This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin, Brooks, Powers, Hinch, Campbell, Bower, Wise, Willhide Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/1597 Message Board Post: Barry Adage, Barry, Pike Co. IL, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1911: "Miss Mary Jane Brooks, oldest child of James and Elizabeth Brooks, was born in Pennsylvania March 17, 1839, and departed this life at her late home, four miles northwest of this city, October 20, 1911, aged 72 years, 7 months and three days. She moved with her parents to Ohio when but a small child, where she lived until 1866, when she came with her husband to Illinois. She was united in marriage with Joel C. Martin March 23, 1857, and to this union were born fifteen children, and all have preceded her in death but five, four daughters and one son. They are Mrs. Mary Powers, of Bluffs, Ill.; Mrs. Anna Hinch, of Barry; Mrs. Tena Campbell, of Baylis; Mrs. Elizabeth Bower, of Barry, and William, of St. Louis, Mo. Beside the husband and children, she leaves thirty-six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; also five brothers and two sisters - Dave, Hugh and George Brooks, of Belpre, Ohio; James and Albert, of Kinderhook, Ill.; Mrs. Nannie Wise and Mrs. Minerva Willhide, of Virginia. Mrs. Martin was all that the word wife and mother expresses - loving, kind-hearted, merciful, and looking carefully after her household and the welfare of her husband and children. Rearing a large family and seeing the larger part of it precede her to the other shore brought many disappointments and heartaches. She had been in failing health for some time, but her family had hopes of her recovery; it was not to be so, for she passed quietly to her rest after a long life of toil and care in the rearing of her large family. Funeral services were conducted from the family home on Monday, October 23, at 2 p.m., Rev. W.M. Halley officiating, and the remains were carried to the Park Lawn cemetery in this city for burial, followed by a large number of friends and relatives of the deceased, who sincerely mourn with the family in this their sad bereavement."