YATES, MARTHA ELLEN - Adair County, Missouri | MARTHA ELLEN YATES - Missouri Gravestone Photos

Martha Ellen YATES

Forest-Llewellyn Cemetery
Adair County,
Missouri

1853 - 1937

MRS. MARTHA E. YATES, 83, DIED SUNDAY

Funeral Services To Be Held at 2 O'clock Tuesday Afternoon.

Mrs. Martha E. Yates, 83 years old, died at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning at her home, 315 South Main street, following a several months illness. She fell about four years ago, breaking one shoulder, and has been an invalid since then. She became sick in October and has been confined to her bed.

She was a daughter of Isaac and Margaret Laisure and was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., March 13, 1853. She came to Missouri with her parents when nine years old and they lived on Floyd's Creek north of Kirksville. She was married to Captain John W. Yates in 1880, who preceded her in death. One son Edgar Yates died three and a half years ago.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Henry Wolf, with whom she has made her home here in Kirksville for the past 30 years, and one step-daughter, Mrs. Fanny Poore of Kirksville. There are two sisters, Mrs. Michia Hannah of Kirksville and Mrs. Viola Black of Quincy, Ill., eleven grand children, also several nieces and nephews.

She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church.

The body is lying in state at the Summers & Son Funeral Home where funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon by the Rev. B.N. Covert, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Burial in Llewellyn cemetery.

Kirksville Daily Express
Kirksville, Missouri
February 15, 1937

Parents:
Margaret Hanlin Laisure (1829 - 1907)
Children:
Ethel L. Yates Wolf (1884 - 1961)

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