Martha Melissa Gardner

Martha Melissa was born in 1874 in ,,Tennessee.¹ Martha Melissa's father was Henry Gardner and her mother was Sarah A. Ball. Her paternal grandparents were James Gardner and Anna Myers; her maternal grandparents were John Ball and Rebecca Kelly. She had five brothers and a sister, named John Wiley, Horace Tillman, Patrick Henry, Duncan, Jesse Robert and Rebecca Maude. She was the third oldest of the seven children. She died at the age of 93 in 1967.¹

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