Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Criss E August 2, 1888
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Public Ledger August 4, 1888

Died from his injuries- An item was published in this paper, August 2nd, 
stating that a member of the crew of the schooner Luther A. Roby, at Lambert’s 
Point, had been carried to St. Vincent’s Hospital in a helpless condition, 
having been injured by diving in shallow water at the Lambert’s Point 
breakwater. It was learded today that the unfortunate young man died the same 
day at 9 o’clock in the morning, and was buried in the Seamen’s lot in Elmwood 
Cemetery, at 6 o’clock in the afternoon, Rev. J.B. Merritt officiating. The 
effects of the deceased are now in the hand of Shipping Commissioner A.M. 
Bullock, and from a Bible and Letters among them it is learned that his name 
was Criss E. Gardner, and his native place Derry, Rockingham County, N.H. He 
is said to have been 25 or 30 years of age, without family, but has relatives 
living.


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