I, J. Wathen, manager of this memorial, am the 2nd great-granddaughter of Martha's husband, Powel O. Roberts. My great-grandfather, William A. Roberts, was Powel's son from his 2nd marriage to Lourena (Agee) Roberts. Martha was the only mother William knew because his mother died when he was only 1 month old.
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The Courier-Tribune, Seneca, Kansas, Thursday, March 30, 1922, page 1, column 3:
Mrs. Martha Jane Clem Roberts was born near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on September 12, 1849 and died at the home of her son at McCook, Nebr. on March 25th at the age of seventy-two years, six months and thirteen days.
Her parents were Aaron and Sarah (DeGarmo) Clem and she was the fourth of a family of six girls and four boys. When she was twelve years old, the family removed in a covered wagon, the typical prairie schooner, to Atchison county, Kansas where her father homesteaded land and became a Kansas pioneer, one of those men who together with his family, helped to lay the foundations that make this state great.
Martha Jane Clem married Powell Onbey Roberts on her twenty-sixth birthday, September 12, 1875. Mr. Roberts had a family of four children by a previous marriage. They were: Fannie B. Roberts and Mrs. Minnie McMickell of Salina, Granville Roberts of Centralia and Austin Roberts of Great Falls, Mont. To these she became a loved mother. Her own children were Miss Maude Roberts, who made her mother the special object of her love and care, and who was with her at the end; Jasper Claude who died in Infancy; Onbey Roscoe Roberts of McCook, Nebr. at whose home she died; John P. Roberts and Mrs. Josephine Bedker, both of North Platte, Nebr.; Mrs. May Wagner of Hawarden, Iowa and Mrs. Valerie Selby of Seneca. She also leaves three sisters and a brother: Mrs. W. R. Franklin, Mrs. C. C. McColgin and Mrs. Amanda Fenton and Emanuel Clem, all of Atchison.
Mrs. Roberts was a good mother, a loving wife and an ideal neighbor. Like many another mother of the pioneer period, she became by force of her suroundings and by virtue of loving sympathetic heart, a nurse in the community that knew no trained nurses in the professional sense. She was present in many a sick room in which the death angel hovered near and many a newborn babe received its first ministration from her loving hand. The family lived in turn in Doniphan, Ness, Osage and Nemaha counties, making friends and being friends wherever they went. She lived to see Kansas grow from the pioneer condition when the Indian was a near neighbor and the prairie lay in its primeval wildness, to one of the most progressive states in the union, a result that the heroic sacrifices of people like herself and husband made possible.
Mrs. Roberts was a Christian woman in all her adult life. Her parents were devoted Baptists and in early life their daughter united with the church of her parents, being baptized by Rev. Mr. Cooke. In 1907 her husband died, since which time she had made her home with her children. For the past nine years she has been a victim of paralysis but was able last summer to make a visit among the old friends in Atchison county which she greatly enjoyed.
The songs one love are often a fine index of character. Of her two favorite songs, one looks back to the start in the Christian life "O Happy Day that Fixed My Choice," the other looks forward to the final consummation of that choice "There is a Land of Pure Delight." These two hymns of the church reveal her faith and hope. In this faith she lived and in this hope she died.
Accompanied by members of her family the body of Mrs. Roberts arrived in Seneca on the Grand Island train at 12:15 Monday afternoon. A short service was conducted at the Selby home by Rev. A. B. Appleby. Dr. Lawson sang "The City Four-Square." Following this service the body was conveyed to Centralia where services were conducted in the M.E. church by Rev. T. S. Warner and choir. The interment was in the family lot in the Centralia cemetery. The pallbearers were: Guy and Dennis Bedker, Earl Roberts, Walter Smith, Jr. and Leonard Hilbert. Relatives attending were Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bedker, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Roberts of North Platte, Nebr., Miss Maude Roberts of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. A. W. Wagner of Hawarden, Ia.; Mrs. W. R. Franklin, Mrs. C. C. McColgin, and Miss Elsie Underwood of Atchison and Mr and Mrs. Walter Selby and son of Seneca.
