KELTNER, Mrs. Martha A. 1824 - 1891

KELTNER, TRAVIS, CAVINESS

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 2/23/2004 at 02:02:26

"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, October 21, 1891
Page 7, Column 1

OBITUARY OF MRS. MARTHA A. KELTNER.

Last Friday morning at seven o’clock occurred the death of another one Jefferson county’s old residents. She died at the home of her youngest daughter near Randolph, Fremont county, Iowa. Mrs. Martha A. KELTNER was born in Tennessee on the 20th day of September, 1824. She was the eldest daughter of Bartlett and Elizabeth TRAVIS. At the age of five years she removed with her parents to Morgan county, Illinois, where she became acquainted with David KELTNER, to whom at the early age of fourteen years, four months and nine days, she became a wife. In the spring of 1837 they removed to Jefferson county, where they lived at the time of his death, which occurred on the 16th of February in 1873. She was the mother of thirteen children, five of whom had preceded her, these being: Morgan K., Mary J., Sarah E., and two infants un-named. The eight children who survive her are: Henry B., of Fairfield; THOMAS S., of Hastings, Iowa; JOHN A., and NANCY I., of Fairfield; LIZZIE A., of Pinneo, Colorado; William L. of National City, California; DAVID E., of Farragut; and LUCY M., of Randolph, Iowa, all being married but William L.

Mrs. KELTNER had been visiting in this city the latter part of the summer, and had started to her temporary home at Wheeler’s Grove, Pottawattomie county, visiting friends in Ringgold, Taylor, Mills and Fremont Counties,and became ill on the way. Her illness became so severe that when she reached her daughter’s home in Fremont County she could not proceed farther. Her daughter Lizzie, from Colorado, arrived at her bedside in time to bid her goodbye. Her sons Thomas and David E. had been by her bedside the last two weeks of her illness. The cause of her death was blood poison. Her remains arrived here at 4:40 Saturday morning. She was removed from the depot to the residence of her daughter, Mrs. N. I. CAVINESS. Her remains were taken to the Christian church, of which she was a member, having joined some eight weeks before her death. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Klinker, and at eleven o’clock her remains were followed by a large concourse of friends and relatives to the cemetery in Lockridge township, eight miles east of Fairfield, where the body was laid beside those of her loved husband and five children.

Admin. note: Martha does not have a gravestone, nor is she noted on her husband's stone.