Descendants of Brittain GARDNER
 
First Generation
 
1. Brittain GARDNER was born 1 Apr 1775 in Northampton Co., NC. He died 1 Jan 1854 in Maury Co., TN.
Brittain married Emily Millicent DARDEN on 28 Jan 1804 in Southhampton Co., VA. Emily was born 7 Jan 1787 in Southhampton Co., VA. She died 5 Nov 1861 in Maury Co., TN.
They had the following children:

	2	F	i.	Narcissa GARDNER was born 1806. She died 1886 in Hickman Co., TN.
+	3	M	ii.	Jacob Darden GARDNER was born 1809.
	4	M	iii.	Henry GARDNER was born 1809.
	5	F	iv.	Sarah GARDNER.
	6	F	v.	Martha GARDNER. Martha married Artel HASSELL on 18 Dec 1845.
	7	M	vi.	Joshua Brittain Jr. GARDNER.
	8	M	vii.	Alfred GARDNER.
	9	M	viii.	Samuel GARDNER.
	10	M	ix.	Jerusha GARDNER.
	11	M	x.	Renfro GARDNER was born 1815.
	12	M	xi.	Nathan GARDNER was born 10 Aug 1817.
	13	F	xii.	Mary Darden GARDNER was born 4 Jul 1818. She died 6 Feb 1872. Mary married Elias MAYS.
	14	M	xiii.	John M. GARDNER Rev. was born 28 Aug 1822. He died 15 Jan 1904 in Maury Co., TN. John married Martha S. FOSTER on 5 Apr 1843 in Maury Co., TN. Martha was born 1825.

+	15	F	i.	Timpey R. GARDNER was born May 1855.
	16	M	ii.	Andrew Jefferson GARDNER was born 1838. Andrew married Olly L. GREY on 7 Apr 1858 in Maury Co., TN.
	17	M	iii.	Alfred A. GARDNER was born 22 Mar 1840 in Maury Co., TN. He died 21 Apr 1924 in Maury Co., TN. Alfred married Sarah Elizabeth GRAY on 31 Oct 1858 in Maury Co., TN.
	18	F	iv.	Parthenia C. GARDNER was born 1844 in Maury Co., TN. Parthenia married William B. GRAY on 9 Feb 1860 in Maury Co., TN.
	19	M	v.	Samuel Brittain GARDNER was born 18 Jan 1847 in Maury Co., TN. He died 14 Sep 1926 in Maury Co., TN. Samuel married Martha Emily BYRD 17 Sep 1865 in Maury Co., TN.
	20	F	vi.	Sarah Elizabeth GARDNER was born Jul 1852 in Maury Co., TN. Sarah married Thomas Clayton JARRATT on 7 Jun 1868 in Maury Co., TN.

 
 
Third Generation
 
15. Timpey R. GARDNER was born May 1855 in Santa Fe, Maury Co., TN.
Shown on the 1880 TN census as Tempa.
I found and entry in the Maury Co. History that shows a marriage record for William Connery(sic) to Timpey R. Gardner on 8 Dec 1871.
Timpey is belived to be a nickname for Temperance.
24 Feb 1997: I spoke with Mrs. Marise P. Lightfoot, County Historian for Maury Co. Tennessee. Mrs. Lightfoot is a retired school teacher.
She informed me that a Mrs. William Connelly, age 92, had just recently passed away, and that she had once dated a young man named Connelly.
Timpey married William L. CONNELLY, son of John Wesley CONNELLY and Mary KINCAID on 8 Dec 1871 in Maury Co. TN. William was born Sep 1847 in Burke Co. NC.
 
The 1880 Tennesee Census shows William Connelly, Wife Tempa, Daughter Partheena, son Wesley.
They are listed in Dist. 17 page 23.
Mrs. Marise Lightfoot, Maury Co. Historian, told me that district 17 was the Santa Fe Township (pronounced locally Santa "Fee") in Northwest Maury Co. and that there were Gardner familys living in this area including a Gardner Family Cemetery.
Mrs. Lightfoot passed away Mar 12, 1997.


William L. and Timpey had the following Children:

	21	F	i.	Parthenia CONNELLY was born about 1873 in TN.
+	22	M	ii.	Charles Wesley CONNELLY was born 12 Feb 1880 and died Aug 1933.
	23	M	iii.	Robert B. CONNELLY was born 27 Jan 1890/1896 in Tennessee. He died Aug 1967 in Oklahoma.
	24	F	iv.	Jennie Mary CONNELLY was born May 1897 in Tennessee.

 
 
Fourth Generation
 
22. Charles Wesley CONNELLY was born 12 Feb 1880 in Santa Fe, Maury Co., TN. He died Aug 1933 in Albany, Bryan Co., OK and was buried Aug 1933 in Highland, Cemetery, Durant, Bryan Co.
Charles Wesley Connelly was first married to Matella Parish. They are listed as living in Holford Township, Marshall Co. on the 1910 Oklahoma Census. They have two daughters, Buela M. age two years and Rosa L. age nine month in June 1910. C. W. Connelly is listed as a farmer and Matella is listed as a House Wife.
The family has moved to Kiersey Township, Bryan Co. Oklahoma on the 1920 Census. There are four children.
On Sunday 8 Jan 1922 C. W. Connelly along with daughters Buela and Rosa Lee are attending church services when there is a fire at home that claims the lifes of Matella and the two younger children.
 

