonio, Bexar, TX.
9.	vii.	AMOS GARDNER, b. 1884, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX.
10.	viii.	ANNA LAURA GARDNER, b. September 29, 1888, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie, TX; d. May 21, 1968, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX.
	ix.	GERTRUDE GARDNER, b. 1889, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX; d. 1963, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX; m. OTTO SPEIER, January 05, 1909, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX.

Notes for GERTRUDE GARDNER:
Buried at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Gillespie, TX next to her husband Otto Speier.

Notes for OTTO SPEIER:
Buried at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Gillespie, TX next to his wife Gertrude Gardner Speier.

11.

ESTELLA J. GARDNER, b. December 13, 1892, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX; d. December 01, 1981, Fredericksburg, Gilliespie CO, TX.

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