Wife of Albert Jay Orendorff, married October 27, 1872 McLean County, Illinois
Herald, a daily newspaper published in Fredonia, Wilson county, Ks., Thursday, March 11, 1920 - Page 7, Column 1.
Martha Francis Rhodes was born on a farm near Bloomington, Illinois, October 15, 1851 and died March 3, 1920 at their home near Rest, Kansas, age 69 years, 4 months and 18 days. She was from a family of early pioneers in Central Illinois. Her father was the first white child born there. In the family were five children, she being the only girl.
Her mother died when she was twelve years old and she assumed the mothers place and raised the family and at the age of twenty-two was married to Albert Orendorff and in 1875 they pioneered to Nebraska and settled on the naked prairie among the Omaha and Pawnee Indians near Hastings. There they built up a beautiful home and in 1878 they sold out and bought a stock ranch on the Blue River at Springranch; then in 1896, they moved to Kansas, buying a home in Clifton township on which they have lived since.
At an early age they joined the Christian church but transferred to the Methodist. She and husband raised a family of three boys, all now grown and married. Guy Roy lives at Spring Ranch, Nebraska. Arthur Dell lives at Ash Grove, Mo., and Lester, on the home farm. Besides these boys she leaves a husband, three brothers and three grandchildren and many other friends and relatives to mourn her departure.
Herald, a daily newspaper published in Fredonia, Wilson county, Ks., Thursday, March 11, 1920 - Page 7, Column 1.
Martha Francis Rhodes was born on a farm near Bloomington, Illinois, October 15, 1851 and died March 3, 1920 at their home near Rest, Kansas, age 69 years, 4 months and 18 days. She was from a family of early pioneers in Central Illinois. Her father was the first white child born there. In the family were five children, she being the only girl.
Her mother died when she was twelve years old and she assumed the mothers place and raised the family and at the age of twenty-two was married to Albert Orendorff and in 1875 they pioneered to Nebraska and settled on the naked prairie among the Omaha and Pawnee Indians near Hastings. There they built up a beautiful home and in 1878 they sold out and bought a stock ranch on the Blue River at Springranch; then in 1896, they moved to Kansas, buying a home in Clifton township on which they have lived since.
At an early age they joined the Christian church but transferred to the Methodist. She and husband raised a family of three boys, all now grown and married. Guy Roy lives at Spring Ranch, Nebraska. Arthur Dell lives at Ash Grove, Mo., and Lester, on the home farm. Besides these boys she leaves a husband, three brothers and three grandchildren and many other friends and relatives to mourn her departure.
Wife of Albert Jay Orendorff, married October 27, 1872 McLean County, Illinois
Herald, a daily newspaper published in Fredonia, Wilson county, Ks., Thursday, March 11, 1920 - Page 7, Column 1.
Martha Francis Rhodes was born on a farm near Bloomington, Illinois, October 15, 1851 and died March 3, 1920 at their home near Rest, Kansas, age 69 years, 4 months and 18 days. She was from a family of early pioneers in Central Illinois. Her father was the first white child born there. In the family were five children, she being the only girl.
Her mother died when she was twelve years old and she assumed the mothers place and raised the family and at the age of twenty-two was married to Albert Orendorff and in 1875 they pioneered to Nebraska and settled on the naked prairie among the Omaha and Pawnee Indians near Hastings. There they built up a beautiful home and in 1878 they sold out and bought a stock ranch on the Blue River at Springranch; then in 1896, they moved to Kansas, buying a home in Clifton township on which they have lived since.
At an early age they joined the Christian church but transferred to the Methodist. She and husband raised a family of three boys, all now grown and married. Guy Roy lives at Spring Ranch, Nebraska. Arthur Dell lives at Ash Grove, Mo., and Lester, on the home farm. Besides these boys she leaves a husband, three brothers and three grandchildren and many other friends and relatives to mourn her departure.
Herald, a daily newspaper published in Fredonia, Wilson county, Ks., Thursday, March 11, 1920 - Page 7, Column 1.
Martha Francis Rhodes was born on a farm near Bloomington, Illinois, October 15, 1851 and died March 3, 1920 at their home near Rest, Kansas, age 69 years, 4 months and 18 days. She was from a family of early pioneers in Central Illinois. Her father was the first white child born there. In the family were five children, she being the only girl.
Her mother died when she was twelve years old and she assumed the mothers place and raised the family and at the age of twenty-two was married to Albert Orendorff and in 1875 they pioneered to Nebraska and settled on the naked prairie among the Omaha and Pawnee Indians near Hastings. There they built up a beautiful home and in 1878 they sold out and bought a stock ranch on the Blue River at Springranch; then in 1896, they moved to Kansas, buying a home in Clifton township on which they have lived since.
At an early age they joined the Christian church but transferred to the Methodist. She and husband raised a family of three boys, all now grown and married. Guy Roy lives at Spring Ranch, Nebraska. Arthur Dell lives at Ash Grove, Mo., and Lester, on the home farm. Besides these boys she leaves a husband, three brothers and three grandchildren and many other friends and relatives to mourn her departure.
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