Martha E. King Mosser
BIRTH 4 Jul 1853
Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, USA
DEATH 27 Apr 1936 (aged 82)
Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, USA
BURIAL
Springdale Cemetery
Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, USA
Birthdate comes from Martha's civil war pension application on her husband, William Mosser.
Married James Samuel Jones 29 Jan 1871, Jefferson Co., IN
Married Ezra Sherman 10 May 1906, Trimble Co., KY
Married William Mosser 26 June 1922, Jefferson Co., IN
Marriage record to William Mosser gives birthdate as 4 July 1860. Occupation was shown as nurse. She stated she had been married only once before and this marriage ended in death in 1912.
Martha claimed a civil war pension on the death of her husband, William Mosser. In this application it states she was married previously to Ezra Sherman (no date is given)
Cemetery records show the burial of Ezra Sherman in this lot.
1900 Census Madison, Jefferson, Ind. shows Martha E. Jones, widowed, had 3 children, none living.
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Madison Courier
28 Apr 1936
MRS. MARTHA MOSSER DEAD
Mrs. Martha Mosser, 85, of 620 west Second street, passed away at the King's Daughters' hospital yesterday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock of complications from which she had suffered for eight years. She had been receiving treatment at the hospital for about eight days.
She was the widow of William Mosser, who died about four years ago. Mrs. Mosser was born in this county and had spent practically all her life in Madison.
She was a member of Trinity church since childhood and had been an active worker in the church, until her health failed.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Virginia Schooley, north Mulberry street, and Mrs. America Crouch, west Third street, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at the Haigh funeral home tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 o'clock by Rev. Victor B. Hargitt. Burial will be in Springdale cemetery.
Her step-daughter, Mrs. G. B. Stanley, of Columbus, Ohio, was at her bedside at the time of Mrs. Mosser's death.
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