Marietta (Ohio) Times, 7 Mar 1900 Obituary: Mrs Martha MIXER, widow of Lewis
Mixer (Married 12 Aug 1832, Washington County, Ohio) who died in this city in
1888, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs Nancy A Creighbaum, corner of Hart
and Fifth Streets, at five o'clock this morning. She had been feeble for a
long time and had been failing since Christmas. Death was due to old age.
The deceased was a remarkable woman and came from a remarkable family. She
was born on Wolf Creek near Waterford on March 23, 1809, and was therefore
nearly ninety-one years of age. Her father lived to reach the same age, and
of his family of fourteen children, seven lived to be more than eighty. One
of them was ninety-four when she died. She has one surviving sister, Mrs
Beach who is eighty-one. Mrs MIXER came from Waterford to Marietta in 1832 and
has been living in the house where she died since that time. She was a well
known woman and was noted as a nurse. For years all people of Marietta knew
"Mother Mixer" and she was sent for when anyone was ill. Her life was an
active one in doing good, and she had remarkable vitality.
The deceased was one of the oldest members of the First Universalist Church of
Marietta and had been a consistent one. She joined that organization more
than fifty years ago. She always took an adtive part in the church work.
The deceased leaves one child, Mrs Creighbaum, three grandchildren and five
great grandchildren.
(The three grandchildren referred to above are: Nellie, Mattie, and Lillie
Creighbaum. They are the best representatives of the old Bacon stock living
in Marietta at this time, 1931. Lillie, the youngest is sixty-five, hale and
hearty and opens her store on Greene Street every morning. She boards with
her sister, Mattie who married a JONES and lives in the old homestead at the
corner of Fifth and Hart Street, Marietta. Nellie the oldest is seventy-one.
She married a WEINSTOCK. There are three boys and three girls to bless this
union, all grown and prosperous citizens. They have a home in Rathbone.)
