OBITUARY: Martha (Logan) Hutchins, 1860-1930, Mitchell County, Iowa

[The Osage News, Osage, Iowa, June 12, 1930; Vol. LXI, No. 24, P. 1, Col. 5]




                         Martha Logan Hutchins

                   December 16, 1860 - June 9, 1930
   
            MRS. MARTHA HUTCHINS IS DEAD: FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

Cancer Causes Death; Interment Will Be at Nashua.

Mrs. Martha Hutchins died Monday, June 9, at her home in Osage.  She became
critically ill four months ago.  She received Christian baptism, April 30,
1930, and while enduring much pain, awaited death with exemplary patience.
Cancer was the cause of her demise.

Carl Lloyd, a great-nephew, and his wife had taken care Mrs. Hutchins during
the greater part of the time of her illness.  No immediate relatives survive,
but there are great many nephews and nieces and more distant relatives.

Services were held Wednesday morning at the Champion funeral home.  Interment
will be beside her husband in Greenwood cemetery at Nashua.

Mrs. Martha Logan Hutchins was born Dec. 15, 1861, at Clayton, Ia.  She
married Bart Hutchins, Dec. 31, 1878.  Following their marriage Mr. and
Mrs. Hutchins came to Mitchell county, and for many years lived on a farm
near the Dudley school.  Some twenty-five years ago they moved in to Osage.
In 1895 they adopted William Black, then but a year old, as their son.  Mr.
Hutchins died in 1921.  The adopted son, William, married Matie Low; a son,
Gardner, was born to them in 1923, four months after his birth the mother
died, and in 1925 the father died also.  Since then Gardner has lived with
his grandmother Hutchins, with the exception that during her recent and last
illness he has made his home with his Grandmother Law.



[Note: It's not clear when Martha Logan was born.  According to the Mitchell
County Death Register, Book 1, page 26, she was 69 years, 5 months, 24 days
old when she died on June 9, 1930.  This would put her birth date at December
16, 1860.  Above, her date of birth is given as  December 15, 1861.  Finally,
in the Census of 1900, it was recorded that she was born in December of 1859.
(I found her in the census via Ancestry.com at:
1900>Iowa>Mitchell>Osage City>District 118>47 of 59.)

I don't know which date is correct. ]


      Transcription - Barbara Hutchins, 2005.  Contact: hutchgen@juno.com