Garret was born on October 13th, 1745 in Abbington, Montgomery County, PA In the 1770s, he married Elizabeth Larue, who was born April 29, 1759 in Bensalem, Bucks County, PA.

Clarence Rowley Van Sant (1891-1963) was my mother’s father and my maternal grandfather. Clarence married my grandmother, Sarah Theresa Casey Van Sant (1895-1992), in Augusta, GA in 1919.