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Andrew Jackson Garner and Eliza Jane Carr Garner

From Proud Heritage, Vol. 1 by DCPA, not currently in print.

Andrew Jackson Garner was born in 1810 in Tennessee and died in 1902 in Dallas County, Texas. He was buried in the Wesley Chapel Church Cemetery, and his grave was later moved to the Wheatland Cemetery. He married Eliza Jane Carr in Greenfield, Missouri February 28, 1844. She was born 1831 in Kentucky, died 1905 in Dallas County, Texas. She was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Jane Carr. She was a charter member of the First Methodist Church in Duncanville, Texas in 1883.

Their children were: Margaret born August 11, 1841, Arkansas (from a previous marriage); Elizabeth Jane born 1848, Missouri, died 1929, married Josiah Switzer; William C. born August 7, 1849, died April 20, 1870; Nancy A. born 1852, Texas; Allen born 1854, Texas; Rachael D. born July 15, 1855, Texas, died January 14,Missouri, 1838, married John Hastings; Grace G. born 1855, Texas married Will Hale; Henry R. born September 29, 1859, Texas, died July 1, 1930; Frederick L. born 1860, Texas, died 1884, married Nannie B. Lester; Martha born 1863; Mary L. born 1863; Sarah S. P. born 1865; Eliza born 1867; Cordelia born September 7, 1868, died September 5, 1939, married Charles P. Nancy (first Postmaster of Duncanville).

Andrew and Eliza Jane divorced in 1882. She is buried in Wheatland Cemetery. Family Legend says that Andrew Jackson Garner fell off a hay wagon at age 92 or he would still be active.

Andrew served in the Mexican War with Co. F, 3 Reg’t, Mo. Mtd. lnf. as a private.

By Fred Harrington, Duncanville