Obituaries: Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Martin, 1939, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 30, 1939 Winn Parish Enterprise

Death Claims Husband And Wife Sunday

Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Martin Are Buried In One Grave Tuesday

Only 21 hours separated the deaths of a husband and wife, residents of the
Murry Camp, last Sunday.  Mrs. J. O. Martin, 59 years of age, died at the home
of her son, G. F. Provence, in Winnfield at 1:40 a.m. after an illness of one
week with pneumonia, which she had contracted while at the bedside of her
husband, a patient in a Shreveport hospital.  Mr. Martin, 71 years of age,
died Sunday night at 10 o'clock.  He had been in the hospital six weeks and
had undergone an operation.

Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Martin were held at the Old Union Church
near Joyce, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. J. D. Kitchingham of
Columbia, and the Rev. G. A. Morgan and Rev. Alwin Stokes of Winnfield
officiating.  Burial was made in one grave.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Martin were natives of Missouri.  Mrs. Martin had been a
resident of Louisiana for about 30 years.  She was first married to Mr. J. M.
Provence and they have one son.  After the death of her first husband, she
came to Louisiana and was married to Mr. Martin at Jonesboro, and they have
one child, now deceased.  Mrs. Martin was a member of the Christian Church and
of the Woodmen of the World.

Mr. Martin was born November 11, 1867 in Missouri.  By his first wife he had
one son and one daughter.  He has been a resident of Louisiana for many years
and for the past 25 years had been with the Tremont Lumber Company, residing
at Joyce, Zenoria, and Murray Junction.  He was a member of the Baptist
Church, the Masonic Order, and the Woodmen of the World.

Surviving Mrs. Martin are one son, G. F. Provence and three grandchildren of
Winnfield; one sister, Mrs. Laura Kindle of Batson, Texas; and four brothers,
John and Lee Marler of Portland, Oregon, and Jimmie and Alonzo Marler
of Illinois.

Surviving Mr. Martin are one sons and one daughter, Mrs. Pearl Hicks of
Winnfield and Mr. Otha Martin of Clarks and twelve grandchildren; one
sister, Mrs. Kate Weltie of Piedmont, Mo.