OBIT: Franklin Martin, 1928, native of Huntingdon County, PA

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The Late Franklin Martin

Franklin Martin was born October 22, 1852 at Cooks Mills, Huntingdon 
County, Pennsylvania. He passed away at his home in Geneva, Nebraska on 
Tuesday, July 31, 1928.

Mr. Martin had been in very poor health for over a year, having been 
bedfast for the past month. The end came quietly Tuesday evening. 

Mr. Martin spent his boyhood days in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. 
He came to Nebraska in the fall of 1877 and followed his trade of 
plastering and farming. He and Joe Jackson batched together near 
Bruning. In 1883, Mr. Martin went to Crested Butte, Colorado where his 
brother, Stephen J. lived. Here he followed his trade of plastering 
going a little later to Denver for two years, after which he returned 
to Nebraska, near Bruning, where he built a house on his farm. 

He returned to Pennsylvania and was married to Miss Lucinda Kissinger 
of Jamescreek, Pennsylvania. They came to their farm home in 1884 and 
went to housekeeping. They resided there until 1920 when they moved to 
the present home in Geneva, Nebraska. 

Mr. Martin leaves to mourn his death his aged wife, two daughters, Mrs. 
Edna Wolcott and Mrs. Ethel Little and one son, Samuel Jess Martin, a 
granddaughter, Jeanne Frances Wolcott and a grandson, Dean Franklin 
Martin, also a half brother, Sherman Edwards of Bruning, Nebraska, and 
a half sister Mrs. Charles Westbrook of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Also 
nieces and nephews in Pennsylvania, Idaho and California and other 
relatives and a host of friends, all of whom will miss him greatly.

Mr. Martin was a friend in need, in time of sickness or health. He 
loved his friends and neighbors and was always ready to aid them in any 
way he could. He was patriotic and had a deep feeling for his country. 
He was a member of the Geneva Congregational Church.

He loved children and always had a kind word for them. He was a man who 
made friends with all. He was always greatly interested in farm work, 
his son Jess Martin living now on the old farm home twelve miles south 
of Geneva.

The funeral services were held at the home at 1:30 p.m. Thursday by 
Rev. David Tudor of the Congregational Church. Interment was in the 
Harmony Cementer with Rev. Mr. Tudor and Rev. Mr. Caughran officiating.

Nebraska Signal, Geneva, Nebraska