Obituary for Marcus Gardner, born 9 April 1833, died 8 August 1909, from "The Ashley County Eagle", Hamburg, Arkansas. ( note:Marcus was 76 years 4 months of age at the time of his death.) Mr. M. Gardner died suddenly at his home on the prarie about a half a mile southwest of town Sunday last. He was born and raised in New York, served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and came to Hamburg in 1881, where he has since made his home, conducting a wood and blacksmith shop in town for several years. He was about eighty-eight years of age, and was drawing a pension as an ex-federal soldier at the time of his death.