Mary Ann Bennett Martin (1857 - 1919)

MARTIN, BENNETT, WILSON, REAMER, SIPES

Posted By: Karen Brewer (email)
Date: 4/13/2018 at 22:12:40

The Osceola Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa
July 3, 1919, Page 6

Mrs. Levi Martin of Woodburn, who had been in the Methodist hospital in Des Moines for a few days for surgical treatment, died at that place early last week.

Mary Ann Bennett, oldest child of Robert and Octava Jane Bennett was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, three miles northwest of Eddyville, on October 9, 1857, and passed away at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines at ten o'clock Sunday morning, June 22, 1919, aged sixty-one years, eight months and fourteen days, following an operation a few days previous.

Her early life was spent in Mahaska county. She and Levi L. Martin were united in marriage December 11, 1872, at her home three miles northwest of Eddyville. To this union was born five children; Earl L. of Woodburn, Mary M. wife of Rex Wilson, of Woodburn, and Jettie V. who is still at home.

In March 1881, Mr. and Mrs. Martin and their two sons left the old home neighborhood at Eddyville and moved to Woodburn, so she had been a resident of that vicinity for a period of thirty-eight years, during which time she had endured herself to the people of that place, everyone holding her in the highest regard.

Besides the heart-broken husband, two sons and three daughters, she leaves behind thirteen grandchildren, one great grandchild, one sister, Mrs. B. B. Reamer, and one half-brother, John R. Sipes, both of Eddyville. Her father died during her girlhood, and her mother, Mrs. Octava Sipes, second wife of the late James L. Sipes, passed away eighteen years ago, on September 1, 1901. One grandchild, two brothers and three sisters also preceded her in death all dying in childhood except one brother James N. Bennett, who died August 4, 1901, just four weeks before the death of their mother, he being forty-one years of age at the time of his death. A step-father, James L. Sipes, who was to her as a real father, passed away at Eddyville March 29, 1919, exactly three months before her death.

She was converted about thirty years ago, and lived a devoted Christian life. Her religious life did not consist of much active public service, owing to the conditions of her health, but the thought of living close to the Master at all times, and being ready to do his bidding was the chief incentive of her life, and too much cannot be said of her beautiful Christian disposition and many beautiful traits and character.

The remains were brought back to the family home at Woodburn the night following her death. Largely attended funeral services were held at the home at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon, June 24th. Words of comfort and hope were spoken by Rev. S. Clark, a Baptist minister residing at Chariton. Prayer was offered by a neighbor, Rev. Steadwell, of the Methodist Protestant church. The music included such old time songs as "My Mother's Own Beautiful Hands," by double quartette: "The Faraway Home of the Soul" by Mrs. Crist; "The End of a Perfect Day" by Miss Lola Critchfield, and "The Gleams of a Golden Morning," by the choir. The remains were laid to rest in the family lot in the cemetery at Woodburn.

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