Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, John W., 1930 

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JOHN WESLEY GARDNER 

   John Wesley Gardner, a prominent and esteemed citizen of the Berlin 
community, Southampton County, died at his home, the Maples, April 11 after 
a brief illness, in the 79th year of his life.  He was an active and useful 
member of Millfield Baptist Church which he joined in his early life, and 
was known throughout his neighborhood as a man of many sterling Christian 
qualities, upright in his dealings with his fellowmen, faithful and loyal 
in all of the relations of life.

   He died in the homestead where he was born and where he had always lived, 
the last member of a family of four sisters and one brother.  Thirty-seven 
years ago he married Miss Katherine Wills who survives him with three 
children: Archie R. Gardner of Ivor, Mrs. T.B. Bell of Courtland and Miss 
Arleen Gardner of Berlin.

   Funeral services were conducted from his late residence Sunday afternoon 
at 3 o'clock by his pastor, Rev. W.M. Hall of Ivor, and interment was made 
in the family burial plot on the farm.  The body bearers were: N.W. Wills, 
A.O. Wills, J.D. Wills, Otis M. Joyner, T.B. Bell, G.H. Beale, F.L. Boykins, 
and Rabey Beale.  The honorary bearers were: Dr. E.M. Babb, C.M. Cornwell, 
J.T. Bulls, C.E. Hines, J.B. Stephenson, W.E. Mayton, Thomas Pulley, T.L. 
Bain, A.B. Clayton, W.C. Swain, G.W. Gray, H.L. Kitchen, J.P. Raiford, E.V. 
Stephenson, C.L. Davis, B.F. Boothe, L.H. Babb, W.K. Whitfield, W.C. Rawls, 
J.W. Bain, R.H. Peters.


John Wesley GARDNER, 
b. "The Maples," Berlin, d. 11 Apr 1930, at home (birthplace), age 79, 
interred in the family cemetery, on the farm, 13 Apr 1930, 
marked in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 44*), Courtland, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 18, 1930, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 18, 1930, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g635k1ob.txt 


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