Published in The Olney Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 30, 1872:
Departed this life on the 26, inst, st the residence of his son Richard Gardner.
Elder Richard Gardner Sr. aged 86 years old.
The deceased was a man of the olden times, in character and manners pointing to the times that are the good old past. His parents were born in North Carolina, and in early life settled near Atlanta in the stat of Georgia, where the subject of this brief sketch was born; from where with his wife and family, he emigrated to the north and settled in Gibson County, Indiana, as early as 1813. Removing to this state, and settling north of the old trace road, 1/2 mile west of Old Claremont, where it will be remembered he established the Union Baptist Church, in which church yard, on the farm he settled 50 years ago, the venerable old minister was buried on Sunday last, in the presence of a large concourse of people in the neighborhood, among whom were a great number of relatives of the Gardner families resident of this county.
He was one of the early pioneers who endured the hardships and toils of northwestern life, and who survived nearly all of hi old comrades and neighbors, who with him formed the first settlements of this immediate country. There are it is true, here and there to be found among us those who made settlement of this country as early as Elder Gardner, but they are now remarkably few. The deceased served in the War of 1812, and was at the time of his death drawing a pension under the act of 1871. The deceased was an honest and upright man, and with all a sincere christian, having without pay or worldly emolument preached the gospel for upwards of 45 years, and doubtless contributed a great deal to spread and inculcate habits of morality and decorum among the inhabitants of a wild ans sparsely settled country.
Departed this life on the 26, inst, st the residence of his son Richard Gardner.
Elder Richard Gardner Sr. aged 86 years old.
The deceased was a man of the olden times, in character and manners pointing to the times that are the good old past. His parents were born in North Carolina, and in early life settled near Atlanta in the stat of Georgia, where the subject of this brief sketch was born; from where with his wife and family, he emigrated to the north and settled in Gibson County, Indiana, as early as 1813. Removing to this state, and settling north of the old trace road, 1/2 mile west of Old Claremont, where it will be remembered he established the Union Baptist Church, in which church yard, on the farm he settled 50 years ago, the venerable old minister was buried on Sunday last, in the presence of a large concourse of people in the neighborhood, among whom were a great number of relatives of the Gardner families resident of this county.
He was one of the early pioneers who endured the hardships and toils of northwestern life, and who survived nearly all of hi old comrades and neighbors, who with him formed the first settlements of this immediate country. There are it is true, here and there to be found among us those who made settlement of this country as early as Elder Gardner, but they are now remarkably few. The deceased served in the War of 1812, and was at the time of his death drawing a pension under the act of 1871. The deceased was an honest and upright man, and with all a sincere christian, having without pay or worldly emolument preached the gospel for upwards of 45 years, and doubtless contributed a great deal to spread and inculcate habits of morality and decorum among the inhabitants of a wild ans sparsely settled country.
Published in The Olney Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 30, 1872:
Departed this life on the 26, inst, st the residence of his son Richard Gardner.
Elder Richard Gardner Sr. aged 86 years old.
The deceased was a man of the olden times, in character and manners pointing to the times that are the good old past. His parents were born in North Carolina, and in early life settled near Atlanta in the stat of Georgia, where the subject of this brief sketch was born; from where with his wife and family, he emigrated to the north and settled in Gibson County, Indiana, as early as 1813. Removing to this state, and settling north of the old trace road, 1/2 mile west of Old Claremont, where it will be remembered he established the Union Baptist Church, in which church yard, on the farm he settled 50 years ago, the venerable old minister was buried on Sunday last, in the presence of a large concourse of people in the neighborhood, among whom were a great number of relatives of the Gardner families resident of this county.
He was one of the early pioneers who endured the hardships and toils of northwestern life, and who survived nearly all of hi old comrades and neighbors, who with him formed the first settlements of this immediate country. There are it is true, here and there to be found among us those who made settlement of this country as early as Elder Gardner, but they are now remarkably few. The deceased served in the War of 1812, and was at the time of his death drawing a pension under the act of 1871. The deceased was an honest and upright man, and with all a sincere christian, having without pay or worldly emolument preached the gospel for upwards of 45 years, and doubtless contributed a great deal to spread and inculcate habits of morality and decorum among the inhabitants of a wild ans sparsely settled country.
Departed this life on the 26, inst, st the residence of his son Richard Gardner.
Elder Richard Gardner Sr. aged 86 years old.
The deceased was a man of the olden times, in character and manners pointing to the times that are the good old past. His parents were born in North Carolina, and in early life settled near Atlanta in the stat of Georgia, where the subject of this brief sketch was born; from where with his wife and family, he emigrated to the north and settled in Gibson County, Indiana, as early as 1813. Removing to this state, and settling north of the old trace road, 1/2 mile west of Old Claremont, where it will be remembered he established the Union Baptist Church, in which church yard, on the farm he settled 50 years ago, the venerable old minister was buried on Sunday last, in the presence of a large concourse of people in the neighborhood, among whom were a great number of relatives of the Gardner families resident of this county.
He was one of the early pioneers who endured the hardships and toils of northwestern life, and who survived nearly all of hi old comrades and neighbors, who with him formed the first settlements of this immediate country. There are it is true, here and there to be found among us those who made settlement of this country as early as Elder Gardner, but they are now remarkably few. The deceased served in the War of 1812, and was at the time of his death drawing a pension under the act of 1871. The deceased was an honest and upright man, and with all a sincere christian, having without pay or worldly emolument preached the gospel for upwards of 45 years, and doubtless contributed a great deal to spread and inculcate habits of morality and decorum among the inhabitants of a wild ans sparsely settled country.
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