Mary Martha (Grider) Stagner is the eighth child and second youngest daughter of John W and Mary "Polly" (McKinney) Grider. After the death of her father (1865) and mother (1868), she was orphaned at the age of nine. Jeremiah Randolph and her uncle, Henry H McKinney, were appointed as guardians for Mary Martha and her siblings, John W and Elizabeth Ellen Grider. While these siblings show up on the 1870 census in the household of their older sister (Sarah A (Grider) Inabnit), Mary Martha is not found on any 1870 census. I believe that she may have been with her grandparents, Elijah and Sarah Grider, as they also do not show up on any 1870 census.
On the 1880 census, Mary Martha is in the household of her sister, Sarah A Inabnit, in Dent County, MO. She is 20 years old. Her sister and husband, William Montgomery Inabnit, are sharecropping on the land of James A Stagner, the father of William Madison (Bill Matt) Stagner--Mary Martha's future husband. They marry on 1 February 1883 in Dent County, MO, and live on land next to Bill Matt's parents just east of Jack, MO. Sarah and her family would leave Missouri for Kansas, but return a decade later.
Mary Martha and Bill Matt would have two children, Manuel Everett and Mary Elizabeth Stagner, and spend their days scratching out a life farming the rocky soil of the Missouri Ozarks.
Bill Matt would die in 1940. Mary Martha would die in 1943 as the last surviving child of John W and Mary "Polly" Grider.
On the 1880 census, Mary Martha is in the household of her sister, Sarah A Inabnit, in Dent County, MO. She is 20 years old. Her sister and husband, William Montgomery Inabnit, are sharecropping on the land of James A Stagner, the father of William Madison (Bill Matt) Stagner--Mary Martha's future husband. They marry on 1 February 1883 in Dent County, MO, and live on land next to Bill Matt's parents just east of Jack, MO. Sarah and her family would leave Missouri for Kansas, but return a decade later.
Mary Martha and Bill Matt would have two children, Manuel Everett and Mary Elizabeth Stagner, and spend their days scratching out a life farming the rocky soil of the Missouri Ozarks.
Bill Matt would die in 1940. Mary Martha would die in 1943 as the last surviving child of John W and Mary "Polly" Grider.
Mary Martha (Grider) Stagner is the eighth child and second youngest daughter of John W and Mary "Polly" (McKinney) Grider. After the death of her father (1865) and mother (1868), she was orphaned at the age of nine. Jeremiah Randolph and her uncle, Henry H McKinney, were appointed as guardians for Mary Martha and her siblings, John W and Elizabeth Ellen Grider. While these siblings show up on the 1870 census in the household of their older sister (Sarah A (Grider) Inabnit), Mary Martha is not found on any 1870 census. I believe that she may have been with her grandparents, Elijah and Sarah Grider, as they also do not show up on any 1870 census.
On the 1880 census, Mary Martha is in the household of her sister, Sarah A Inabnit, in Dent County, MO. She is 20 years old. Her sister and husband, William Montgomery Inabnit, are sharecropping on the land of James A Stagner, the father of William Madison (Bill Matt) Stagner--Mary Martha's future husband. They marry on 1 February 1883 in Dent County, MO, and live on land next to Bill Matt's parents just east of Jack, MO. Sarah and her family would leave Missouri for Kansas, but return a decade later.
Mary Martha and Bill Matt would have two children, Manuel Everett and Mary Elizabeth Stagner, and spend their days scratching out a life farming the rocky soil of the Missouri Ozarks.
Bill Matt would die in 1940. Mary Martha would die in 1943 as the last surviving child of John W and Mary "Polly" Grider.
On the 1880 census, Mary Martha is in the household of her sister, Sarah A Inabnit, in Dent County, MO. She is 20 years old. Her sister and husband, William Montgomery Inabnit, are sharecropping on the land of James A Stagner, the father of William Madison (Bill Matt) Stagner--Mary Martha's future husband. They marry on 1 February 1883 in Dent County, MO, and live on land next to Bill Matt's parents just east of Jack, MO. Sarah and her family would leave Missouri for Kansas, but return a decade later.
Mary Martha and Bill Matt would have two children, Manuel Everett and Mary Elizabeth Stagner, and spend their days scratching out a life farming the rocky soil of the Missouri Ozarks.
Bill Matt would die in 1940. Mary Martha would die in 1943 as the last surviving child of John W and Mary "Polly" Grider.
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