Mary Priscilla Abbott, daughter of I.W. and Margaret Elizabeth Abbott was born June 4, 1868 in Salem, Iowa, and died Oct 7th 1944 at Wichita, Kans, at the age of 76 years, 4 months and 3 days.

While still a small child, her parents moved by covered wagon to a farm near New Market. Here she grew to womanhood, teaching in the schools of Taylor county. In 1893 she was married to Albert Louis Gardner of New Market. To this union two daughters were born, Lura and Ruth.

After a few years in New Market, where Lura was born, the family moved to a farm near Piper, Kansas. Here Ruth was born.

After the husband and father's death near Piper, the family moved back to New Market, to be near their relatives. Mrs Gardner was in the post office at New Market for 8 years, later conducting a variety store. Later, she and her daughter Ruth lived in Denver and Boulder, Colo, and in Clay Center, Nebr for five years.

Mrs Gardner had made her home with her daughter Ruth and her husband for the past ten years, going to Wichita from Sulphur Springs, Arkansas.

She was one of a family of fourteen children, of whom four brothers survive.

She leaves to mourn their loss, her two daughters, Mrs S.L. Blackwell and Mrs V.J. Croker of Wichita; her brother, Frank Abbott of Florence, Colo; Waldo Abbott of Loveland, Colo; Aubrey Abbott of Los Olinos, Calif, and Rev A.G. Abbott of Electra, Texas; two granddaughters, Mrs W.E. Beard of Clarinda and Mrs Carl Carlock of Wichita.

Her last illness was of short duration and she passed peacefully, Oct 7.

Funeral services were held at the Culbertson Mortuary at Wichita, her brother, Rev A.G. Abbott, assisting in the services. The remains were brought to Clarinda and short services held at Memory cemetery.