This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin, Ruse, Brackney, Bell, Heaton, Breiner, Wilton, Younts, Carter, Hampton, Brewer, Boyer, DeFreece. Classification: Birth Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4225 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. April 21, 1938. "C. W. MARTIN PASSES 91st BIRTHDAY ON SATURDAY".-- C. W. Martin celebrated his 91st birthday anniversary April 16. In honor of the occasion his daughters gathered at the parental home last Thursday with well filled baskets and ate dinner and spent the day with their father. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Brackney of Omaha; Mrs. Fred Bell of Tabor; Mrs. Clyde Heaton, Mrs. Roy Breiner, and a niece, Mrs. Walter Wilton, all of Malvern; Mrs. Ed Younts and Mrs. Ned Carter of Sidney. Grandchildren present were Mrs. Duane Hampton of Tabor, Barbara Jane Brewer of Malvern, Marjorie Brackney of Omaha, Marlyn and Flo Carter of Sidney. One great grandchild Daneice Boyer, and a special guest. G. T. DeFreece, completed the list of guests. The guest of honor was born in Athens county, Ohio, 91 years ago and came to Washington county, Iowa, with his parents in the fall of 1854. The next spring they moved to Fremont county where he has since lived, first on the farm northeast of town and the past 23 years in Sidney. He married Frances Ruse, a neighbor, and lived with her 60 years until her death two years ago. In the entire 60 years he was never away from his wife overnight except one two-week period at Excelsior Springs, Mo. Mr. Martin has always been active and has been seen regularly on the business streets until just recently when failing eyesight kept him at home. He has always cared entirely for the yard.