MARTIN, Charity (Denton)
Date of death:19 Dec 1890 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 19, 1890,
Volume XXXI Number 26, page 3 column 2
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Mrs. Charity Martin died at her home in north Franklin on Wednesday night, after a lingering illness of heart disease. She had been a resident of this city for many [years] and her death is deeply deplored by her many friends here. The funeral will take place from her late residence tomorrow afternoon.
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Link to Charity (Denton) Martin’s grave
Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 124, referencing Book H-16, page 22, records that Charity Martin, a sixty-nine-year-old white female, died 18 Dec 1890 in Franklin.
Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that James O. Martin married Charity Denton on 1 May 1849 in Ohio County. Daniel Moss, J. P. was the officiant.
The 1860 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson, Indiana records thirty-nine-year-old, Pennsylvania-born dentist James O Martin, his thirty-one-year-old, New York-born wife Charity Martin, and their Indiana-born children, ten-year-old Mary E and six-year-old John Martin.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson