MRS. LYDIA MARMON PASSES THURS.
Mother of Eleven* Dies At Spring Brook After Reaching the Age of Eighty-Two

Mrs. Lydia Marmon, mother of eleven children, passed away very quietly at her home in Springbrook, N.D. on her 82nd birthday Nov. 14th (1935) after a gradual physical breakdown following poor health for several months.

Funeral services were held this aftenoon at 2 o'clock at the Presbyterian Church with Rev. D.K. Ford officating. Immediately after the services the body was taken back to Williston from which place it will be shipped to Aitkin, Minn. where she will be laid to rest beside the body of her husband, Robert Marmon, who passed away in 1901.

Mrs. Marmon was born Nov. 1853, at Black River Falls, Wis. When she was five years old she journeyed overland with her parents in ox carts to Elk Point, S.D. where she grew to young womanhood. She was married to Robert Marmon of that community in 1869. They lived there for eleven years after which they moved to Aitkin, Minnesota.

She came to this section with her husband in 1899, and resided at Grinnell one winter, returning to Aitkin in the spring where she resided until 1927 when she came to Spring Brook to be near her children during the sunset of her life.

She leaves to mourn nine sons, two daughters, sixty-one grandchildren, forty-four great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

* Lydia actually had thirteen children
Note: Her actual birthdate is Nov. 19, 1853
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MRS. LYDIA MARMON, FORMER RESIDENT, BURIAL MADE HERE

Burial with gravesite services were held at the Diamond Lake cemetery on Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Lydia Marmon, widow of Robert Marmon, who died Thursday, Nov. 14th at Spring Brook, N.D. from a stroke of apoplexy. The body was brought here accompanied by LeRoy Marmon of this village, who had been with his mother a short time and another son, Morgan Marmon.

The following obituary appeared in Mrs. Marmon's home paper:

Death came quietly yesterday to Mrs. Lydia Marmon mother of 11 children, on her 82nd birthday at her Spring Brook home. Physicians attributed her death to a gradual breakdown of physical forces following poor health of several months.

Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Tioga Presbyterian church with Rev. Victor Gilbertson officiating. Following services the body will be shipped to Aitkin, Minn., where the Williams county mother will be laid to rest beside the body of her husband, Robert Marmon, who passed away in that community in 1901.

Mrs. Marmon was born November 14, 1853, at Black River Falls, Wis. When she was five years old she journeyed overland with her parents in ox carts to Elk Point, S.D. where she grew to young womanhood. She was married to Robert Marmon in that community in 1869. They continued to make there home there until they moved to Aitkin 11 years later.

In 1927 she came to Williams county to settle in Spring Brook and be near her children in sunset years of her life. She first came to this section with her husband in 1899 in a covered wagon. They spend the winter at Grinnell and in the spring returned to their Minnesota home.

The pioneer mother besides 12 children is survived by 61 grandchildren, 44 great grandchildren and one great grandchild. The children, nine sons and two daughters, are: Maywood Marmon of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; Mrs. Edward Timmel, Kalispell, Mont.; Robert of Jamestown; Mrs. M.J. Grubb of Boise, Idaho; Wesley, Harlan and Mort of White Earth, N.D.; Plaz of Big Fall, Minn; Leroy of Aitkin, Minn; Morgan and George of Spring Brook.