Obit: W.L. Martin, 1906, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by: Nora Martin, PO Box 1871, Jena, LA 71342 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Source: The Southern Sentinel Winnfield, Louisiana Friday, 9 February 1906 Respects to W. L. Martin On the 18th day of January, 1906, W. L. Martin, constable of this the 10th ward, was taken ill with a severe case of lockjaw. The family physician was summoned but he continued to grow worse. On the 5th day of his illness he was moved to his father's home, A. L. Martin's, where he had all the attention that could be given; the best physicians were summoned to his bedside, but alas! they could give no hopes, and only partly relieved him in pain. I have witnessed human suffering but I never saw anyone suffer as he did. He stood his suffering without a murmer, knowing his sad condition and that God alone could relieve him. On the 27th of January at 4 o'clock a.m. he called his father, telling him something would have to be done and then passed away to join his loved ones in Heaven. W. L. Martin had lived an upright and honorable life and was loved by all that knew him. As an officer he did his duty and his place will be hard to fill. He leaves a wife, four children, father, mother, six brothers and five sisters, with other relatives to mourn for him. He was 33 years, 2 months, 3 weeks old. He was burried at Union Grove, laid beside his first wife and two little children and was followed to his last resting place by a score of friends and relations, all grieved to part with him. "He has gone from his loved ones, His children, his wife, Whom he willingly toiled for, And loved as his life. Oh, God! how mysterious, And how strange are thy ways, To take from us this loved one In the best of his days" -A Friend (typed verbatim)