Martha Jane Baker ^{2 3}

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From: The Beaver Crossing Times


OBITUARY:

MRS. P.E. BUCKINGHAM SUCCUMBS TO PARALYSIS

Martha Jane Baker was born near Syracuse, New York October 16, 1859. She died at her home nea r Beaver Crossing July 26, 1926 at the age of 66 years, 9 months, and 2 days. At the age of f our years, she moved to Hinckley, Illinois. In the Spring of 1887 she moved to Friend, Nebras ka.On December 12th, she was united in marriage to Perry E. Buckingham. To this union were bo rn five children: John William of Pierre, South Dakota; Edgar Edward, Viola May Barnes, an d Roy Carlos of Beaver Crossing, and Mary Fern Haagenson of Riverton, Nebraska.

She joined the Baptist church at Hinckley, Illinois at the age of sixteen years. She was a me mber of the Victoria Rebecca Lodge No. 60 of Beaver Crossing, from which she received the dec oration of chivalry.

During her married life she moved on a homestead in Banner County,Nebraska, and after four ye ars returned to Friend, Nebraska.

On March 1, 1896, she moved to a farm near Beaver Crossing, on which she lived until her deat h. She leaves to mourn her death a husband, three sons, two daughters, eleven grandchildren , one brother, and many other relatives and friends.

Dearest Mother, thou has left us
Here thy loss we deeply feel.
But it is God that has bereft us,
He can all our sorrows heal.
Yet again we hope to meet thee
When the day of life is fled,
There in Heaven with joy we great three,
Where no farewell tear is shed.

Funeral services were conducted in the Methodist Church by Rev. F. E. Drum, Wednesday afternoon and burial was made in the Beaver Crossing Cemetery. ²

Martha married Perry Emmett Buckingham, son of Buckingham and Unknown, on 12 Dec 1880 in Friend, Saline, Nebraska, USA.^{1 2} (Perry Emmett Buckingham was born on 4 Oct 1859 in Rock Island County, Illinois,^{2 4} died on 4 Mar 1940 in Beaver Crossing, Seward, Nebraska, USA ^{2 5} and was buried in Beaver Crossing Cemetery, Beaver Crossing, Seward County, Nebraska ^{2 5}.)