PIERCE, Martha Ann (Crocket)
Date of death: 26 Sep 1900 – Green Township, Morgan County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 19, 1900
Volume XLI Number 16, page 4 column 4
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OBITUARY.
Miss Martha Ann Crocket was born April 28, 1832. She united with the Baptist church at the age of thirteen and was until her death a faithful member of the same.
She was married to Washington M. Abermanthy in the year 1853. To them was born two children, Sarah and Homer. In the year 1860 the husband died. Four years later she was united in marriage to John Pierce, who survives her. To them was born one son, Wm. T. Pierce, who tenderly cared for his mother in her last days. She died September 26, 1900, aged 68 years, 4 months and 28 days. She leaves a son, a husband, four grandchildren, and numerous friends to mourn their loss.
Funeral services and burial at Old Union church, Chetwynd, Ind [sic].
She is gone; a good, noble and beloved woman has gone, but not without having done the work allotted to her by God. She met and overcome the trails and hardships of life with such Christian firmness and attended to her neighborly and family duties with such care and affection as to firmly stamp the love of her on the hearts of all who knew her. The earthly woman is gone, but may the example of her pure and unselfish life live on for innumerable generations in the hearts of those who knew her.
How we miss thee, darling mother;
Miss thee, oh no tongue can tell;
Farewell, mother; farewell mother;
Jesus called thee, all is well.
A FRIEND.
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Link to Martha Ann (Crocket) Pierce’s grave
Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Green Township, Morgan County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 219 records that Martha Ann Pierce died at about 12 o'clock on September 26, 1900 in Green Township, Morgan County, Indiana from pulmonary tuberculosis, aged sixty-eight years, four months months and twenty-eight days. She was female, white, and married, born in Owen County, Indiana to David Crocket and Polly Noyles, birthplaces unknown. The informant was K. H. Williams. Martha Ann was buried at Union Church [Morgantown, Indiana] on September 27, 1900, H. J. Harrison, undertaker.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson