THE TIDEWATER NEWS - 10-25-1918, P.1
A.L. GARDNER, JR.
Abraham Littleton Gardner, Jr., died at the home of his father, Captain A.L. Gardner, in Franklin Sunday, October 20, 1918, after a brief illness, in the thirty-fifth year of his age.
Mr. Gardner was one of Franklin's most prominent young men and numbered a wide circle of personal friends throughout this part of Virginia, who sorrow deeply at the removal by death of this excellent young man. He was the efficient and capable head clerk for Joe Bynum Gay and his uniform courtesy to everyone in the discharge of his duties serves to make his untimely taking away felt as a keen, personal loss to those with whom he daily came in contact. He was generous and liberal in his home life and among his fellow townsmen, and his love for little children was a characteristic of his life which found expression in showering attentions upon them - a touching incident in connection with this trait of the deceased in his illness was the gift by George Ernest, Jr., of a beautiful bouquet of chrysanthemums which the little fellow insisted upon carrying to his friend when he heard of his sickness and which were so highly appreciated by the recipient that his loved ones placed them on the casket in obedience to what they felt would have been his own desires.
He was the son of Captain A.L. Gardner, who survives him, and of the late Mrs. Bettie Lee Gardner. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Joe Bynum Gay of Franklin and Mrs. W.H. Pierce of Danville, Va.; a step-mother, Mrs. A.L. Gardner; a half-brother, Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner, in the Y.M.C.A. service at Camp Taylor, Kentucky; a half-sister, Miss Emily Gardner, now a student at the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia; besides a large number of near relatives, members of prominent families in Franklin, Nansemond County and Norfolk. He was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and treasurer of its building fund, and an honored member of Franklin Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias.
The burial was held Monday afternoon, October 21, at 4 o'clock, with brief services at the grave in Poplar Spring cemetery by Rev. J.L. McCutcheon of the Franklin Baptist Church, pastor of the deceased. The active pallbearers were P.R. Camp, J.A. Williams, W.H. Lankford, R.E.L. Watkins, C.E. Cotton, J.P. King, Geo. H. Parker and W.H. Norfleet. The flowers laid upon his grave were numerous and beautiful, eloquent testimonials of the sorrow of many friends.
There are so many things in a world, troubled by war and pestilence, to make one sad at heart we read daily of the loss of friends in battle overseas, while all around us the scourge which is visiting our people takes its fearful toll. It strikes us, however, with peculiar force when one of our own young men, a useful and exemplary citizen of our town, a son and brother whose devotion and whose liberality to his parents, his sisters and brother, were unselfish and beautiful to an unusual degree, is taken from us as a breath before the wind cut down in the prime of life, leaving the home desolate. That the grace of God and His consolation may comfort the bereaved ones is the wish of their friends and the friends of their loved one in their sorrow.
Contributor: Southampton Co.,Va.Hist.Soc. (47284464) • [email protected]
A.L. GARDNER, JR.
Abraham Littleton Gardner, Jr., died at the home of his father, Captain A.L. Gardner, in Franklin Sunday, October 20, 1918, after a brief illness, in the thirty-fifth year of his age.
Mr. Gardner was one of Franklin's most prominent young men and numbered a wide circle of personal friends throughout this part of Virginia, who sorrow deeply at the removal by death of this excellent young man. He was the efficient and capable head clerk for Joe Bynum Gay and his uniform courtesy to everyone in the discharge of his duties serves to make his untimely taking away felt as a keen, personal loss to those with whom he daily came in contact. He was generous and liberal in his home life and among his fellow townsmen, and his love for little children was a characteristic of his life which found expression in showering attentions upon them - a touching incident in connection with this trait of the deceased in his illness was the gift by George Ernest, Jr., of a beautiful bouquet of chrysanthemums which the little fellow insisted upon carrying to his friend when he heard of his sickness and which were so highly appreciated by the recipient that his loved ones placed them on the casket in obedience to what they felt would have been his own desires.
He was the son of Captain A.L. Gardner, who survives him, and of the late Mrs. Bettie Lee Gardner. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Joe Bynum Gay of Franklin and Mrs. W.H. Pierce of Danville, Va.; a step-mother, Mrs. A.L. Gardner; a half-brother, Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner, in the Y.M.C.A. service at Camp Taylor, Kentucky; a half-sister, Miss Emily Gardner, now a student at the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia; besides a large number of near relatives, members of prominent families in Franklin, Nansemond County and Norfolk. He was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and treasurer of its building fund, and an honored member of Franklin Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias.
The burial was held Monday afternoon, October 21, at 4 o'clock, with brief services at the grave in Poplar Spring cemetery by Rev. J.L. McCutcheon of the Franklin Baptist Church, pastor of the deceased. The active pallbearers were P.R. Camp, J.A. Williams, W.H. Lankford, R.E.L. Watkins, C.E. Cotton, J.P. King, Geo. H. Parker and W.H. Norfleet. The flowers laid upon his grave were numerous and beautiful, eloquent testimonials of the sorrow of many friends.
There are so many things in a world, troubled by war and pestilence, to make one sad at heart we read daily of the loss of friends in battle overseas, while all around us the scourge which is visiting our people takes its fearful toll. It strikes us, however, with peculiar force when one of our own young men, a useful and exemplary citizen of our town, a son and brother whose devotion and whose liberality to his parents, his sisters and brother, were unselfish and beautiful to an unusual degree, is taken from us as a breath before the wind cut down in the prime of life, leaving the home desolate. That the grace of God and His consolation may comfort the bereaved ones is the wish of their friends and the friends of their loved one in their sorrow.
Contributor: Southampton Co.,Va.Hist.Soc. (47284464) • [email protected]
THE TIDEWATER NEWS - 10-25-1918, P.1
A.L. GARDNER, JR.
Abraham Littleton Gardner, Jr., died at the home of his father, Captain A.L. Gardner, in Franklin Sunday, October 20, 1918, after a brief illness, in the thirty-fifth year of his age.
Mr. Gardner was one of Franklin's most prominent young men and numbered a wide circle of personal friends throughout this part of Virginia, who sorrow deeply at the removal by death of this excellent young man. He was the efficient and capable head clerk for Joe Bynum Gay and his uniform courtesy to everyone in the discharge of his duties serves to make his untimely taking away felt as a keen, personal loss to those with whom he daily came in contact. He was generous and liberal in his home life and among his fellow townsmen, and his love for little children was a characteristic of his life which found expression in showering attentions upon them - a touching incident in connection with this trait of the deceased in his illness was the gift by George Ernest, Jr., of a beautiful bouquet of chrysanthemums which the little fellow insisted upon carrying to his friend when he heard of his sickness and which were so highly appreciated by the recipient that his loved ones placed them on the casket in obedience to what they felt would have been his own desires.
He was the son of Captain A.L. Gardner, who survives him, and of the late Mrs. Bettie Lee Gardner. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Joe Bynum Gay of Franklin and Mrs. W.H. Pierce of Danville, Va.; a step-mother, Mrs. A.L. Gardner; a half-brother, Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner, in the Y.M.C.A. service at Camp Taylor, Kentucky; a half-sister, Miss Emily Gardner, now a student at the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia; besides a large number of near relatives, members of prominent families in Franklin, Nansemond County and Norfolk. He was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and treasurer of its building fund, and an honored member of Franklin Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias.
The burial was held Monday afternoon, October 21, at 4 o'clock, with brief services at the grave in Poplar Spring cemetery by Rev. J.L. McCutcheon of the Franklin Baptist Church, pastor of the deceased. The active pallbearers were P.R. Camp, J.A. Williams, W.H. Lankford, R.E.L. Watkins, C.E. Cotton, J.P. King, Geo. H. Parker and W.H. Norfleet. The flowers laid upon his grave were numerous and beautiful, eloquent testimonials of the sorrow of many friends.
There are so many things in a world, troubled by war and pestilence, to make one sad at heart we read daily of the loss of friends in battle overseas, while all around us the scourge which is visiting our people takes its fearful toll. It strikes us, however, with peculiar force when one of our own young men, a useful and exemplary citizen of our town, a son and brother whose devotion and whose liberality to his parents, his sisters and brother, were unselfish and beautiful to an unusual degree, is taken from us as a breath before the wind cut down in the prime of life, leaving the home desolate. That the grace of God and His consolation may comfort the bereaved ones is the wish of their friends and the friends of their loved one in their sorrow.
Contributor: Southampton Co.,Va.Hist.Soc. (47284464) • [email protected]
A.L. GARDNER, JR.
Abraham Littleton Gardner, Jr., died at the home of his father, Captain A.L. Gardner, in Franklin Sunday, October 20, 1918, after a brief illness, in the thirty-fifth year of his age.
Mr. Gardner was one of Franklin's most prominent young men and numbered a wide circle of personal friends throughout this part of Virginia, who sorrow deeply at the removal by death of this excellent young man. He was the efficient and capable head clerk for Joe Bynum Gay and his uniform courtesy to everyone in the discharge of his duties serves to make his untimely taking away felt as a keen, personal loss to those with whom he daily came in contact. He was generous and liberal in his home life and among his fellow townsmen, and his love for little children was a characteristic of his life which found expression in showering attentions upon them - a touching incident in connection with this trait of the deceased in his illness was the gift by George Ernest, Jr., of a beautiful bouquet of chrysanthemums which the little fellow insisted upon carrying to his friend when he heard of his sickness and which were so highly appreciated by the recipient that his loved ones placed them on the casket in obedience to what they felt would have been his own desires.
He was the son of Captain A.L. Gardner, who survives him, and of the late Mrs. Bettie Lee Gardner. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Joe Bynum Gay of Franklin and Mrs. W.H. Pierce of Danville, Va.; a step-mother, Mrs. A.L. Gardner; a half-brother, Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner, in the Y.M.C.A. service at Camp Taylor, Kentucky; a half-sister, Miss Emily Gardner, now a student at the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia; besides a large number of near relatives, members of prominent families in Franklin, Nansemond County and Norfolk. He was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and treasurer of its building fund, and an honored member of Franklin Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias.
The burial was held Monday afternoon, October 21, at 4 o'clock, with brief services at the grave in Poplar Spring cemetery by Rev. J.L. McCutcheon of the Franklin Baptist Church, pastor of the deceased. The active pallbearers were P.R. Camp, J.A. Williams, W.H. Lankford, R.E.L. Watkins, C.E. Cotton, J.P. King, Geo. H. Parker and W.H. Norfleet. The flowers laid upon his grave were numerous and beautiful, eloquent testimonials of the sorrow of many friends.
There are so many things in a world, troubled by war and pestilence, to make one sad at heart we read daily of the loss of friends in battle overseas, while all around us the scourge which is visiting our people takes its fearful toll. It strikes us, however, with peculiar force when one of our own young men, a useful and exemplary citizen of our town, a son and brother whose devotion and whose liberality to his parents, his sisters and brother, were unselfish and beautiful to an unusual degree, is taken from us as a breath before the wind cut down in the prime of life, leaving the home desolate. That the grace of God and His consolation may comfort the bereaved ones is the wish of their friends and the friends of their loved one in their sorrow.
Contributor: Southampton Co.,Va.Hist.Soc. (47284464) • [email protected]
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