| CAPTAIN GARDNER |
| TAKEN SUDDENLY |
AT POINT PLEASANT Go To Attend Funeral Today Capt. B. T. Flesher and Capt. George Smith and probably other Huntington- ians will go to Point Pleasant this morning to attend the funeral of the late Capt. George Park Gardner who died suddenly at his home there Saturday night. Capt. Gardner was a well known river man. He owned the Point Pleasant docks, the packets Helen E. and C. C. Bowyer and the ferryboat Relief. He also owned the wharfboat at Point Pleasant. Capt. Gardner was about seventy- five years old. He was a soldier in the federal armies during the war. He took a prominent part in politics and was at one time sheriff of Mason county. He was a man of high character and spotless reputation, enjoying the esteem of the men in the river trade who took their boats to his docks for repairs. -The Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Tuesday Morning, March 13, 1917 |
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