Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Ella C. MARTIN, 1943
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Sunday Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 21 Nov 1943: 
"Frostburg, Nov 20--Miss Ella C. Martin, 76, retired school 
teacher, Pekin, died this morning at the home of her nieces, 
the Misses Agnes and Loretto Hannon, 154 Centre Street, 
after an illness of three months of heart trouble. A 
daughter of the late Patrick and Ellen Burke Martin, of 
Corriganville, Barton and Pekin, she was born at Hays 
Station, near Pittsburgh, Pa., where her parents moved on 
account of Civil War conditions. She has been a resident of 
this county for nearly 70 years. Her father came to this 
country in the early nineteenth century from Ireland. Her 
maternal grandfather, Daniel Ulic Burke, also from Ireland, 
was an engineer who helped build the Chesapeake and Ohio 
canal. She was a graduate of Baltimore State Normal School 
and attended the University of Nashville, Tennessee for two 
years. The last surviving member of her family, she had made 
her home with her brother, the late Daniel Martin, who 
conducted a general store in Pekin for more than half a 
century. Other deceased brothers and sisters were John A. 
Martin, Lonaconing business man; Patrick of Denver and Omaha; 
Mrs. John J. Hannon, Frostburg; Mrs. Thomas P. O'Connell, 
Jeannette, Pa.; Mrs. Edward C. Laughlin, Minneapolis, Minn., 
and Miss Bridget Martin, Pekin. Besides the neices with whom 
she was residing, she leaves the following other nieces and 
nephews: William Hannon, U.S. appraiser, Chicago; Thomas 
Hannon, employed at the Cumberland post office; Joseph J. 
Hannon, Mrs. James Wheatley, and Mrs. Michael Carney, 
Washington; Mrs. Joseph Footen and Mrs. E. V. Coyle, this 
city; Thomas J. Martin, Piedmont, W. Va.; Robert Jenkins, 
Baltimore; John E. Martin, Mrs. Harry Stumpf and the Misses 
Loretta, Catherine, Mary and Agnes Martin, Washington; 
Thomas Francis O'Connell, Mayor John Martin, Daniel 
O'Connell and William O'Connell, Jeannette, Pa.; Mrs. J. 
Charles Murphy, Wilkinsburg, Pa., and Mrs. Edith Laughlin, 
Carroll, Minneapolis. Miss Martin's death marks the third in 
the Hannon family in four months. Mrs. Evelyn (Honaghan) 
wife of William Hannon, died in Chicago in July and Mrs. 
Eleanor (Hannon) wife of Anthony R. Gerdeman, died in 
Cumberland in August."


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