Martha Jennett (McCollough/McCullough) Tichenor (1830-1909)

MCCOLLOUGH, MCCULLOUGH, TICHENOR, HAGUE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/24/2017 at 22:23:56

From Nevada Representative February 22, 1909

OBITUARY

DEATH OF MRS. TICHENOR

Mrs. Martha Tichenor died at five o'clock Sunday morning at her home about seven miles southeast of Nevada of neuralgia of the heart in her 79th year. She had been in nearly her usual health and was up to the last the home-keeper for two of her sons who live at home. Her death is therefore a great shock to her family and friends. Her funeral will be conducted from the Summit church in Nevada township Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Skogsberg of Colo.

Martha McCullough was born in the state of South Carolina March 10, 1830, and removed with her parents in childhood to Scott county, Indiana. There she met William Tichenor, who was a native of Delaware and they were married in 1854. They removed in 1855 to Iowa and bought the farm in Nevada township which has ever since been the family homestead. There all of their children were born, and there Mr. Tichenor died in 1876. Mrs. Tichenor, however, continued on the old farm and her young people with her save as they left for homes of their own. Her surviving children are her sons George, Edward and Oliver and her daughter Belle, Mrs. J. W. Hague. Another son, the eldest, Carl, grew to manhood and married but died more than twenty years ago, and there was also another daughter who died. Mrs. Tichenor has one surviving brother, Wm. McCullough, who lives in Kansas and is here for the funeral.

Mrs. Tichenor was a woman of admirable ability and character and she met well unusual responsibilities; for she was when comparatively young left a widow with a growing family and showed herself equal to the proposition. She will be profoundly mourned within the circle of her acquaintance.