A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Martha Brown
Adair Wilson family record gives William's first wife's name as Bowen.
Bob Reeves said that she was born in Howard Co., MO, but note that there was no Howard Co., MO, in 1811. And I don't think her family moved to what would become Missouri that early, either. Her younger brother, Samuel, is said to have been born in Madison Co., KY.
The Our Amazing Family web site says that she was born on 20 Jan 1811, but Find A Grave (listing for Martha Brown Reeves) says 30 Oct 1811.
Missouri Intelligencer, Fayette, MO, 20 Nov 1829, p. 3 (obtained from John Wanamaker 1 Mar 2012):
Departed this life, at her father's (Major James Brown) on Saturday the 14th inst. in the 18th year of her age, Mrs. MARTHA REEVES, consort of Mr. William Reeves, after an acute and obstinate disease of congestive billious fever, with local inflammation of the lungs and heart. During the whole period of her affliction, which was about twelve days, she persisted in the assertion that she would die; and remonstrated with her attending physician, parents and relatives against taking medicine, and requested to expire in peace. Her mental faculties continued unimpaired, collected and entire, till near her dissolution -- she earnestly desired the consolation and prayers of the pious: gave strong manifestations of interest in the Lord, and his mercy: prayed, and sang to His praise.
She wished her grand-father and the neighbors to be sent for, to see her die -- and when she was told that she was dying, she exclaimed to her weeping mother, "I told you, mother, I would die." She was asked if she was willing to die. She replied, "O, if I cannot live, I am willing to die -- the Lord says come, and I must go." A day or two previous to her untimely end, he [sic] was heard to lisp the following consolatory language of the inspired poet: "Here, Lord, I give myself away, 'tis all that I can do." And while grasped by the cold hand of death, and when the vital flame of mortality was almost extinguished, she uttered, in an audible and distinct tone of voice, with bloodless lips and a palsied tongue, "I'm not ashamed to own my Lord, nor to defend his cause." &c -- And shortly afterwards, with perfect resignation to the will of Him who holds the issue of life, paid the melancholy debt of mortality.
The death of this young and amiable woman, just as she was entering upon the stage of a settled and domestic life, with the felicitous enjoyment of the connubial state in perspective before her; struck with dissapointment the high and anxious expectations of her interested relations and friends: blasted the lively hopes of her fond parents, and is not only a sore and afflictive bereavement to the disconsolate and distressed husband, but also to a circle of numerous relations and friends, by whom she was esteemed a bright ornament, and a choice member of society.
A FRIEND.
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