Martha Elizabeth HARMAN

1834 - 1923  (89 years)

• Name	Martha Elizabeth HARMAN  [1]
  Birth	13 Feb 1834	, , Ohio, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Migrated	1843	, , Iowa, USA   [3]
  	from Ohio
  Residence	1850	, Wapello, Iowa, USA   [4]
  cemetery	1923	Bladensburg, Wapello, Iowa, USA
  	Bladensburg Cemetery
  Religion	Libertyville, Jefferson, Iowa, USA
  	Brethren (Dunkard)
  _UID	72E0458B950C4400A368AB4D1222A6D0B47A
  Death	3 Dec 1923	Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, USA   [2]
  Burial	Y  [5]
  Person ID	I841	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2011

  
  

  Father	George HARMAN,   b. 28 Feb 1799, , Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA d. 4 Nov 1864, , Wapello, Iowa, USA (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Juda WHITMORE,   b. 9 Mar 1800, , , Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Jan 1872, , Wapello, Iowa, USA (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	7 Jul 1817	, Harrison, Ohio, USA   [6, 7]
  Family ID	F75	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Henry CARTER,   b. 15 Jun 1834, , , Delaware, USA d. 3 Feb 1892 (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	4 Aug 1853  [2]
  	Joseph Myers, J.P married John H. and Martha E. "at the house of George Harman in the County and state aforesaid this 4th day of August AD 1853." This is from Myers' log book. [1]
  Family ID	F236	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2011

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - 1850 - , Wapello, Iowa, USA Death - 3 Dec 1923 - Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  From memorial card for Martha Carter (copied by Sharon Aasheim Sep 2000): Obituary Martha Carter was born February 13, 1833, departed this life December 3, 1923, aged 90 years, 9 months and 21 days. At the age of ten years she with her father and mother, four brothers and six sisters came to Iowa from Ohio and settled in Pleasant Township. Here she grew to young womanhood and on August the 4, 1853, she was united in marriage to John Henry Carter. To this children (sic) six children were born. Aminca M. Smith, 302 McPherson St., Ottumwa, S.D.Carter, 422 South Ransom St., Ottumwa, Inda M. Humble, Bladensburg, Iowa, O.A.Carter, Pleasant Township, Iowa, C.E.Carter, Rasonor, Iowa, Minnie Orndoff, 315 West 2nd. St., Ottumwa. On February 3, 1892, the death angel entered this family circle and called and husband and father. She has witnessed the work of the Master until all her brothers and sisters of the happy family were called home except one sister, Mrs. Susan Yeanny of Taylor Co., Iowa. Besides the immediate family there remains 31 grand children and 81 great grand children, besides a host of friends. At an early age she united with the Church of the Brethren, near Libertyville, Iowa and remained a constant believer in her savior.

  
  

• Sources

  [S774] Nick Carter, May 2004 (Reliability: 3). [S772] Sharon Aasheim, Sep 2000 (Reliability: 3). [S773] Harrison Lyman Waterman, Supervising editor, History of Wapello County Iowa, (S. J. Clarke Pub. Co. 1914 ,), Pg. 333 (Reliability: 0). [S21] 1850 Federal Census, Wapello Co, IA, District 13, pg 419, dwelling 264 (Reliability: 3). Martha Harman, age 14, b. OH, enumerated with George Harman [S772] Sharon Aasheim. [S88] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index, Source Batch M 514341 Serial Sheet 0245 (Reliability: 0). George Harman and Juda Whitmore mar. 10 Jul 1817 [S403] Charles A. Hanna, Historical Collections of Harrison County, in the State of Ohio, (Clearfield Company, 1900), Pg. 264 (Reliability: 0). Marriage of George Harmon and Judy Whitmore, 10 Jul 1817, by Henry Kail, J.P.