Martha NOAKES

Martha was born on February 17th, 1859 in Vida, Phelps, Missouri.¹   Martha's father was Andrew Jackson NOAKES and her mother was Rachel Erwin. She had seven brothers and four sisters, named Elijah, Amos Valentine, Andrew Jackson, Francis, Ballard, Samuel, Benjamin, Ellen, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Margaret. She had seven half-brothers and a half-sister, named Nathan, Garrett, John, Thomas, William, Elias, George and Mary Ann.  She died at the age of 37 on June 9th, 1896 in Phelps Co., Missouri.¹