Adair-Johnson-Cass County IA Archives Obituaries.....Pont, Martin November 3, 1921
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Atlantic News Telegraph November 3, 1921
Martin Pont Dies Suddenly
Resident of Cass County Forty-Five Years Dies This Noon At Lewis.
Special in News-Telegraph
Lewis, Iowa, Nov. 3---Martin Pont, age 75, passed away at 12:30 today at his 
home here after being ill with pneumonia since Monday.
Mr. Pont has been a resident of this county for the past forty-five years. He 
came here in 1866 and lived on a farm three miles south of Lewis until a year 
ago last March when he and his wife moved to Lewis.
Mrs. Pont died on June 6 of this year.  
Mr. Pont was born in Cambridgeshire, Eng., May 25, 1846 and lived there until 
1866. He came to this country in a sailing vessel which was thirty-seven days 
on the ocean. After his arrival in this country he went to Bureau County, Ill., 
where he made his home with two uncles until his marriage on Dec 23, 1867
to Miss Frances Murfitt. They came to this county in 1876 and made their home 
south of Lewis.
He is survived by five children: Mrs. Mary Pulley living at home; John and Sam 
of Stanton, Neb.; Russell of Lewis and Edward who lives south of Atlantic.

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