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The Courier-Tribune, Seneca, Kansas, Thursday, March 30, 1922, page 1, column 3:
Mrs. Martha Jane Clem Roberts was born near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on September 12, 1849 and died at the home of her son at McCook, Nebr. on March 25th at the age of seventy-two years, six months and thirteen days.
Her parents were Aaron and Sarah (DeGarmo) Clem and she was the fourth of a family of six girls and four boys. When she was twelve years old, the family removed in a covered wagon, the typical prairie schooner, to Atchison county, Kansas where her father homesteaded land and became a Kansas pioneer, one of those men who together with his family, helped to lay the foundations that make this state great.
Martha Jane Clem married Powell Onbey Roberts on her twenty-sixth birthday, September 12, 1875. Mr. Roberts had a family of four children by a previous marriage. They were: Fannie B. Roberts and Mrs. Minnie McMickell of Salina, Granville Roberts of Centralia and Austin Roberts of Great Falls, Mont. To these she became a loved mother. Her own children were Miss Maude Roberts, who made her mother the special object of her love and care, and who was with her at the end; Jasper Claude who died in Infancy; Onbey Roscoe Roberts of McCook, Nebr. at whose home she died; John P. Roberts and Mrs. Josephine Bedker, both of North Platte, Nebr.; Mrs. May Wagner of Hawarden, Iowa and Mrs. Valerie Selby of Seneca. She also leaves three sisters and a brother: Mrs. W. R. Franklin, Mrs. C. C. McColgin and Mrs. Amanda Fenton and Emanuel Clem, all of Atchison.
Mrs. Roberts was a good mother, a loving wife and an ideal neighbor. Like many another mother of the pioneer period, she became by force of her suroundings and by virtue of loving sympathetic heart, a nurse in the community that knew no trained nurses in the professional sense. She was present in many a sick room in which the death angel hovered near and many a newborn babe received its first ministration from her loving hand. The family lived in turn in Doniphan, Ness, Osage and Nemaha counties, making friends and being friends wherever they went. She lived to see Kansas grow from the pioneer condition when the Indian was a near neighbor and the prairie lay in its primeval wildness, to one of the most progressive states in the union, a result that the heroic sacrifices of people like herself and husband made possible.
Mrs. Roberts was a Christian woman in all her adult life. Her parents were devoted Baptists and in early life their daughter united with the church of her parents, being baptized by Rev. Mr. Cooke. In 1907 her husband died, since which time she had made her home with her children. For the past nine years she has been a victim of paralysis but was able last summer to make a visit among the old friends in Atchison county which she greatly enjoyed.
The songs one love are often a fine index of character. Of her two favorite songs, one looks back to the start in the Christian life "O Happy Day that Fixed My Choice," the other looks forward to the final consummation of that choice "There is a Land of Pure Delight." These two hymns of the church reveal her faith and hope. In this faith she lived and in this hope she died.
Accompanied by members of her family the body of Mrs. Roberts arrived in Seneca on the Grand Island train at 12:15 Monday afternoon. A short service was conducted at the Selby home by Rev. A. B. Appleby. Dr. Lawson sang "The City Four-Square." Following this service the body was conveyed to Centralia where services were conducted in the M.E. church by Rev. T. S. Warner and choir. The interment was in the family lot in the Centralia cemetery. The pallbearers were: Guy and Dennis Bedker, Earl Roberts, Walter Smith, Jr. and Leonard Hilbert. Relatives attending were Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bedker, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Roberts of North Platte, Nebr., Miss Maude Roberts of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. A. W. Wagner of Hawarden, Ia.; Mrs. W. R. Franklin, Mrs. C. C. McColgin, and Miss Elsie Underwood of Atchison and Mr and Mrs. Walter Selby and son of Seneca.
