Person:Charles Gardner (9)

Charles Lester Gardner Funeral services will be at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Billings Baptist church for Charles Lester Gardner, 74, farmer of near Billings who died Thursday of a stroke he suffered Wednesday. A life-long resident of the Billings community, he had operated for many years a threshing machine and saw mill but he had not been active for the past several years. (Springfield, Missouri Daily News, Saturday, April 14, 1934)

1. ↑ Cemetery Records
   http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/rosehill1.htm.

   Rose Hill Cemetery, Christian Co, MO

2. ↑ 1880 Census, Missouri, Christian Co.

   Polk
   Wm C Gardner, age 23, b. OH, parents b. OH, farmer
   Ida E. wife, age 22, b. IL and parents b. IL
   Rosella, daughter, age 1 mo, b. MO
   Aaron B, father, age 52, b OH, parents b. NJ
   Catherine, stepmother, age 43, b. TN and parents b. TN
   Charles L., brother, 19, b. IA, farmer
   Nathan, brother, age 9, b. MO

3. ↑ 1920 Census, Missouri, Christian Co
   Polk Twp, 22 Jan 1920.

   Gardner, Charles L, owns home, age 60, b. IA, father b. NJ, mother b. Maine, general farmer on his own land
   Mary J, wife, age 64, b. MO, father b. TN, mother b. IL,
   Walter T, son, age 25, married, b. MO, father b. IA, mother b. MO, works as a general farm laborer
   Amelia, daughter-in-law, age 21, b. MO, father b. Germany, mother b. IL
   Raymond, granddaughter(?), male, age 2/12, b. MO