This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Curtis, Ward, Cannon, Judd, Briley, Swisher Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1496 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. February 19, 1920. "Martha Elizabeth Curtis".--Martha Elizabeth Ward was born near Craig, Holt county, Missouri, March 26, 1856 and passed away at her home in Anderson, Iowa, February 12, 1920, being 63 years, 10 months and 17 days old. Miss Ward came to Fremont county, Iowa in 1865 where she grew up to womanhood and on March 10, 1878 she was united in marriage to Edwin P. Curtis who crossed on before her six years ago. With the exception of three years Mrs. Curtis has spent her enire life in Fremont county. She joined the Primitive Baptist church in 1880 living ever faithful to the cause all her life. Mrs. Curtis was only sick about a week before death which was caused by asthma and a severe cold. There was born to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis six sons and five daughter, all of which are living. There is left to mourn her death, her aged mother, Mrs. W. W. Ward of Hamburg, Iowa; six sons and five daughters: Mrs. E.B. Cannon of Tabor, Iowa; Mrs. J.S. Judd of Pickering, Missouri; Mrs. O. T. Briley of Malvern, Iowa; Mrs. N. N. Swisher of Anderson, Iowa; Gifton of Newmans Grove, Nebraska; Simon of Missouri Valley, Iowa; Edgar of Sidney, Iowa; Earl, Ethel and Byron of Anderson, Iowa. Also one sister and three brothers, James of Lincoln, Nebraska; Jno. of Watson, Missouri; Albert of Sidney, Iowap,Mrs. Sylvester Judd of Hamburg, Iowa. There are also 26 grandchildren and one great grandchild, besides other relatives and a host of friends. Rev. B. L. May of Waterloo, Iowa, came to Anderson Sunday morning to conduct the funeral services, but owing to the fact that the Curtis home was quarantined for small pox, there was only a short service conducted in front of the home and prayer at the cemetery in Sidney where the body was laid away.