Martha Marie Buehrer was born on 2 Sept. 1880 in Ridgeville Corners, Henry County, Ohio, and died on 3 Sept. 1952. She is the daughter of Jacob Bernard Buehrer and Agnes Gasche. She married "John" Fredrick Arnos on 31 Dec. 1903 in Defiance County, Ohio.
After John's death in 1912, Martha moved to a cabin on small farm in Williams County owned by her parents. Later she moved with her children back to the family homestead to live with her mother. Eventually her brother Owen and his wife, Maudy, took over the farm, but Martha's family remained with them until her children were grown. Martha had the difficult task of providing for five small children, so she did the only thing that she had been trained to do. As a young girl she had become interested in music and graduated from the Lepsic School of Music, Lepsic, Ohio, after which she taught organ and piano to a large number of pupils. She traveled from one home to another on bicylce, staying overnight at the home of the last pupil where she happened to be at nightfall. So after John's death, she went back to teaching music, traveling now by horse and buggy and eventually Model T Ford, but always managing to be home by nightfall. Her youngest son, Owen Stanely Arnos recalls as a young boy driving his mother to the homes of her pupils.
In later years when her children were grown and on their own, Martha did nursing at the hopsital in Napolean, Ohio. She also liked to write poetry. Martha, at age 72, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary McEntaffer, New Haven Ave. near Fort Wayne, Ind., after a three-day illness. She had been in failing health for five years. In Fort Wayne, she was a member of the Salem Reformed Church and a resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana for 15 years. She was buried with her husband, John, in Willliams County, Ohio.
After John's death in 1912, Martha moved to a cabin on small farm in Williams County owned by her parents. Later she moved with her children back to the family homestead to live with her mother. Eventually her brother Owen and his wife, Maudy, took over the farm, but Martha's family remained with them until her children were grown. Martha had the difficult task of providing for five small children, so she did the only thing that she had been trained to do. As a young girl she had become interested in music and graduated from the Lepsic School of Music, Lepsic, Ohio, after which she taught organ and piano to a large number of pupils. She traveled from one home to another on bicylce, staying overnight at the home of the last pupil where she happened to be at nightfall. So after John's death, she went back to teaching music, traveling now by horse and buggy and eventually Model T Ford, but always managing to be home by nightfall. Her youngest son, Owen Stanely Arnos recalls as a young boy driving his mother to the homes of her pupils.
In later years when her children were grown and on their own, Martha did nursing at the hopsital in Napolean, Ohio. She also liked to write poetry. Martha, at age 72, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary McEntaffer, New Haven Ave. near Fort Wayne, Ind., after a three-day illness. She had been in failing health for five years. In Fort Wayne, she was a member of the Salem Reformed Church and a resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana for 15 years. She was buried with her husband, John, in Willliams County, Ohio.
Martha Marie Buehrer was born on 2 Sept. 1880 in Ridgeville Corners, Henry County, Ohio, and died on 3 Sept. 1952. She is the daughter of Jacob Bernard Buehrer and Agnes Gasche. She married "John" Fredrick Arnos on 31 Dec. 1903 in Defiance County, Ohio.
After John's death in 1912, Martha moved to a cabin on small farm in Williams County owned by her parents. Later she moved with her children back to the family homestead to live with her mother. Eventually her brother Owen and his wife, Maudy, took over the farm, but Martha's family remained with them until her children were grown. Martha had the difficult task of providing for five small children, so she did the only thing that she had been trained to do. As a young girl she had become interested in music and graduated from the Lepsic School of Music, Lepsic, Ohio, after which she taught organ and piano to a large number of pupils. She traveled from one home to another on bicylce, staying overnight at the home of the last pupil where she happened to be at nightfall. So after John's death, she went back to teaching music, traveling now by horse and buggy and eventually Model T Ford, but always managing to be home by nightfall. Her youngest son, Owen Stanely Arnos recalls as a young boy driving his mother to the homes of her pupils.
In later years when her children were grown and on their own, Martha did nursing at the hopsital in Napolean, Ohio. She also liked to write poetry. Martha, at age 72, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary McEntaffer, New Haven Ave. near Fort Wayne, Ind., after a three-day illness. She had been in failing health for five years. In Fort Wayne, she was a member of the Salem Reformed Church and a resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana for 15 years. She was buried with her husband, John, in Willliams County, Ohio.
After John's death in 1912, Martha moved to a cabin on small farm in Williams County owned by her parents. Later she moved with her children back to the family homestead to live with her mother. Eventually her brother Owen and his wife, Maudy, took over the farm, but Martha's family remained with them until her children were grown. Martha had the difficult task of providing for five small children, so she did the only thing that she had been trained to do. As a young girl she had become interested in music and graduated from the Lepsic School of Music, Lepsic, Ohio, after which she taught organ and piano to a large number of pupils. She traveled from one home to another on bicylce, staying overnight at the home of the last pupil where she happened to be at nightfall. So after John's death, she went back to teaching music, traveling now by horse and buggy and eventually Model T Ford, but always managing to be home by nightfall. Her youngest son, Owen Stanely Arnos recalls as a young boy driving his mother to the homes of her pupils.
In later years when her children were grown and on their own, Martha did nursing at the hopsital in Napolean, Ohio. She also liked to write poetry. Martha, at age 72, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary McEntaffer, New Haven Ave. near Fort Wayne, Ind., after a three-day illness. She had been in failing health for five years. In Fort Wayne, she was a member of the Salem Reformed Church and a resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana for 15 years. She was buried with her husband, John, in Willliams County, Ohio.
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