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Show WILLIAM GARDNER, 80 YEARS OLD, PIONEER OP UTAH We overlooked mentioning in our issue of the 27th inst. that William Gardner of this city passed his 80th birthday on May 22. He was born May 22, 1S46, and a year later while crossing the plains to Utah, fell out of an ox wagon in Iowa, one of the wheels of the wagon passing over both ankles, breaking them. His ankles were wrapped in cedar berries, the bones reunited and he fully recovered the use of his limbs. On the same journey an elder eld-er brother' 12 years old, was killed, one of the oxen kicking him under a wagon the wheels of which passed over him. The company with which the family crossed the plains arrived in Utah in Oct. 1847, William Gardner Gard-ner thus becoming a pioneer of Utah. Three missions to New Zealand are credited to Mr. Gardner. They were long missions, the three totaling nearly eleven years. On his second and third missions he was president of the Australasion mission. During his missionary travels he made a large collection of curios and relics, especially of New Zeland. This wonderful won-derful collection has been generously given to the Dixie college by Mr. Gardner and occupies a glass show cabinet on the first landing of the main stairway. Mr. Gardner is devoting his time now to work in the St. George temple. tem-ple. His genial and affable disposition disposi-tion is one of his greatest assets and he always wears a smile. He gets about good and age does not seem a serious handicap to him. His devoted devot-ed wife seems to share his cheery dispositions, dis-positions, seemingly always good na-tured. na-tured. May the estimable couple live in peace and happiness as long as they wish. |