OBIT: Martha (STOKES) HAMNER, 1891, Allegheny County, PA

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Death of Mrs. Martha Hamner.

  Mrs. Martha Stokes Hamner, mother of our friend and townsman, Mr. H. 
T. Hamner, manager of the music store in the Masonic temple, died very 
suddenly at half-past 2 o'clock p.m. at her home in Coulterville, near 
Pittsburgh, Pa., of asthma or heart failure, aged 74 years.
  The deceased leaves a husband, Mr. William Hamner, of Coultersville; 
one son, Mr. H. T. Hamner, of Altoona, above referred to, who was 
summoned to her bedside yesterday morning, and two daughters - Mrs. 
Thomas, of Lawrenceville, Pa., and Mrs. Williams, of West Oakland, Cal.
  Mrs. Hamner was born in Staffordshire, England.  Her maiden name was 
Martha Stokes.  She was married at her home and came to this country 
soon after with her husband, where she has lived a busy, active and 
useful life.  She embraced the religion of Christ at the age of 14 
years and for sixty years remained a consistent member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  For many years she led a most saintly life, "forever 
in spirit serving the Lord" and died in the peace and joy which always 
comes to the good.
  She possessed many superior qualities of heart and life which won for 
her a large circle of friends who to-day mourn her loss.  She led an 
active and helpful life, always striving to help and make others happy.  
As the rose blooms and sheds not its fragrance for itself so Mother 
Hamner lived not for herself but for others and from her beautiful life 
there went out a sweet fragrance of love and purity which brightened 
the homes into which she found her way and lightened and gladdened the 
hearts of all who knew her.  But she is gone from us.  The eye, no 
longer dim, seeks the King in His beauty.  The voice, once enfeebled, 
now joins in the songs of the redeemed. - A FRIEND.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, January 13, 1891