Martha Jane "Mattie" Becraft
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 21 Dec 1866 - IN 1
Christening:
Death: 23 Jan 1942 - Fulton Co, IN 1
Burial: 26 Jan 1942 - Rochester IOOF Cemetery, Rochester, Fulton Co, IN
Cause of Death:
AFN :
Events
• Census, 1870 Census, 1870 in Center, Ripley Co, IN
William Becraft, age 29, listed as a farm laborer with Meary age 28, keeping house and children Meartha age 3 and Meary age 2.• Census, 1880 Census, 1880 in Rochester, Fulton Co, IN
Also above is a family of Gray and immediately below this family is Herman (?) Gray age 66 a farmer and wife Florina age 56 keeping house, both born in KY.
William Becraft, age 39, born IN; wife Mary age 36, born IN; all daughters, Mattie age 13 born IN; Mary C. age 10 born IN; Halley age 8, born IN; Addie age 6 born IN.• Obituary, The Rochester News-Sentinel, 23 Jan 1942
Word was received here today of the death of Mrs. George NORRIS, South Bend, former resident of this city. Mrs. Norris died at her home in South Bend at five o'clock this morning.• Obituary, The Rochester News-Sentinel, 24 Jan 1942
A complete obituary, with funeral arrangements, will appear in tomorrow's issue of The News-Sentinel.
Mrs. Martha Jane NORRIS, 76, former resident of this city, died at 5:30 o'clock Friday morning at her home in South Bend, 113-1/2 East Keasey street, following an illness of three years.
The deceased was born in Ripley county, Ind., December 20, 1865. She had resided in South Bend for three years, moving to that city from Rochester. In a ceremony solemnized at Rochester, 57 years ago, she was married to George O. NORRIS, who peceded her in death in 1932.
Surviving are a son, Roy NORRIS, South Bend; two daughters, Mrs. Albert LESLIE, South Bend; Mrs. Harry COLTRAIN, Los Angeles, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. William BRUBAKER and Mrs. John FULTZ, both of this city; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held from the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home, this city, at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Burial is to be made in the Odd Fellows cemetery here.
The body will be removed from the Forest Hay funeral home in South Bend late Sunday night to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral chapel, where it will remain until the hour of the services.
Parents
Father: William H. Becraft
Mother: Mary Ann Grey
Spouses and Children
1. *George Oliver Norris
Marriage: 3 Dec 1885 - Fulton Co, IN 2
Status:
Notes
Burial Notes:
Plot: Section 4, Row 7
Sources
1. dad1037@yahoo.com (Emails, etc from her sources.)
2. Ancestry.com (Works Progress Administration. Index to Marriage Records Indiana: Indiana Works Progress Administration, 1938-1940.), Book E, page 1. .... http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/genealogy/Tombaugh/Marriages/Html/Marriages%20%20--%20A-K.htm.