Submitted by:  Timothy D. Hudson



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Friday, 9 October 1885, page 3

	OBITUARIES.

Died, of flux, at her husband's home near Marion, La., Sept. 16th, 1885; 
in the 32d year of her age, Mrs. Martha L. Takewell, wife of W. R. Takewell 
and daughter of J. D. and Kitty M. Roye. 
The deceased was born in Union parish, La., 1853, and was married to W. R. 
Takewell Dec., 1869. In 1877 she united herself with the Concord Missionary 
Baptist church of which she continued a member until her death. She was a 
kind lady, a good mother, and leaves five small children, who with their 
father, feel bitterly their loss.

[Note: This obituary is very faint. Her middle initial appears to be an "L", 
but it could be "B" or another letter.]

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