CARDER OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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CARDER, Benjamin 1842 - 1900

Clinton MO, Mar 1900 - On last Thursday, March 29, Benjamin Carder, old and 
respected citizen of the Gaines neighborhood, died of pneumonia. Mr. Carder was 
born in St. Louis county September 30, 1842 and came to Henry County with his 
parents about 50 years ago. He died at the Carder homestead settled by his 
father. He united with the Christian Church some 25 years ago and attempted to 
carry out the principles of his religious conviction without ostentaiton or show 
in his daily life. He married Margaret Prewett in 1866. They raised a family of 
five children, two sons and three daughters, all at home but one, Mrs. T. J. Martin, 
who lives in the neighborhood. As one by one the pioneers of our county are laid 
away and covered with the clods of the valley, we fell more lonely and the 
reflection is more vivid and real that 'ere long those of us who first began to 
subdue the natural conditions here 50 years ago will have passed from the 
memory of man. Other men will till the soil first brought into subjection by the 
pioneer's plow.


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