"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 87, No 20, p 637, Nov. 17, 1919.
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.
On October 22, 1919, she quietly passed to her heavenly home, leaving to mourn their loss: one brother, William Delos Crandall, of Nile, N. Y., her two sons, Herbert F., of Portville, N. Y., W. Delette, of Buffalo, N. Y., and many other dear ones and friends.
The funeral service was conducted from her late home in Wellsville, N. Y., October 24, 1919, by her pastor. Interment was in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Friendship, N. Y. J. F. R.

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 63, No 25, p 638, June 24, 1907.
William White Gardiner was born at Stockport, N. Y., April 15, 1823, and died at Nile, N. Y., May 30, 1907.
He was the son of David and Martha Northrup Gardiner, and the last in a family of eight children. His father died when William was three years old, and his mother's death left him an orphan at about seven years of age. He learned to read at Sunday school. When sixteen years old he settled at Dodge's Creek, N. Y. His first church membership was with the Seventh-day Baptist church at that place. Later, having removed to the vicinity of Nile, he joined the Friendship church located there. At the latter place, he served as Sabbath school superintendent for perhaps a dozen years, and as deacon since 1877.
In 1848, Mr. Gardiner was married to Almina Crandall of Nile, who is still living. Four children were born to them, two daughters and two sons. One daughter, the late Mrs. A. G. Crofoot, preceded her father to the heavenly home. The other children are Mrs. J. W. Collar of Wellsville, H. L. Gardiner of Nile, and W. D. Gardiner of Brockport. J. W. Crofoot, missionary to China, is a grandson.
Deacon Gardiner was a man of strong character and high Christian ideals. He lived four years beyond the Psalmist's limit, and "came to his grave in a full age, like a shock of corn cometh in its season." Farewell services were held at the church where he had always been prompt in attendance, conducted by his pastor, Rev. A. J. C. Bond. His body was laid to rest at Mt. Hope, near that of his brother, David, who came to this country with him in those early days, and who always lived near him. A. J. C. B.