Individual Details

Newspaper clipping of obituary in Presley Martin journal, page 247. Transcribed below:

On Jan. 15, at the home of his parents,
in Dana, Illinois, MELVIN CLINTON MARTIN,
youngest child of Presley A. and E. V.
Martin, aged 2 years and 10 months.
Little "Clinty" was an unusually bright
and beautiful child, whose winning ways
took a deep hold on the hearts of all who
knew him; but
That dread reaper, whose name is Death,
Who comes with his sickle keen,
And reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between,
Came in the form of scarlet fever, and
gathered him in his sheaf; but, comforting
thought, not in anger, not in wrath, but only
to transplant him in the sunny paradise of
God - only to transfer him to the care of him
who said: "Suffer little children to come
unto me."

Birth	3 Mar 1877
Death	15 Jan 1880	scarlet fever - Dana, LaSalle Co., Illinois
Burial		Minonk Township cemetery, Minonk, Woodford Co., Illinois

Father	Presley A. Martin (1843 - 1922)
Mother	Eleanor Virginia Bane (1846 - 1917)
Sibling	Mary Alene Martin (1870 - 1924)
Sibling	John Franklin Martin (1872 - 1890)
Sibling	Laura Belle Martin (1875 - 1946)
Sibling	Emma Geneva Martin (1881 - 1954)
Sibling	Harry Stanley Martin (1885 - 1946)

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