October 21st -
Charles' second wife, Hannah, died in Ballarat, aged 70. The
following obituary appeared in the "Australian Christian", the
magazine of the Churches of Christ -
"Hannah
Martin, relict of our late Bro. Chas. Martin, passed to her rest on October 21st. She was a member for many
years of the Dawson St. church, and took an active interest in
church work, and was president of the Dorcas Society for some
time. She was a widow at the time of her marriage, December
25th, 1883, her name then being Anderson. Her church membership
dated from August 11th, 1876. The funeral took place on Oct
23rd, the service being conducted by Bro C. Morris, Bro Jinks,
the church evangelist being away."
Hannah
would be buried in a grave quite close to Charles in the
Ballarat Old Cemetery. (She had
purchased the grave plot 29 years previously in 1881, for the
burial of a John Anderson, aged 60, who was probably the father
of her former husband.)
Image of
Headstone
Hannah Martin's Will
Story of
Hannah's Early Life
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