Albert Lanville Magner

Jennie Doris (Gager) Magner Family Tree

Jennie's Father, Jesse Jay Gager Parents

Jesse Jay Gager Parents
Mother: Sarah Eliza Bunnell  "Eliza"
Born: February 12, 1844 - Pennsylvania - Crawford County
Died: June 29, 1942 - Thayer, Kansas - Neosho county
Interment: Mount Hope Cemetery - Galesburg, Kansas - Neosho County

Married: December 23, 1861 - Preston, Minnesota - Fillmore County - Stanwix Hotel

Sarah "Eliza" had two brothers; Daniel C. and Milo, who never married and are buried in the Montana Cemetery, Montana, Kansas as are her parents; Harriett N. and Jessie A. Burnell.  She also had four sisters; Alma, Ella, Celinda and Phoebe.  Sarah was 16 years old when they married and moved to Kansas in 1867.  Elford and "Eliza" owned a 160-acre farm just 2 1/2 miles from Montana, Kansas.  Today the farm is part of the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant which is a few miles southeast of Parsons, Kansas.

Sarah "Eliza" gave birth to eight children with just three growing into adulthood.  after their eighth and last child, Charles H. died, Elford came home from the funeral and took the cradle to the woodpile and chopped it up saying "no more babies."

Source:  Noretta (Magner) Caldwell