When Harriet B Gardner was born on 28 July 1892, in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, United States, her father, Leonard Burton Gardner, was 30 and her mother, Sara Jane Parker, was 24. She married Oliver Brown Wilson on 9 June 1924, in Casper, Natrona, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Casper, Carbon, Wyoming, United States in 1935 and Election District 3, Sheridan, Wyoming, United States in 1940. She died on 5 April 1976, in Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery, Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, United States.