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Subject: Martha (Patton) Reeves, November 21, 1836 - May 8, 1908
Date: 7 Jan 2002 13:10:13 -0700

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Surnames: Reeves, Davis, Patton, Birkby, Borchers, Payne
Classification: Obituary

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FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 15, l908. ONE OF THE OLDEST RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY GONE TO HER REWARD.--The news of the death of Mrs. Renjamin Reeves which occurred at Hamburg, Iowa, Friday May 8, l908, at 11 a.m., cast a gloom over the entire community and many earnest inquiries were made regarding this noble woman as she was well and most favorably known.

Her sickness was of short duration and death resulted from heart failure superinduced by dropsy. She desired to retire from the farm and seek rest in more quiet retreats so a fine home was purchased in Hamburg, but she never visited her new home but once and that was just to superintend some matters of appointment about the convenience of the premises. During her sickness she was at the splendid home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Davis, where she had every care of both medical science and that of relatives and friends, but her condition was of a malignant form and quite hopeless from the first.

Martha Patton was born in Howard county, Missouri November 21, 1836, and was united in marriage to Benjamin Reeves July 11, l855. To them six children were born, five of whom are living. Their names: Mrs. Frank Davis, Hamburg, Iowa; Mrs. Jessie Birkby and Mrs. George Borchers, of Nebraska City, Nebraska; B.P. and E.S. Reeves, of Washington township, Fremont county, Iowa.

About thirty-six years ago Mr. and Mrs. Reeves came to Fremont county and lived for a time on the Valley Farm near Payne Junction, the land belonging to M.U. Payne. Later Mr. Reeves bought a 500 acre tract of land one mile south of Knox which was their home for some thirty years. It was one of the noted farms of that section in several ways and notably on account of the hospitality of both Mr. and Mrs. Reeves which was characteristic of their southern tendencies.

Deceased was member of the Methodist church South and very devoted to its teachings. The funeral was conducted by her pastor, Rev. J. S. Rooker, in the presence of a large concourse of people who gave evidence of their friendship by asembling to pay the last sad rites to one whom they so highly repected, although the drenching rain of last Monday forenoon caused the postponement of her burial until the afternoon. The names of the pall bearers are: William Eaton, A. Mann, Hiram Brown, Mack Snodgrass, F.A. Jones and R.C. Campbell. Interment in the Hamburg cemetery.

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