My Genealogy Hound

ANDREW GARNER, lately deceased, was an intelligent and enterprising farmer who resided in township 6, range 7, Randolph County. He was a native of the Fatherland, and was born September 12, 1832. He was the second child in order of birth in a family of three children born to George and Magdalena (Helmana) Garner. The parents emigrated to the United States in 1851, locating in this county, where they died.

Our subject attended the model schools of his native country, and after coming to America commenced farming on his own account. He was then twenty-one years of age, and he became one of the leading farmers of the county. The neat and attractive estate comprises two hundred fertile acres, on which he carried on general farming and stock-raising. On the place are to be found all the requisites necessary for conducting successful farming, and the many outbuildings are adequate for the care of the grain and stock. In 1860 he erected a cooper shop on his farm and employed a number of men to make flour barrels, which enterprise was very successful.

In the year 1854 Mr. Garner was united in marriage with Catherine Denninger, who was a native of Germany, and who came to Illinois in an early day with her parents. She bore her husband four children, all of whom yet survive: Emma, who is the wife of Baty Schultz and lives in St Louis; Jane, who is the wife of John McDonald, and resides on a farm near Ellis Grove; Christian who married Ella Humphry, and is a farmer near Ellis Grove; and Anna, the wife of William Schoeppel, residents of Ellis Grove. On September 1, 1892, the wife and mother passed to the land of rest, and Mr. Garner moved from his farm to Ellis Grove, where he lived with his youngest daughter until death called him to rest, January 10, 1894. Neither Mr. Garner nor his wife were members of a church. He was a member of Kaskaskia Lodge No. 86, F. & A. M., and politically cast his vote for the candidates of the Democratic party.