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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Gardner, Amanda Beverlin
Funeral services for Mrs. Amanda Gardner were held from the Methodist church in this city at 2:00 o'clock Friday afternoon. Rev. E. H. Knepp, pastor of the Methodist church of Sedgwick, Kansas, conducted the services. Singers were Mrs. Gentry, Mrs. Toburen, Mr W T Glanville and Mr. J. E. Bocook, accompanied by Mrs. Cracroft at the piano. Pallbearers, the sons and nephews of Mrs. Gardner, were Floyd Gardner, Lewis Gardner, Walter Gardner, Claude Newman, Irvin Lyons and Harold Beverlin.
Amanda Beverlin was born near Roanoke, West Virginia, on June 27, 1860. She was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Beverlin. She passed away at her home in this city Wednesday morning, August 20, at the age of eighty-one years, one month and twenty-three days.
When she was five years of age her parents moved to Kansas, locating in this County on a farm which later became a part of the Elmdale townsite. There she spent her girlhood and grew to womanhood.
When she was seventeen she was united in marriage to Albert Gardner on June 17, 1877 by J. M. Longfellow. Mr. Gardner, a young farmer of this County, was twenty-one. The wedding took place on Cedar Creek about seven miles south of Cedar Point and the young couple started their lives together on a farm as Mr. Gardner was engaged in farming and livestock raising.
This union was blessed with eleven Children. Two daughters died in infancy and one son, Roy Gardner, died at his home in Edmonton, Canada, several years ago.
The eight surviving sons are C. E. Gardner of Newburg, Oregon; W. E. Gardner of Wichita, Floyd Gardner
and Edward Gardner of this city, L. E. Gardner of Minneapolis, Kansas; Guy Gardner of Nampa, Idaho; H. E. Gardner of Wichita and Henry Gardner of Hutchinson.
Mrs. Gardner is also survived by her brothers, W. C. Beverlin of Seneca, Mo., and Bert Beverlin of Nampa, Idaho. She also leaves thirty-four grandchildren and twenty-one great grandchildren, besides other relatives and a wide circle of friends all over this County.
Mr. Gardner's death occurred in this city about ten years ago. Mr, and Mrs. Gardner moved from the farm to this City about twenty years ago after he had retired from active work.
On June 17, 1927, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in this City when all of their nine sons and many of their families were present.
Mrs. Gardner was a member of the Methodist church of this city. Prior to transferring her membership here she had been a member of the Methodist church at Elmdale where they had lived and she was also a member of the Methodist church of Cedar Point when the Gardner family lived on Cedar Creek.
She was a true christian and she lived a busy and useful life, caring for her large family and her husband to whom she was so devoted.
She came to this county at a time when the early residents were beset with many hardships and when the establishing of a home and the bringing up of a large family was a task requiring hard work and patiences and resourcefulness. She bravely met the duties of a good mother and wife. To her neighbors and those around her she never failed to show a true Christian spirit and her help and assistance was always forthcoming where and when ever needed.
One of her sons in remarking after her passing that "She was a home woman and a great mother" has probably paid to her a tribute the greatest that could be bestowed on woman kind.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, 1941
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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