Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Sheldon C., 1923 

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SHELDON COBB GARDNER

   Sheldon Cobb Gardner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alamanda Gardner of the Franklin 
community, died at his home here Tuesday, August 28, age twenty-two years. He 
was ill at the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, for about six 
months while a student in that institution last session. Medical skill failing 
to relieve him he was brought home some time ago and was confined to his bed 
until the end. He endured his long illness and sufferings with Christian 
patience and fortitude and the whole community had been intensely interested in 
the young man’s splendid fight for life.

   Shelly Gardner, as he was popularly known here, graduated from the Franklin 
High School in 1918 and was a student at the Virginia Military Institute the 
following year. Going to the University of Virginian he took the law course and 
would have received his degree in June of this year but for his illness, passing 
the State Bar examination last year.

   He was a faithful and consistent member of High Street M.E. Church and was a 
young man of many fine qualities, unassuming in disposition but possessing more 
than average ability as a student and being particularly fitted for the practice 
of the profession which he had chosen for his life’s work.

   The deceased is survived by his parents; by one sister, Mrs. W. Boyette of 
Suffolk and by two brothers, S.W. Gardner of Norfolk and R.L. Gardner of 
Franklin.

   The funeral services were conducted from his late home Wednesday afternoon at 
2:30 o’clock by his Pastor, Rev. L.S. Flournoy, assisted by Dr. C.H. Rowland of 
the Christian Church, interment being made in Poplar Spring Cemetery. The active 
pallbearers were J. Powell Eley, G.E. Pillow, J.F. Matthews, Kenneth M. Pillow, 
Edward Gilliam, N.B. Rose, Thomas Holland and Roy Matthews; honorary, J.C. 
Parker, E. Frank Story, C.W. Darden, Jr., E.L. Beale, J. Edward Moyler, Barclay 
Pretlow, R.E.L.  Watkins, Joe Henry Cutchin, Dr. A.P. Cutchin, Linwood Cobb and 
Letcher McClenny.


[Sheldon* "Shelly" Cobb GARDNER, UVA law student, 
 d. 28 Aug 1923, at home, Franklin, age 22, 
 interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 74B*), Franklin, 29 Aug 1923, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 31, 1923, p. 1] 

[*name also appears as "Shelton," but gravestone gives "Sheldon."
 Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt] 

[Death certificate mistakenly indexed "Garden," due to handwriting of clerk 
 C.C. Vaughan (BVS 1923, Vol. 708, No. 21436); abstract posted at: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/g635s1dc.txt] 

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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
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