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Descendants of John Cordner

Generation No. 2


2. WILLIAM2 CORDNER (JOHN1) was born Abt. 1780 in Cordner Palace of Galloway, Scotland, and died in of Cordner Palace, Lurgan, Armagh County, Ireland. He married ALICE MCCLELLAND Abt. 1799 in Galloway, Scotland, daughter of ALEXANDER MCCLELLAND and AGNES. She was born Abt. 1780 in Castle Kirkcudbright, Galloway, Scotland, and died in of Cordner Palace, Lurgan, Armagh County, Ireland.

Notes for W
ILLIAM CORDNER:
Here is the story I found about our Cordner family called "THE CORDNER PALACE"
In Lurgen County, north of Belfast, Ireland which is a part of Scotland, called North Scotland, there was standing a Palace which belonged to the Cordners. The last name that I can ascertain who lived there was a William Corner, and so far as I know his descendents still live there. This Palace was still standing during World War II, in 1945, but the Government of Great Britain had taken it and turned it into an apartment house and taken the beaufiful and spacious lawns and gardens and turned them into truck farms.
NOTES: John Cordner Born in Northeast Ireland in the year 1800. Married Mary Elizabeth Gilmore in 1825. Came to Philadelphia in 1826. To them was born one son, John Frederick, Oct. 27 1826. I don't recall when seh died, but think it was after they moved to Flushing Ohio, Where he built a woolen factory; with water power, on a farm which he bout, I would say, 1 1/2 miles nortwest of town. anyway, my father (J.F. Cordner) was foreman in the factory when he was sixteen years old.
When he was eighteen years old, he built the new factory, which was a large, frame building, old-fashioned mill construction, with huge hewn posts and braces. A local builder had hewn out all the timbers on the home place, during the winters of 1842-43, and 1843-44, and it was carefully stacked on the site.
Then he had so much work, he said he could not build it until 1845. Granfather was sorely disappointed. Father, who was almost 18, told him he could do it. Which caused a smile. but when he made a drawing showing every part in measured detail, granfather told him to get the needed tools and some help and go to it.
The old carpenters all came to the ":raising" to "see the fun", but every piece went to place perfectly. So if there was any joke, it was on them.
I never saw a more perfect job of framing. He finished it up and powered it with steam. The water was insufficiennt and growing less. The last time I saw it was in 1873, when grandfather died, and I was 16.
JOHN FREDERICK CORDNER

William Cordner was the father of John Cordner, born in 1800 at the Cordner Palace so far as I have been able to trace. John Cordner married Mary Elizabeth Gilmore, I do not know if they were married at the Palace or in a church but shortly after their marriage they set sail for America; and lived in Philadelphia where John Frederick Cordner was born October 27, 1826. There may have ben more children, I only know of two, Adam and Margaret. John Cordner owned and operated the first water powered weaving mill in the United Statesof America. They lived at Middletown, Ohio where several children were born; they also lived at Flushing, Barnesville and Cadiz; later moving to Illinois. He made fine linen, blue and white bedspreads, pineapple and rose design; John Frederick his son was foreman of the factory at the age of 16.
John Frederick Cordner, October 27, 1826 to 1900 was married in 1847 to Elizabeth Norris, she died in Marietta, Ohio before she was 40 of peritonitis. To this union were born several children, four reached maturity:
I Mary Elizabeth Cordner born in 1849
II Anna Mae Cordner born in 1855
III John Gilmore cordner born in 1857
IV Nelson Andrew Cordner born in 1859 he married the sedond time to Mrs. Martha Lance Gamble and to this union was born one daughter:
V Adella Elizabeth Cordner born in 1870
after the death of his second wife, he married a thir time to Mrs. Maria Taylor, she is buried on the Allen Lot at Uniontown Cemetary neary Farmington, Illinois; no children were born to this union.
John Frederick Cordner is buried in the Uniontown Cemetary, due west of Farmington, Illinois. There is no marker on his grave, but he is buried beneath a huge pine tree that was still standing in 1957 as was the house he built a short distance west of the cemetery, where he once owned and operated a blacksmith shop. the house is now gone and the blacksmith shop has been gone many years. I do not know where his first wife is buried.
Father died in 1900 in Knox County, Illinois (Farmington). He had married in 1847 and quit the factory and took up mill-wrighting, and made good at it; tho' he had become an expert weaver, they made fabrics from jeans to the finest broadcloth, and blankets. Father was also an expert at fancy, old-fashioned blue and white coverlets, of which I remember our having several.
      Written from memory this 27th day of May, 1936 at home, 56th and L Streets, Lincoln, Nebr.
                                                --J. G. Cordner

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ILLIAM CORDNER and ALICE MCCLELLAND:
Marriage: Abt. 1799, Galloway, Scotland
     
Child of W
ILLIAM CORDNER and ALICE MCCLELLAND is:
3. i.   CORDNER3, b. Cordner Palace of Lurgan, Ireland.



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