Show uAlLEN'S JOSIAH WIFE IS DEAD Passes Away Near Her Old Birthplace WATERTOWN N Y T March 2 S By By The Tile Associated Press Press- Press Within a few feet teet of the little farm tarm farmhouse Se 1101 In which she Was waa wa born Marietta Ma Marietta rietta Holley who who wrote stories and no novels els under the pen name ot of and Josiah Josiah Allens Allen's Ke Wife that stirred the Interest ot of another generation died Monday In tho the country home horns she built near manor and which she ahe called Donny View Living LI to be SO years of ot age Ihs Holley could never understand Why he- he Jie books attracted so 50 wide an at- at at and why her plot plots appealed to hosts of ot readers N APPEAL I X never could understand Why teem seem to like my roy books she oten Ifen confided to friends I 1 wrote nothing except good common sense enu Os DI wa people u up this country know It T I always felt that there was a brIght abright tide aide about every situation and I tried to healthy sl In my stories I was wasa wasa wasa a woman and md d she Ihl had good erBe sn and Josiah Jodah wasn't a fool YOU know IV When It came to a a crisis they were tl together ether and they go o thIng nong well together ether aas as a a a usual Although Miss oley y was wai Ii prominent figure fIgur In th the social life ot 01 New ew York Cite and Saratoga R s 's she ahe preferred her br north em northern l ew e ew York ern home where the mn- mn majority ot of her lIer T books bo l were c 1 or the i i last dozen doz n years year Illness her tOo to remaIn emain Indoors Indoor nuch of ot the time timed nn |