Gardner Conant Jr

  General Notes:

Gardner Conant
Birth: 1804
Death: 5 Nov 1882
Sex: M
Father:
Mother:
Residence: 1854 Geauga Co, OH
Spouses & Children
Mary Wood (Wife) b. 1822
Children:
Oren J Conan (born 30 Jan 1851in Geauga Co. OH)

"History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885
(bios)
OREN J. CONANT, farmer, P.O. Grove, Geauga County, was born in Geauga County, Ohio, January 30, 1851, son of Gardner and Mary (Wood) Conant, natives of Vermont, of English and French descent, respectively, who settled early in life in Geauga County, Ohio, and moved to this county in 1854, where they lived until their death. Mrs. Conant died December 16, 1875, aged fifty-three years, and Mr. Conant November 5, 1882, aged seventy-eight years. Our subject has never left the home farm, and here he now has 130 acres of well-improved land, containing good buildings, etc. He was married June 22, 1876, to Miss Stella F. Bancroft, of Nelson Township, this county, where she was born October 23, 1853, the daughter of Barnes K. and Anna (Chalker) Bancroft, natives of Massachusetts and Ohio respectively, and of English descent, who settled in an early day in this county, where Mr. Bancroft died in 1870 and his widow still resides. To Mr. and Mrs. Conant have been born one daughter - Jessie M., born May 24, 1879. In politics our subject is a Democrat.


1830 Welshfield, Geauga County, Ohio -
Gardner Conant Jr HOH
1 male 0-5; 1 male 5-10; 1 male 20-30
1 female 0-5; 1 female 20-30

1840 Troy, Geauga County, Ohio
Gardner Conant HOH
1 male 5-10; 1 male 10-15; 1 male 30-40; 1 male 70-80 [born 1760-1770]
1 female 10-15; 1 female 30-40

Notes
Gardner and Mary (Wood) Conant, natives of Vermont, of English and French descent, respectively, who settled early in life in Geauga Co, Ohio, and moved to this county in 1854, where they lived until their death. Mrs. Conant died December 16, 1875, aged fifty-three years, and Mr. Conant November 5, 1882, aged seventy-eight years.

1850 Troy, Geauga County, Ohio
Gardner Conant b.1806 Vermont; farmer; worth $1400.00
Mary age 26 b. 1824 PA
Harriet age 2 b.1848 Ohio
Two others in household: John Woods age 2 b. PA and George Bosley age 10 born OH.

1860 Portage County, Ohio
Gardner Conant age 532 1807
Mary age 36 1824
Harriet age 12 1848
Aurin J. age 8 1852
George W. age 6 1854
Mary J age 4 1856
Alice M. age 6 mos 1859

1870 Portage County, Vermont
Gardner CONANT 1807 Vermont
Mary 1824
Oren J 1851
George 1855
Mary J 1857
Alice M. 1860

1880 census Dorset, Ashtabula County, OH has the following HH. this same man still living in Dorset as of 1900 at age 81.
Gardner b. c 1819 VT; parents born MA
(wife)Mary E. c1841 NY
(son)Freddie L. c1869 OH

Gardner married Mary Wood. (Mary Wood was born in 1822 in Vermont and died on 16 Dec 1875 in Portage County, Ohio.)