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Show Eminent Women Buried at Manti Mrs. Tilla Work Martin, wife of the late Kev. Geo. W. Martin, DD., of Manti, died last Saturday at the home of her son, Theodore Martin, at Kichfield. Mrs. Martin had gone to Hichlield the Saturday preceding for a week's visit, and though not in thoroughly good health, she was seemingly improving and previous to Friday night had given no evidence of any serious illness. Friday evening, eve-ning, however, she retired about nine o'clock, as usual, and at about ten o'clock Mrs. Martin suffered a stroke of apoplexy, from which she did not recover full consciousness. The end came Saturday evening, a blessed relief from the twenty-three hours of suffering. The body was taken to Manti Monday of this week, when impressive impres-sive funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian chapel, where Mrs. Martin had served as an active member for forty-five years. Dr. Wm. M. Paden, superintendent of the Presbyterian mission work in Utah, presided and was assisted by Rev. Geo. Wallace of Richfield, and Rev. Arthur Boand of Mt. Pleasant. A quartet of teachers from the Wasatch Was-atch academy, Mt. Pleasant, furnished furnish-ed appropriate music. Mrs. Martin was born in Lancaster, Lancast-er, Ohio, February 10, 18-18. In July of 1879 she married Rev. Geo. W. Martin, who had just graduated from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and was under commission j of the Presbyterian Board of Home , Missionaries for work in Utah. In September of that year she went with her husband to Manti, where she had lived a most active life for forty-five forty-five years, taking a leading part in religious, social and civic affairs. Mrs. Martin is survived by two sisters, Mrs. George Fullterton of Springfield, Ohio, and Miss Jennie Work of Manti; two daughters, Mrs. Richard W. Jones of Preston, Idaho, and Miss Winifred Fitzhugh Martin, a teacher of the Roosevelt Junior I high school of Salt Lake, and one I son, Theodore D. Martin, principal ' of the Richfield high school. |