Malheur County OR Archives Obituaries.....Craig, Martha 1914
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Ontario Democrat, Jan. 29, 1914
Ontario Democrat
Ontario, Oregon
Thursday, Jan. 29, 1914

A GOOD WOMAN GONE

After a lingering illness of several months, Martha, beloved wife of H. M. 
Craig, passed painlessly away at one a.m. on the night of the 21st last at the 
residence of the E. A. Brow ranch, a mile southwest of Ontario.  She was buried 
from the Adventist church on the afternoon of the 23rd current, the sermon 
being delivered by her old friend, Rev. B. L. Milligan from John XlX, 27 
(“Behold thy mother!”) to a packed houseful of sympathetic friends.  

Martha S. Wilcox was born, Oct. 1844, near Nashville, Tenn., her parents 
removing soon afterwards to Oakland, Miss., where she grew up, married to H. M. 
Craig, October 1, 1867, migrated to Ark., in the fall of 1878, to Grant county, 
Oregon, near Prairie City, in 1883; to Ontario in the autumn of 1903.   Church 
affiliation for nearly (if not quite) a half century the Christian.  She leaves 
a husband, Houston M. Craig, and the following children:  Bettie (Mrs. T. L. 
Blackman); Lillie (Mrs. Frank Hardman); Claudia (Mrs. Bruce Winegar); and 
Thomas; who with their children constitute the immediate relatives:  Walter and 
George Blackman, Walla Walla, and George Hardman, Eugene are three of the 
grandchildren, who were unable to be present.  

‘Aunt Mat’ was essentially a home loving and home-making mother, finding her 
greatest happiness in her husband, children and grandchildren and within the 
sacred precincts of the home. The relatives who best knew her, feel more 
acutely, therefore, the loss of the kindly and affectionate wife, mother and 
grandmother, whose removal leaves a void in their lives which none can fill. 

The family desires to express in heartfelt appreciation of the kindness and 
sympathy of their neighbors in gentle ministrations during the illness and 
death of their beloved one; to the quartette (Mrs. Irwin Troxell, Lelia Strane 
and Messrs. A. J. Whitesides and G. W. Routh) for their sweet music; to the 
pall bearers (Messrs. Berry, Nichols, Tucker, Wellington and Alexander) and to 
Mr. Mogan, the undertaker.  

“Dust to its narrow house beneath’ 
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death
No more may fear to die.”

-B. L. Milligan



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