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Obit For John Milton Gardner
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Text John Milton Gardner died at his home near Wheaton last Tuesday, at the age of 79 years of partial paralysis. He was born in Hart County, Kentucky in 1832 and the following year, his parents moved to LaRue County where he resided until the summer of 1881 at which time he and his family came to Barry County and settled on Shoal Creek, and later located near Wheaton where he resided until his death.

Soon after he came to Missouri and was confined near his home in his latter years, and during the last three years of his life he was attacked several times with partial paralysis, which finally resulted in his death.

J. M. Gardner, was married to Mary Jane Huff of LaRue County, Kentucky, in 1854, and later enlisted in the Union Army in Kentucky and experience all the privations of those who resided along the border between the North and South. There was born of this marriage three children, Judge L. W. Gardner, Mira Gardner and A. B. Gardner all of Wheaton.

He leaves surviving him, his widow and all his descendents to mourn their loss. He was the grand-father of Attorney H. A. Gardner of this city. The citizens of the west part of the county where he lived and was better known, have nothing but words of praise for J. M. Gardner who for more than thirty years had lived among them a citizen honored and most highly esteemed.
Newspaper or Funeral Home Cassville Republican
Date Jan. 26, 1911, Thursday
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Resource State Historical Society of MO Microfilm
Submitted by Donna Cooper