LONGABAUGH, Martin (1900-1919)

LONGABAUGH

Posted By: Sheryl McClure (email)
Date: 3/24/2023 at 21:23:24

Martin Longabaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Longabaugh was born on January 29, 1900, and died at the home of his step-father, J. W. Campbell, east of Wick, Iowa, January 19, 1919, aged eighteen years, eleven months, and twenty days.

Martin had been a great sufferer and an invalid from early childhood and the people who knew him wondered and talked about his patient endurance of pain, never complaining and doing his best to make the world better. When but a little child he united with the Methodist church and in every Children's Day and Christmas he was appointed as leader of the march and in all the marching and counter marching he never made a blunder and while he was always weak, physically, he seemed to want to do his "bit" by scattering the sunshine of good cheer along life's pathway.

The epidemic of the flu came to his home and with it to him came pneumonia and his death followed, conscious to the last he spent the last day in telling what of his personal property should go to each one, talked of his death as of a common journey, named those he wished to be his pall bearers, the minister who should preach his funeral, and just before his death said to his mother, "I have been busy all day and I do not want you to worry or grieve for I have been a great sufferer ever since I can remember."

On account of the sickness of the other members of the family, no services could be held at the home. The Sabbath School and others sent beautiful flowers and many of the neighbors followed the hearse to the grave where a hymn was sung and the committal service and the prayer was by Rev. S. W. Lee.

The Indianola Herald
March 6, 1919