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Marie-Celeste Mathilde <I>Mouton</I> Gardner

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Marie-Celeste Mathilde Mouton Gardner

Birth
Louisiana, USA
Death
14 Jan 1915 (aged 83)
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot
Section 1, Tomb 20.0
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"Governor Alexandre Mouton, former president of the Louisiana Secession Convention, died at Ile Copal in 1885, a venerable and respected elder statesman. His daughter Mathilde, the wife of Confederate General Frank Gardner, was widowed shortly after the war. Almost all her children died at an early age. When her last surviving son, Alfred Frank Gardner, Jr., died, she had his tomb cast in broken marble as indicative of her own broken life. Mathilde died about 1906."

-from the book: Yankee Autumn in Acadiana
by David C. Edmonds
"Governor Alexandre Mouton, former president of the Louisiana Secession Convention, died at Ile Copal in 1885, a venerable and respected elder statesman. His daughter Mathilde, the wife of Confederate General Frank Gardner, was widowed shortly after the war. Almost all her children died at an early age. When her last surviving son, Alfred Frank Gardner, Jr., died, she had his tomb cast in broken marble as indicative of her own broken life. Mathilde died about 1906."

-from the book: Yankee Autumn in Acadiana
by David C. Edmonds

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Wife of Major General Franklin Gardner, CSA

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Restored by the Franklin K Gardner SCV Camp #1421

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