Obituary of George I. Gardner, born August 16, 1800 died July 16, 1876
 

 "Died at Hunter's Hill, his home, in the county of Louisa, on the 16th of July last, brother GEORGE I. GARDNER, in the 76th year of his age.  The deceased was an old citizen, and a native of this county — well and widely known — and it is, perhaps, but simply just to his memory, as a valued fellow citizen, to say of him, that few men, in any community, ever possessed a larger measure of confidence and esteem of his neighbors, and no one, perhaps, ever more fully deserved it all, than he did.

 For more than twenty years, brother Gardner was a consistent member of Gilboa church.  Seldom out of place, and always foremost in every good word and work.  We miss his familiar face, and his characteristic cordial and hearty greetings, and we regret the loss of his wise counsels and his good example.  Ever fresh in our memories, will be the recollection of the many virtues which so conspicuously adorned his character, and formed in him that beautiful symetry, which made him "a living epistle, known and read of all men" — his meekness and modesty, his gentleness and child-like simplicity, his genial, happy and unselfish disposition, his strict integrity and high sense of honor, and his deep and unaffected piety, and above all, as the brightest gem in all his coronet, his wide and abounding Christian charity.  These were the charms which irresistibly won the affection of us all, and for these the promise is, "a crown of life, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge will give to him in the last day."  P.B.P.
 

[Note: the P.B. P. may have been Dr. P. B. Pendleton]

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