Caddo Herald Bryan County, Oklahoma, January 13, 1922 page 1
(Gasoline Explosion Kills Three Persons)
While the elder children were at Sunday School and the father at his store last Sunday morning at Kersey, four miles west of Durant, two small children and their mother were so badly burned that they died in a short time. The mother, Mrs. C.W. Conley, started to light a fire in the cook stove, throwing on gasoline thinking it was coal oil. The flames quickly spread to her clothing and that of her two children. Hazel, aged 9, was conscious for a time, and told how the fire happened; then quietly passed into the beyond. Winnifred, aged 7, never got out of the house, while the mother and eldest sister did. Her dismembered and burned body was found in the debris. The mother lived only a short time. The father is postmaster and railway agent, and two sisters survive age 11 and 14. Kind neighbors quickly gathered and administered to the sufferers and to the survivors, doing all that human hands could do to relieve the pain and distress so quickly thrust upon this excellent family.
 
Durant Daily Democrat Monday January 9, 1922
(Fire From Gasoline Explosion takes lives of Mother and Two Daughters at Keirsey)
Fire, that awful agency of destruction, brought sadness and grief to the little town of Keirsey, five miles west of here and robbed the family of C.W. Conley of three of its loved ones yesterday morning. While two older sisters were at Sunday School yesterday morning and the father attending to his duties at the little railroad station, the lives of Winnifred, aged five, Hazel aged seven and Mrs. Conley were blotted out by a fire which destroyed their home. The charred little body of Winnifred was found in the dying embers of the fire, which destroyed the home. Hazel, her body a human torch, escaped (continued on page 3) of flames, and in one of the rooms was Winnifred, trapped before the eyes of the frantic but helpless neighbors.
When found her body was dismembered, her head in a wash pan, where it is believed she sought what little relief from the heat, the water in it afforded.
Hazel, her mind as far from death, her body so near, asked and answered questions while she passed quietly away as in sleep. Her mind abnormally clear, she asked, "Is sister burned as badly as I?" and "How is mother?" She knew and recognized her playmates by their voices. She knew Dr. J. A. Haynie, the family Physician, when he came in to dress her burns and told him of how the fire started. Mrs. Conley was conscious only at times, and she too, passed away without pain, the physician who attended her, said. Mr. Conley, who is a merchant, postmaster and depot agent at Keirsey, was frantic with grief, and but for the friends, would have rushed into the fire to certain death with his little girl. Friends from the entire community and surrounding towns rushed to the aid of the stricken family. All that loving hands and hearts could do was administered to those in pain and sorrow and in the sorely stricken father and sisters, Beulah, aged 14, and Rosa, aged 11, who were at Sunday school. Mr. and Mrs. Conley and their daughters were known as among the finest people of Bryan County.
They numbered their friends by those who knew them and the loss of their loved ones was a sad blow in hundreds. The sympathies of many hearts go out to the bereaved ones. The funeral was to have been held at Highland Cemetery this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

C. W. Connelly moved his two surviving daughters to Albany Township, Bryan Co. Oklahoma and purchases the grocery store.
Charles married (3rd) Ruby Elizabeth STALLINGS, daughter of John Benton (Red John) STALLINGS and Emily Christiana (Sissie) LIGON before 1929 in Albany, OK. Ruby was born 14 Oct 1900 in Albany, Bryan Co., OK. She died 3 Jan 1953 in Dallas, Dallas Co., TX.
 
Charles and Ruby had the following children:

	25	M	i.	Charles William CONNELLY Sr. was born 13 Oct 1929 in Albany, Bryan Co., OK. Charles married MaryFrances MCINTIRE, daughter of Thomas Hendricks MCINTIRE "Hendrix" and Zula Frances TODD on 1 Mar 1947 in Bonhamn, TX. Mary was born 23 Apr 1930 in Wade, Bryan Co., OK.
	26	F	ii.	Bobbie Lou CONNELLY was born 12 Feb 1931 in Albany, OK.

 
 
Charles also married (1st) Mattella G. PARISH. Mattella was born 10 Feb 1882 in Texas. She died 8 Jan 1922 in Kiersey, Bryan Co. OK.
They had the following children:

	27	F	iii.	Beula May CONNELLY was born 6 Dec 1907 in Holford, Marshall Co., OK. She died 17 May 1948 in Kingston, Marshall Co., OK.
	28	F	iv.	Rosa Lee CONNELLY was born 19 Jul 1909 in Holford, Marshall Co., OK. She died 22 Jun 1926 in Durant, Bryan Co., OK. and was buried 23 Jun 1926 in the Highland, Cemetery, Durant, Bryan Co.
	29	F	v.	Hazel B. CONNELLY was born 3 Feb 1914 in Holford, Marshall Co., OK. He died 8 Jan 1922 in Keirsey, Bryan Co., OK. and was buried 9 Jan 1922 in the Highland Cemetery, Durant, Bryan Co., OK.
	30	F	vi.	Winnifred M. CONNELLY was born 8 Apr 1916 in Holford, Marshall Co., OK. She died 8 Jan 1922 in Keirsey, Bryan Co., OK. and was buried 9 Jan 1922. Winnifred and Hazel are buried in a common grave in the Highland Cemetery, Durant, Bryan Co., OK.

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