A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Martha Keziah Patton
John Wanamaker spells her name Martha Kaziah Patton, WFT Volume 22 Tree 1690 has her name as Keziah Patton, knoxcolorado.com has Martha Keziah Patton.
From http://knoxcolorado.com/b493.html:
obituary FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 15, 1908.
ONE OF THE OLDEST RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY GONE TO HER REWARD--The news of the death of Mrs. Benjamin Reeves which occurred at Hamburg, Iowa, Friday, May, 8, 1908, at 11 a.m., cast a gloom over the entire community and many earnest inquiries were made regarding this noble woman as she was well and most favorably known.
Her sickness was of short duration and death resulted from heart failure superinduced by dropsy. She desired to retire from the farm and seek rest in more quiet retreats so a fine home was purchased in Hamburg, but she never visited her new home but once and that was just to superintend some matters of appointment about the convenience of the premises. During her sickness she was at the splendid home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Davis, where she had every care of medical science and that of relatives and friends, but her condition was of a malignant form and quite hopeless from the first.
Martha Patton was born in Howard county, Missour, November 21, 1836, and was united to Benjamin Reeves July 11, 1855. To them six children were born, five of whom are living. Their names: Mrs. Frank Davis, Hamburg, Iowa; Mrs. Jessie Birkby and Mrs. George Borchers, of Nebraska City, Nebraska; B. P. and E. S. Reeves, of Washington township, Fremont county, Iowa.
About thirty-six years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Reeves came to Fremont county and lived for a time on the Valley Farm near Payne Junction, the land belonging to M. U. Payne. Later Mr. Reeves bought a 500 acre tract of land one mile south of Knox which was their home for some thirty years. It was one of the noted farms of that section in several ways and notably on account of the hospitality of both Mr. and Mrs. Reeves which was characteristic of their southern tendencies.
Deceased was a member of the Methodist church South and very devoted to its teachings. The funeral was conducted by her pastor, Rev. J. S. Rooker, in the presence of a large concourse of people who gave evidence of their friendship by assembling to pay the last sad rites to one whom they so highly respected, although the drenching rain of last Monday forenoon caused the postponement of her burial until the afternoon. The names of the pall bearers are: William Eaton, A Mann, Hiram Brown, Mack Snodgrass, F. A. Jones and R. C. Campbell. Interment in the Hamburg cemetery.
(Posted on the Fremont co IA rootsweb.com site by Walter Farwell)
obituary, THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN, Sidney, Fremont co Iowa, May 14, 1908
"Mrs. Reeves Called Home"
The SUN chronicles the death of Mrs. Reeves, beloved wife and companion of Col. B. Reeves, her death occurring at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Davis, at Hamburg, Iowa, Friday evening at 11 o'clock p.m. May 8th 1908. Mrs. Reeves had for two years or more been a sufferer from organic heart disease, which was the cause of her demise after a last sickness of about two months duration. Col. Reeves had recently purchased a fine home in Hamburg in which himself and wife had planned to remove to and were moving there when she was taken so badly sick that she was taken to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Davis. Col Reeves and wife have been residents of the county for over 40 years and were among the early pioneers, witnessing the growth and development from a wild unsettled state, and have hosts of friends who feel with deep sorrow the loss of Mrs. Reeves. All who knew mother Reeves s[eal pf jear as a friend "indeed" to any friends or sufferers in need, and who always gave larely of her strenth and love to her loved ones. The stricken husband, three daughters, Mrs. Davis of Hamburg, Mrs. Borchers and Mrs. Birkby of Nebraska City, Nebraska, two sons, T. B. and B. P. residing hear Hamburg, survive to mourn the loss of a beloved wife and loving mothers, also two sisters, Mrs. Givens and Mrs. Payne, old residents of the county mourn the loss of a beloved sister, who with many life-time friends hope again to be reunited in love, in that better land where there is no more death or partings, but where there is live everlasting and perfect peace and rest. The funeral services were heald at the Davis residence in Hamburg on Monday, May 11, after which interment was made in the Hamburg cemetery. Many old friends from Sidney desired to attend the funeral, but were prevented by the storm.
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