Almira Crandall Gardiner was born at Nile, N. Y., August 19, 1827, and died in Wellsville, N. Y., October 22, 1919, age 92 years, 2 months, and 3 days.
She was the fifth of ten children born to Samuel and Ann Crandall. She was married to William, White Gardiner, of Little Genesee, N. Y., September 7, 1848. To them were born two daughters, Ardotte Gardiner Coller, wife of Dr. J. W. Coller, of Wellsville, N. Y., and Elnora Gardiner Crofoot, wife of the late Rev. A. G. Crofoot; also two sons, Herbert F. and W. Delette Gardiner.
At the age of sixteen Mrs. Gardiner was baptized and united with the Seventh Day Baptist Church at Nile, N. Y., of which church she remained a most faithful member till her death, a period of seventy-six years. She was an active member of all the auxiliaries of the church. She was one of the early members of the W. C. T. U.. and the Ladies' Aid Society at Nile, and was for a time president of the latter.
Her whole life was spent in the vicinity of Nile until the autumn of 1909, two years after the loss of her husband, when she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Coller, of Wellsville, where she was lovingly cared for till her death. The last days of her life were saddened by the loss of her daughter, Mrs. Coller, who died about a year before her mother.
Although feeble with age and separated from Nile people in her latter years, her heart was ever with the home church and she never failed to attend the annual roll call till the last year of her life.
She was active and industrious as a girl, an ideal home-keeper as a woman, quiet and retired in her later life, yet always ready with assistance and love for her friends and neighbors. She made enduring friends of all her acquaintances.
