OBIT: Mary M. (REAM) GARDNER, 1897, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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MRS. GARDNER DEAD.
The Wife of Andrew Gardner Died on Saturday Morning.

  Mrs. Mary M. Gardner, wife of Andrew Gardner, died at the family home 
on West Fifteenth street at five minutes before 6 o'clock on Saturday 
morning last, after an illness of many months from a complication of 
diseases.  She had been confined to her bed eight weeks.  Born at 
Philipsburg, October 23, 1834, deceased was 62 years, 7 months and 6 
days old at death.  
  Mrs. Gardner's maiden name was Mary M. Ream.  On the first day of 
January, 1852 she was united in marriage to Andrew Gardner at 
Bloomington, a Clearfield county village.  In 1854, Mr. and Mrs. 
Gardner removed from Clearfield county to Blair county, where they 
lived until 1871, most of the time being spent at Tipton. In that year, 
they removed to Osceola Mills, and in 1879, returned to this side of 
the mountain again, locating in Tyrone, where the past sixteen years 
have been spent by the family.  Mrs. Gardner was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church from early life.  She was a fond and 
faithful wife and parent, and good neighbor.  Though of delicate 
constitution, she was a woman of strong nerve and discharged the 
responsibilities of life faithfully.  One of the most trying 
circumstances of life in the family was when they were burned out at 
the time of the great conflagration that swept almost out of existence 
the town of Osceola Mills.  
  Besides Mr. Gardner, ten children survive, viz: J. W., R. C., William 
A., Frank, Charles and Violet Gardner, of Tyrone; Mrs. Andrew Foreman, 
Mrs. Ed Gorman and Mrs. Henry Reinsmith, of Osceola Mills, and Harry K. 
Gardner, of Pittsburg.  Three brothers and two sisters also survive the 
deceased, viz: John, Curtis and William Ream, of Osceola Mills; Mrs. 
William A. Bloom, of New Millport, Pa., and Mrs. Andrew Baughman, of 
Hunting Hill, Md.  
  Funeral occurred at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon from the house, the 
sons of the deceased acting as pall bearers.  Interment at Tyrone 
cemetery.  Rev. V. T. Rue conducted the services.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., June 3, 1897