Lewis's sons Wiley Jackson Gardner and Daniel W. Gardner also came to Texas.

Wiley Jackson Gardner was born in 1844 in Monroe County, Georgia. He moved to Mississippi in his teens and his parents went through a bitter divorce during the Civil War. Wiley Jackson Gardner enlisted in the 13th Mississippi Infantry and served under General Beauregard in Virginia, he became ill, and was discharged. Then he enlisted in the 2nd Mississippi Cavalry under General Johnston against General Sherman, and then fought at Nashville under General Hood, and then finally at Selma, Alabama in 1865. He married Quantilla Pullin in 1865 in Newton County, Mississippi. He arrived in Texas in 1867. He would bring lumber from Mississippi to Texas in the 1870s. He was a prominent Texas settler and he became the master of the Masonic Lodge in 1883, a landowner in 1884, and then was a Dallas County commissioner in 1888. He died in Garland, Texas in 1924 in his eighties.

Daniel W. Gardner was born in 1846 in Georgia. He enlisted in the Mississippi Volunteers at age 16. He fought in the Civil War in the Cavalry. He was a messenger and a scout and later thought that it was a great adventure. He married Queen Ann Graham in 1866 in Mississippi and they had five children. When he got out of the Army he migrated west to Van Zandt County, Texas in 1880. He moved to Coryell County in 1900 and his wife died in 1905 and he remarried in 1906 to Alice Vann. He died in 1930 at age 83 in Coryell County, Texas and was buried at Boggy Creek Cemetery in Turnersville, Bosque County, Texas.