Franklin News-Herald, Friday, May 31 1946:
Mrs. Elizabeth Craft Martin, 89, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Elmer D. Smith, 3308 Beverly Drive, Dallas, TX. She was born near Brownsville, PA, where her family settled before the Revolutionary War, daughter of Elijah and Ruth Steele Craft, the youngest and last survivor of a large family.
Her father helped establish the first Presbyterian Church west of the Allegheny mountains. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and moved to Dallas about 25 years ago to be with her daughters.
She married Hugh H. Martin of Franklin, where she lived until his death in 1903.
Surviving are daughters Mrs. Elmer D. Smith and Mrs. Ruth Martin Bell; two grandchildren, Mrs. Phillip Johnson and David Martin Bell; and two great-grandchildren, Phillip Miller and John Downing Bell.
Franklin News-Herald, Friday, May 31 1946:
Mrs. Elizabeth Craft Martin, 89, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Elmer D. Smith, 3308 Beverly Drive, Dallas, TX. She was born near Brownsville, PA, where her family settled before the Revolutionary War, daughter of Elijah and Ruth Steele Craft, the youngest and last survivor of a large family.
Her father helped establish the first Presbyterian Church west of the Allegheny mountains. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and moved to Dallas about 25 years ago to be with her daughters.
She married Hugh H. Martin of Franklin, where she lived until his death in 1903.
Surviving are daughters Mrs. Elmer D. Smith and Mrs. Ruth Martin Bell; two grandchildren, Mrs. Phillip Johnson and David Martin Bell; and two great-grandchildren, Phillip Miller and John Downing Bell.
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