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Martha Jane “Mattie” <I>Gardner</I> Kearns

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Martha Jane “Mattie” Gardner Kearns

Birth
Annabella, Sevier County, Utah, USA
Death
16 Mar 1974 (aged 93)
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Add to Map
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Martha Jane "Mattie" Gardner Kearns
1880 - 1974

Father: Elias Gardner
Mother: Ellen Elizabeth Abbott Gardner
Spouse: James Leonard Kearns
Married: 3 Jul 1908 | Salt Lake City, Utah
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Services for Mrs. Martha Jane Kearns, 94, who died Saturday in Phoenix Medicenter of America, will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday in A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary, 333 W. Adams. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park.

Mrs. Kearns, of 126 W. Maryland Ave., was born in Annabella, Utah, and came to Phoenix in 1940. She was [is] a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Cerruti of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Rose Fraham and Mrs. Emma Lee Bailey of Milton-Freewater, Ore., a son, Abbot of Las Vegas, Nev., 12 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

- Arizona Republic | Phoenix, Arizona | Monday, 18 March 1974 | p. 17 | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley.
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DISCREPANCIES: With Mattie's birth year between headstone (1879), the 1900 US Census (1880), her Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints records (1880), and the 1920, 1930, and 1940 Census records as well as their marriage record (1881). No other primary source located, matches the year 1879 on headstone, though obituary does suggest the possibility.
Martha Jane "Mattie" Gardner Kearns
1880 - 1974

Father: Elias Gardner
Mother: Ellen Elizabeth Abbott Gardner
Spouse: James Leonard Kearns
Married: 3 Jul 1908 | Salt Lake City, Utah
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Services for Mrs. Martha Jane Kearns, 94, who died Saturday in Phoenix Medicenter of America, will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday in A. L. Moore and Sons Mortuary, 333 W. Adams. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park.

Mrs. Kearns, of 126 W. Maryland Ave., was born in Annabella, Utah, and came to Phoenix in 1940. She was [is] a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Cerruti of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Rose Fraham and Mrs. Emma Lee Bailey of Milton-Freewater, Ore., a son, Abbot of Las Vegas, Nev., 12 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

- Arizona Republic | Phoenix, Arizona | Monday, 18 March 1974 | p. 17 | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley.
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DISCREPANCIES: With Mattie's birth year between headstone (1879), the 1900 US Census (1880), her Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints records (1880), and the 1920, 1930, and 1940 Census records as well as their marriage record (1881). No other primary source located, matches the year 1879 on headstone, though obituary does suggest the possibility.

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