Maud Whitcomb Martin 1866 - 1897

MARTIN, WHITCOMB

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Date: 7/28/2007 at 16:39:34

The Burlington Evening Gazette, Friday, July 30, 1897, page 5
FORMER BURLINGTON GIRL
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She Died at Davenport Saturday - Maud Whitcomb Martin

The Davenport Democrat tells of the death of Mrs. Maud Whitcomb Martin, a former resident , and with a legion of frinds in Burlington, as follows:

"The death of Mrs. A. Vere Martin at her home on Locust street and Grand avenue, Saturday night, was a sad event for two homes: The one of which she was the mistress is shattered, and the other, just across the street, og which she was the beloved daughter, is covered with a pail of gloom that no brightness of sunshine can penetrate or disperse. The fact the she was thought to be improving till within almost an hour befoew she died, makes the ill loss all the more bitter as a heart-breaking disappointment to her family.

Maud Whitcomb Martin was born at Burlington, Ia., Oct. 6, 1866, the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Whitcomb. She completed the course of the public schools there, and came here with the family on its removal to Davenport, almost twenty years ago. Here she entered the High school, but her health was delicate in a degree that prevented her from completing that course. Some time after she left it, having regained her strength, she entered the office of the Federal Life association, of which, Mr. Whitcomb is and was the secretary, and remained there, practically, all the time until her marriage to Mr. Martin; Feb. 5, 1895, at her home in this city. Davenport has been her home for the past twenty years, ot thereabout.

Mrs. Martin was not one of those women who seek to make intimates of all whom they meet, but she showed the same sunny, even temperament to all comers, and the friends whom she particularly regarded found her character of rare sweetness and eveness of temper. She had a large acquaintance here, gathered in social and business contact with the residents of this city, and a very extended circle of warm friends in other places. During her life she traveled widely, especially in the east and south, and the news of her death spreads regret in many homes. She not only displayed rare qualities of business ability and tact, but she possessed the graceful accomplishments of the finished woman. She was not known widely as a musician, but was a devoted student of that art, and better than an ordinary pianist. This fact, however, was seldom made apparent except in the home circle. She was an amateur painter, in oil and on china, of excellent ability, and her family have many souvenirs of her art. She was a member of the First M.E. church, and of the Daughters of the American Revolution, but aside from these organizations she took little interest in organized society work, preferring the work that arose within the closer limits of her home. She was the object of the fondest love there, and her death has brought a desolation to her parents, and her sister, equalled only by that her husband, whose life has been fairly wrecked by her untimely call from earth.