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Submitted: 12/4/10 • Approved: 2/13/12 • Last Updated: 8/5/12 • R421243-G421243-S3
July 5, 1856 - Oct 4, 1917
Wife of M.L.
*Obituary (as written)
Gentry Journal-Advance
Friday, October 12, 1917
MAXSON, Nancy Eveline CLARK Whitney - The funeral services for Mrs. Martin L. Maxson were held at the Seventh-day Baptist church at 10:30 o'clock October 6, 1917. Pastor T.J. Van Horn preached the funeral sermon and appropriate and beautiful music was rendered by a choir of ladies' voices. Burial was in the Gentry cemetery. Mrs. Maxson had been in failing health for several years and during the last months of her life she was tenderly cared for at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.C. Van Horn, at Fouke, Ark. Here she died on October 4, 1917. Nancy Eveline Maxson was born in Berlin, Green Lake County, Wis. in 1856. She was the daughter of Norman and Marian Clark. She was baptized and joined the Seventh-day Baptist Church near Berlin when she was sixteen years old. In 1876 she was married to Edward L. Whitney. To this union five children were born, all of whom are living. In 1901 they moved to Arkansas where they united with the Gentry church where she held her membership till she joined the church triumphant. In 1905 her husband died. In 1913 she was married to Martin L. Maxson. She was a loving mother, a faithful and devoted christian.
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