I, J. Wathen, manager of this memorial, am the 2nd great-granddaughter of Martha's husband, Powel O. Roberts. My great-grandfather, William A. Roberts, was Powel's son from his 2nd marriage to Lourena (Agee) Roberts. Martha was the only mother William knew because his mother died when he was only 1 month old.
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The Courier-Tribune, Seneca, Kansas, Thursday, March 30, 1922, page 1, column 3:
Mrs. Martha Jane Clem Roberts was born near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on September 12, 1849 and died at the home of her son at McCook, Nebr. on March 25th at the age of seventy-two years, six months and thirteen days.
Her parents were Aaron and Sarah (DeGarmo) Clem and she was the fourth of a family of six girls and four boys. When she was twelve years old, the family removed in a covered wagon, the typical prairie schooner, to Atchison county, Kansas where her father homesteaded land and became a Kansas pioneer, one of those men who together with his family, helped to lay the foundations that make this state great.
Martha Jane Clem married Powell Onbey Roberts on her twenty-sixth birthday, September 12, 1875. Mr. Roberts had a family of four children by a previous marriage. They were: Fannie B. Roberts and Mrs. Minnie McMickell of Salina, Granville Roberts of Centralia and Austin Roberts of Great Falls, Mont. To these she became a loved mother. Her own children were Miss Maude Roberts, who made her mother the special object of her love and care, and who was with her at the end; Jasper Claude who died in Infancy; Onbey Roscoe Roberts of McCook, Nebr. at whose home she died; John P. Roberts and Mrs. Josephine Bedker, both of North Platte, Nebr.; Mrs. May Wagner of Hawarden, Iowa and Mrs. Valerie Selby of Seneca. She also leaves three sisters and a brother: Mrs. W. R. Franklin, Mrs. C. C. McColgin and Mrs. Amanda Fenton and Emanuel Clem, all of Atchison.
Mrs. Roberts was a good mother, a loving wife and an ideal neighbor. Like many another mother of the pioneer period, she became by force of her suroundings and by virtue of loving sympathetic heart, a nurse in the community that knew no trained nurses in the professional sense. She was present in many a sick room in which the death angel hovered near and many a newborn babe received its first ministration from her loving hand. The family lived in turn in Doniphan, Ness, Osage and Nemaha counties, making friends and being friends wherever they went. She lived to see Kansas grow from the pioneer condition when the Indian was a near neighbor and the prairie lay in its primeval wildness, to one of the most progressive states in the union, a result that the heroic sacrifices of people like herself and husband made possible.
Mrs. Roberts was a Christian woman in all her adult life. Her parents were devoted Baptists and in early life their daughter united with the church of her parents, being baptized by Rev. Mr. Cooke. In 1907 her husband died, since which time she had made her home with her children. For the past nine years she has been a victim of paralysis but was able last summer to make a visit among the old friends in Atchison county which she greatly enjoyed.
The songs one love are often a fine index of character. Of her two favorite songs, one looks back to the start in the Christian life "O Happy Day that Fixed My Choice," the other looks forward to the final consummation of that choice "There is a Land of Pure Delight." These two hymns of the church reveal her faith and hope. In this faith she lived and in this hope she died.
Accompanied by members of her family the body of Mrs. Roberts arrived in Seneca on the Grand Island train at 12:15 Monday afternoon. A short service was conducted at the Selby home by Rev. A. B. Appleby. Dr. Lawson sang "The City Four-Square." Following this service the body was conveyed to Centralia where services were conducted in the M.E. church by Rev. T. S. Warner and choir. The interment was in the family lot in the Centralia cemetery. The pallbearers were: Guy and Dennis Bedker, Earl Roberts, Walter Smith, Jr. and Leonard Hilbert. Relatives attending were Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bedker, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Roberts of North Platte, Nebr., Miss Maude Roberts of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. A. W. Wagner of Hawarden, Ia.; Mrs. W. R. Franklin, Mrs. C. C. McColgin, and Miss Elsie Underwood of Atchison and Mr and Mrs. Walter Selby and son of Seneca.
