Johnson-Lancaster County NeArchives Obituaries.....Easterday, Martin V.  April 22, 1915
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The Tecumseh Chieftain, Johnson County, NE. May 1, 1915
Passing of Martin V. Easterday
   Brief mention was made in this paper last week of the fact that Martin V. 
Easterday had died at Tacoma, Wash., on Thursday, April 22, 1915. He had been 
in failing health for several years and was confined to his bed for some two 
weeks in the final illness. The cause of death was disease incidental to age. 
He was aged eighty-nine years, seven months and twenty-four days.
   Martin Van Buren Easterday, son of Christian and Anna (Stemple)Easterday, 
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, August 29, 1825. His boyhood days were 
spent there, where he received the preliminaries of his education, which was 
completed at Muhlenburg college. Upon leaving college Mr. Easterday taught 
school for a few years, and then engaged in farming, which occupation was his 
during a considerable portion of the active year of his life. September 2, 
1952, Mr. Easterday was married to Miss Margaret J. Huston of Jefferson County, 
and, soon after their marriage, they located to Montgomery county, Ill., 
purchasing a farm, where they continued to reside for seventeen years. During 
their residence in Illinois marked the epoch of the Civil war, and Mr. 
Easterday volunteered his services in the interests of his country, becoming a 
member of Company F, 126th regiment Illinois volunteers, at Springfield. He was 
twice promoted in this regiment, to second and first lieutenancy, and was 
honorably discharged at the close of the war. 
   In 1871 Mr. Easterday and his family came to Tecumseh, and he invested in 
farmlands which were partly improved, improving the same and later engaging in 
farming here for a great number of years. In an early day Mr. Easterday was 
engaged in the implement business here, and in 1877 he was elected treasurer of 
Johnson county. He was honored with re-election to this office in 1879. He also 
filled in a most satisfactory manner various school and township offices. In 
his early life Mr. Easterday was a member of the Lutheran church and in the 
days of twenty-five or thirty years ago both he and his wife were members of 
the Universalist church in this city. He was prominently identified with the 
Masonic orders for years, being a Knight Templar. 
   Mr. & Mrs. Easterday were the parents of eight children, all being born in 
Illinois. Four are deceased, Oliver C. dying at the age of twenty-one years, 
Horace H. in 1889, and the other two in infancy. Charles Milton, Stephen A. and 
Joseph H. reside at Tacoma, and Philip S. at Portland, Ore. Mrs. Easterday 
passed away December 9, 1908, at the age of seventy-six years, five months, and 
ten days. 
   Mr. Easterday was a man of generous impulses, and never forgot the 
hospitable ways of the pioneer. The stranger, even though a beggar, invariably 
found food and shelter if he sought it at his hands. During his long life he 
had borne adversity bravely, and enjoyed prosperity quietly. He had experienced 
seeing a most remarkable development of this section during his residence here. 
He was public spirited, a good public servant, and interested in the events of 
the home community, state and nation, for he was a great reader and always well 
informed. He had filled the various relations of life - as son, husband, 
father, friend - and filled them well. Who can do more? His life was in 
accordance of the teachings of the Good Book as he saw them, and he was a bible 
student, and he died a firm believer in the future life, where is family, now 
so badly broken here, will be happily united. 
   The funeral was held at Tacoma on Friday of last week, after which the son, 
Milton, accompanied the remains east. At Lincoln he was joined by nephews, and 
other relatives of the deceased, who came on to Tecumseh. A short service was 
held at the Presbyterian church here, at 3:30 o'clock, Monday afternoon, 
conducted by Rev. W.W. Alverson, pastor of the church. Many of the pioneer 
residents, old soldiers, members of the Masonic lodge, and others were in 
attendance. The burial was in the family lot in the Tecumseh cemetery.

Additional Comments:
Martin V. Easterday's photo appears in the original obituary in the paper. 
Martin was of German descent. His wife was of Scots-Irish descent. 

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