Obit of Pollan, Martha (p450) - Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Genea Bohanan 9 Jul 2003 Return to Pittsburg County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pittsburg/pittsburg.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== The Hartshorne Sun, December 31, 1914 “Mrs. Martha Pollan” Mrs. Martha Pollan, wife of D. Pollan, died at the family home three miles south of Hartshorne, Sunday December 27, at 10 o’clock, after a brief illness, in her 52nd year. The direct cause of death was the bursting of a blood vessel in the head resulting from a violent coughing spell which occurred Christmas night. The deceased is survived by the husband and eight children, four boys and four girls. She was a native of Ark, and had resided in this community about fourteen years. The Pollans are accounted among our best people and in the passing of this wife and mother the community sustains a loss which is deeply felt by the large circle of friends of the family. Interment took place in the city cemetery Monday at 6 p.m., Rev. Thos. D. New conducted the funeral.