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The Courier-Tribune, Seneca, Kansas, Thursday, March 30, 1922, page 1, column 3:
Mrs. Martha Jane Clem Roberts was born near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on September 12, 1849 and died at the home of her son at McCook, Nebr. on March 25th at the age of seventy-two years, six months and thirteen days.
Her parents were Aaron and Sarah (DeGarmo) Clem and she was the fourth of a family of six girls and four boys. When she was twelve years old, the family removed in a covered wagon, the typical prairie schooner, to Atchison county, Kansas where her father homesteaded land and became a Kansas pioneer, one of those men who together with his family, helped to lay the foundations that make this state great.
Martha Jane Clem married Powell Onbey Roberts on her twenty-sixth birthday, September 12, 1875. Mr. Roberts had a family of four children by a previous marriage. They were: Fannie B. Roberts and Mrs. Minnie McMickell of Salina, Granville Roberts of Centralia and Austin Roberts of Great Falls, Mont. To these she became a loved mother. Her own children were Miss Maude Roberts, who made her mother the special object of her love and care, and who was with her at the end; Jasper Claude who died in Infancy; Onbey Roscoe Roberts of McCook, Nebr. at whose home she died; John P. Roberts and Mrs. Josephine Bedker, both of North Platte, Nebr.; Mrs. May Wagner of Hawarden, Iowa and Mrs. Valerie Selby of Seneca. She also leaves three sisters and a brother: Mrs. W. R. Franklin, Mrs. C. C. McColgin and Mrs. Amanda Fenton and Emanuel Clem, all of Atchison.
Mrs. Roberts was a good mother, a loving wife and an ideal neighbor. Like many another mother of the pioneer period, she became by force of her suroundings and by virtue of loving sympathetic heart, a nurse in the community that knew no trained nurses in the professional sense. She was present in many a sick room in which the death angel hovered near and many a newborn babe received its first ministration from her loving hand. The family lived in turn in Doniphan, Ness, Osage and Nemaha counties, making friends and being friends wherever they went. She lived to see Kansas grow from the pioneer condition when the Indian was a near neighbor and the prairie lay in its primeval wildness, to one of the most progressive states in the union, a result that the heroic sacrifices of people like herself and husband made possible.
Mrs. Roberts was a Christian woman in all her adult life. Her parents were devoted Baptists and in early life their daughter united with the church of her parents, being baptized by Rev. Mr. Cooke. In 1907 her husband died, since which time she had made her home with her children. For the past nine years she has been a victim of paralysis but was able last summer to make a visit among the old friends in Atchison county which she greatly enjoyed.
The songs one love are often a fine index of character. Of her two favorite songs, one looks back to the start in the Christian life "O Happy Day that Fixed My Choice," the other looks forward to the final consummation of that choice "There is a Land of Pure Delight." These two hymns of the church reveal her faith and hope. In this faith she lived and in this hope she died.
Accompanied by members of her family the body of Mrs. Roberts arrived in Seneca on the Grand Island train at 12:15 Monday afternoon. A short service was conducted at the Selby home by Rev. A. B. Appleby. Dr. Lawson sang "The City Four-Square." Following this service the body was conveyed to Centralia where services were conducted in the M.E. church by Rev. T. S. Warner and choir. The interment was in the family lot in the Centralia cemetery. The pallbearers were: Guy and Dennis Bedker, Earl Roberts, Walter Smith, Jr. and Leonard Hilbert. Relatives attending were Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bedker, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Roberts of North Platte, Nebr., Miss Maude Roberts of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. A. W. Wagner of Hawarden, Ia.; Mrs. W. R. Franklin, Mrs. C. C. McColgin, and Miss Elsie Underwood of Atchison and Mr and Mrs. Walter Selby and son of Seneca.
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