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Show Reuben Gardner Advised of Birth of First Great-Grandchild Reuben Gardner of Pine Valley was just advised over the week end of the birth of his first greatgrandchild. great-grandchild. The infant is the child of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Jones and was born in Indianapolis, Ind. This makes the baby a great-great-grandchild of Robert Gardner, Gard-ner, prominent as the first bishop of the Dixie cotton mission, es-tablisher es-tablisher of lumber and other mills, and the man who wielded his great broad, axe in dressing the first 300 feet of timber for the sound board of the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ from a tree which he felled on this Pine Val ley mountain. The pattern of Robert Gardner's family is intricate but interesting, along with that of William Snow, another pioneer of Dixie, who settled in Pine Valley. The two men were close friends, and reared large families in Pine Valley. Six of Robert Gardner's children married mar-ried six of William Snow's children. child-ren. All six couples lived to celebrate cele-brate their 50 years of married life. Five of them were married 56 years before death caused a break in the circle, and two couples have now been married 60 years. With the birth of this baby to Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Jones, all but one man of the six lived to see their own greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. That was Jeter Snow, who died several years ago. A total of 64 children were born to the six couples, making an average of 10 and two-thirds children child-ren per family. Many of the descendants, de-scendants, like their grandsires, are active in civic and religious affairs, af-fairs, and at the present time each family boasts a bishop or a bishop's bish-op's counselor tn their membership. member-ship. Perhaps few, even of the early pioneer families can match this record. |