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Martha Landis
August 10, 1852 – July 20, 1916
Death of Martha Landis.

Death overtook Martha Landis very suddenly, last Thursday. She made her home in the family of her brother, Mr. John Landis, in Anamosa. Mr. and Mrs. John Landis went to the country Thursday morning leaving the sister in her usual health. Later in the day a neighbor found the sister's lifeless body in the kitchen where death had evidently overtaken her without warning.
Miss Landis was born in Hardin county, Ohio, August 10, 1852, and was the youngest child of Abraham and Esther Lundis. Of the family of nine children only one brother, with who she made her home, survives.
Miss Landis came with her parents when a girl only eight years of age, to Jones county, and the home was made near Antioch church in Jackson township. When the John Landis family moved to Anamosa a year ago she came with them. She was domestic in her tastes, devoted to those with whom she lived, and found pleasure in distributing good words and cheer. She was kind-hearted, modest, and one of those inconspicuous characters sometimes met, that finds ways to greatness not measured in the standards the world applies to the term.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. Ernest Evans of the Congregational church at the Antioch church, Saturday morning. The remains were laid away in the cemetery near at hand in the neighborhood where the deceased had lived for so many years. The pall bearers were John Brady, Andrew Neilson, Tom Hanlon, Sam Alspaugh, Wm. Strawman, W. O. Benadom.

Submitted by: Richard Harrison
Source: Anamosa Eureka, Anamosa, Iowa, 27 July 1916

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