Columbiana County OhArchives Obituaries.....Gardner, James September 5 1893
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East Liverpool Crisis  6 Sep 1893  pg 8
James Gardner, a famous nonogenarian, well know in Eastern Ohio, Western 
Pennsylvania and West Virginia, died yesterday at the home of his son, Levi 
Gardner, in the Turkeyfoot oil field, Hancock county, West Virginia, aged 
ninety eight years. He was born in Washington county, Pa; and was, married in 
1817 and settled on a farm in Hancock county, near where he died. He always 
engaged in farming, aside from several successful speculative ventures, one 
being that he negotiated a lease of his farm for a large royalty to oil 
operators, which netted him thousands of dollars. He was possessed of untiring 
energy, and wonderful vitality, and made his yearly trips South and West. Until 
one year ago “old Jimmie Gardner’s” white hat, a very tall one, was known all 
over the three States named. He was descended from a long lived family, his 
grandfather dying at 107, and it is related that he killed a squirrel with a 
rifle at a long shot of a hundred paces, after he was ninety years old. He had 
chewed tobacco, and taken “a gentleman’s glass: all his days. Five children 
survive him. He died wealthy.

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