Individual Details

Said to have died of childbed fever. [This really doesn't seem to agree with the birth of daughter Jennie who was by then about seven months old, perhaps just tradition.] Buried Brookline Cemetery.

1900 Census. Brookline Twp, Greene Co MO.
Children living with their Perkins relatives.
Two daughters, Ollie 16, and Jennie 7, lived with their grandparents.
Son Eddie, age 10, lived next door with his uncle William H. Perkins and family.


Martha had two memorials on FindAGrave - the one at Brookline Cemetery has a picture of the marker so it is surely correct. The other in Barton Co MO has been removed. There is no link from it to her husband, Rev. Stephens.
Find A Grave Memorial# 68574377
Birth: Feb. 22, 1857
Death: Jan. 1, 1888
Inscription:
Wife of Rev. WH Stephens
Dau of WC & MA Perkins

Birth	22 Feb 1857	Greene County, Missouri
Marriage	21 Dec 1880	Greene County, Missouri - Rev. William H. Stephens
Death	1 Feb 1893	Greene County, Missouri

Spouse	Rev. William H. Stephens (1854 - 1919)
Child	Ollie Stephens (1883 - )
Child	Roy Perkins Stephens (1887 - 1957)
Child	Eddie Stephens (1889 - )
Child	Jennie Stephens (1892 - 1975)

Father	William G. "Grief" Perkins (1821 - 1908)
Mother	Martha Ann Beal (1827 - 1908)
Sibling	Mary Olive Perkins (1847 - 1925)
Sibling	William H. Perkins (1850 - 1923)
Sibling	Nancy Ann Perkins (1851 - 1935)
Sibling	Daniel V. Perkins (1853 - 1875)
Sibling	Lucy Elizabeth Perkins (1855 - 1912)
Sibling	Margaret Perkins (1859 - 1859)
Sibling	John Thomas Perkins (1861 - 1928)
Sibling	Nelly L. Perkins (1863 - 1863)
Sibling	Laura Virginia Perkins (1864 - 1931)
Sibling	Amanda Minerva Perkins (1866 - 1940)