Martha was one of two children by Daniel's (Bartholomew) first wife (Elizabeth Wright). Martha, who married Flaville Williams (1st), Mindard Shears (2nd) and Mason Towers (3rd) died April 8, 1886, aged 93, buried Evergreen Cemetery, Plymouth Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA between her last two husbands.
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Pioneer Women of Plymouth
1800-1850
Originally the township of Plymouth was included in the limits of Ashtabula, but in June, 1838, by order of the County Commissioners, it was detached from that township and created a new one. Plymouth received its name from Plymouth Conn., having been settled principally by people from that town, at an early date. ...
Mrs. Tower -- Martha Bartholomew -- came to Ashtabula in 1800, and was a life long resident of Plymouth. Her first husband, Williams, died at Fort Meigs during the war of 1812. Her second husband, Shears, was also a soldier of that war, by whom she received a pension. Her daughter, Betty Shears, now Mrs. Nathaniel Amidon, still lives in Plymouth. Mrs. Tower was totally blind for several years before her death. ...
From "Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve," Part I, Mrs. Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, Editor [Women's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, July, 1896], p.p. 120-122.
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Pioneer Women of Plymouth
1800-1850
Originally the township of Plymouth was included in the limits of Ashtabula, but in June, 1838, by order of the County Commissioners, it was detached from that township and created a new one. Plymouth received its name from Plymouth Conn., having been settled principally by people from that town, at an early date. ...
Mrs. Tower -- Martha Bartholomew -- came to Ashtabula in 1800, and was a life long resident of Plymouth. Her first husband, Williams, died at Fort Meigs during the war of 1812. Her second husband, Shears, was also a soldier of that war, by whom she received a pension. Her daughter, Betty Shears, now Mrs. Nathaniel Amidon, still lives in Plymouth. Mrs. Tower was totally blind for several years before her death. ...
From "Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve," Part I, Mrs. Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, Editor [Women's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, July, 1896], p.p. 120-122.
Martha was one of two children by Daniel's (Bartholomew) first wife (Elizabeth Wright). Martha, who married Flaville Williams (1st), Mindard Shears (2nd) and Mason Towers (3rd) died April 8, 1886, aged 93, buried Evergreen Cemetery, Plymouth Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA between her last two husbands.
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Pioneer Women of Plymouth
1800-1850
Originally the township of Plymouth was included in the limits of Ashtabula, but in June, 1838, by order of the County Commissioners, it was detached from that township and created a new one. Plymouth received its name from Plymouth Conn., having been settled principally by people from that town, at an early date. ...
Mrs. Tower -- Martha Bartholomew -- came to Ashtabula in 1800, and was a life long resident of Plymouth. Her first husband, Williams, died at Fort Meigs during the war of 1812. Her second husband, Shears, was also a soldier of that war, by whom she received a pension. Her daughter, Betty Shears, now Mrs. Nathaniel Amidon, still lives in Plymouth. Mrs. Tower was totally blind for several years before her death. ...
From "Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve," Part I, Mrs. Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, Editor [Women's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, July, 1896], p.p. 120-122.
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Pioneer Women of Plymouth
1800-1850
Originally the township of Plymouth was included in the limits of Ashtabula, but in June, 1838, by order of the County Commissioners, it was detached from that township and created a new one. Plymouth received its name from Plymouth Conn., having been settled principally by people from that town, at an early date. ...
Mrs. Tower -- Martha Bartholomew -- came to Ashtabula in 1800, and was a life long resident of Plymouth. Her first husband, Williams, died at Fort Meigs during the war of 1812. Her second husband, Shears, was also a soldier of that war, by whom she received a pension. Her daughter, Betty Shears, now Mrs. Nathaniel Amidon, still lives in Plymouth. Mrs. Tower was totally blind for several years before her death. ...
From "Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve," Part I, Mrs. Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, Editor [Women's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, July, 1896], p.p. 120-122.
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