Mr. Leonadas S. Gardner, better known as “Bud” Gardner, died suddenly in the yard of his home in the Beams Mill community on Friday, his body being found about sundown by a colored farm hand. Mr. Gardner had gone to feed the hogs and did not return when members of the household expected him for supper. The negro farm hand saw his body lying prostrate on the ground as he was going to the barn to water the horses. The cause of his death was heart trouble from which he had been a sufferer for 20 years or more. Mr. Gardner was a most ambitious and hard working farmer who really broke his health by long hours of hard manual. During the last 10 years he had let up somewhat in his labors, but he still had a high ambition for his family. He was highly respected by all who knew him, and his life was marked for his noble precepts of Christian living.
Mr. Gardner was the son of Thomas Gardner and a nephew of the late Dr. Oliver J. Gardner of Shelby. He was married to Miss Mary Angeline Wellmon, who survives with the following children: Clarence Gardner, farmer, near Shelby, Mrs. Walter Hartgrove of Shelby, Floyd W. Gardner of Bowie, Md., P. Cleveland Gardner, an attorney of Gastonia, Zeb Gardner connected with he Tampa Times at Tampa, Florida; Bryant Gardner, farmer near Ellenboro; Mrs. Dura Belle Jones and Mrs. Cleo Ponder of near Shelby, Mrs. Willie Harrelson of Waco, and Misses Myrtle and Gladie Gardner who live at home.
Also surviving are his aged mother, Mrs. Mary Gardner, nearing her 97th birthday, and one sister, Mrs. A. Dillard Hamrick of the Beam’s Mill Community.
The funeral was conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock and the interment was at Pleasant Grove Baptist church, where he held his membership. Services were in charge of Revs. D.G. Washburn and J.C. Gillespie. A large crowd was present to pay a tribute of respect to his memory.
From the front page of the Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Tuesday, June 3, 1924
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